Morgan Stanley bought City Mortgage Bank Another Russian bank has become the property of a foreign investor. American investment bank Morgan Stanley yesterday announced the purchase of 100% of the shares of the City Mortgage Bank, the main shareholder of which was the head of Rosgosstrakh, Danil Khachaturov. The participants in the transaction do not disclose its amount.

Severstal-auto will produce FIAT engines More and more companies are seeking to take advantage of customs benefits in the production of auto components before Russia joins the WTO. Today, an agreement is expected to be signed between the Canadian Magna and AvtoVAZ on the creation of a joint production of automotive components, which may operate in industrial assembly mode.

Sochi presented his application book on lumpy ice Still dreaming of winning the 2014 Winter Games, the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi yesterday solemnly held a ceremony to send its bid book to the International Olympic Committee. Since there are no Olympic-scale facilities in the city yet, the ceremony was held at the stadium of the city gymnasium No. 8, where yesterday the artificial skating rink was filled and frozen. It is impossible to say that everything went smoothly.

The Moscow City Duma wants to be a proofreader of crime chronicles The capital's parliament decided to end the autumn session on a wave of incomprehensible tolerance. While the city’s executive power is removing “non-indigenous” traders from Moscow markets who allegedly infringe on the rights of the local population, the capital’s legislators have proposed banning the media from any mention of the nationality of crime news heroes.

The Ivanovo court created unexpected obstacles for the authorities of Uzbekistan The case of the “Ivanovo Uzbeks” - 12 citizens of Uzbekistan and one citizen of Kyrgyzstan, who have been held in Ivanovo pre-trial detention center No. 1 for exactly one and a half years awaiting deportation to Uzbekistan in connection with charges of preparing the Andijan uprising - is becoming increasingly scandalous.

The transplant doctors were finally cleared of murder charges Transplant doctors, twice accused of removing a kidney from a living person, have finally been finally and irrevocably acquitted. Yesterday, the Supreme Court (SC) made its third decision: to recognize the acquittal as legal, and the protest of the prosecutor's office as invalid.

The Federal Defense Procurement Service will prepare a blacklist of industry enterprises The Federal Service for Defense Ordering (FSZ) finally got back on its feet this year, and next year it intends to restore order in such a monetary area as the production of weapons and military equipment. The history of the creation of the service is very confusing . First, in 2003, the State Committee for Defense Orders appeared.

The procedure for refinancing a mortgage will be simplified for credit institutions A unified form of mortgage may soon appear in Russia. Corresponding amendments to the law “On Mortgages” have already been submitted to the State Duma. Market participants expect that the new norm will significantly speed up the process of banks forming pools of loans, as well as simplify the procedure for refinancing mortgages.

“Real” was crushed by the newcomer of the Spanish league The Spanish Championship goes on vacation. Late last night, Barcelona was still finishing its match of the 16th round, but no matter the outcome, it remained only second. On the first line of the standings, the Christmas and New Year holidays will be celebrated by Sevilla, which is still negotiating the purchase of Russian national team and Zenit striker Alexander Kerzhakov.

Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi surrendered control over Sakhalin-2 to Gazprom It took the shareholders of the Sakhalin-2 project - Royal Dutch Shell (55%), Mitsui (25%) and Mitsubishi (20%) - less than two weeks to agree with Gazprom on specific terms for the transfer of a controlling stake to the Russian concern . Yesterday it was announced that the state monopoly will buy 50% plus one share for $7.45 billion.

The representative office of the Kaliningrad region in Vilnius was sold for debts The buildings of the representative office of the Kaliningrad region in Vilnius were sold for debts on a loan from Dresdner Bank . At the beginning of the week, the Interfax agency reported this, citing bailiff Gintaras Matkevicius.

Inspector of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission caught taking a bribe This corruption scandal in Kamchatka law enforcement agencies is called unprecedented. The press service of the regional department of internal affairs reported on a high-profile special operation carried out by operatives in the center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Nuclear problems come up against financial sanctions Today in Beijing a statement is expected from the chairman of the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei. After this, the delegations of the two Koreas, Russia, the United States and Japan, in all likelihood, will go home for the New Year holidays. Work will continue in January at best. The current meeting, officially called the “second round of the fifth round of negotiations,” began on Monday.

Participants of the national project "Education" were tormented by inspections The hardest thing for participants in the national project “Education” in the first year of its implementation was prosecutorial checks and multi-page reports. Complaints about the time spent on auditors were voiced yesterday during a meeting of the interdepartmental working group on the implementation of a priority national project under the Ministry of Education and Science.

Vnesheconombank will increase support for industry Vnesheconombank (VEB) intends to expand the volume of lending to Russian industry, which is designed to contribute to the development and production of new types of products that are competitive, including in international markets, and to impart an innovative character to the country's economy. The bank's activities in this area are expected to be carried out within the framework of a strategic partnership with the Federal Agency for Industry.