MDM Bank and PSB exchanged pleasantries The cold war has been smoldering in the banking world of St. Petersburg for a month now. The reason for it was the invasion of the Moscow MDM Bank into the patrimony of the St. Petersburg Industrial and Construction Bank. Muscovites got ahead of PSB by absorbing Petrovsky Narodny Bank, the leader in the St. Petersburg pension deposit market.

Yesterday Tverskaya turned into the capital's main theater venue. It was along it that the “Parade of Carnivals” passed, which opened the long-awaited program of street theaters, the last and most fantastic event reserved by the organizers of the Olympics for Muscovites who were already gorged on theatre.

The OSCE mission returned to Chechnya under the dollar “shield” The OSCE mission returned to Chechnya after a three-year break. Last Friday, in the village of Znamenskoye, in the presence of the OSCE Chairman, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, a new office of this organization was opened. OSCE representatives worked in Chechnya for many years, in particular, they contributed to the start of negotiations with the separatists at the end of the first Chechen war.

The corporate bond market is gradually gaining momentum. Many large companies have already chosen this financial instrument to raise funds from the market. Commercial banks also made their presence felt. But the turnover of trading in bank bonds is still small, and not all securities are popular among investors. As it turns out, issuing bonds is quite a feasible task for a bank. It is much more difficult to organize their secondary trade.

The land dispute has not yet begun The adoption of the Land Code in the first reading became a convenient occasion for political advertising for both the government and the opposition. For those who work on the land, the code will not fundamentally change anything even after it is finally approved. He will never give a clear answer: is private ownership of farmland possible in Russia?

The income tax rate will be 23% if the State Duma on June 21 votes for the compromise found last Friday by the government and the budget committee on the corresponding chapter of the second part of the Tax Code. There will be no income tax benefits at all. Initially, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development German Gref and Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Shatalov, representing the White House at a meeting of the budget committee, proposed reducing the rate from 35 to 25%.

Human rights activists want Berezovsky to become Soros There will still be no unification of Russian human rights organizations and Boris Berezovsky into a single opposition-democratic front. The euphoria with which human rights activists recently perceived promises of financial support from the oligarch’s funds has now subsided. But more and more often voices are being heard about the inadmissibility of the participation of public organizations benefited by Mr.

The results of the audit by the Accounts Chamber were disappointing for the Ministry of Railways. According to auditor Mikhail Beskhmelnitsyn, an audit of the Ministry of Railways showed that the ministry simultaneously worked in three directions: as an executive body, acted as a monopolist in the Russian market, and was also an economic entity whose goal was to obtain maximum profit.

The activities of a group of fraudsters were stopped during a joint operation in Volgograd by police and counterintelligence officers. Using multi-step combinations, the attackers stole 56 million rubles from the budget. In total, 13 people have already been detained in this high-profile case. Two years ago, swindlers created several fake commercial companies.

A leitmotif has appeared in the Belarusian election campaign The scandal surrounding the “death squads,” which broke out in Minsk a week ago at the instigation of former employees of the Belarusian prosecutor’s office Dmitry Petrushkevich and Oleg Sluchek, who are now hiding abroad, is growing. A criminal case may now be brought against them for disclosing information about the disappearance of ORT cameraman Dmitry Zavadsky.

The people's representatives with enviable tenacity are taking away from the Central Bank the remnants of its former independence. On Friday, the budget committee decided to give Viktor Gerashchenko’s department the status of a taxpayer for income tax and obliged him to pay taxes. If the government does not cool down the ardor of the deputies, then things will come to the point that the Central Bank will begin to pay extra to the treasury from income from emission activities.

The beginning of the new millennium seemed to be a signal for ambitious clubs wanting to climb to the top of the Russian championships. Before that, we had a whole group of teams that won all (!) national championships in Russian history in their events. Now the ranks of the “unshakable” began to rapidly thin out. The first to falter was mini-football “Dina”, which failed to even make it into the top three.

The main events of its history are connected with Russia Ruhrgas, one of the largest European gas companies, solemnly celebrated its 75th anniversary last Friday. The concern has existed since 1926, when the Coal Utilization Society was registered in the industrial Ruhr region of Germany (at that time Ruhrgas dealt with coke oven gas). But the main events in its history have occurred in the last 30 years and are mainly associated with the Soviet Union and Russia.

The historic Russian-American lawn summit was a success. In any case, this is how its outcome was assessed by the main characters of the events - Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush. The Ljubljana summit, which, due to the fact that not a single document was signed at it, diplomats from both sides propose to call “a meeting of two leaders,” raised high expectations from the point of view of some political scientists, and low ones from the point of view of others.

At the tenth fish auction, the organizers discovered price collusion The tenth auction for the sale of quotas for catching aquatic biological resources, held on Friday at the European-Asian Exchange, introduced some variety into the already familiar procedure for distributing quotas. The interdepartmental commission saw price collusion in the actions of the participants. In total, 67 Russian companies took part in the auction. It was proposed to sell 957 lots, but there were buyers for only 147.