The surprise inspection, carried out for the first time in 20 years, revealed serious systemic deficiencies in the combat readiness of the Armed Forces. In almost all tested units, operational duty officers showed poor skills in communicating signals through automated combat control systems, RIA Novosti cites a statement by the Chief of the General Staff, Army General Valery Gerasimov, made during a conference call.

Moscow police conducted searches in a case of abuse of power among former managers of OJSC Satellite System Gonets, which is a participant in the Federal Target Program GLONASS, reports the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs .

Egor Moskvitin Author Among the many nominees for the main world film awards, there are people and films whose awards will become a real sensation. The 85th Academy Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles on February 24, are determined to go down in history - if not because of the records, then at least because of its complete unpredictability.

French actor Gerard Depardieu wants to broadcast on Russian television. In January, Depardieu received Russian citizenship. The artist told reporters about his plans on Friday, February 22, RIA Novosti reports. “We just discussed with Medinsky [Russian Minister of Culture] the possibility of working together in Russia.

Six European countries will work together to investigate an alleged scheme to steal Russian money, which was uncovered by Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky, according to his colleagues. According to some reports, funds totaling €230 million were laundered in European banks. A joint investigation will be carried out by Austria, Finland, Cyprus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, writes the European Observer .

February 22, 2013 Career and business Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites This Day in Business History: Hotelier of Kings and Michael Dell On February 23, hotel legend Caesar Ritz and Dell founder Michael Dell were born, and a patent for a tennis court was received. Fotobank · Getty Images The king of hoteliers and the hotelier of kings On February 23, 1850, the founder of the fashionable Ritz hotels, Caesar Ritz, was born.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation banned the opening of branches of foreign banks in Russia. The corresponding law was adopted by the lower house of parliament on Friday, RIA Novosti reports . The Law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” was prepared by the government as part of the development strategy of the Russian banking sector for the period until 2015. It spells out the agreements reached during consultations on Russia's accession to the WTO.

Sberbank filed a claim with the Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region against OJSC Omskenergosbyt, LLC Energostream and OJSC Tulaenergosbyt for the collection of debt from them under agreements on opening credit lines in the amount of 82.32 million rubles, 250 million rubles and 106.5 million rubles Credit lines were opened on November 29, 2010, December 14, 2010 and July 20, 2011. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 12, Interfax reports.

The investment fund of the American bank Morgan Stanley bought the Metropolis shopping and entertainment center in Moscow. Transaction amount: $1.2 billion. The investment fund Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing is buying the Metropolis shopping center with an area of ​​205,000 sq. m from the company Capital Partners. “The transaction became the largest in the history of the Russian commercial real estate market,” RIA Novosti cites the fund’s press release.

Former General Director of Russian Space Systems OJSC (RKS), Yuri Urlichich, who left his post in November 2012, was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sitronics OJSC, which is part of AFK Sistema. The board of directors was headed by the former president of Sistema, deputy chairman of the joint director of AFK, Alexander Goncharuk. Interfax reports this with reference to a message from Sitronics.

The head of the Academy of Russian Television, former Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydkoy said that the TEFI competition will be held this year. “We will make the final decision on the timing on March 20-21,” Shvydkoy said on February 22, the Russian News Service reports .

Photo REUTERS 2013 A 38 percent stake in Onexim is being bought by the structures of billionaire deputy Zelimkhan Mutsoev and former co-owner of Wimm-Bill-Dann Gavriil Yushvaev The Onexim group of Mikhail Prokhorov ( No. 7 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, wealth - $13.2 billion ) on Friday officially confirmed the sale of a stake in Polyus Gold International Limited to the structures of State Duma deputy Zelimkhan Mutsoev ( No.

Google has released an expensive, advanced laptop that can't even be used to communicate on Skype. What is he counting on? Last fall , it seemed to everyone that the Internet-oriented operating system Chrome OS had finally found its niche: when laptops running it fell in price to $199, the inability to install Photoshop on them began to seem like a natural price for such savings, which did not deprive the device of its meaning.

Cristal champagne, popular with oligarchs and show business stars, will again be sold in Russia. Its deliveries were stopped 1.5 years ago due to disagreements between the French manufacturer Louis Roederer and the owner of the Kristal trademark, the Russian Soyuzplodoimport. Soyuzplodoimport demanded that the French company pay royalties. A compromise was reached - the supplier company Simple agreed to pay royalties, the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Friday.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow did not arrest in absentia the adoptive father of Dima Yakovlev, who died in the United States. This was done because US citizen Miles Harrison had already been acquitted by an American court. “The court decided to reject the investigation’s request, since Harrison was acquitted in the United States,” Interfax cites a statement from the press secretary of the Basmanny Court, Ekaterina Korotova.