The successful IPO of Rosneft has increased the desire of Russians to invest in the stock market. The head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM), Oleg Vyugin, yesterday expressed confidence that the share of private investors in the Russian stock market will now increase significantly. Experts also predict that interest in investments will grow among people who are not sophisticated in financial matters. Mr.

Entrepreneurs ask to return what they lost during the alcohol crisis The minimum is to postpone the introduction of the Unified State Automated Information System (USAIS), the maximum is to demand compensation for losses caused to the industry. Such demands are contained in an appeal from Business Russia sent yesterday to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, signed by participants in the alcohol market.

The presidents will talk about the status of Kosovo The first round of direct talks between Serbian and Kosovo leaders is due to take place in Vienna on Monday. The delegation will be headed by Serbian President Boris Tadic and Kosovo Regional President Fatmir Sejdiu. The last time such a meeting took place was in the spring of 1999, at the height of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Many Europeans would gladly sit out the heat in Russia Summer heat in Europe actually ceases to be an anomalous phenomenon, because it repeats itself with enviable regularity. In 2003, the inferno claimed thousands of lives across the continent. Now the count is still in the dozens, but the first victims have already appeared. So far, authorities in France, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany report 13 who could not bear the heat.

Don Cossacks rebel against migration policy The authorities of the Rostov region urgently created a special commission that is looking into the incident related to the unauthorized seizure of the Resurrection Cathedral in Starocherkassk by Cossacks. The arbitrariness committed by the army came as a complete surprise to everyone.

CIS leaders will go to the races and discuss the future of the post-Soviet space A two-day informal CIS summit opens today in Moscow. Yesterday, the presidents of ten of the twelve invited states confirmed their participation in it. The head of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, decided not to interrupt his vacation and have a good rest on the coast of the Caspian Sea. There have been conflicting reports regarding Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's plans.

Rock music in the capital and at a safe distance from it This coming weekend, July 22-23, a rock festival will take place in the village of Emmaus. Not “Invasion” - it has now moved from the Tver region, where it lived sprawlingly in the past, to a place with an equally expressive name in Ryazan.

Regional officials will be held accountable for the imperfections of the Housing Code While the State Duma is actively governing the Housing Code, the implementation of a number of key provisions of which is hampered by the abundance of semantic and legal “gaps” in it, federal government officials are no less actively engaged in searching for those responsible for the inevitable delay in the housing and communal services reform.

North Ossetia and Chechnya want to extend Vladimir Putin's presidential age The North Ossetian public movement “Concord and Stability” yesterday officially announced its readiness to begin the procedure for preparing a national referendum that would allow changing Chapter 4 of the Russian Constitution so that the same president could hold office for more than two consecutive terms. In other words, we are talking about legalizing Vladimir Putin’s third term in office.

Mortgages in the Far East have been ordered to live long Yesterday, while the government at its meeting appointed First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev responsible for the implementation of the federal target program "Children of Russia", as part of his tour of the Far East, he held a meeting in Khabarovsk on providing Russians with affordable housing. Mr.

Competition between global investment banks begins in the domestic market By mid-autumn, one of the world's largest investment banks, Goldman Sachs, may finally open its subsidiary bank in Russia. Yesterday it became known that the bank submitted an application to the Federal Financial Markets Service to obtain licenses for a professional participant in the stock market. The bank's London office did not comment on Goldman Sachs' plans in Russia.

The Russian car fleet will grow with foreign cars One of the main trends in the Russian automobile market in the first half of the year is a noticeable increase in sales of new foreign cars and a decrease in the import of used cars, according to a review published yesterday by the consulting group PricewaterhouseCoopers. Imports of used foreign cars decreased in physical terms by 36%, to 103 thousand cars, and in monetary terms - by 33%, to $1.4 billion.

There is a hitch in the Yukos bankruptcy The decision on Yukos bankruptcy seems to be somewhat delayed. The corresponding trial is scheduled for August 1. By law, a meeting of the company's creditors must be held ten days before. It started yesterday, but for formal reasons they announced a break until July 25th. According to Vremya Novostei, this is being done so that Gazprom has time to buy a 20 percent stake in Gazprom Neft from YUKOS at a symbolic price.

Arctic air will continue to invade the northwestern region with northwestern winds. Daytime temperature +16...+21оС. On Saturday, the atmospheric front of a wave cyclone will approach from the west, and with it a zone of short rains, but they will not occur everywhere. With a wind from the south, the temperature will rise to +18...+23оС; on Sunday, as the front moves east, the weather will clear up and become even warmer, in the afternoon +20...+25оС.

Bank of Moscow invites you to the “Big Waltz” The general sponsor of the 5th international festival “Big Waltz”, which will be held in St. Petersburg from July 21 to 31, is the Bank of Moscow. Since 2002, within the framework of the festival, the chairman of the honorary committee of which is the director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, the author of the idea and artistic director is Yulia Kantor, 11 concerts have been held.