Court decisions against officials described in newspapers are very different from those that can be found out by talking with residents of a pre-trial detention center The more time I am forced to communicate with our judicial system and the people persecuted by it, the firmer my position: in Russia there are two courts. And this is redundant. One court is for Russian citizens who are trying to build their lives on the basis of human morality. The vast majority of people are like this.

Maria Abakumova Forbes Editorial Board ...and other sketches from the future of buildings that officials moving to Greater Moscow will have to vacate President Medvedev instructed to prepare proposals for the relocation of ministries and departments to the territory of New Moscow by July. It is clear that even with strong political will, such a massive migration is not a quick thing. But it's not impossible either.

On Monday morning, the opposition submitted an application to the Moscow government to hold a “march of millions for honest power” on May 6, the Left Front press service said in a statement. The action is planned to be held in the form of a procession and rally. As Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front, told RIA Novosti, the main slogans remained the same: early elections and political reform.

photo by Dmitry Ternovoy for Forbes How the ability to establish contacts helped a businessman with a difficult fate become the richest in Russia (extended online version of material from the May issue of Forbes magazine) On a November evening in 1993, future billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Andrei Skoch were smoking on the stairwell near Usmanov’s rented apartment not far from the Soviet Army Theater.

Anastasia Novikova Author Dog, anti-aging, milk and other types of beer with unusual tastes and non-standard consumers Beer is the third most popular drink in the world (after water and tea), and the first among alcoholic beverages. Even in Japan, where brewing beer began only at the end of the 19th century, and there are no more than ten large breweries out of 1,500 sake producing companies, the malt drink quickly gained popularity. And not only among people, but also among animals.

photo Legion-media.ru The model portfolios of Hovhannes Oganisyan and Igor Mikhailov sank by 0.2% and 1.4% Russian indices over the week added 0.4% (RTS) and 0.2% (MICEX). During this time, the stock market strategist of the Troika Dialog investment company Hovhannes Oganisyan and the manager of Uralsib Management Company Igor Mikhailov lost 0.2 and 1.4% of the value of their model portfolios.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The decisive factor in the second round may no longer be the party preferences of voters, but the answer to the question: does France need a president like Sarkozy? In the presidential elections in France, Socialist representative François Hollande won the first round.

photo ITAR-TASS Convicted for 2.5 years for assaulting a police officer, Mokhnatkin had more than 7 months left in prison. The President pardoned him on the basis of “humane principles” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree pardoning Sergei Mokhnatkin, convicted of attacking an Interior Ministry employee on December 31, 2009 at an unauthorized opposition rally on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow. The decree of the head of state was published on the legal information portal.

The government adopted a resolution on the sale of natural gas on commodity exchanges. The resolution allows Gazprom to sell up to 15 billion cubic meters of gas during exchange trading in 2012, and from 2013 - up to 17.5 billion cubic meters, RIA Novosti reports .

Vimpelcom announced the sale of its 49% stake in the Vietnamese joint venture for $45 million. As stated in a message published on the company website, Vimpelcom Ltd announced its intention to sell its stake in the Vietnamese joint venture - the cellular operator GTEL Mobile, as well as its refusal from operational management. The stake will be sold to GTEL. In accordance with the terms of the agreement, the transaction amount will be $45 million.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes A group of famous journalists and producers is leaving NTV, the channel’s interlocutors say. One of the reasons is censorship.

On Monday, a failure occurred on the united MICEX-RTS exchange, as a result of which trading was suspended in the main sector of the stock market at 17:56 Moscow time. Prior to the exchange's suspension, problems were reported with displaying orders and trades in the main sector of the stock market. According to Interfax , the flow of data from the main sector of the stock market stopped at 17:41 Moscow time. The stock exchange announced a technical break until 18:56 Moscow time.

Without reforming the pension system, Russia will not be able to get rid of the budget deficit. The head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Elvira Nabiullina, announced this on Monday at the board of the Ministry of Economic Development. “We see that without reforming the pension system it will not be possible to achieve a deficit-free budget either by 2015 or later,” RIA Novosti quotes Nabiullina as saying.

Photo by Photoxpress “Dead souls”, siege, fights, accusations of extortion and other problems that the Northern City homeowners association faced on the way to competent management of their home On Friday, the Timiryazevsky Court of Moscow made a decision important for protecting the rights of owners of Moscow apartments and creating a civilized housing management system in the capital.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images A new device from Nokia shows phone makers how to approach Apple and break the hegemony of the iPhone. Nokia 808 PureView became the subject of furious discussions at the same second when the Finns announced a 41-megapixel matrix and incredible image quality for smartphones: the previous record was 12 megapixels.