The first quarter of 2007 was not very stable: the stock market was sensitive to external events, especially those related to the oil market. However, it is already obvious that the Russian market is gradually reducing its dependence on foreign investors, and the influx of funds from Russian mutual funds is comparable to the influx of funds from Western funds. At the same time, large clients of management companies are increasingly using mutual funds as a financial instrument.

Fernando Alonso and McLaren win 40 degree race in Malaysia "Formula 1" The second round of the Formula 1 championship, the Malaysian Grand Prix, which took place yesterday, became McLaren's revenge for the defeat by Ferrari in the opening race of the season in Australia. Neither Kimi Raikkonen nor Felipe Massa at the Sepang Circuit were able to do anything against Fernando Alonso, who finished ahead of them, who took the lead in the overall standings, and Lewis Hamilton.

The artist and sculptor Sol LeWitt, one of the key figures of post-war American minimalism and conceptualism, died in New York at the age of 78. The cause of Mr. Levitt’s death was cancer, Lenta.ru reported on April 9. Sol LeWitt was born in Connecticut in 1928 into a family of Russian immigrants. As a young man, he studied art history at Syracuse University (New York).

Moscow authorities say they will defend the preferential rights of Muscovites when purchasing residential real estate. Vlast columnist Andrei Voskresensky believes that, on the contrary, it would be worthwhile to provide preferences to nonresident buyers, who suffer more than Muscovites from rising housing prices. About six months ago, the Moscow government became concerned about making housing in Moscow more affordable for Muscovites. Specifically for Muscovites, and not for buyers in general.

The composition of the commission for investigating offenses in the financial market has been approved The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) have approved the composition of the commission to investigate offenses in the securities market. The commission will investigate cases related to the abuse of a dominant position by professional participants, as well as monitor their tariff policies.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue in the New Manege festival photography One of the central exhibitions in the program of the Fashion and Style in Photography festival, the exhibition “Jacques-Henri Lartigue. La Belle Epoque,” ​​opened in the New Manege, organized by the Moscow House of Photography together with the Association of Friends of Jacques-Henri Lartigue with the support of Sony.

"Putin got up and left" Next week, the CoLibri publishing house will publish the book “Oligarchs” by American journalist David Hoffman, who worked from 1995 to 2001 as head of the Moscow bureau of The Washington Post. "Power" publishes excerpts from this book. David Hoffman's book is devoted to the formation of oligarchic capitalism in Russia.

Of the best teams in Russia last season, only Spartak won Russian Football Championship All four best teams from last season played in matches with weaker teams as losers in the last round. “Lokomotiv” suffered a defeat, CSKA and “Zenith” still escaped. “Spartak” not only bounced back, but also scored the winning goal against “Luch”, which made the red-and-white leaders of the championship together with “Moscow”.

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Chinese art reaches $9 million The painting "Lower Your Whip" by Chinese artist Xu Beihong (1895-1953) set a record for works of Chinese painting. At a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong, an unknown collector bought this work over the phone for 72 million Hong Kong dollars (more than $9 million). This is an absolute record both for the artist himself and for any Chinese painting ever exhibited at auction. The painting was painted in 1939 in Singapore.

210 7 min. ... GENRE CRISIS Destruction rather than pride A business complex built by one of the leaders of high-tech architecture, Pritzker Prize winner Briton Norman Foster, may appear in St. Petersburg: the project has already been approved by the governor. However, in order to clear space for the complex, it will be necessary to demolish an outstanding monument of Stalinist architecture - the Frunzensky department store, built according to the design of Evgeny Katonin in 1938.

The independent American agency GamesBids published a new rating of candidate cities for the 2014 Olympic Games. Sochi dropped from second to third position with an index of 60.95 - this is 2.03 points worse than the position on March 4, 2007. Austrian Salzburg is in second place with an index of 63.93 - this is also 1.42 points worse than the previous indicator. The ranking was topped by South Korean Pyeongchang with an indicator of 64.90 points and an increase of 2.89 points.

49 5 minutes. ... The situation in the payment acceptance market has changed dramatically in just a year. Banks have surrendered the promising market almost without a fight to smaller companies, which have flooded subway lobbies and stores with cheaper terminals that accept cash. Bankers had no choice but to focus on providing processing services to these companies, losing significant amounts of commissions. The boom in popularity of payment terminals began in the spring of 2005.

1K 4 min. ... On March 30, General Krymov returned, appointed commander of the 3rd Cavalry Corps instead of Count Keller. The first steps of Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov in the role of Minister of War were marked by a massive change of senior commanders - with one stroke of the pen, 143 senior commanders were crossed out of the army lists, in whose place new ones were appointed, regardless of seniority. This measure was deeply erroneous.

Gazprom is considering the possibility of acquiring OGK-1 and OGK-5, a high-ranking source in Gazprom told RIA Novosti on April 9. On April 6, at a meeting of the board of OAO Gazprom, the strategy in the electric power industry was discussed. According to the source, representatives of the Gazprom group at the meeting spoke in favor of acquiring the assets of OGK-1 and OGK-5.