08 December 2012, 12:20 Business Facebook will join advertising Facebook is in talks with Microsoft to buy an advertising service Ekaterina Tkachenko close 100% Facebook is negotiating with Microsoft Corporation to acquire the advertising service Atlas Solutions for $30 million. The service will allow the social network to place advertisements as part of a business promotion campaign.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared and sent for approval to the Ministry of Health a list of over-the-counter medicines that can be sold not in pharmacies, but in regular grocery stores. newspaper reports this The Vedomosti . As the publication notes, the list includes 34 groups of over-the-counter drugs, including: drugs for alcoholism and smoking, hemorrhoids, runny nose, cough, headaches, antipyretics, antiseptics, laxatives and hormonal drugs, weight loss drugs and hematogens.

Specialists from the Khrunichev Center have completed the assembly of the multifunctional laboratory module “Science” (MLM) for the International Space Station (ISS) and sent it for further testing to RSC Energia, the center’s press service reports. “Work on the manufacture and assembly of the flight product of the multifunctional laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station has been completed.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, in an interview with journalists from five channels: Channel One, VGTRK , NTV , REN TV and Dozhd, commented on the situation with the latest scandals to expose corrupt officials. “All these numerous televised revelations. Is this a signal from the authorities that an all-out fight against corruption has begun, or is it just a coincidence?” — asked Marianna Maksimovskaya .

The search of the director of the documentary project “Term” Pavel Kostomarov is over. Journalist Alexey Pivovarov, who is also a participant in the project, reported this on his Twitter . “The search of Pavel Kostomarov #srokdoc is over. They announced to him that he was a witness in the Bolotnaya case and signed a non-disclosure agreement. That’s all for now,” Pivovarov wrote.

News Ex-candidate for governor of the Ryazan region became a senator Ryazan City Duma deputy Igor Morozov , who in October refused to participate in the gubernatorial elections in favor of United Russia, has been appointed representative of the region in the Federation Council , RIA Novosti reports. “I assume my powers from the moment the resolution is published, that is, today,” Morozov said. In the fall, Igor Morozov ran for governor of the Ryazan region from the Patriots of Russia.

07 December 2012, 17:34 Business No investors found Sberbank and Credit Suisse refused to create an investment fund in Russian projects - no one was interested Ekaterina Karpenko , Yulia Orlova close 100% Sberbank and Credit Suisse closed a fund created to finance promising projects in Russia for $1 billion. For more than a year, they could not find co-investors.

07 December 2012, 10:14 Society New Zealand takes on the skin of the USA Destructive tornado sweeps through New Zealand, there are casualties Daria Zagvozdina close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos A strong tornado struck the city of Auckland and its surrounding areas in New Zealand. Three people died and about 250 were left homeless.

Dmitry Medvedev, in a conversation with journalists from Channel One, VGTRK , NTV , REN TV and Dozhd, commented on the law banning gay propaganda, noting that relationships between people should not be “turned into legislation.” “I am openly gay and work for United Russia. Why do we need a law on gay propaganda and why waste time fighting gay propaganda if the country already has enough problems?” — a journalist from the Dozhd TV channel voiced a viewer’s question.

In the north of Moscow, a traffic police officer , while intoxicated, caused an accident, as a result of which several cars burned down. reports this Interfax with reference to the press service of the capital's main headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred at about 21.30 Thursday on Oktyabrskaya Zheleznaya Line street near house number 10.

07 December 2012, 21:11 Society There will be benefits, but the church will not.

Solidarity movement activist Vsevolod Chagaev left Russian territory after security services asked him to choose between cooperation and arrest. “I received a call from an FSB officer nicknamed Lesha Ulybka, who invited me to meet. (...) I was given a very simple choice: either I work for the “office,” that is, for the FSB, that is, “knock,” or I face either the army or prison,” Chagaev said in an interview with the Dozhd TV channel .

07 December 2012, 12:10 Business Finished in the USA Apple will move computer production to the US Ekaterina Bryzgalova close 100% Apple computer production at Foxconn factory in China Bobby Yip/Reuters Apple will transfer computer production to the United States and is ready to invest $121.3 million in this. Company CEO Tim Cook hopes that other American corporations will follow their example and this will reduce the unemployment rate in the country.

07 December 2012, 13:42 Cars The drunken lieutenant had a fiery night A Moscow traffic police officer provoked an accident in which four cars burned down Anatoly Karavaev close 100% A drunken lieutenant of the capital's traffic police department caused an accident in the north of Moscow, during which four parked cars were almost completely burned out. Luckily, no one was hurt in the accident, and the culprit is promised to be fired from the police.

07 December 2012, 12:00 Opinions Tribal capitalism The authorities’ fight against shadow business has a negative impact on the well-being of citizens: real incomes of Muscovites have fallen by 7% since the beginning of the year Gergiy Osipov close 100% The decline in the level of income of Russians, which began due to clumsy actions of the authorities, can accelerate the transition of Russian society to a new stage of development - to tribal relations.