In the last six years, working with large industrial holdings, we have observed an interesting trend: heads of the legal function - CLO - increasingly speak of their desire and readiness to consider the position of CEO. Not receiving an adequate offer, lawyers leave to become CEOs in small private funds or companies. These decisions are not always successful, and the owners of large holdings do not benefit from such transitions, losing a serious resource.

From December 18 to 20, military transport aviation of the Russian Air Force organized the transfer of transport and other equipment to the airfield of the Syrian city of Latakia, which will be used to remove Syrian chemical weapons to the port for loading and transportation by sea to the disposal site.

Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was pardoned by presidential decree last Friday and flew to Berlin the same day, has applied for a three-month Swiss visa, Associated Press reported, citing Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Stefan von Below. The request may be considered in the coming days. Read also: Khodorkovsky wants to discuss with his wife the possibility of moving to Switzerland On Monday, Khodorkovsky said he would "probably" live in Switzerland.

At the beginning of the year, the Chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Ignatyev reported in an interview with Vedomosti that $49 billion is criminally withdrawn from Russia every year, and by a “well-organized group of people.” A month after her appointment as Chairman of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina noted during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that the second most important area of ​​work is strengthening banking supervision (the first is working with the refinancing system).

Japanese investors do not scare Russian officials at all / Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters Corrected version. The original published version can be viewed in the Vedomosti archive (smart version) Agro-industrial special economic zones (SEZ) may appear in the Far East, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Oleg Savelyev told Vedomosti (see pp. 08-09).

D. Abramov / Vedomosti The amount of the deal is not disclosed. In Moscow, the sale price of 1 sq. m. of a Class A office in the Central Administrative District is, according to the "big five" consultants, about $10,000. Thus, O1 Properties could have paid about $400 million for 40,000 sq. m.

The Tatarstan Ministry of Economy expects that the GRP growth by the end of the year will not exceed 2%, although in 2012 it was 5.5%, and a year earlier - 5.7%. The head of the ministry, Midkhat Shagiakhmetov, has said more than once in recent months that in 2014 the authorities hope to stabilize the republican economy and overcome the slowdown in GRP growth. The budget for 2014 includes GRP growth of 4.2% - slightly less than in 2010.

Since yesterday, My Bank has stopped issuing pre-ordered funds to depositors, . several branches of the bank told Vedomosti “ A management order for more than 20,000 rubles was [sent out] throughout the bank. do not issue to one depositor per day,” said an employee of the bank’s call center on 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya. According to him, it was possible to order the disbursement of funds in full yesterday on December 30th.

Fears of tapering quantitative easing programs are probably a bit exaggerated. The Fed will reduce the volume of asset purchases from $45 billion to $42-40 billion per month. But the asset purchase program will not stop at all. What is really important is the fears themselves, which are associated with the curtailment of the purchase program.

Moscow “ is dissatisfied with the pace of reform of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) and believes that the reform, in principle, is not developing.” , stated this to RIA , Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Representative of the Russian President in the G8 Vadim Lukov Novosti .

December 24, 2013, 00:00 Fortune Teller's Dinner The best forecasters of last year were the owners of Alor and Otkritie, Anatoly Gavrilenko and Vadim Belyaev, who correctly predicted market stagnation in 2013.

From December 23, the Bank of Russia shifted the boundaries of the floating corridor of the bi-currency basket ( $0.55 and 0.45 euros) by 5 kopecks. up - up to 33-40 rubles, follows from the message on the Central Bank website. This happened for the sixth time in December, with previous upward shifts occurring on December 18, 16, 11, 9 and 4. In November, the Central Bank did this seven times, in October - once, in September - three times, in August - six times.

Jewellery company Tiffany & Co. must pay the world's largest watchmaker, Swatch Group, 402 million Swiss francs ($448.79 million) for breaking a cooperation agreement, the Arbitration Institute in the Netherlands has decided. Tiffany will also have to pay $8.8 million in legal costs. Swatch and Tiffany entered into a collaboration agreement in 2007. The contract was for 20 years, with a possible extension for another 10 years, and its details were not disclosed.

In 2014, school graduates who are found to have mobile phones when taking the Unified State Exam will have their exam results annulled. This was announced by the head of Rosobrnadzor, Sergei Kravtsov. There will be no other changes for schoolchildren in conducting the Unified State Exam next year, he assured. "All changes concern only the objectivity of the exam materials," the official said. Kravtsov recalled that in 2013, graduates used phones and posted assignments on the Internet.

Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who were released under an amnesty, met at the Krasnoyarsk airport. Alyokhina arrived in Moscow from Nizhny Novgorod by train on Monday evening and flew to Krasnoyarsk on Tuesday morning. They will spend two days in this city and discuss their plans, including "the human rights project they announced the day before their release," said Tolokonnikova's husband Pyotr Verzilov.