Andrey Piontkovsky “It was to the subtleties of a thoughtful insidious decision. Gazprom specially all the time offers technically impossible fuel transportation schemes,” Bogdan Babii, chief engineer of the Ukrtransgaz, said in his open circulation on January 17. “Gazprom submitted a non -fulfillment application for fuel transit to the Ukrainian gas transportation system. The Ukrainian side. The Ukrainian side.

Alexey Kudrin, Minister of Finance of Russia. Photo by RIA '' News '' In the context of a global financial and economic crisis, Russia will inevitably encounter a budget deficit, and Russia's economic growth rate in 2009 may slow down to a level of 0-2 percent. Inflation is expected at 13 percent. With such a forecast on Monday, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin spoke at the Asian financial forum in Hong Kong, ITAR-TASS reports.

Samsung logo at the company's office. Photo by daylife.com The Samsung Electronics Corporation reported that it will be divided into two parts, one of which will engage in consumer goods, such as TVs and mobile phones, and the other - production, including microprocessors and displays, reports Wall Street Journal. The current CEO of Lee Yun Wu will lead the second part of the company.

Falling schedule. Photo Getty Images At an average annual price of oil of $ 32 per barrel of Russia's GDP in 2009, it will decrease by 3.1 percent; Export - half; Inflation will increase sharply, and investments will be reduced by 15.1 percent. Such estimates contain an updated basic macroeconomic forecast of the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short -term forecasting (TsMAKP), which is the basis for the UN report on world economic development in relation to Russia, Kommersant reports.

Styker '' every second - home! ''. Photo from the site Mger Activists of the youth movement "Young Guard of United Russia" on Monday held another action against illegal migrants. The event in the framework of the campaign "Our money is our people!" We took place in Moscow, Ryazan, Samara, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, according to the Mger website. In Moscow, activists of the United Russia youth wing at Kazan Station met the Tashkent-Moscow train, Grani.ru correspondent reports.

A gas pipeline. Photo by ar The heads of Gazprom and Naftogaz in the presence of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine signed a contract of sale of Russian gas in 2009-2019, RIA Novosti reports. Signed documents will liquidate the intermediary in gas trading, said Vladimir Putin. "From the calculation scheme for the set gas, various kinds of intermediary structures are completely excluded: now the whole chain of gas relations should become absolutely transparent and predictable," he said.

Firefighters. Photo by RIA Novosti In the village of Bayandai, the Irkutsk region on Saturday, a fire occurred in the building, where the prosecutor’s office and the military registration and enlistment office were located, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies in the Irkutsk region. By the time of arrival at the place of the fire department in the part of the building covered by fire, the roof collapse occurred.

Camera Camera. Frame of the TV channel "Russia" CCTV cameras recorded the alleged killer of lawyer Stanislav Margelov, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the operational investigation group. According to him, the image was obtained from cameras installed on several buildings at the beginning of the Prechistenka Street where the crime occurred, and after processing on the shooting staff it will be possible to identify the killer.

The action is against the rise in the cost of travel. Photo newspaper.spb.ru In St. Petersburg, a protest was held against raising tariffs for travel in public transport. About 40 people gathered at the building of the Transport Committee and scattered a trifle on the threshold of the department, the newspaper.spb.ru reports. Participants in the action explained the increase in vehicles for vehicles by corruption among officials.

Cafe '' McDonald's ''. Photo http://rh.foto.radikal.ru The police detained five people suspected of attempting an explosive device at McDonald's near the Kuzminki metro station, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Three residents of Volgograd, as well as a young man and a girl from Moscow, were detained. The age of all detainees is from 17 to 24 years.

Igor Sechin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Russia. Photo by RIA '' News '' The Interros holding, owned by Vladimir Potanin, and Rusal Oleg Deripaska developed a plan to unite the largest mining and metallurgical assets of the country with the support of the state, Vedomosti reports with reference to unnamed sources. According to the publication, Potanin and Deripaska would like to see as part of the new company Norilsk Nickel, Mechel, Evraz Group, Uralkali and Metalloinvest.

The building of the Central Bank. Photo by ITAR-TASS The Central Bank of Russia withdrew the license to carry out specialized operations at the Perm Bank of Prikamye, the Central Bank’s press release reported. This is the first review of the banking license in Russia in the coming 2009. The reason for the actions of the Central Bank was the loss of liquidity to the “signs” to make calculations on customer accounts.

Lawyer Stanislav Markelov. Photo by D. Borko/Grani.ru On the street of Prechistenka in the center of Moscow, the lawyer of the Kungaev family Stanislav Markelov was shot dead. As RIA Novosti reports, a law enforcement source reported this. Markelov was doing the case against the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted of the murder of the Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva. Markelov returned from a press conference.

Department of the SDM Bank. Photo www.vsesmi.ru The largest Israeli Bank Hapoalim refused to acquire the Russian SDM bank. The reason for the disruption of the transaction was the blocking of the acquisition by the Central Bank of Israel, reports Wall Street Journal. Hapoalim agreed to acquire 78 percent of the SDM bank in July 2008. The amount of the transaction was supposed to amount to 111 million dollars.

Vladimir Nekrasov. Frame of the TV channel '' '' '' The head of the cosmetics and perfumes store "Arbat Prestige", Vladimir Nekrasov, has been detained on charges of non -payment of taxes, claims that he was pressure. According to Nekrasov, he is forced to give false testimonies for his friend Sergei Schneider (aka Semyon Mogilevich), and in exchange they promise freedom. Nekrasov asks to intervene in the situation of the President of Russia, Interfax reports.