America has lost a famous adventurer For the second week, America is looking for its missing millionaire, adventurer and adventurer Steve Fossett. His plane took off in the early morning hours of September 4 and never returned. There was enough fuel for five to six hours; Fossett was supposed to be at the airfield by noon. It never occurred to anyone that it would all end like this.

EADS Concern is reforming its directorate The European aircraft manufacturing concern EADS , apparently, intends to become Eurasian. At an extraordinary meeting of its shareholders, which will be held on October 22 in Amsterdam (one of the concern's management centers is located there), it is planned to resolve a number of issues regarding business restructuring and re-elect the board of directors.

Banks are increasingly lending to small and medium-sized businesses The first half of the year turned out to be very successful for the majority of Russian banks involved in lending to small and medium-sized businesses. Almost all financial institutions surveyed note a twofold increase in the volume of their loan portfolios.

Kabardino-Balkaria celebrated its voluntary entry into Russia Of the seven capitals of the Caucasian republics, Nalchik most closely resembles a large Russian city. Nalchik has always been known as a resort - almost a third of the city is occupied by sanatoriums and boarding houses, some of which managed to survive the dark 90s and continue to welcome guests. Not to mention the fact that Nalchik airport is the closest road to the Elbrus region.

Seasonal deposit: banking pros and cons Many banks try to offer special deposits for each season and holiday. As a rule, these are deposits for a short period - up to a maximum of six months, but the rates on them are slightly higher than on the traditional offer. The fact that seasonal promotions attract attention is recognized even by skeptical bankers - those who decided to abandon the practice of attracting seasonal deposits.

Chronicle of sporting events The Appeal Committee of the European Football Union excluded the Dutch Feyenoord from the UEFA Cup. The club was subjected to such severe punishment for the behavior of its own fans during the group stage match of the tournament against the French Nancy. Feyenoord's away match was interrupted in the 80th minute due to fan rioting, when the Dutch were losing with a score of 0:3, and resumed after a long time.

The Young Guard decided to fight the populism of United Russia's competitors Before the elections to the State Duma , the Young Guard of United Russia is beginning to increasingly fight opponents of their party bosses, using methods that the party in power itself cannot do in order to maintain a respectable image.

Russia will become the leader in the growth of the banking system in Eastern Europe The Russian financial system is one of the most dynamic markets in European emerging economies. According to a study by the international consulting company Oliver Wyman, in the coming years the fastest growth will be observed in Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. Russia is expected to account for 40% of total revenue growth.

CLUBS Iggy Pop & The Stooges. In 2006, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, who split up in 1974, reunited and recorded a full-length studio album, The Weirdness, and went on a concert tour in March 2007 in support of the new album. You can hear it at the B1 Maximum club, 20.00. Ash. Igor Nadezhdin, pianist and organizer of the group, lived in Israel for a long time, where the idea was born to assemble a team playing brazil jazz. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K.

Having completed a multi-day trip to APEC countries, Vladimir Putin in Abu Dhabi summed up the results of the visit and answered questions from Russian journalists, including Vremya Novostei special correspondent Arkady DUBNOV. On limiting foreign investment in Russia.

The band Reamonn played in “B1” The Reamonn group is a miniature European Union, a reflection of a united Europe: four Germans and an Irish vocalist. They play sternly lyrical melodic rock, which some would call a copy of U2 or Simple Minds. However, the group’s Russian fans, of whom there are quite a few, don’t care about all these cultural references. They idolize Ray Garvey's beautiful voice and the band's wonderful melodicism.

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan tried to return to politics “An excellent advertising campaign that costs just a few plane tickets,” is how political scientist Hamid Ahmad described yesterday’s scandalous blitz visit to Pakistan by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Vremya Novostey. Islamabad prepared for Sharif's arrival almost as if it were for the visit of an influential foreign leader - security measures began to be taken the day before.

Iran has quarreled Americans with the IAEA The session of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which opened yesterday in Vienna, was marked by sharp disagreements between the agency's director general, Muhammad ElBaradei, and the Americans. US Representative Gregory Schulte considered the IAEA's efforts to find a negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear problem useless.

Alexey GONUS, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sobinbank, talks about trends in the SME lending sector. — How much, in your opinion, has the saturation of small and medium-sized businesses with banking products increased over the past year? -- As the results of the study show, the total volume of loans to small and medium-sized businesses is about $5 billion, and its growth in 2006 was at the level of 40-50%.

The last session in the history of the State Duma of the fourth convocation has begun . What are the achievements of this Duma, plans for the last session, what do the deputies want to accomplish before the end of their term of office? Vremya Novostei parliamentary correspondent Ksenia VERETENNIKOVA addressed these questions to the leaders of the Duma factions. The first to respond was the head of the “A Just Russia” faction, Alexander BABAKOV.