photo East News / AFP / ImageForum Common budget restrictions for the European Union will not necessarily help solve debt problems The situation in the European Union has calmed down somewhat.

photo Diomedia / Imagebroker RM Dmitry Medvedev signed a law complicating the life of foreigners in Russia, including employees of language schools “Investment Ombudsman”, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov talks about the importance of learning foreign languages. Opening a school in Vladivostok in December, he again ordered children to learn English well. Ironically, just a day after Shuvalov’s speech, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law (No.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready for negotiations with all political forces in the country and wants an end to the violence. He stated this following a meeting with the Russian diplomatic mission. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, accompanied by SVR Director Mikhail Fradkov, arrived on a visit to Damascus on Tuesday, February 7.

photo East News / AFP / ImageForum The persecution of Sergei Magnitsky and the managers of the Hermitage fund could have been caused by an attempt by the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to hide a group of Saratov criminals from justice, follows from the text of a statement to the Russian Investigative Committee by Jamison Firestone The police have completed the preliminary investigation into the case of Sergei Magnitsky and are ready to submit

The luxury tax, which Vladimir Putin initiated in his programmatic “economic” article, will only affect personal overconsumption. The prime minister and presidential candidate of the Russian Federation made this statement at a meeting with his proxies on Tuesday. “We are talking about excess consumption, we are not even talking about the income of private enterprises, it is not these incomes that will be taxed, but only those incomes that are used for personal excess consumption...

photo by Diomedia The Golden State Warriors, which have underperformed since Bill Clinton's first term, are poised to become basketball's elite. Against the Orlando Magic, Golden State Warriors co-owner Peter Guber doesn't take his eyes off the ball. Not from the ball on the playing court, but from the one passed from one another by fans in the very top rows of the Oracle Arena stadium.

Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element group does not exclude the possibility of participating in a competition to select the management company of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. This was announced on Tuesday by the group’s deputy general director Andrei Elinson. “We will consider it if we are offered interesting options. However, Basel Aero is a group of airports with a regional presence with a development center in the Southern Federal District. We primarily see prospects in regional hubs.

Forbes investigation In September 2006, Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack met with an unusual guest on the 42nd floor of the bank's skyscraper in Time Square. His interlocutor, Russian senator and businessman Suleiman Kerimov, spoke almost no English, and Allen Wein, head of the board of directors of one of Kerimov’s companies, Millennium Group, acted as a translator.

Large business delegated only two people to the list of Vladimir Putin’s trusted representatives. This time, the presidential candidate did not involve a single participant in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes. This data is provided by Interfax . There is only one private company of international caliber on the list - the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, at a meeting with trusted officials, announced the need to create a state-owned company or state corporation to promote large economic projects in the Far East. reports this RIA Novosti . “Apparently, we will need to create a special structure - either a state-owned company, a corporation, or a large joint-stock company with 100% state capital, which will have to promote projects in the Far East,” the Prime Minister noted.

In January 2012, Sberbank increased its net profit under RAS by 9.4% to 29.2 billion rubles compared to 26.7 billion in January 2011, the credit institution said in a statement. Profit before tax in January of this year increased by 13.1% – to 33.27 billion rubles. Net interest income in January 2012 amounted to 48.76 billion rubles, an increase of 27.8% compared to January 2011.

One of the oldest Russian tour operators, Lanta-Tour Voyage, which declared bankruptcy last week, plans to resume operations within seven days. This is stated in a message on the company's website. “Lanta-Tour Voyage offers its sincere apologies to tourists, partners and colleagues and announces that it plans to resume operations as usual within seven days,” the press release notes.

The President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, resigns. Nasheed announced his resignation on national television on Tuesday, February 7. “It will be better for everyone if I leave my post. “I don’t want to rule the country with an iron fist,” Nasheed was quoted as saying by Agence France Presse. The resignation of the Maldivian president comes amid mass demonstrations that have rocked the capital Male and other islands over the past three weeks.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Sechin instructed the Ministry of Energy and state companies to prepare the documents necessary to implement the idea of ​​​​creating a state oil and gas service company based on Rosneft or Rosneftegaz. newspaper reported this on Tuesday The Kommersant .

photo Itar-TASS Investors should now pay attention to state-owned or virtually government-neutral companies The presidential elections in Russia will not bring the long-awaited stability, according to Citi analysts, who released a report on the protests in Moscow on Monday. In short, Citi believes that opposition protests will continue, conflicts may arise within the current elite, and therefore the discount for political risks in Russian stocks will remain.