The Central Bank of Russia appointed its authorized representatives in twenty-one Russian banks, its press service reports. The bank’s representatives are still operating at Bank24.ru, Bank Severnaya Kazna, and such major banks as Bank VTB, Alfa-Bank, Sberbank of Russia, Bank of Moscow, and some others.

Russia’s Federal Financial Markets Service Ural Federal District’s division ruled on February 3, 2011 (decree 62-11-102/pz-i) that the emission of Sverdlovsk Region-based AVS Group’s ordinary registered paperless shares should be halted.

The international rating agency demoted the long-term credit rating of X5 Retail Group N.V. – the proprietor of a major retail grocery chain – and its daughter enterprises from BB- down to B+. the rating outlook is Stable. The rating of the company’s priority unsecured ruble bonds (issued by the daughter enterprise X5 Finance) was reduced from BB- to B+ and placed on CreditWatch with Negative outlook. What’s more, the ratings of X5 Finance and Agrotorg were called off altogether.

Moscow Region Arbitration court declared Technosila, the company managing Technosila electronic goods and household appliances chain store, bankrupt, Russian Agency for Legal & Court Information reports. The court made the company undergo bankruptcy proceedings for six months and appointed the company’s acting CEO Sergey Petrov the trustee in bankruptcy. The trustee announced in the course of the hearing that no evidence of the company going deliberately bankrupt was found. Technosila now has eleven creditors, whose claims total to 11.25bn RUR.

В 10.00 состоится аппаратное совещание администрации Челябинска (пл. Революции, 2). В 12.00 пройдет аппаратное совещание губернатора Челябинской области Михаила Юревича с заместителями и министрами (ул. Цвиллинга, 27).

13 марта пройдут дополнительные выборы депутатов Челябинской городской думы и 8 муниципальных собраний депутатов.