What relation does the family of the first president have to the skyscrapers of the City? “You and I can come up with a decoding for the abbreviation GDP!” — businessman Oleg Grankin is indignant. His office is located in a brand new five-story building in one of the Arbat lanes in the center of Moscow. An idyll reigns here: a few offices, a few luxury apartments and a glassed-in winter garden on the roof.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was assassinated earlier this year, came to Washington to support a compromise bill to raise the debt ceiling. agency reports this The RIA Novosti . Giffords' appearance in the hall was met with applause that did not cease until the end of the voting. On January 8, Giffords was shot in the head during a meeting with voters in Tucson, Arizona. The gunman killed six people and wounded more than ten.

The budget surplus of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the first half of 2011 amounted to 709 billion rubles. Such data were presented at a meeting of the Russian government on Tuesday by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin. According to him, regional budget revenues in January-June amounted to 3.729 trillion rubles, an increase of 18% (575 billion) compared to the same period in 2010. Expenses increased by 10% – to 3.020 trillion rubles.

What future awaits Belarus The economic crisis in Belarus is becoming systemic. Dollars are in short supply for the fifth month, fuel shortages continue, prices have soared in contrast to wages. Belarusians are tightening their belts and gathering for silent protests, which are being dispersed by security forces. The Belarusian miracle was supported by cheap Russian energy resources, but over the past three years Russia has sharply raised oil and gas prices.

US financial regulators gave investors a TOOL for making money. It would be a sin not to take advantage. Can American stock indices be in a rigid corridor, the boundaries of which are not always determined by market factors? At first glance, this is impossible. However, analyzing the dynamics of the stock market in 2010 and 2011, I can’t help but feel this way.

photo Dmitry Lekai / Kommersant We know who owns Spartak - Leonid Fedun. We know the owners of Zenit and Lokomotiv - structures of Gazprom and Russian Railways. But the owners of CSKA remain in the shadows. At the same time, the army club is often associated with Roman Abramovich.

How governments move. Changes are expected in the Russian capital. President Dmitry Medvedev became concerned about Moscow's infrastructure and decided to rid it of some of the capital's functions by moving a number of government institutions outside the city. “England and France are not keen on such experiments,” says Alexander Skokan, head of the Ostozhenka architectural bureau, ironically.

A residential building caught fire on Tuesday afternoon in the elite Golden Keys village in western Moscow. this to RIA Novosti . A source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies reported According to him, a four-story building located on Minskaya Street caught fire in the village. “The roof of a brick house is on fire, there is no information about casualties,” the source added.

How can a private investor earn additional profit in the bond market? When we talk about personal investment in bonds, we usually mean investing in debt securities until they mature. In other words, for many private investors, investing in bonds is not much different from a bank deposit: you place money for a certain period, receive coupons, and at the end of the period you return the initial investment. It is commonly believed that investing in bonds is riskier than investing in deposits.

Private clients are again putting money into trust, but now they want to know more and pay less for services. Investors have short memories, and the thirst for easy money dulls the fear of losing it. Less than three years have passed since the financial earthquake of 2008, the tsunami from which washed away dozens of banks and thousands of fortunes, and private clients are again knocking on the thresholds of companies offering asset trust management services.

In Russia, the demand for carriages has grown so much that there will soon be nowhere for them to travel. There is a boom in the purchase of freight cars in Russia. Prices are rising rapidly: if at the beginning of 2010 a carriage cost an average of $40,000, in July 2011 it was already sold for $80,000. This year, according to experts, the price could reach $100,000, the same as before the crisis, and even more.

The CEO of Continent Airlines was detained as part of a criminal case of fraud. this to RIA Novosti . A representative of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport reported “On suspicion of committing fraud, the 62-year-old general director of OJSC Aviation Company Continent, Vladimir Krasilnikov, has been detained and is currently being interrogated as a suspect,” the supervisory authority confirmed.

In the building of the Tretyakov Gallery on Tuesday, a search was carried out in the office of one of the deputy directors of the museum. this to Interfax . A source in the capital's law enforcement agencies reported According to him, the police were interested in documents related to the suspect’s previous place of work in the prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District.

The world's largest luxury car manufacturer BMW reported record financial results in the second quarter of 2011. The German concern demonstrated strong reporting thanks to high demand for the X3 crossovers and 5 Series sedans. Net profit, revenue and sales volume jumped to a record in April-June this year. BMW's net profit almost doubled in the last quarter compared to the same period in 2010 - to €1.81 billion. The consensus forecast of analysts surveyed by Dow Jones was €1.59 billion.

A homemade bomb exploded in one of the kindergartens in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. As a result, a little girl was injured. As Andrei Sergeev, head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Khabarovsk Territory, told RIA Novosti , law enforcement agencies are considering the issue of initiating a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist attack).