VTB-24 transfers retail business from Promstroybank In the near future, VTB-24 intends to receive ratings no lower than sovereign from all three international rating agencies. As the chairman of the bank's board, Mikhail Zadornov, said yesterday, this decision is directly related to the credit institution's entry into foreign borrowing markets. By the end of the year, VTB-24 intends to attract loans totaling $600 million. In addition, according to Mr.

The Dutch coach started working at Zenit with a draw The almost two-month break in the Russian Football Championship associated with the World Championship has ended. Moreover, it ended several days earlier than originally planned. Between the matches of the ninth round, which took place in mid-May, and the games of the tenth round, which the teams will play early next week, football officials fit the November 28th round.

— Alexander Vladimirovich, after “The Cuckoo” you persistently instilled in the audience the idea that the film was not about war. - Yes. And again I’m talking about people for whom war is their background. We are talking about the Alaska-Siberia route, along which eight thousand aircraft arrived from the USA to the USSR from October 1942 to August 1945. More than ten thousand kilometers. Six intermediate airfields. We live alone - in Chukotka.

Oil prices set new record due to Korean missile launch Oil prices set a new record, reaching $75.4 per barrel at auction in New York. It took 2.5 months for quotes to overcome the previous maximum, which amounted to $75.17 per barrel. Experts are beginning to increasingly believe that fuel prices could rise to $100 per barrel. Another breakthrough in oil prices was made on the information that North Korea launched several ballistic missiles without prior warning.

Russia and China will not allow the UN to punish North Korea Russia is “disappointed” with North Korea’s missile experiments, Vladimir Putin said yesterday during an online conference. He said he would prefer not to receive "gifts" of missile parts falling without warning from the sky near our borders.

Ukrainians elected a speaker until late at night and destroyed the coalition Yesterday the Rada's work brought sensations. The first sensation was the unblocking of the work of the Rada, which the opposition, led by Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions, had kept under siege for nine days. The second sensation is the collapse of the ruling “orange” coalition of the Socialist Party, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine.

Rostov-on-Don does not want to remake the old coat of arms The authorities of Rostov-on-Don launched a decisive offensive against the Russian Heraldic Council, which refuses to register the current official coat of arms of the Don capital. Deputies of the Rostov City Duma say they are ready to go to court. How they will prove that oak leaves can be green, professional heraldists cannot even imagine in their wildest imagination.

Democrats do not want to participate in the same “anti-summit” with communists and Limonovites On July 11-12 in Moscow, opposition forces will hold the “Other Russia” forum. The event should play the role of a kind of “anti-summit”, because three days later a meeting of the heads of state of the G8 will take place in St. Petersburg.

The only possible nationalism for Russia is “nationalism of love” The issue of nationalism is now at the center of Russian political life: a wave of chauvinism and xenophobia is growing, extremism on national grounds is raising its head, murders and hooliganism on national and racial grounds have become more frequent on the part of Russians and other peoples of Russia. Simple spells about “tolerance”, “friendship of peoples” and “internationalism” are clearly not enough.

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) yesterday called on Israel to end its military operation in the Gaza Strip, which began following the June 25 capture of Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit by Palestinian extremists. The special session of the HRC, which has 47 members, was convened at the initiative of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The resolution, passed by 29 votes to 11 with five abstentions, "urges" Israel to release Hamas government ministers arrested after the soldier's capture.

Fradkov's ministers swim faster than Olympic champions After finishing the regular government meeting, members of Mikhail Fradkov’s cabinet demonstrated their swimming abilities. Yesterday they plied the waters of the Olympic swimming pool in Moscow at the opening of the Russian swimming championship. Before the start of the official competition, a “special swim” was announced. Government members versus Olympic champions.

In most of the European territory of Russia, the hot July heat was tempered by the northern winds blowing along the eastern edge of the anticyclone. But on Friday the weather will change, the synoptic situation will lead to increased heat in most of the European territory. In the northwestern region there is mostly no precipitation, the temperature continues to rise, in the afternoon +25...+30оС.

Mass anti-government protests in Tbilisi. About 800 people gathered outside the courthouse yesterday, where the verdict was announced yesterday for four Interior Ministry officers accused of killing a bank clerk in January following an argument in a bar. One of them received eight years in prison, the rest - seven. Relatives of the deceased demanded that those who are called the masterminds of this crime be brought to justice.

This week, the Israeli parliament approved in the first reading a bill increasing the old-age benefit (pension) for one person by 100 shekels ($22 from the current 250), and for a married couple by 75 shekels (by 16 dollars from 454). The increase is insignificant, but this is the first victory for the Gil (Age) pensioners' party in the Knesset. In the parliamentary elections on March 28, Gil, whose average age of members is about 70, surprised everyone.

Kaliningrad investors were deprived of tax benefits Normal infrastructure and support from government authorities is what investors need. This is what they decided in the Kaliningrad region and canceled tax breaks for a number of enterprises. The regional Duma made a corresponding decision on Thursday. The idea of ​​waiving benefits was previously voiced by the regional governor Georgy Boos.