The meeting between the detained Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner and consular employees of the Russian embassy, ​​scheduled for August 29, was postponed to Friday by decision of the investigator, Russian lawyer Alexei Basistov said by telephone on Thursday.

Group The Sollers , one of the largest Russian automakers, in the first half of 2013 reduced its net profit under IFRS by 35.2% compared to the same period last year - to 1.691 billion rubles, the company reported. The result was slightly lower than the consensus forecast compiled by the Prime agency: analysts expected net profit at 1.7 billion rubles. The group's revenue for the half-year decreased by 11.5% to RUB 27.4 billion.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a new regulation on the All-Russian Disaster Medicine Service, the government press service reported.

Boredom for a fixed salary On the article “Morphology of boredom” (No. 151 of 21.08.2013, p. 20) The main mistake of all employers <...> is buying the employee's working time, and not the result of his work. That is, the employer pays for the employee to sit at his workplace from bell to bell, plus for the opportunity to try to load the employee with something during this time. That's why they get bored.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich commented on the detention and arrest in Minsk of Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner. Dvorkovich said that this situation looks at least inadequate and does not have the character of a partnership, so Russia can reconsider a number of issues of bilateral cooperation with Belarus.

P.Fallon / Bloomberg The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked the largest public retailers for data on their online sales. The requests were received by Target, Walmart, PetSmart, Fifth & Pacific, and others. Companies are still extremely reluctant to disclose such data, although for investors, the progress of retailers online is very important. In the second quarter of this year, online sales in the U.S. grew by 18.4%, while all sales grew by only 4.7%.

Once a year, Bremen becomes the "Great Night Serenade" / Bremen Music Festival Eine grosse Nachtmusik - that was the official name of the crazy night, filled to the brim with lights, beer and music. The opening of the Bremen Music Festival, which has existed for almost 25 years, was timed to coincide with the penultimate Saturday in August, when the ancient Hanseatic city of Bremen traditionally celebrates the night away. The famous Market Square was ablaze with lights.

Starting from Tuesday, August 27, the 70-day countdown began, during which minority shareholders of the Taganrog plant Krasny Kotelshchik must decide whether to accept the offer of Power Machines to buy out their shares at 11,956 rubles per share (536 million rubles for all 21.02% of ordinary shares of OAO TKZ Krasny Kotelshchik owned by minority shareholders), follows from the disclosure of a material fact by the plant.

The car is good, but the hands are more reliable, the Central Election Commission decided / P. Lisitsyn / RIA Novosti Other ballot boxes - other elections. 29.9% votes were received by United Russia in the 2011 parliamentary elections at 250 Moscow polling stations equipped with electronic voting machines. A similar result (30.3%) was obtained at 131 Moscow polling stations, where, according to Citizen Observer, the number of distortions was minimal.

One of the largest payroll clients is leaving Rosbank An interesting publication in Vedomosti. Norilsk Nickel transferred employees to Sberbank One of the largest payroll clients is leaving Rosbank. I advise you to read: http://www.vedomosti.ru/finance/news/15720211/gref-uvel-zarplaty We are grateful to everyone who quotes our texts on blogs and forums. Please respect the work of journalists: do not reprint entire articles and be sure to provide links to the full text on our website.

Koreans to Invest in Russian Fish The business community of the Republic of Korea intends to take part in the creation of a large trade and logistics fisheries cluster in Primorye, said the head of the public relations center of the Federal Agency for Fisheries, Alexander Savelyev.

August 29, 2013, 11:01 am / Business Sechin purchased additional shares of Rosneft for almost 2 billion rubles. This amount may be more than 2 times his last year's remuneration; the president of the company purchased shares with borrowed funds Anastasia Agamalova Timofey Dzyadko E.

The net profit of Surgutneftegaz OJSC under IFRS in the first half of the year increased by 35.6% compared to the same period in 2012 and amounted to 165.6 billion rubles, according to the company's financial statements. Revenue from sales of Surgutneftegaz amounted to 631.735 billion rubles (a decrease of 2.1%). Surgutneftegaz is the fourth largest integrated oil company in Russia, headquartered in Surgut.

Ukraine prepares for the 2013/14 heating season in advance / EPA / ITAR-TASS On Wednesday in Moscow, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko discussed issues related to pumping gas into Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities. A representative of the Russian monopoly declined to comment.

LSR transferred 135,000 sq. m of real estate to buyers / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti LSR Group revenue increased by 21% to RUB 27.5 billion. LenSpetsSMU reduced its revenue by 8% to RUB 9.9 billion, while net profit increased by 26.4% to RUB 3.2 billion ( Etalon Group's financial statements will be published in mid-October). LSR's net profit increased 3.6 times to RUB 945 million. A year ago, LSR's net profit decreased by 64% compared to the first half of 2011, and by 20% for LenSpetsSMU.