The calendar of “rainy days” for Russian financial markets has been replenished. There have already been “Black Tuesday” and “Black Thursday”. Now it’s Friday, July 25, 2008. Having reached their maximum values ​​on May 19, Russian stock indices began to decline, accelerating from the beginning of June. The protracted decline in shares culminated in a collapse on Friday.

Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Monday that the situation around the metallurgical company Mechel should be a lesson for all Russian companies. He hopes that Russian companies will henceforth “act in the most civilized manner on the market.” From now on, this is after the entire Russian stock market collapsed under the influence of harsh statements addressed to the company by Prime Minister Putin, losing almost $58 billion in value during the day.

Last week, at a meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, Prime Minister Putin attacked a company that causes his activity damage to the Russian economy. This company was by no means “Baikalfinance group”, which bought Yuganskneftegaz at a non -alternative auction for the loan provided to it by the state. And not the company "Ganvor", which belongs to a friend of Putin's Premiere and receives $ 70 billion. annual income from the export of Russian oil.

The government’s work with Russian business, in my opinion, should be carried out using slightly different methods. There is the Antimonopoly Service, there are courts, you can sue, you can deal with the monopolistic behavior of this or that enterprise. The government cannot be the forum for investigating the competition or anti-monopoly actions of a company. The word “lesson” seems inappropriate to me in this situation, especially when business activity is extremely low.

The celebration of the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' perfectly demonstrates the whole gamut of changes that have occurred in the post-Soviet space over the past two decades, since the famous Millennium. Then the decorous and pompous nature of the celebration was not overshadowed by any excesses.

Representatives of a number of regions propose to establish a relationship between teacher salaries and student performance. First of all, we are talking about the results of the Unified State Exam, but also about internal tests. These proposals were made as part of an experiment to introduce a new wage system that began on September 1 last year.