LSR may build a hotel on the site of the traction substation / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti Hotelier LSR. 5 100 square meters This is the area of ​​the four-story building on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and the Fontanka River Embankment, which the St. Petersburg government transferred to the Avtokombalt company for reconstruction as a hotel in 2005. In 2011, LSR acquired Avtokombalt, which was implementing the apart-hotel project, and completed construction this year.

The Constitutional Court refused to consider the request of the State Duma deputies to verify the compliance of the procedure for Russia's accession to the WTO with the Constitution. As stated in the message on the Constitutional Court's website, the deputies were refused because this issue is not within the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court.

July 24, 2013, 00:00 OSAGO was not allowed on the Internet The government is making it easier for insurers to sell policies online, but not in the most mass market - MTPL. Officials are afraid that the police will not be able to check the electronic policy Yuri Nekhaychuk In the coming years, you will have to buy MTPL policies the old fashioned way / E.

Yesterday Megafon announced the payment of dividends for the period from April 2012 to March 2013. Its shareholders received almost 40 billion rubles, and half of this amount was received by the Garsdale Services holding, 82% of which is controlled by structures of Alisher Usmanov. However, neither Usmanov nor his partners in Garsdale - the state corporation Rostec (4.5%) and Telconet of Sergey Adonyev and Albert Avdolyan (13.5%) - will see this money.

Chinese Chery may supply about 7,000 vehicle kits to the Taganrog Automobile Plant (Tagaz, Rostov Region) by the end of the year, Interfax reports, citing Rostov Region Minister of Industry and Energy Alexander Grebenshchikov. According to him, the first assembly kits for Tagaz were paid for by Chinese Chery by the Southern Automobile Group (UAG, a subsidiary of Sberbank), and the parts are expected to arrive in late July - early August.

The public reaction to the Bentley crossover prototype a year and a half ago was negative / F. COFFRINI / AFP Yesterday, Bentley Motors (part of the Volkswagen Group) announced the final decision to launch the crossover. It will be the fourth model of the British brand in addition to the luxury sedans and coupes Mulsanne, Flying Spur and Continental. The car will be produced in Crewe, England, and will go on sale in 2016, the company said.

Former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was interrogated on July 23 as a witness. According to Kommersant, the investigator was interested in details of the sale of ancient buildings from the Tauride Palace complex in St. Petersburg.

US President Barack Obama has proposed appointing eight of his re-election campaign's biggest fundraisers to ambassadorial posts, The Hill has calculated. He is continuing the common practice of appointing politicians or campaign activists rather than career diplomats, the American Foreign Service Association notes. According to the association, as of July 19, there were 187 ambassadors (excluding special envoys), of whom 57 were political appointees.

Gennady Gudkov is the most famous opponent of the Moscow region authorities / A. Filippov / RIA Novosti Today, the Moscow Region Electoral Commission is finishing accepting documents from gubernatorial candidates. To overcome the municipal filter, it was necessary to collect at least 351 signatures of deputies and heads of municipalities.

Participants of the Sochi Olympics who win gold on February 15 - the anniversary of the meteorite fall in Chelyabinsk - will receive additional medals with an image of the meteorite. "Our prize will be given to athletes who win on February 15, the day of the Chelyabinsk meteorite fall.

The architectural council chaired by Moscow's chief architect Sergei Kuznetsov has approved the construction of the Metropolis-2 shopping mall on Leningradskoe Shosse. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by Yuliy Borisov, general director of the UNK project design company. According to his estimates, investments in the project will amount to approximately $130-150 million based on the average cost of investments of $2,000 per 1 sq. m. The project should be completed in 2016.

More investment. RUB 67.1 billion. Investments in fixed capital in January - March 2013, according to the Investment Development Agency of Tatarstan; for the first three months of 2012 was 53.7 billion rubles. In the first half of 2013, Tatarstan improved its key economic indicators, but most of them are not growing as fast as before.

July 24, 2013, 13:34 / Business Donskoy: Gazprom will receive its areas on the Arctic shelf by the end of the year Natalya Raibman In January 2013, the government approved the issuance of licenses to Rosneft and Gazprom for 12 and 17 areas of the Arctic shelf. Rosneft received its sites and attracted foreign partners to their development. Later, the oil company submitted applications for additional areas, including those already promised to Gazprom.

AP /The Guardian Former CIA employee Edward Snowden remains in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport. This was announced to journalists at the airport by his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena. According to him, the date of granting Snowden temporary asylum is still unknown. "He is still in the transit zone according to the rules that exist. He is purely within the framework of these rules," Kucherena said (quoted by Interfax).

Fotolia / PhotoXPress By the time I went on maternity leave, there was already a candidate to take my place, - said Anna Zyryanova, former HR director of Sibur - Russian Tires. - I planned to enjoy motherhood to the fullest, but since the company was not ready to wait for me for long, we agreed with the employer on my replacement. Soon Zyryanova was offered a similar position in one of the startups. Her child was then one year old.