Car insurers love their clients, but they stick to their line The car insurance market is gradually gaining momentum. However, as the insurers themselves admit, it has not yet been fully formed. Most companies began to engage in this type of activity only two years ago. In the regions, motor insurance is almost undeveloped: about 90% of premiums still fall in Moscow. The collection of premiums is growing in St. Petersburg and the Moscow region.

The victory of Gennady Khodyrev in the Nizhny Novgorod gubernatorial elections was a serious success for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Before this, there was widespread agreement within the political establishment that the Communist Party was in crisis.

The meeting of Conversebank shareholders may be held in a truncated format Today MDM Bank will become the actual owner of Converse Bank. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper has already written (see issue dated July 30) , upon completion of the 8th issue of Converse shares, MDM Bank will be able to add another 38.26% of shares to its already existing blocking stake in the main nuclear bank.

ARKO will try to sell Sobinbank shares for the third time The second attempt by the Agency for Restructuring of Credit Institutions (ARCO) to sell Sobinbank shares failed. There were no people willing to buy 22.5% of the bank's shares yesterday. But ARCO is not upset, believing that the auction failed due to the summer decline in business activity, and they are going to try to hold the auction again in early September.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office opened a criminal case and began a detailed investigation into the circumstances of the explosion that occurred on Monday evening in one of the residential buildings of the northern capital. At 18.30, an apartment in building No. 61 on Kondratievsky Avenue exploded.

As of this Tuesday, an amendment to the federal law “On Weapons” officially came into force, which added to the list of “civilian and service weapons” prohibited for use in Russia.

Moskompriroda believes that there is nothing to breathe in Moscow only on the roads Due to the heat, high humidity and constant calm that characterized this summer in the capital, a new phenomenon has appeared in Moscow - smog.

At the recent executive committee of the Russian Wrestling Federation, the head coach of the freestyle wrestling team, Dmitry Mindiashvili, resigned. Mindiashvili has long threatened to take this step and at last year’s Russian Championships told reporters that he would leave his post after the Sydney Olympics. However, it was he who led the freestyle wrestling team at the post-Olympic European Championships held in Budapest.

Russian scientists, with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Science, created and launched a supercomputer with a capacity of 1 teraflop (1000 billion floating point operations per second). With the help of a supercomputer, its creators want to solve scientific problems and make money from cooperation with the largest Russian companies.

The Caspian crisis is at the center of the CIS summit An informal, “no-ties” CIS summit opens today in Sochi. Its main topic will undoubtedly be the serious military-diplomatic crisis flaring up in the Caspian Sea. It has been a long time since the confrontation over the riches of the region, which in the early 90s many called the “Middle East of the 21st century” and “the new energy reservoir of the planet,” has reached such intensity. As you know, the crisis began a little over a week ago.

The Caspian flotilla reminds of Russia's interests State tests of the newest patrol boat “Mirage” have been completed on the Black Sea. Last weekend, the ship was officially included in the combat strength of the naval forces of the Russian Federal Border Service.

Famous drama directors test their mettle in the Shadow puppet theater The head of “Shadow” Ilya Epelbaum is one of the best Russian puppeteers, who has countless “Golden Masks” and almost no ill-wishers in the critical workshop. But he will certainly go down in theater history as a great hoaxer. Any of his performances is always a casket with a double or even triple bottom. He always offers the audience some kind of game - not only on stage (which is natural), but also around the stage.

The mayor of Moscow scolded the builders for their appearance In the first half of the year, Moscow builders completed half of the task planned for the current year, which has not happened to them for ten years. Having praised his subordinates at a meeting of the city government yesterday for the smooth rhythm of construction, the mayor of Moscow raged about the disorder at construction sites, which, in his opinion, is making the entire capital dirty.

Mikhail Prusak decided to head the DPR Novgorod Governor Mikhail Prusak may lead the Democratic Party of Russia. While Mr. Prusak has not been elected, he only agreed to become the head in response to the proposal of the current leadership of the DPR. The decision of the Novgorod governor will seriously intensify the struggle around the creation of a right-wing party - an alternative to the Union of Right Forces.

Kazan may be quarantined The outbreak of cholera in Kazan continues to grow. According to information received by a correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Tatarstan, doctors no longer exclude the option of closing the city for quarantine. Although yesterday morning the chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, guaranteed that this would not happen.