Co-owners of the Kievskaya Ploshchad company, God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev, topped the ranking of businessmen who earn the most from renting commercial real estate in Russia, according to Forbes . The owner of Crocus Group Aras Agalarov, who was in first place at the end of 2010, moved to second. Nisanov and Iliev ’s income from leasing real estate last year amounted to $780 million.

The Moscow City Hall terminated investment contracts for more than 300 objects, as follows from the decisions of the Urban Planning and Land Commission for the period from November 2010 to the end of 2011, which Gazeta.Ru reviewed. The area of ​​stopped development exceeds 7 million square meters. The implementation of projects both with the participation of commercial developers and those where federal or city structures are investors has been stopped.

Russian Post should emulate the Italian national operator Gruppo Poste Italiane, but this requires an investment of 220 billion rubles, advises Post consultant and author of its development strategy The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). has at its disposal Kommersant the development strategy of the FSUE Russian Post until 2020, which was recently submitted to Rossvyaz .

January 30, 2012, 03:35 Sports Grothus is a world champion in skating in the sprint all-around with a world record The World Speed ​​Skating Championships in the sprint all-around ended on Sunday in Calgary (Canada). Russian Dmitry Lobkov took sixth place at the end of the championship (137.420). Alexey Esin became 11th in total, Artem Kuznetsov – 12th. At the same time, Esin showed the fourth best result in the 1000 m (1:07.84).

A group of prisoners from a women's colony in Tbilisi (mothers of small children) have been starting an indefinite hunger strike since January 30, protesting against the transfer of children to a homeless shelter.

Sport Firsov: with the score 4:0 we completely lost concentration Head coach of the Russian national team Sergei Firsov commented on the match of the second round of the group round of the World Championship with Finland ( 5:4 ). “Perhaps the Finnish national team hid its true capabilities in the first match of the tournament against the Swedes, but we are well aware of this, since we have been playing against each other for several years,” SE reports Firsov’s words.

Units of the opposition Free Syrian Army to leave the country on Sunday evening thwarted an attempt by family members of the country's current President Bashar al-Assad , the Al-Masry Al-Yawm newspaper reported on its website, citing one of the rebel field commanders.

On Monday, the next matches of the Bandy World Championship are taking place in Kazakhstan. The Swedish team met with the Norwegian team and won with a score of 11:0 (6:0). Details of this and other matches, as well as the position of the teams in the standings, can be viewed on the bandy page.

30 January 2012, 15:42 Science Pneumococci hide themselves from the immune system by changing their shell Bacteria - the causative agents of pneumococcal infections hide from the immune system by exchanging “clothing” with each other - genes that determine the structure of the outer shell of the bacterial cell, reports Compulenta, citing a publication in the journal Nature Genetics . Pneumococcal bacteria cause many dangerous diseases, including pneumonia and meningitis.

January 30, 2012, 12:39 Culture The Art of Family Care "The Descendants" by Alexander Payne in theaters Vladimir Lyashenko close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos “The Descendants” by Alexander Payne has been released, a film with George Clooney in an ironic drama about a Hawaiian family crisis, with which the director and actor are seriously contending for an Oscar.

Russian diplomats on Sunday managed to reach a compromise solution to the problem of about two hundred clients of the suspended Lanta Tour company living in the Ambassador City Jomtien hotel complex in Pattaya, as a result of which Russians will be able to pay for their stay at the hotel at a reduced price, and they passports will be returned, said Andrey Dvornikov , head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Thailand .

The chairman of the primary trade union organization of the plant, Vitaly Morozov , and the chairman of the primary trade union organization “Solidarity”, Sergei Kolegov reports , were fired from the Heineken St. Petersburg plant, Vedomosti . According to Morozov, on January 27 they received dismissal documents for repeated violations of labor discipline. They plan to challenge this decision in court. On December 15, the plant's unions staged a 24-hour strike, stopping the bottling line.

The Ivanovo prosecutor's office fined the person responsible for the catering unit of the kindergarten, where they tried to feed the children porridge with worms, and sent the inspection materials to the investigation to resolve the issue of criminal prosecution, the regional prosecutor's office reported on Monday . “The parents of children attending kindergarten No. 5 contacted the prosecutor’s office of the Sovetsky district of Ivanovo.

A suspicious box found near a church in the south-east of Moscow was completely destroyed, experts are determining whether it contained an explosive device, the press service of the capital’s Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti . “The item in the box was destroyed; the remains of this item are currently being removed for examination. Whether it was an explosive substance or not has not yet been established,” the source said.

January 30, 2012, 15:20 Business UBS trader Kweku Adoboli, who caused the bank $2 billion in losses, pleads not guilty Swiss bank UBS trader Kweku Adoboli has refused to plead guilty to conducting dubious and unauthorized transactions worth $2.28 billion, the BBC reports . The actions of the 31-year-old financier of Ghanaian origin, according to the prosecution, led to a decrease in the value of the bank's shares and forced CEO Oswald Grubel to resign.