The famous British architect announced that he is abandoning the project for the reconstruction and construction of a museum quarter for the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, which could have brought him $67 million, The Art Newspaper reported today, citing a representative of the Foster+Partners architectural bureau created by Foster. A crowd of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi is moving from the northeast of Cairo towards the center.

M.Klimentyev / RIA Novosti Vladimir Putin's Friday stroll down a deserted stone street in St. Petersburg unexpectedly became one of the most talked about topics of the weekend. The image was perceived as symbolic. The top of the vertical of power is lonely by definition - this is its strength and this is also its weakness.

August 12, 2013, 20:20 / Finance Developed countries will contribute more to GDP growth than developing countries for the first time since 2007. Rapid recovery in Japan and slowdown in the BRIC countries are changing the balance of power on the global economic stage John Lyons Alex Frangos Sudeep Reddy Bloomberg Developed countries are seizing the initiative from developing countries, which have led economic growth since the onset of the financial crisis.

12 August 2013, 18:10 / Business Russian fans may need a passport when purchasing tickets The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to sell tickets to sporting events only after the viewer presents an identity document to Marie Mesropyan Alexey Nikolsky V. Belousov / RIA Novosti The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has developed a project that may oblige organizers to sell personalized tickets to sporting events. The document is posted on the federal portal of legal acts.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia does not rule out initiating cases against oil companies in connection with the sharp rise in gasoline prices observed in recent weeks. "It is clear that there will be actions. And what kind of action they will be - warning or already after the fact - the service's management will make a [decision] about this in the near future," Dmitry Makhonin, head of the FAS fuel and energy complex control department, told Interfax.

vaninoport.ru The Vanino port for the buyout of shares from minority shareholders who disagree with interested-party transactions is valued at 28.92 billion rubles (at 214,393 rubles per ordinary share), according to the port's disclosure. This is slightly higher than the valuation of Vanino during the privatization of the state-owned stake (28.1 billion rubles for 100% of the capital).

Mikhail Prokhorov's Civic Platform party is planning to observe the Moscow mayoral elections. As the party's press service told ITAR-TASS, it has agreed to cooperate with the movement to protect voters' rights "Golos", the "Citizen Observer" project, the public project "Rosvybory" and the interregional public movement of observers "Sonar", which have united into the Alliance of Public Observers.

The director of the films about the adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Vladimir Alenikov, an individual entrepreneur, filed a lawsuit against the social network "Vkontakte". The claim for 1.5 million rubles was filed with the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The plaintiff demands that the violation of his copyright be stopped and that he be paid compensation. The claim has been left without action until September 9, since it was filed with violations.

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti At a meeting with Medvedev, the President of the Russian Steel non-profit partnership, CEO and main owner of Severstal, Alexey Mordashov, proposed reducing VAT on scrap imports. He emphasized that the industry is seeing "a certain boom in the construction of mini-mills that operate exclusively on scrap" (in July, NLMK launched a plant in the Kaluga Region, Severstal is completing a plant in Balakovo, and TMK is launching an electric steelmaking furnace at Tagmet).

Developments: Vnesheconombank has come up with a new mechanism to support small and medium-sized businesses → “ There is no recession. And it won’t be, told Kommersant ” Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev , assessing the state of affairs in the Russian economy.

12 August 2013, 00:00 System supervision of the Central Bank The Central Bank allocates supervision of systemically important banks to a separate unit, returning to the experience of 1996-1998. Olga Plotonova Dmitry Kazmin Yuri Nekhaychuk D. Abramov / Vedomosti On Friday, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank decided to create a department for supervision of systemically important credit institutions from October 1, the Central Bank said in a statement.

Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin has spoken out against the idea of ​​private railway operators to introduce quotas on freight cars, because "the question always arises of who sets the quotas and how they set them." On July 30, it became known that top managers of the largest companies - First Freight (PGK), Federal Freight (FGK), Neftetranservis (NTS), Rusagrotrans and Rail Garant - wrote a letter to Yakunin, proposing to introduce restrictions on the issuance of numbers for cars and

Robert Benmosche, CEO of American International Group (AIG) / S. Porter / Vedomosti 1969 began his career at Arthur D. Little as a consultant 1975 Vice President of Technology at Chase Manhattan Bank 1982 Senior Vice President of Marketing, PaineWebber 1995 Executive Vice President, Retail, MetLife 1998 CEO of MetLife 2009 CEO of AIG AIG in Russia The Russian subsidiary of AIG's income from collected insurance premiums has demonstrated stable growth over the past four years.

The ransom volume can only be reduced if: - there will be a reduction in government spending (but there won’t be one for obvious reasons) - the increase in treasury revenues compensates for the cost of servicing the current debt and the increase in expenses. (Now the income is clearly not enough). Therefore, you can continue to guess from the tea leaves what will come to Grandpa Bernanke’s mind, but the money will not appear on its own...

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Gazprom Torgservis managed to successfully challenge the tax authorities' claims in court. However, the company spent 2.4 million rubles on a Gazprombank guarantee (about 1% of the claim amount of 213.8 million rubles), thus delaying the collection of taxes from it for the duration of the process. Having won the dispute, it decided to collect legal costs from the Federal Tax Service.