In my area, a huge information board was hung on a secondary street. 80% of the time it does not work, and the remaining 20% ​​the inscription “observe traffic rules” lights up. Traffic lights ALWAYS “look” in different directions, so much so that it is not clear which of the traffic participants the signal is intended for. And all this for 16 rubles. I think they will spend the same amount of money before anything works.

February 10, 2014, 22:20 / Real estate / Finance Central Bank: Mortgage debt of individuals increased by a third in 2013 Vedomosti The debt of individuals on mortgage housing loans to Russian banks in 2013 increased by 32.6% - to 2.648 trillion rubles. from 1.997 trillion rubles, follows from the data on the Central Bank website. Banks provided 1.354 trillion rubles in 2013, which is 31.2% more than in 2012 (1.032 trillion rubles), and 88.8% more than in 2011 (716.9 billion rubles .).

Gazprom responded to the European Commission Rosneft to share shelf with ONGC... Gazprom has provided the European Commission with satisfactory answers to some of the questions on the antitrust investigation (ban on re-export of Russian gas and obstruction of competitors), but pricing issues remain unresolved, the Financial Times reports, citing European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia.

D. Abramov / Vedomosti The legislative activity of the current State Duma is partly reminiscent of the era of the industrial revolution. Lawmaking is no longer a sphere of manual labor of professionals and is increasingly resembling a conveyor production, where everyone performs only the manipulations prescribed to them with the received bill.

February 10, 2014, 00:00 What does Mikhail Khodorkovsky refuse? The happy release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev raised the question: how much money do the former owners of YUKOS have left? Rinat Sagdiev Mikhail Khodorkovsky (in the background) claims that Leonid Nevzlin (in the foreground), to whom he transferred his share in Group Menatep, owes him nothing / Brennan Linsley / AP Finding money from Yukos and its shareholders is a difficult task.

The Ministry of Culture will review its criteria for supporting art, so that it will move from supporting the "elite" and "fashionable" to helping the "talented and socially significant." Minister Vladimir Medinsky told ITAR-TASS about this. According to him, unified and impersonal criteria are impossible here; culture does not tolerate either unification or impersonality. In terms of supporting the arts, the state should act as an organizer, "authorized by society," the official believes.

The EU is doing more than anyone else in the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the climate. But at the same time, it is increasing the share of electricity generated using the dirtiest energy source: coal. Gas-fired power plants in the region are closing, while coal-fired ones are opening. This can hardly be called an effective environmental policy. Moreover, many analysts believe that it is detrimental to the EU industry. But for a number of reasons it is happening anyway.

I do not agree with the author of the article - it is not the regulators who are fighting Bitcoin - there are too few Bitcoins to pay any attention to them. The problem is precisely the limited amount of Bitcoin - and, as a result, high speculative risks. Unfortunately, Bitcoin never took off as a means of payment, but became a rather valuable speculative commodity. And mt-gox are the first to catch fish in troubled waters.

Shares in UK banks including Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are enjoying their strongest gains since the crisis. Shares fell to historic lows in early 2009, with Lloyds shares trading at £5 at their peak, falling to 20p. They are now worth 81.8p. In continental Europe, the improvement in the financial position of banks is more noticeable in the debt market. Even Spain's Bankia and Ireland's Allied Irish Banks were able to place bonds at a decent yield.

February 10, 2014, 00:00 How to insure your home The government has figured out how to force the population to insure their homes en masse. It linked compensation for losses from fires and floods to the citizen’s having an insurance policy Yuri Nekhaychuk A citizen will want to insure property in order to remain its owner / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti “We will get 50-60 billion rubles each time.

Former general director of Bashneft - Service Assets LLC Alexey Knyazev became deputy general director of the ( Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port NCSP ) group for finance and economics. This is stated in the NCSP press release. Former head of the directorate for corporate management of the land bank, conglomerate Evolution and Philanthropy OJSC Financial Corporation Uralsib , Andrei Garnukhin became deputy general director of NCSP for commerce.

Russian Railways plans to buy 49% of the logistics operator Railtransavto from Transgroup (owned by the structures of Andrey Bokarev and Iskander Makhmudov), sources close to both parties to the deal told Vedomosti. Russian Railways already owns 51% of the operator. The price of the deal, as well as the timing Vedomosti sources do not mention its closure. One of them only specified that the amount of the deal has not yet been agreed upon. A representative of Russian Railways declined to comment.

The National Bank of Ukraine ( NBU) introduced targeted control over the movement of capital. From February 7, the purchase of foreign currency by individuals is limited to 50,000 hryvnia per month ( about $5,600). Companies are prohibited from purchasing foreign currency to repay loans abroad early; they will have to wait six days for applications to purchase foreign currency to be fulfilled.

The issue of providing housing with social infrastructure is decided individually in each case / E. Kuzmina / Vedomosti "If the proposed option for interaction between the construction business and the government helps solve the problem of the shortage of schools and kindergartens in St. Petersburg, then we agree to build," says Anton Evdokimov, CEO of ZAO UK Etalon (part of Etalon Group).

The leader of the cash collection services market is Sberbank , which collected 3.38 trillion rubles of client funds in January-September 2013 (at the time of an earlier study in 2010 - 3.6 trillion rubles). It is followed by the Bank of Russia subsidiary Rosinkas (2.48 trillion rubles, in 2010 the figure was not disclosed), the Rosbank subsidiary Inkahran (growth 2.7 times, to 1.58 trillion rubles) and MKB (growth 6.4 times, to 1.4 trillion rubles).