The Paris Correctional Court sentenced British fashion designer John Galliano on Thursday. For anti-Semitic statements, the former artistic director of the Dior fashion house could pay a fine of €6,000 if he is again caught making public insults during his probation period. Reuters reports this.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave a speech on Thursday at the World Political Forum in Yaroslavl. The head of state assured the audience that the Russian Federation was not going to abandon the path of developing democracy, spoke out against “tightening the screws” and outlined the main challenges facing the state today. Medvedev emphasized the importance of the inviolability of private property. This factor must be guaranteed to the population, the president is confident.

Competitions for LTE frequencies in Russia are planned to be held in the first quarter of 2012. Such terms were announced on Thursday by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Naum Marder. Frequencies in the range 791-862 MHz will be put up for competition, Interfax recalls .

VTB on Thursday handed over the minutes of the supervisory board at the request of minority shareholders. This is stated in the bank's press release. The credit institution emphasizes that it acted in full compliance with Russian legislation and the latest recommendations of the Supreme Arbitration Court regarding the concept of bank secrecy. source An Interfax familiar with the situation said that the first recipient was minority activist Alexei Navalny .

The European Central Bank (ECB) has lowered its forecast for eurozone GDP growth for 2011-2012. ECB Chairman Jean-Claude Trichet announced this on Thursday, Bloomberg reports . According to the head of the regulator, the risks of a slowdown in economic growth in the region are intensifying against the backdrop of a “high level of uncertainty.” Tension, Trichet noted, remains both in the eurozone financial market and at the global level.

The fire in the business park on Mozhaiskoye Highway in Moscow has been extinguished. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the official representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the capital, Evgeny Bobylev. According to him, the department’s specialists managed to cope with the fire by 09:05 Moscow time. At the moment, firefighters are continuing to “water down and clear the rubble,” the department’s press secretary added.

Ozon.ru has attracted investments in the amount of $100 million. Money was invested in the Russian online store by Leonid Boguslavsky’s u-Net funds, Index Ventures, Alpha Associates and the Japanese online retailer Rakuten. The company announced this in its press release. agency The Interfax , citing the Vedomosti newspaper, reports that the leading investor was ru-Net, which invested at least half of the funds. The deal became the largest investment in e-commerce in Russia.

The net profit of JSC Bashneft according to IFRS in the second quarter of 2011 increased by 43.8% compared to the first quarter - to $532 million. Analysts from 8 investment companies and banks surveyed by Interfax predicted the figure at $378 million. For the first half of the year, Bashneft’s net profit increased by 55.8% to $902 million. The consensus forecast was $748 million.

The National Transitional Council (NTC) of Libya is grateful to Russia for not vetoing the UN Security Council resolutions of 1970 and 1973. Such a statement was made by NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdeljalil during an interview with RIA Novosti . “I want to say that Russia supported our revolution from the very beginning when it did not use its veto power in relation to. We really appreciate her role in providing this assistance,” Abdeljalil said.

The growth of the Russian economy in the first half of the year amounted to 3.7%, in the second quarter – 3.4%, coinciding with the preliminary estimate. This data was provided on Thursday by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). The preliminary assessment was published by the department on August 17, recalls RIA Novosti .

simultaneously reported this, citing their own sources Facebook's revenue in the first six months of this year reached $1.6 billion. The Wall Street Journal and Reuters . During the same period last year, Facebook's revenue amounted to $800 million. Thus, the company's revenue showed 100% growth over the year. If this pace continues, by the end of the year the social network's revenue could reach approximately $4 billion, justifying analysts' forecasts.

The project is intended for PR managers, SMM specialists, internet marketers, and research center specialists. It helps to track mentions of a brand, event or phenomenon on social media and quickly respond to them, while analyzing the information and providing statistical data. The idea to create our own project came in the fall of 2010. We worked as Internet marketers and were faced with the problem of having to filter a huge amount of information.

The essence of the project Sky Travel Shop is the first online store of aircraft models in Russia, which specializes not only in the sale, but also in the production of aircraft models of leading airlines in Russia and the world. It also offers related aviation products and services in one place. The main assortment of the store consists of aircraft models in scales 1:100 and 1:144. Our models are not toys, but exact copies of original models, the production of which reaches 100%.

At the site of the Yak-42 plane crash near Yaroslavl, rescuers found the bodies of all 43 victims. agency reports this The RIA Novosti with reference to a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The Yak-42 plane, which was carrying the team of the Yaroslavl hockey club Lokomotiv, crashed yesterday, September 7, just a few minutes after taking off from Tunoshna airport. There were a total of 45 people on board, including eight crew members.

The authorities of the Yaroslavl region and the Yak Service airline will pay 2.5 million rubles to the families of the victims of the Yak-42 crash with the Lokomotiv hockey team on board. The governor of the region, Sergei Vakhrukov, announced this on Thursday morning. According to him, the regional budget will allocate 300,00 rubles to the relatives of the victims of the plane crash.