January 24, 2006, 17:51 Business GDP fell short Natalya Kopylova The GDP growth rate in 2005 turned out to be lower than forecast, amounting to only 6% against 6.4% expected, Rosstat admitted. At the same time, industrial production growth decreased to 4%. Russian industry is experiencing deep stagnation, and growth has been achieved only by industries focused on domestic demand.

January 25, 2006, 11:07 Business China is worse than terrorism Alexander Polivanov The traditional January World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland opens on Wednesday morning. The Russian government is going to Switzerland to represent special economic zones, and business is going to ski. This year, according to the forum’s press service, 2,340 participants from 89 countries came to Davos. Of these, 15 are heads of state or prime ministers.

After many months of postpartum worries and worries about the discussion in the press about dirty gossip about her family life, Britney Spears finally “broke.” It happened like this: Mrs. Spears was driving her husband's Ferrari with her brother along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, the Sun newspaper writes. Following on her heels, as usual, was an escort of tireless paparazzi.

January 24, 2006, 10:44 Andrey Kolesnikov Holy Grail-007, or Sovereign Democracy in Action Andrey Kolesnikov Journalist The brilliant operation of the Russian security service, which exposed four (!) English spies at once, who, with the help of cobblestones, a tool of the proletarians of mental labor, passed on super-secret information to each other, strangely led to the triumphant signing of the law on non-profit organizations (NPOs) and to the successful start of the work of the Public

Kirill Kharatyan Cold and hot Kirill Kharatyan Deputy editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper Everyone must have remembered something unique about the week of terrible and even unprecedented cold - telephone conversations of friends and relatives are full of stories about the horrors of freezing; Not a single phenomenon of recent years in Russian society has had such a popularity rating, even, probably, the World Cup, not to mention the elections to the Duma and the presidency.

The German concern Volkswagen can set up production of auto components in one of the newly created industrial production special economic zones (SEZ). This was stated by the head of the Federal Agency for Management of Special Economic Zones Yuri Zhdanov . According to him, the issue of industrial assembly of Volkswagen cars in Stupino, near Moscow, is now being discussed.

National radicals will strive to exploit public expectations, but we do not know whether they will succeed in this in the near future. Over the past year, the attitude of Russians towards the idea of ​​“Russia for Russians”, judging by polls by the Levada Center , has remained virtually unchanged. As in 2004, 53% of respondents fully or “within reasonable limits” support it. And although within the margin of error, the number of those who consider this idea fascism has decreased.

January 24, 2006, 12:50 Mitsubishi started selling the minicar "i" in Japan Mitsubishi Motors today announced the start of sales of the new minicar “i” in Japan. The new minicar will be presented in both all-wheel drive and single-wheel drive versions. A special feature of the car is the engine located in front of the rear axle, which allowed the designers to experiment with the appearance of the car.

24 January 2006, 13:53 Spy photos of the new Audi TT have appeared Western automotive journalists managed to photograph the new Audi TT Coupe and Roadster models. The new Audi TT will go into production this fall. The 2007 TT coupe will be equipped with a 3.2-liter V6 producing 250 hp. and a 6-speed DSG gearbox. The car can accelerate to 100 km/h in 6 seconds. The maximum speed is electronically limited to 250 km/h.

24 January 2006, 15:43 DaimlerChrysler will fire every fifth manager The world's fifth largest car manufacturer, the German company DaimlerChrysler AG plans to fire 5 thousand managers, which is a fifth of the management staff.

English physicists managed to obtain a substance whose particles are held near each other only by light. As reported by New Scientist, the scientists were able to bond approximately 100 polystyrene beads, each 400 nm in diameter, into a two-dimensional structure. Colin Bain of the University of Durham and Christopher Malor of the National Institute for Health Research report that their discovery could provide a simple way to make and rearrange nanostructures.

Sudan kicked out of the African Union The Republic of Congo will lead the African Union (AU) in place of Sudan. Under public pressure, Sudan ceded its right to lead the AU at the sixth African summit, which opened yesterday in Khartoum. Even before the meeting, many countries opposed Sudan's chairmanship, insisting that a country with systematic human rights violations could not lead an international organization.