Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Fluctuations in oil prices can kill countries, and in the near future they are almost inevitable There is a lull in global finance, markets are barely moving, and meanwhile the world’s economies are demonstrating a desire to grow: unemployment is declining in the largest countries by GDP - the USA, Germany, Japan and China (he also reports on unemployment). Is there any reason for optimism?

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is taking regulatory measures against the National Reserve Bank (NRB), owned by billionaire Alexander Lebedev (No. 89 in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia - 2012, net worth $1.1 billion). At the same time, there is no ban on accepting deposits from individuals. “The Bank of Russia did not introduce a ban,” First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Simanovsky told Interfax on Friday evening.

Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the salary of the head of the Russian government apparatus by more than a third, the corresponding document was posted on Monday in the bank of normative and administrative acts. “The monetary remuneration of the Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation - Chief of Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation is increasing from 24.642 thousand rubles to 33.67 thousand rubles per month,” the message says.

Moscow does not consider the situation with the discussion of the Syrian settlement in the UN Security Council hopeless. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this on Monday, July 16, at a press conference on the Syrian settlement in connection with the upcoming negotiations with the UN and Arab League special envoy for Syria Kofi Annan. “I wouldn’t call it a stalemate just yet.

Makeup and hairstyle by Natalia Aryukova. Thank you for your help in filming cafe “Jan-Jacques” / www.jan-jak.com First Vice President of Gazprombank Ekaterina Trofimova about her career in France and Russia and about the peculiarities of men's handshakes in different countries We live in a changing world, labor mobility is becoming an integral part of life and culture. I never planned a career in any specific geographical location.

The FSB stopped the activities of a former security officer and a private detective who illegally collected information about the private lives of high-ranking officials, including through illegal wiretapping. reported this on Monday The FSB press service . “The Federal Security Service, together with the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow, suppressed the activities of former security officer A. Smirnov and private detective A.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma to create a College of Authorized Prosecutors, intended to investigate the activities of senior state officials.

Review of the press around the world. How is it that the average Canadian lives better than the average American? Are there enough women working at Wikipedia? Economy For the first time in recent history, the average Canadian is living better than the average American. The latest Globe and Mail report shows that the average household in Canada has net assets of $363,000, compared with only $319,000 in the United States. Unemployment in Canada is also lower than its neighbors.

photo ITAR-TASS The main result of the first half of the work of the parliament of the new convocation is that there is not even a semblance of legislative activity left The spring parliamentary session ended on Friday, and it is already clear that it will go down in history. Firstly, because it took place against the backdrop of mass protests against fraud in the parliamentary elections.

The track, located 77 km from Moscow, is designed for auto racing at the highest level, including Formula 1 in the future. in the Moscow region opened Russia's first world-class racing track, Moscow Raceway, . This weekend it already hosted the first international World Series by Renault competition. The track was designed by German architect Hermann Tilke and is one of the few private business projects in the sport. Banker and landowner Rustem Teregulov (No.

After the summer holidays, the Duma plans to consider a bill on the possibility of depriving a deputy of his mandate without a trial. newspaper reported this on Monday The Vedomosti .

photo Foto SA / Corbis Millions of pension savings owners have no one to protect their interests. What to do? In recent years, the fate of 1.5 trillion rubles in pension savings, formed from deductions of social contributions from workers' wages, has been increasingly discussed. The vast majority of these savings are managed by VEB (as a state management company), and questions constantly arise around their investment.

On Monday, information about the searches that took place at the heads of Master Bank, including the chairman of the board, was confirmed, the press service of the GUEBiPK Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported on Monday . The searches took place as part of an investigation into the illegal cashing of more than 2 billion rubles. “The residences of the detainees, as well as other employees and managers of CB Master Bank, including the chairman of the board, were searched.

photo by Maria Ionova-Gribnaya for Forbes The Bright Capital fund has invested $200 million in a dozen and a half projects in Silicon Valley and is not going to stop there In October 2010, dozens of Russians published photographs on Facebook of themselves with the Terminator - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev, brought representatives of 23 venture funds managing assets worth $100 billion to the Russian science city Skolkovo.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) left unchanged its forecast for Russian economic growth in 2012 at 4% and lowered expectations for 2013 by 0.1% - from 4% to 3.9%. This is evidenced by data from the updated annual report of the World Economic Outlook Foundation. The fund also worsened its forecast for the state of the Russian budget for 2012 and 2013 - to a surplus of 0.1% of GDP and a deficit of 0.7% of GDP, respectively.