In China, Vice President Xi Jinping has not appeared in public for a week. The cancellation of planned meetings and visits by current leader Hu Jintao's intended successor and official silence on this topic has given rise to a wave of rumors and speculation about his fate, reported on Tuesday. the British broadcasting corporation BBC The last time Xi Jinping, who is called the future successor of current Chinese President Hu Jintao, appeared in public on September 1.

On September 12, Apple showed the public its new iPhone for the first time. Quite a lot was already known in advance about the main gadget of this fall - Forbes highlighted the main attractions and features of the new phone. But the new iPhone still presented some surprises. In this section you will find news about the new iPhone 5, the history of Apple mobile phones, a story about the presentation on September 12 and other materials.

VTB calls the accusations against itself contained in the report of blogger, politician and minority shareholder of the bank Alexei Navalny “false and tendentious.” “This report is filled with false, tendentious and unfounded accusations prepared by non-professionals in the banking industry,” the bank said in a press release .

An explosion occurred near a police station in Istanbul on Tuesday. As a result, at least one policeman was killed and 8 people were injured, Reuters reported, citing local television channel NTV. The explosion occurred around 11.00 local time (12.00 Moscow time) in the Sultangazi area in the northern part of the center of Turkey's largest city. According to Agence France-Presse, cited by RIA Novosti , the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.

Ten people died in a fire in Yegoryevsk near Moscow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Moscow Region Ministry of Emergency Situations. The fire area was 30 square meters. The building at 16 Paris Commune was on fire, and all the dead were Vietnamese citizens who worked at a clothing company located here. Firefighters managed to remove one person from the fire who suffered multiple burns. The rescued man is also a citizen of Vietnam, Interfax reports.

AvtoVAZ's subsidiary United Automobile Group, which owns the assets of IzhAvto and its subsidiaries, will completely stop production of Lada-2104 and Izh-27175 cars from September 17, Interfax reports with reference to the OAS press service. As previously reported, in mid-April the Izhevsk Automobile Plant stopped producing Lada-2107 cars, and planned to close the production of Lada-2104 by the end of 2012.

Atomstroyexport has increased its claims against the National Electric Company of Bulgaria for the Belene NPP project to 1 billion euros in a case being considered by the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. This is stated in a message from Atomstroyexport, quoted by RIA Novosti. on the company’s website .

The structures of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov (No. 19 on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia, net worth $5.6 billion) on Tuesday did not confirm information about the purchase of shares of Polyus Gold International Limited from another billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov (No. 7 on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia, net worth $13.2 billion). Nafta Moskva (Cyprus) Ltd, which manages Kerimov’s assets, denied reports of the purchase of shares.

The Moscow City Court explained the reason for the non-return of money seized from TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak during a search in the Bolotnaya case. According to the court, the money is evidence in a case that is still under investigation. By its decision, the Moscow City Court confirmed that the decision of the Basmanny Court of July 26, which rejected the complaint of Sobchak’s defense, is legal and justified.

Two leading Russian universities named after Lomonosov and St. Petersburg State University continue to lose positions in world rankings. This time they dropped down in the ranking of the world's leading universities in the QS World University Rankings 2012. This year's ranking is topped—for the first time—by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Until it becomes possible to borrow cheaply abroad, Russian banks will take risks and keep deposit rates high With the arrival of autumn, I spend more and more time on the subway, where I can make truly amazing observations. Recently I noticed that in the metro an advertisement for one of the banks calls for taking out a loan for 15% per annum. At the same time, on the streets, billboards of the same bank promise the same 15% per annum, but on a deposit.

photo REUTERS 2012 The Venice Film Festival demonstrated a new trend in cinema - anti-churchism This year, Venice was not very kind to film fans in terms of weather: downpours, thunderstorms and gusts of wind tested the strength of the love for cinema, forcing people dressed in ridiculous raincoats with a lion's face on the hood and the dome of St. Mark's Cathedral on the back to plow the Adriatic in side of Lido Island.

Review of the world press: who called the richest man in Europe a “moron”, what Mubarak left as a legacy to the new Egyptian authorities and why realtors cannot sell John Lennon Island France: the people against Bernard Arnault In France, the scandal involving the owner and head of the LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton corporation Bernard Arnault continues to gain momentum .

photo by Evgeny Dudin, makeup and hairstyle by Natalia Aryukova How Irina Mai from an official of the Ministry of Trade became the director of a brewery On the first weekend in August, East Berlin's wide, Soviet-style Karl-Marx-Allee is hot and noisy. The sidewalk was occupied by beer producers and drinkers. Under the huge umbrellas of Baltika there is exoticism: the Germans in line are trying to pronounce “Syk-tyv-kar-beer”, and behind the counter a smiling woman is pouring a fresh drink.

Long-term oil-linked contracts concluded by the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom with European countries are becoming unjustified against the backdrop of the development of the spot market and increasing supplies of shale gas, said Joaquín Almunia, Vice-President of the European Commission for Competition, at a meeting of the European Parliament, Interfax reports . “We believe that the conditions that existed in the gas market several decades ago have changed dramatically,” Almunia said.