What are they talking about this morning

- The confrontation between the democrats and the Republicans in the American Congress continues: the second day the country lives without a budget, and civil servants are sent on unlimited vacation. On Tuesday, the Americans could not cope with the crisis and could not even adopt special bills that would unlock the financing of individual institutions. Obama spoke sharply: "The termination of the government threatens the American economy." But it has not helped yet.

- The shareholders want to dismiss Bill Gates from the board of directors of Microsoft, writes Reuters . Three investors, whose names the agency does not call, together owning about 5% of the company, campaigning the rest so that the founder is rolled in future elections to the Council. The essence of the claims: Gates does not allow the company to develop, limits the choice of strategy. And something needs to be done urgently: Apple and Google go into a gap. Gates is the largest private shareholder of Microsoft, now it owns 4.5%.

- The initiative group of citizens who are going to nominate Putin to the Nobel Prize of the World were joined by the President of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro. Slon has already written about the curious press conference on the nomination yesterday . And on the night of Wednesday from the Western Hemisphere, the words of support came: "If someone at this historical moment deserves the Nobel Prize of the World, then this is President Vladimir Putin, who helped stop the war threatening the Syrian people."

-The match of the Champions Football League between the Schalke-04 and Basel teams on Tuesday was interrupted due to the performance of Greenpeace activists, which were hung out under the roof of the Giant Banner, Gazprom, do not packet Arctic (Don't Foul the Arctic). The Russian monopolist is the sponsor of the Schalke-04 club. Apparently, the audience was unhappy. The action began with a score of 0: 0, but the match ended with the minimum victory “Schalke”, which played attended: 0: 1.

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- And also about the fuel and energy complex. Surgutneftegaz may have a new shareholder. Vedomosti found in the network of non -profit partnerships and funds owning a company in a difficult cross -scheme, and these are Cyprus offshores built “in the ring”. Experts believe that this indirectly indicate the emergence of a new minority sorting with a share of not more than 1%.

- Qiwi is going to earn another $ 287.5 million on the secondary placement of shares on NASDAQ, Vedomosti write . On Tuesday, the largest instant payments operator in Russia announced that he would sell 17.9% of the authorized capital at the start price of $ 30.5 for one ADS (in total, receipts of 44% of the shares will be received). After that, the company's shares have risen from $ 31 to $ 35. There is demand!

- Well! The Kremlin decided to ask how the “Power - Opposition” system is arranged in the so -called West. For this, the presidential administration will spend 35.1 million rubles on 30 research work on “the best foreign practices of interaction between power with the opposition”, as well as “the evolution of party systems and democracies of Western countries”, Kommersant reports . Like children straight.

- From life is a clip. Once it slipped past everyone yesterday, and meanwhile , Evgeny Fedorov, a sad deputy from United Russia, suggested that the State Duma tax on all manufacturers of goods with foreign names.

What else to read in the morning: in detail about which of the highest officials and how much they will increase the salary in 2014 , in Vedomosti; There, there is a story about what exactly will happen to the NPF in 2014 , when the funded part of the pensions will be stolen from us, and the work of non -state funds will be suspended and checked; The report of Elena Masyuk about what is happening with Tolokonnikova in the colony , and after still a selection of materials on the topic in the Novaya Gazeta.