Denis Abramov / Vedomosti On Monday, the defendants in the "Bolotnaya case" accused of mass riots and resisting police officers began to speak in the Zamoskvoretsky Court. The final stage of the trial is taking place in front of a large crowd of people, and the court is sitting in a very small room - there is not enough space even for the defendants' relatives.

January 28, 2014, 00:00 Strategy XXI: Turn to the East Sergey Karaganov Igor Makarov Studying the history of Russian development of Siberia in the 17th-19th centuries. convinces that the most productive emphasis is on the development of private initiative / RIA Novosti For more than five years now, we, along with several colleagues from the Russian scientific and political community, have been actively advocating for Russia’s economic turn towards the Pacific Ocean.

British bank Barclays Plc intends to fire 4,000 employees of its investment banking division, Bloomberg reports, citing informed sources. The layoffs will affect directors and managing directors, Interfax notes. At the end of 2012, the staff of Barclays' investment banking division numbered 24,000 people. Last February, the bank's chief executive, Antony Jenkins, said he would cut annual costs by 1.7 billion pounds ($2.8 billion) by 2015 by cutting 3,700 jobs.

January 28, 2014, 00:00 Teapots do not take credit Borrowers are losing interest in loans up to RUB 100,000. - in 2013, 20% fewer such loans were issued, according to NBKI data. Banks are looking for more reliable and larger borrowers Dina Ushakova Borrowers are taking out fewer and fewer small loans / S.

January 28, 2014, 17:12 / Finance "My Bank" does not service cards As Vedomosti learned, in this way he is trying to prevent the fragmentation of deposits Tatyana Voronova Anastasia Agamalova Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti As of January 24, My Bank suspended servicing cards, a person close to the bank’s board knows. He does not predict how long the bank’s cards will not work; he explains the decision by saying that the bank is trying to prevent the splitting of deposits.

Bugulma Airport is the third most important in Tatarstan after Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny / wikipedia.org What will they spend it on?

January 28, 2014, 04:50 / Finance Russian Reinsurance Company's shareholders have changed Yuri Nekhaychuk As Vedomosti learned, on December 20, changes occurred among the shareholders of the Russian Reinsurance Company. The heir to the insurance giant AIG, Chartis, sold its 22.5% stake to a representative of the largest of the Lloyds syndicates - Catlin (Bermuda). The acquirer was the London division of the syndicate Catlin Underwriting Agencies.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti The number of labor migrants registered in Russia doubled in 2009-2013 - from 1.35 million to 2.7 million people. In addition, from 3 million to 5 million foreign citizens work in the shadow economy. The overwhelming majority of foreign workers are still residents of the CIS countries: 58% of all work permits issued go to citizens of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They also received a comparable share of patents for work in households.

Dmitry Medvedev / S. Porter / Vedomosti In 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev proposed replacing officials on the boards of directors of state-owned companies with professional or independent directors - in order to improve the quality of corporate governance.

Following a meeting between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and members of the working group on settling the political crisis with leaders of opposition parliamentary factions, a decision was made to vote in the Verkhovna Rada for the Ukrainian law "On Amnesty". This was announced to journalists by a member of the working group, Minister of Justice of Ukraine Olena Lukash. Her statement was published on the president's website.

This year, Magnit Cosmetics may reach the 1,000 store mark / magnit-info.ru The Magnit Cosmetic chain has 686 stores at the end of 2013, the company reported. A year ago, there were 692. Last year, the company closed more drogerie stores (for more information on the format, see the inset) than it opened, a company representative confirmed, without naming specific figures.

E.Razumny for Vedomosti Yesterday, a list of candidates for the Moscow City Duma (the elections will be held on September 14) from the Civil Platform party appeared on social networks. A significant part of the list of 14 people are party members. It includes the new leader of the Civil Platform, Irina Prokhorova, members of the federal civil committee: RBC-TV CEO Alexander Lyubimov, former senator Alexander Pochinok, physician Elizaveta Glinka, and artist Leonid Yarmolnik.

Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov, who oversees tax issues, plans to leave his post in the coming months, several sources in the financial and economic bloc told Interfax.

The annual profit of the EuroChem holding under RAS increased by 45% to 29.93 billion rubles, the company's report says. The company's revenue for 2013 increased by 9% to 1.58 billion rubles. EuroChem's gross profit fell by 49.8% to 35.7 million rubles, and sales losses increased by 16.1% to 420.3 million rubles. Profitability increased by 1.9%.

New facilities will be built on the Mosfilm premises in the next three to four years - a cinema and concert hall, two pavilions and a modern building for storing costumes and props, Karen Shakhnazarov, director of the Mosfilm film concern, told journalists. "A cinema and concert hall with an exit to Mosfilmovskaya Street will be built at Mosfilm, something that has never happened in the history of Mosfilm - a place where films can be shown.