The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, and the director of INSOR, Igor Yurgens, who previously announced their withdrawal from the Presidential Council on Human Rights, will return to its membership. This was reported today by Izvestia with reference to the head of the council, Mikhail Fedotov.

The Curiosity rover completed an eight-month mission on Monday and successfully landed in the Gale Crater region of Mars, NASA said in a statement on its website. The head of the US space agency, Charles Bolden, noted that this event is “a great day for the country.” US President Barack Obama congratulated all NASA employees on his successful mission on his Twitter microblog. The moment the rover landed at NASA's mission control center was greeted with a standing ovation.

Former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab and his family fled to Jordan. reported this on Monday Reuters , citing a representative of the Jordanian authorities. “Hijab is currently in Jordan with his family,” the agency’s source said. Earlier, news agencies disseminated information that Hijab was removed from his position. The reasons for his resignation were not reported, but it was indicated that Deputy Prime Minister Omar Galavanji was appointed acting prime minister.

The outflow of capital from Russia in 2012 could amount to $50 billion, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economic Development Andrei Klepach told reporters. “There will be about 50, maybe a little more, maybe a little less. Everything will depend on how the situation with oil prices develops,” RIA Novosti quotes Klepach .

The general director of the Russian chain of grocery stores Magnit, Sergei Galitsky, was elected a member of the bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the retailer said in a statement. Sergey Galitsky is co-owner and general director of the Magnit retail chain. Owns FC Krasnodar and is its president. He occupies 25th place in the Russian Forbes ranking with a fortune of $4.9 billion.

The main associates and friends of Bashar al-Assad who defected to the opposition in recent weeks The longer the conflict in Syria, the more and more former friends and associates of Bashar al-Assad go over to the side of the opposition and flee the country. Thus, today ex-Prime Minister of Syria Riyad Hijab left the country. Forbes sums up the latest losses of the Syrian leader (the date indicated is the day when it became known about the appearance of another defector).

The department of Andrei Belousov has developed crisis scenarios for the development of events in the Russian economy The Ministry of Economic Development has developed scenario conditions for the development of the Russian economy in the event of a new round of economic crisis and a drop in oil prices to $60 per barrel. In this case, Russia will face a sharp devaluation, but the decline in GDP will be less sharp than during the 2008-09 crisis.

illustration Fotobank/Getty Images By the time the fund decided to fight the game on the exchange rates of national currencies, the problem resolved itself The IMF is one step closer to realizing the American dream - creating a system that allows some countries to influence the monetary policies of others.

The buyer of the most expensive mansion in the UK, which was sold in the summer of 2011, turned out to be the former head of the Bank of Moscow, Andrei Borodin, who had previously been put on the international wanted list.

A hidden video camera and listening device were discovered in the office of Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation. The immediate response group of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow managed to detect the spy equipment. The oppositionist himself spoke about this on his blog . After one of the Foundation’s employees tested a special device for detecting “bugs” in the offices on Nikolo-Yamskaya Street, a signal went off near the wall in Navalny’s office.

Have rallies and demonstrations made protest fashionable? The creators of the “Citizen Poet” project managed to make good money from this fashion, although they claim that everything happened by accident One May morning, sitting in his dacha, the editor-in-chief of the F5 project, Yuri Katsman, turned on his laptop and saw in the mail another poem by Dmitry Bykov from the “Citizen Poet” series.

photo by RIA Novosti In the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, not far from the police checkpoint at the entrance to the city, two explosions occurred. According to preliminary data, they were carried out by two suicide bombers. According to the investigation, the terrorist attack occurred at 12:40 on Baysangurov Street No. 1 at the entrance to the Voentorg store.

Review of the world's business press. Why does the advanced part of Chinese society hope for democratic reforms again? What's wrong with Jamaica's national motto? China The financial crisis of 2008 destroyed the hopes of the advanced part of Chinese society for market liberalization and a reduction in the role of the state in the economy. At the same time, a panicked fear of instability took over the minds of officials.

's lawsuit against Zynga EA , which accuses it of copying elements of its popular game The Sims Social, gives hope to less powerful developers to stop the practice. Here are some more examples of games that were released before similar Zynga games.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images President of Microsoft in Russia on the choice between an external and internal candidate for a vacant position When making a decision on an important issue, we often try to weigh the pros and cons. Sometimes we even take a piece of paper and write down all the pros and cons to make the task easier for ourselves. I myself do not resort to this method too often, since the individual pros and cons are, as a rule, not equivalent.