What are they talking about this morning

- Following Putin, other Russian civil servants wanted to stay in power as long as possible. The speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko is going to introduce a bill that will allow senators to take places in the upper house of the parliament much longer - “for life”, as some commentators have already stated. According to new amendments, current senators will be able to remain in their post without participating in the elections of the regional or local level. -BP again takes revenge on Russian shareholders TNK-BP for disrupting the transaction with Rosneft. The British froze investments in a joint project with the Skolkovo Foundation worth £ 6.7 million, referring to the fact that they do not want to violate the TNK-BP joint-stock agreement, according to which partners should implement all projects in Russia and Ukraine primarily through TNK-BP. - The European Commission yesterday conducted searches in several gas companies in Europe. These were the European “daughters” of Gazprom: Gazprom Germania and Czech Vemex Sro searches were carried out to detect “anti-competitive practice in the field of natural gas supplies to the member state of Central and Eastern Europe”. If guilt establishes, companies face a fine that will determine the European Commission. -The Monaco court acquitted the ex-head of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Evgeny Adamov in the case of laundering $ 9 million in the banks of the principality, allocated to Russia to increase the safety of nuclear facilities by the US government. “I did not steal a single ruble and not a single dollar,” Adams told the judges on the video. Adamov threatened 30 months in prison. -The deputy chairman of VEB Pyotr Fradkov-the son of the former Prime Minister of Russia and the current head of the SVR Mikhail Fradkov, was headed by the Russian Agency for Insort Credit and Investment Insurance. - In continuation of the topic of the growth of emigration moods among Russians: according to the results of the study of adolescents preferences (12-19 years old), conducted by TNS, in 2010 there were 49% who wanted to live in their homeland (in 2009 there were 58%). In addition, among Russian adolescents, the number of those who experience deep respect for the leaders of the country has decreased - from 40%to 36%, as well as those who believe that in the world they are positively related to Russia - from 45 to 43%.

- Google intends to invest in energy again: the company will spend $ 75 million on the installation of solar batteries on the roofs of 3,000 houses. It is assumed that Google will remain the owner of the batteries, to which consumers of energy will pay money, as thought, smaller than the usual fee for traditional electricity.
- “In the next 20 months, millions of people will be ruined. And this is only the beginning. I dreamed about the collapse for three years, ”the independent trader Asseme Plendani, the BBC lively, shared his forecasts of the economic situation. This video with the frightening revelations of the trader on YouTube has already gained more than 800,000 views.
http://www.youtube.com/empted/uorqogrjbrs
- The British ITV television company issued personnel from a computer game for a documentary video about how Colonel Gaddafi supported the Irish Republican Army. The plot shows shots, allegedly shot by television company in 1988, as with the help of weapons provided by Gaddafi Irish militants, they knock down a British helicopter. In fact, a video from the game Arma II was shown on the screen. The PC Gamer publication exposed a forgery and turned to the game developer, Bohemia Interactive. The executive director expressed bewilderment and said that the television men did not apply for permission to use the video.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/4ikwk4o0xpg