Why did bankers buy up the Volokolamsk district? House of Culture in the regional center of Volokolamsk near Moscow, May 24, 2005. The head of the district, Vyacheslav Karabanov, reports on the three years of work of his administration. Voters listen to the official absent-mindedly, but become noticeably more animated on the land issue.

The results of a DNA test on a man shot dead on Monday night in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad have confirmed that the victim was al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The probability that the biomaterial belongs to him is 99.9%. Even before the test results were received, bin Laden's body was buried at the bottom of the sea. This was done to ensure that the terrorist’s burial did not become a place of pilgrimage for his al-Qaeda supporters.

According to the operational report of the State Enterprise "CDU TEK", gas production in Russia in January-April 2011 increased by 0.9% compared to the same period last year. Total production in the first four months of the year amounted to 240.121 billion cubic meters. m. (in April - 57.216 billion cubic meters), Interfax reports . The volume of gas production by OJSC Gazprom in January-April 2011 amounted to 185.837 billion cubic meters. m. (in April - 44.108 billion cubic meters).

In Italy, one of the leaders of the Camorra, a criminal organization from Naples and other provinces of the southern Italian region of Campania, 53-year-old Marco Caterino, was arrested. The mafiosi were detained by special police forces in the town of Casal di Principe. Caterino, according to the Italian law enforcement system, is one of the “thirty” most dangerous criminals in the country. According to RIA Novosti , Caterino is the second person in the Casalesi crime family.

Russian gunsmiths bear the greatest losses from the conflict in Libya. The rest will be bailed out by insurers and rising oil and gas prices. Every morning, Sergei Zhuravlev, general director of the Pskov Elektrosvar plant, with bated breath, searches the Internet for reports of military operations in Libya: is there any news about the fate of the rail welding plant built by his company in the bare desert near the city of Ras Lanuf.

People are the most underexploited resource on the Internet The Internet has become a huge and fastest growing industry in the world economy, but very few people still work there. Google has 25,000 employees, Facebook, Yandex or Mail.Ru have approximately 2,000 each, Twitter has 450. Most of the world's Internet traffic is provided by hundreds of thousands of people at best. Internet companies rely on algorithms.

At the request of Forbes, analysts predict the behavior of the stock market for the week ahead At the end of last week, the MICEX index fell by 3% (to 1,742 points). The RTS index fell by 1%, stopping at 2027 points. This week, analysts predict holiday apathy: trading will take place at low speeds, the role of speculators will increase, as well as sensitivity to news. On Thursday, May 5, the ECB will meet, at which the decision on the interest rate will be announced.

An unusual way to use vacant lots in big cities has more and more enthusiasts How many vacant lots are there in Moscow, more or less than in Chicago? Despite the fact that in both cities land is very expensive, there are a lot of uselessly used, or even simply abandoned, plots in both places. What to do with them?

Three dozen universities train specialists in the field of nano. But there is no work for them Last summer, Ekaterinburg resident Alexander Rasstegaev graduated from the Ural State University and received a bachelor's degree in nanotechnology. But after receiving his diploma, an unpleasant surprise awaited him.

The famous economist and statesman, academician Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin, died in Moscow at the age of 81. Abalkin was one of the leading economists in the Soviet Union. During perestroika, he took an active part in the development of programs providing for the transition from a planned Soviet economy to a regulated market.

On Monday, work resumed in St. Petersburg on the demolition of the Preobrazhensky Regiment barracks, located at the intersection of Paradnaya Street and Vilensky Lane. reports this BaltInfo .

In Georgia, the investigation into the participation of a number of football players from national league teams in match-fixing continues. Five players and one of the possible organizers of the illegal betting have already been detained on suspicion of fraud, Interfax reports .

The recovery of the real estate market is again pushing up the shares of Russian developers. What papers deserve attention? Since the beginning of 2010, prices for Moscow housing have increased by 12%, to $4,717 per sq.m. So far this is a quarter below the pre-crisis maximum, but analysts are confident that the market will return to 2008 levels within a year. Reasons: demand for housing is growing, but supply is limited.

This year, the Forbes “Golden Hundred” has doubled - for the first time we present a list of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia . Now there are 101 billionaires on the list compared to last year’s 62, and the entrance ticket to the top ten of the ranking has risen from $8.6 billion to $13 billion

A descendant of Russian emigrants, Alexey Rodzianko grew up in America, lives in Russia and has been investing for 30 years. He told Forbes about which country he considers his own, how he manages his personal capital and what participation in the people’s IPO taught him. It so happened that the history of Russia and the history of my family are intertwined. Everyone who survived the revolution wrote memoirs. I re-read them sometimes. This makes it possible to better understand yourself.