VEB allocates money to financial institutions The Supervisory Board of the state corporation Development Bank (Vnesheconombank) yesterday recommended issuing subordinated loans to the first three private banks for a total of 18.3 billion rubles. In addition, VTB Group will receive $712.5 million from VEB to refinance its external debt. Until now, the Development Bank has allocated funds for these needs only to companies.

Minsk is dissatisfied with Russian throwing Yesterday, Minsk and Moscow entered into a dispute over the date of the Supreme State Council of the Russian-Belarusian union state, which includes the presidents of the two countries. Earlier, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko promised that the meeting would be historic, as it would take bilateral cooperation to a fundamentally new level.

Robert Dudley left the post of President of TNK-BP Russia's third oil company was left without a leader yesterday. TNK-BP President Robert Dudley, as agreed by the company's shareholders, resigned . “I am leaving TNK-BP after more than five difficult but incredibly fruitful years. These were years of participation in the creation and management of this unique and progressive Russian oil company.

Russia will not be allowed to build a second power unit at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran Iran has abandoned the construction of a second power unit at the Bushehr nuclear power plant. As you know, the first unit at this station is now being completed by the Russian Atomstroyexport.

"Right Cause" is ready to cooperate with United Russia The leadership of Right Cause yesterday shared news with reporters about how the process of creating a new liberal party in Russia is going. The Kremlin project based on the Union of Right Forces, Civil Force and the Democratic Party of Russia appeared quite recently, and the party’s founding congress was held on November 16.

Sberbank denies rumors about the purchase of a foreign bank Sberbank can buy a large network bank in Eastern Europe, for example the Austrian Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich AG (RZB) or the Hungarian OTP Bank. A source close to the bank reported this to RIA Novosti yesterday. Sberbank denies this information. Sberbank’s plans to expand its presence abroad were announced yesterday by an agency interlocutor familiar with the credit institution’s development strategy plan.

The Ukrainian President has found a speaker for the current Rada President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko has decided on the candidacy for Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS) faction, chaired by the president, will nominate Ivan Plyushch for a vote on this position. The election of the speaker is planned to be held this week, and perhaps his name will become known at the parliamentary session today.

Cancer Movement warns: drug reform must undergo public scrutiny Nadezhda V. from Saransk (36 years old) had her breasts removed three years ago after a malignant tumor with overexpression of the HER2 factor was detected (a highly aggressive type of cancer that does not respond to conventional chemotherapy). Then Nadezhda’s husband learned from sources on the Internet that her diagnosis needed a special drug - trastuzumab (market name - Herceptin).

The Central Election Commission strengthens democracy at the international level Chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, who recently returned from the distant country of Peru, shared the latest news from the front of the struggle to improve the domestic electoral system with reporters yesterday.

Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Türkiye outline a trans-Turkic energy consortium The first ever summit of the presidents of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey , which took place last Saturday in the city of Turkmenbashi, was held on a grand scale and was accompanied by vows of eternal friendship between the fraternal peoples. Ilham Aliyev, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Abdullah Gul, as expected, did not sign any joint documents in the energy sector.

The growth of HIV infection has not yet been stopped The number of people infected with HIV in Russia is increasing every year. At the same time, the rate of spread of infection is accelerating by approximately 10% per year.

CLUBS Patrick Fiori. Corsican Patrick Fiori is a Eurovision star in 1993, performing the role of Phoebus in the famous musical Notre Dame de Pari. Kremlin Palace , 19.00. Maxim Piganov (trombone) and Oleg Kireev Quartet (Moscow). Jazz. "Union of Composers" , 20.00. Haleo (Cuba). Latin American rhythms, youthful enthusiasm and tropical temperament at Cool Train Club , 21.00. CONCERTS Conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. F. Schubert. Soloists O. Ermakova, A. Pegova (soprano), V.

The President and Director of the Louvre Museum, Professor Henri LOIRETTE, has a reputation in world museum circles as a tough manager and creative innovator. Coming to the Louvre from the other bank of the Seine - from the D'Orsay Museum, he became the first head of the main museum in Europe who had never worked in it. As soon as he took office, Loirette managed to achieve financial and administrative independence of the Louvre from the French Ministry of Culture.

Romanian voters sympathize with Obama and Dracula In Romania's parliamentary elections on Sunday, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) each won about a third of the votes. This became clear based on the results of counting ballots in 99% of polling stations. The official preliminary results differ markedly from the exit poll, which showed the SDP leading by 5%.

The crisis may affect the reproductive instincts of Russians Instability of financial markets can spoil the results of demographic statistics . At least the results of a poll conducted in mid-November by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) show that despite the positive trends noted by Russians in the development of the state institution of maternity protection as such, not too many Russians today are ready to take on parental responsibilities.