Sakhalin's main sea ports - Kholmsk and Korsakov - will be reconstructed for more than 2.3 billion rubles. According to preliminary estimates, the modernization of the coastal structures of the Vanino-Kholmsk automobile and rail ferry service will cost 800 million rubles, the construction of a passenger terminal and the reconstruction of the Korsakov port will cost 1.5 billion rubles.

Food inflation in 2013 will be 5.8%, announced Minister of Agriculture Nikolai Fyodorov at a press conference on Monday in Moscow. He specified that this indicator does not take into account the dynamics of alcohol prices. Taking into account alcohol products, food inflation this year will be 7.1%, the minister added.

The budget of the KRTI this year is 38.3 billion rubles. against 24.9 billion rubles. a year earlier. The increase is due to the transfer of powers for the design, construction and reconstruction of the metro to the committee from the transport committee, explained the press service of the KRTI. Governor Georgy Poltavchenko signed the corresponding resolution in October last year. The volume of the Road Construction program has not changed, notes a committee representative.

Before joining NLMK, Gushchin worked for the Sibur Group from 2009 to 2013, including heading the group's export division, SIBUR International. In 2008-2009, he held the position of Financial Director at the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management. From 2002 to 2007, he held various positions at Microsoft . He holds a PhD in Economics. He graduated from the Economics Department of Moscow State University.

December 16, 2013, 00:00 Stores are being updated Trying to attract more solvent customers, retailers are reformatting stores and merging Evgeniy Fedorov Retailers should turn to face the buyer / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti Several St. Petersburg retailers in 2013 modernized their old stores, changed their format and aimed at a different audience, says Mikhail Burmistrov, general director of Infoline Analytics. He attributes the change to changing consumer habits and economic conditions.

French retailer Carrefour is buying retail real estate in France, Italy and Spain from Klepierre for $2.75 billion. In total, the company will acquire 127 shopping centers. After the deal is completed, Carrefour will create a company that will manage the retailer's property: 45 more Carrefour stores in France will be added to the 127 shopping centers owned by Klepierre. This is a signal that Carrefour is ready for transformation.

It is better to elect local deputies rather than mayors - they are closer to the people, say the authors of the reform / Yuri Kadobnov / AFP Dmitry Badovsky's ISEPI foundation, which is close to the Kremlin, prepared an analytical note at the request of the People's Front, which proposes two possible options for municipal reform, the need for which Vladimir Putin spoke about in his address to the Federal Assembly.

Nikolai Kotkov, former chief engineer of the Moscow heating grid company OAO Moscow United Energy Company, has been given a suspended sentence of two years in a case of bribery in the amount of 1.2 million rubles, Prime reports. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 6 million rubles. According to the investigation, in May 2013, Kotkov discovered violations in the work of one of the contractors.

In the Zaryadye Park on the site of the former Rossiya Hotel in Moscow, four natural zones will be presented, all buildings will harmoniously fit into the created landscape, and the Moskvoretskaya Embankment will be transformed into a pedestrian zone. This was announced today at a press conference in Moscow by representatives of the international consortium Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which won the competition to develop the landscape and architectural concept of Zaryadye.

December 16, 2013, 12:30 / Finance Central Bank: Since the beginning of the year, overdue debt of individuals on bank loans has increased by 40.6% Vedomosti The Russian Central Bank published data on the volume of loans provided by banks to individuals as of December 1, 2013. Over the 11 months of this year, the volume of loans issued by Russian banks to individuals increased by 2.023 trillion rubles, or 26.2%, to 9.745 trillion rubles. For January - November 2012, the increase was 36.3%.

What do you find in common between a “drug dealer,” an ethnic organized crime group (as I understand it, it’s not entirely Russian) and the theft of bank clients’ funds? Now, if the owner of the parking lot steals everything from a paid parking lot, what category would you put it in? Will you clarify the owner’s nationality? How banks are stolen (not by getting into the window, but by getting into the shareholders and top managers) and who specializes in this has long been known.

Zoltav Resources Inc., a company partly owned by ARA Capital, a company controlled by Roman Abramovich's son Arkady, announced the purchase of the Bortovsky oil and gas field in the Saratov region, the license for which belongs to the Cypriot Royal Atlantic Energy. The field's reserves are estimated at 22.4 billion cubic meters of gas and 12.4 million barrels of oil and condensate (data as of May 1, 2012).

12 photos A center for autistic adults, “Anton Is Here,” has opened in St. Petersburg, where employees try to understand their clients and make their lives better. There are currently 60 students at their center, mostly with autism, but there are a couple with Down syndrome and a few with other types of mental disorders.

An apart-hotel is a way out if it is impossible to build housing / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti Price of apartments. 89980 rubles per 1 sq. m. is the average price of housing in the mass-market segment in the inhabited areas of St. Petersburg in November, according to Petersburg Real Estate. The average price of business-class apartments is 142,774 rubles per 1 sq. m., elite - 220,980 rubles.

The short reprieve granted to the banking market is ending. On January 1, 2014, new Basel III standards will come into force , tightening capital requirements for banks. Initially, they talked about plans to introduce these standards from October 1, but in the summer the Central Bank decided to shift the deadlines, as it became known that banks in Europe and the USA were switching to Basel III from the new year. Thus, the Russian banking market received a little more time to prepare.