“If a large group of countries with different cultures, different attitudes to fiscal policy have a common currency, it’s a complex problem,” said Warren Buffett, head of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. He believes that now, after the euro has grown against the dollar by 10.6% over the past three months (to $1.4 per euro), it will fall. At the beginning of 2010, the euro was already experiencing a decline to $1.19 due to concerns about the sovereign debt crisis of European countries.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that he is submitting to the Moscow City Duma the candidacy of Deputy Prime Minister, Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation Sergei Sobyanin to vest him with the powers of mayor of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports . The new mayor of Moscow will have to focus on solving social problems, problems of corruption and traffic jams, Dmitry Medvedev said.

The state prosecution has reduced the volume of oil by 20 million tons, the theft of which is accused of ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former head of the Menatep MFO Platon Lebedev, RAPSI agency reports from the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow. Prosecutor Gulchekhra Ibragimova stated during the debate that the position of the investigation about the theft of 147 million tons of oil by Khodorkovsky and Lebedev between 1998 and 2000 was partially not confirmed.

The classic year-end rally lasts approximately two months. This year it could lift the market by 7-9%. How can you make money? The author is an international financial consultant FCP (Financial Management) Ltd In a couple of months, investors around the world will be summing up the results of 2010. Until now there was nothing special to brag about. Since the beginning of the year, the S&P 500 index has grown by only 5.6%, the RTS index by 9.8%.

Klaus Kobiell, owner of the successful Hotel Schindlerhof in Germany, shares his experience All my business experience proves that long-term success becomes possible through the implementation of all the necessary prerequisites for this. Only when all the accents are placed professionally can you encourage people to buy your products or use your services, and only then will they become regular customers of the company. What do we do for this at Schindlerhof?

Law enforcement agencies accused the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Vadim Bulavinov, of abuse of office and opened a criminal case against him. Bulavinov himself told reporters about this on Friday, October 15. The reason for the criminal prosecution, according to the mayor, was a statement regarding the circumstances of the construction of the Fantastica shopping center. The details of the charges have not yet been reported.

The Transneft company is not negotiating about entering into the share capital of the Samara football club “Wings of the Soviets,” RIA Novosti reports , citing a company statement. “In connection with numerous publications that have received a wide public response about supposedly ongoing negotiations on the entry of AK Transneft into the share capital of the Krylya Sovetov football club, the company’s press service declares that this information is not true,” the statement says. .

The number of deaths in a collision between a train and a passenger bus in the Dnepropetrovsk region in Ukraine continues to increase: as of Friday morning, October 15, 45 people have already become victims of the accident. There were a total of 52 passengers on the bus. Seven still remain in hospitals in the city of Dnepropetrovsk and the city of Marganets in serious condition. We also add that the locomotive's crew of three people was not injured. agency reports this The RIA Novosti .

The owner of the Sunrise company, Sergei Bobylev, who was recently released from prison on bail, says Russian reality is rich in stupidity and lawlessness. And our fellow citizens have long ceased to be surprised by the activities of the Russian “law enforcement” system.

World golf legend Jack Nicklaus is designing a playing field for Roman Abramovich not far from the Skolkovo science city under construction One day in August, Jack Nicklaus, an eighteen-time winner of four major world golf tournaments (today's star, billionaire Tiger Woods, has three fewer titles), sat in a dusty old Land Rover Defender on top of an earthen mound in the middle of a huge course outside Moscow.

The Rossiya-24 TV channel called the sudden appearance on its website on the morning of Friday, October 15, of news that said that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was not nominated for the next mayor of Moscow in the Moscow City Hall as a “technical error.” agency reports this The RIA Novosti with reference to an employee of the channel. United Russia handed over to the head of state a list of potential mayors of the capital last Saturday, October 9.

During the visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Russia, several economically important agreements were signed between the two countries. The main one is the purchase of the largest Russian oil company Rosneft of 50% of the Venezuelan state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA) in Ruhr Oel GmbH, which owns shares in several refineries in Germany.

To understand how people interact, an MIT professor attaches sensors to them. Knowing how to work with information, you can force a huge mass of people to complete a complex task, spending literally pennies on it. Late last year, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the Network Race, a competition with a $40,000 prize for the first group of enthusiasts to detect ten weather balloons - red balloons with a diameter of 2.5 m, launched into the air on the appointed day.

A criminal case has been opened regarding the escape of conscript soldier Viktor Zavyalov with weapons and ammunition from a military unit in the Ryazan region. agency reports this The RIA Novosti with reference to the military investigative department of the Investigative Committee.

Law enforcement agencies have decided on the punishment for a MGIMO student who drove a Land Rover through the Alexander Garden near the Moscow Kremlin a few days ago. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes on Friday, October 15 , the driver will have to pay a fine of 4,500 rubles. This is exactly the punishment provided for an administrative violation, that is, hooligan driving.