The leadership of Chechnya purchases gilded furniture worth 10.75 million rubles for its own needs. The Administration of the Head and Government of the Chechen Republic has announced a tender to identify a supplier of furniture for administrative premises. The order was placed on September 5 on the government procurement website . Applications will close on September 26. An auction is scheduled to take place on October 1. The initial (maximum) contract price is: 10,750,000 rubles.

In Germany, ex-HP managers are accused of giving bribes in Russia for €7.5 million. The money was intended to win a competition for the supply of computers to the Prosecutor General's Office for €35 million Three former managers of Hewlett-Packard Co. accused in Germany as part of an investigation into corruption in Russia.

Photo by Photoxpress The disgraced oligarch and the family of his former comrade-in-arms have entered into a settlement agreement; now they are ready to act as a united front against Vasily Anisimov Two Forbes sources familiar with the situation surrounding the trial of Boris Berezovsky's claim against the heirs of his former associate Badri Patarkatsishvili reported that the parties signed a settlement agreement last weekend.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the state must react harshly and promptly to provocations of people's religious feelings, otherwise they will begin to defend themselves with unacceptable methods. “We all must pay special attention and be very careful about religious feelings, and the religious feelings of people belonging to a wide variety of faiths,” Interfax quotes Putin .

The post of the new head of ITAR-TASS may be taken by a member of the board of Russian Railways, Sergei Mikhailov. The current head of ITAR-TASS, Vitaly Ignatenko, will remain the head of the TASS board, and it is possible that he may take the seat of a senator in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. newspaper wrote on Thursday about the upcoming reshuffles in the country's oldest news agency, The Kommersant citing sources close to the negotiations.

Accelerated socialization, shopping itch, personal video blogs, admiration for Youtube and other features that will appear in the owners of the new gadget from Apple Apple has always sought not to improve technology, but to “change the world.” There are prerequisites for this: as reported yesterday at the presentation, more than 400 million devices running iOS have already been sold. And in the US, the iPhone already occupies almost a third of the smartphone market (a year ago it was 27%).

A group of demonstrators in the Yemeni capital Sana'a attacked the US Embassy building. When demonstrators tried to enter the embassy, ​​security forces opened fire. According to a number of news agencies, there are wounded among the demonstrators. TV Al-Arabiya reported that the fire was opened after demonstrators broke glass in the security building next to the embassy and tried to break through the main entrance to the consulate.

Ukraine submitted an application to Gazprom to purchase only 24.5 kb m of gas in 2013, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Yuriy Boyko told reporters. According to Boyko, the application was sent to Gazprom within the deadlines established by the contract. According to him, this was done at the end of June. “We are proceeding from the application that we sent - this is 24.5 kb m,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister .

Next year promises to be rich in new products: not only updated versions of already beloved models will appear in car dealerships, but also completely new cars It is believed that the best time to buy a new car is winter. Between December and March, car dealers hold total sales, where you can buy a car at a discount. True, the new car will be from last year’s model range.

photo REUTERS 2012 On September 11, Barack Obama announced the end of the longest war in US history. The assassination of the American ambassador to Libya a few hours after the speech shows how wrong the American president was Two destroyers with Tomahawks on board, now sent by Barack Obama to the coast of Libya, do not at all mean that a large-scale retaliation operation is being prepared for the murder of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and at least three other diplomats on September 11.

The European Parliament on Thursday at its plenary session in Strasbourg adopted a resolution “On the use of justice for political purposes in Russia.” “This is a resolution with which we cannot agree,” Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said in response.

on A lengthy open letter from career Foreign Ministry employees addressed to President Putin, Prime Minister Medvedev, Prosecutor General Chaika, Head of the Accounts Chamber Stepashin, Director of Financial Monitoring Chikhanchin, FSB Director Bortnikov and Head of the Ministry of Finance Siluanov has been published the Internet.

The departments that will work with Russian companies when claims are made against them abroad will be determined in the coming days, said presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov “We expect this to happen in the coming days,” RIA Novosti quotes Peskov’s statement .

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Asian countries are increasingly divided into “old” and “young”; the leader will be determined by demography, says the father of the “Singapore miracle”, Lee Kuan Yew, in his Forbes column China's booming population is very different from India's expanding population. China now has 1.35 billion people and has had a one-child policy since 1979.

It is impossible to endlessly improve phones and tablets - competitors are catching up. What fundamentally new product will Apple bet on? Apple is a hostage to its own image. She needs to constantly keep the world in suspense, to come up with something that has never happened before. If she ceases to be a pioneer, she will lose her zest, her right to exclusivity.