Asel Suleeva Author Jeans made from plastic bottles, thermal underwear made from coffee husks, wallets made from old tires and other items made from waste materials. Until now, to put it mildly, a conscious approach to consumption, unpopular in Russia, will soon turn into a tradition in Europe and the USA. Minimizing the harm that the production of any consumer products causes to nature is such an obvious need that there is simply nothing more far-sighted now than to look for ways to do this.

On Thursday, a MIG-29 fighter crashed near the village of Domna, 30 km from Chita. The pilot of the plane died, RIA Novosti reports . According to the Ministry of Defense, there was no ammunition on board the plane. According to the agency's law enforcement source, the plane crashed during takeoff. It crashed into a hill a few kilometers from the Domna airfield. The pilot of the fighter was Lieutenant Colonel Albert Khadzhiyarov.

photo ITAR-TASS After Moscow’s summer offensive on the Moscow region, the revision of regional borders is apparently becoming a trend - but not everywhere it will be painless On September 5, near the Ingush village of Dattykh, a police column was blown up and fired upon in the forest. Six people died. If this case did not exist, some, as they say, would have to invent it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that countries compiling “black lists” in connection with the death in pre-trial detention of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky want to ruin relations with Russia. According to Putin, in this situation Russia will have to take adequate response measures. “Someone wants to ruin relations with Russia.

The Troika Dialog brand will disappear from the market over the next few weeks, Alexander Bazarov, a member of the board and head of the department for working with large clients of Sberbank, told reporters. According to him, the Troika rebranding process is at the final stage. “The work will be completed by the end of the year. But the new brand will be announced in a few weeks,” RIA Novosti quotes Bazarov .

The Leningradskoe Highway is not being expanded in the Moscow region so as not to compete with the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll road under construction. This condition is included in the contract for the construction of the route, says the leader of the movement “In Defense of the Khimki Forest” Evgenia Chirikova.

Aluminum production at the Bogoslovsky aluminum smelter, part of Oleg Deripaska’s Rusal, can be maintained. As stated in the message from the information policy department of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, recently the head of the region, Evgeny Kuyvashev, took part in a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, where a fundamental decision was made to maintain aluminum production at BAZ.

photo East News/AFP Five sons, multiple sclerosis, breast cancer and 47 years of husband support. The new first lady of the United States has every chance of becoming a woman with a difficult fate. The mother of five children and grandmother of 18 grandchildren bakes pies in a campaign video for the future US president. Ann Romney plays the mother. She is the wife of Mitt Romney, US presidential candidate and Barack Obama's main rival in the upcoming elections.

The government has identified the only supplier of clothing equipment for the Russian Armed Forces - this is the BTK Group company from St. Petersburg. This is reported on the website of the Russian government. “In accordance with clause 171 of part 2 of Article 55 of the Federal Law “On placing orders for the supply of goods, performance of work, provision of services for state and municipal needs”, determine the open joint-stock company “BTK Group” (St.

photo fotoimedia / Viktor Gorbachev The CEO of Sanoma Independent Media told Forbes about the reasons for her resignation and the new realities of the work of large publishing houses The publishing house Sanoma Independent Media on Thursday officially confirmed information about the resignation of Elena Myasnikova from the post of general director. In the near future, the publishing house will also be left by its founder, chairman of the company’s supervisory board, Derk Sauer.

On September 6, 1908, physicist Lewis Essen was born, who studied the exact time, frequency and speed of light. In 1939, Essen created the first quartz watch, which was the most accurate at that time. They were installed in observatories, and the time measured by them was taken as a standard. In 1950, the device created by Essen was able to measure the exact speed of light (99,792.5 ± 1 km/s), which was adopted as a standard value in 1983.

The lawyer of Pussy Riot punk band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mark Feigin, was summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6. The lawyer announced this on his Twitter , publishing the summons he received. The notice states that Feigin is expected at the Investigative Committee on October 10 at 14:00. Feigin was indeed on Bolotnaya Square on May 6 and even gave a speech.

“Our entire (financial) system, led by banks but known primarily by insurance companies, investment firms and hedge funds, is based on reasonable levels of return and expectations,” writes Bill Gross, head of investment firm PIMCO, in a monthly report. Now, he believes, this model is under attack: the rates and, accordingly, the cost of money on the market are too low.

In just 4 months, the Georgian billionaire and politician sold assets in Russia for $1.5 billion Just a year ago, Bidzina Ivanishvili was on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia (No. 25, net worth $5.5 billion). But then he decided to seriously engage in politics in Georgia, and so that “Georgian citizens would not have any questions about ...

photo provided Why Briton William Hackett-Jones chose to start his own business in St. Petersburg William Hackett-Jones (32 years old) was born in the UK, in Suffolk. The first time I came to Russia was as a schoolboy in 1994, when I came as an exchange student to learn Russian. “Back then you could choose your language at school. I already spoke French, German and Spanish, so I decided to learn Russian.