Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the ministries of the economic block, together with the Central Bank, to submit proposals for changes to legislation by November 4 aimed at improving the regulation of bank commission fees charged for payment of municipal and government services, fines and other payments, including establishing the minimum possible amount of commission fees.

Mikhail Kovrigin, who currently holds the post of Deputy Director of the Bank of Russia’s Department of Banking Supervision, has been appointed Director of the Department of Supervision of Systemically Important Credit Organizations of the Central Bank of Russia, which will be created on October 1, 2013. Ruben Amiryants will become the director of the banking supervision department from September 1, the Bank of Russia’s external and public relations department reported.

JSC Kazanorgsintez Petrochemical enterprise. Shareholders (as of 30.06.2013): TAIF Group through Telecom-management LLC (53.7% of ordinary shares), Svyazinvestneftekhim OJSC, owned by Tatarstan (28.4% of ordinary shares). Financial indicators (IFRS, 2012): Revenue - 45.5 billion rubles, net profit - 3.2 billion rubles.

E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti Art elections. Vladimir Churov Chairman of the Central Election Commission. "When a ray of sunlight hits a transparent ballot box that is not yet completely filled with ballots, a very rare, beautiful optical phenomenon appears and you can catch an artistic shot at the polling station" Since June 1, 2014, the boxes in which ballots are dropped off must be made of transparent (semi-transparent) material.

After the elections, the election funds of all candidates for mayor of Moscow will be checked, said Vladimir Churov, Chairman of the Central Election Commission. The check will be carried out by a control and audit group, such groups are created in each election commission, and they include representatives of all law enforcement agencies, ITAR-TASS reports. All receipts and all expenses of all candidates are checked in accordance with the procedure established by law, said Churov.

In the new academic year, a mandatory dress code will be introduced in Moscow schools. Soviet-era school uniforms in the Vedomosti selection. Fernando Valenzuela, head of the EU Delegation to Russia, on freedom and problems with Ukraine Sergei Mitrokhin, candidate for mayor of Moscow from Yabloko, about the real fight against migrants and PR 6 Varvara Grankova When you go out to the fans, you shouldn’t look sad or tired, they don’t need that.

NATALIE BEHRING / Bloomberg In July, China's exports rose 5.1% year-on-year after falling 3.1% in June. Import growth was even more impressive, at 10.9%, compared with a 0.7% decline the previous month. Forecasts were considerably more pessimistic: Economists polled by Bloomberg had expected exports to rise 2% and imports 1%. "Finally, some good news from China," HSBC economist Qu Hongbin rejoices (quoted by the WSJ). Growing imports indicate that domestic demand is strengthening in the country.

Fotolia / PhotoXPress The websites Turbofilm.tv and Rutorg.org, which were subject to decisions by the Moscow City Court on potential blocking, have removed illegal files. On Wednesday, August 7, the Moscow City Court ordered Roskomnadzor to block access to several TV series on the websites Turbofilm.tv and Rutorg.org, this was done at the request of the owner of the rights to this content - the video service Now.ru (ZAO Seychas).

A borrower from Voronezh, who outwitted Tinkov’s bank, wants to leave Russia Voronezh resident Dmitry Agarkov, who entered into a loan agreement with Tinkoff Credit Systems Bank on his own terms, intends to leave Russia after Oleg Tinkov’s threats to initiate a criminal case against him, Agarkov said in an interview with Slon.

2. A Russian-made submarine exploded and sank to the bottom in the port of Mumbai 24 The explosion on the diesel-electric submarine Sindhurakshak occurred around midnight, then they put out the fire on it for three hours, then it sank; 18 sailors missing

Russia believes that missiles made for Syria should remain in their homeland / D. Rogulin / ITAR-TASS They promised and didn't buy. Since 2005. Saudi Arabia negotiated with Rosoboronexport on the supply of 150 T-90S tanks, more than 100 BMP-3s, 100 Mi-17 and Mi-35 helicopters and Buk-M2 anti-aircraft systems worth more than $4 billion. After the fruitless negotiations, the Saudis bought weapons from the US for more than $60 billion.

09 August 2013, 19:12 / Finance In the absence of elephants, Buffett and his managers choose smaller acquisition targets Lately, the “prophet of Omaha” has not found targets for multibillion-dollar takeovers, but the companies he controls can actively use the $36 billion in cash accumulated by Berkshire Hathaway Anupreta Das Bloomberg Companies controlled by Berkshire Hathaway last year entered into 26 acquisitions of other companies, spending a total of $2.3 billion on them.

09 August 2013, 10:00 / Finance Stock recommendations: Alfa-Bank worsened assessments of banking securities Elena Filimonova Alfa Bank revalued companies in the banking sector: - lowered the forecast price of Vozrozhdenie Bank shares from $23.5 to $15.17, the “buy” recommendation did not change; - lowered the forecast price of Sberbank shares from $4.07 to $3.64, the “buy” recommendation did not change; - lowered the forecast price of VTB GDR from $3.58 to $3.08, the “hold” recommendation has

09 August 2013, 00:00 The ruble has lost four years August lives up to his reputation. The euro exchange rate broke through the level of 44 rubles at the auction, and for the third time in recent years the Central Bank has shifted the boundaries of the currency corridor Yulia Orlova The euro exchange rate strengthened against the ruble to the level of September 2009 / J.

09 August 2013, 22:27 There was a shootout near the Frunzenskaya metro station, one person was wounded in the leg Vedomosti One of the participants in the altercation, which escalated into shooting, was wounded in the leg at the Moscow metro station "Frunzenskaya", the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow told RIA Novosti.