He lowered the topic of the first discussion below sea level 41 6 min. ... Last Friday the first meeting of the St. Petersburg Public Council on Urban Planning and Architecture took place. The new organization, apparently, is intended to replace the opinion of the informal public (usually protest), “emanating from the streets and squares.” For its debut, the council chose a large-scale project - “Development of the underground space of Vosstaniya Square” worth about $1 billion.

Rosoboronexport is losing market position Rosoboronexport is negotiating with India on the amount of the fine that the Russian side will pay for the delay in the delivery of Il-38SD patrol aircraft. Experts note that Russia is threatened by the loss of the market for anti-submarine aircraft, since, for example, for India, in the context of the growth of the country's economy, the cheapness of equipment is not so important.

The killer's body was also not released. Israeli authorities yesterday planned to hand over to relatives the body of an Israeli Arab who carried out a terrorist attack in one of the religious schools in Jerusalem at the end of last week. However, they refused to do this, since the funeral of the killer of eight Israelis threatened to develop into a mass protest demonstration. The government also denied the terrorist's family financial assistance to which he was entitled as an Israeli citizen.

Today, March 11, the Kyiv Court of Appeal retired to the deliberation room to pronounce a verdict in the case of the perpetrators of the murder of Georgy Gongadze. According to Miroslava Gongadze's representative in court, Valentina Telichenko, the court is expected to announce the verdict on March 15 at 11:00. “Today, the investigation into the customers is effectively blocked. It is hopeless to expect any results in the coming year,” said Ms. Telichenko.

In Moscow, the number of offices with an area of ​​less than 200 meters is rapidly decreasing. For small companies whose business requires having an office within the Garden Ring, it is easier, and sometimes even cheaper, to use a residential apartment as a work space. The rest have to resort to exotic ways of finding a place to do business. The design agency "Creative People" employs only 15 people.

in support of the leader of the St. Petersburg branch Protests took place in St. Petersburg and Moscow over the weekend against the prosecution of the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, Maxim Reznik. The oppositionist was detained on suspicion of a fight with a policeman on the eve of the “March of Dissent” on March 3, and on Friday he was charged with insulting and using violence against government officials. The arrest of Mr.

Zorana Bojic Bureau Chief of the Serbian agency "Beta" in Russia On the surface, the current crisis in Serbia looks like another illustration of the destabilizing consequences for the country that the declaration of Kosovo's independence entails. It may indeed seem that by forcibly separating this region from Serbia, the initiators of this approach doomed Serbian politics to permanent instability.

FSFM is preparing a forced IPO The authorities intend to increase the liquidity of the Russian market and strengthen the position of Moscow as a financial center by increasing the number of issuers. To achieve this, the FFMS wants to simplify the issue procedure for companies in knowledge-intensive sectors and oblige all joint stock companies to go public after three years of operation.

The main regulator of the telecommunications industry in Ukraine, the National Communications Regulatory Commission, has not been functioning for almost a year. During this time, a number of serious conflicts occurred between market participants, which, in particular, resulted in lawsuits against the commission itself. However, experts believe that the problem can be eliminated in a matter of days, but for this a political decision must be made.

First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov expressed satisfaction with the work of the domestic satellite navigation system GLONASS. Ivanov highly appreciated the results of the first landing of the Il-76 aircraft in Antarctica, coordinated with the help of GLONASS. The Deputy Prime Minister intends to check the operation of other equipment in the system. The main problem with GLONASS, according to Ivanov, is the ground equipment.

Igor Balenko became a co-owner of TKS The conflict between the shareholders of the Western Ukrainian development company TKS, Ivan Torsky and Vladimir Govirko, ended with the latter selling his share. The owner of 39% of TKS shares, the value of which experts estimate at $80 million, became Igor Balenko, co-owner of one of the largest retail chains in Ukraine, Furshet, and a long-time partner of Mr. Torsky.

And the Russian team won five gold medals World Athletics Championships The Russian team performed very successfully at the Winter World Athletics Championships, which ended on Sunday in Valencia. She won the same number of gold medals - five - as her main competitor - the American team, losing only a little to it in the total number of medals. And the most striking event of the championship was the world record set by Elena Soboleva in the 1500 m race.

Contracts The defensive midfielder of the Brazilian football club Santos, Rodrigo Souto, said goodbye to his partners and on Wednesday flies to Moscow, where he is expected to sign a contract with Lokomotiv Moscow. “The offer is actually good,” admitted the 24-year-old footballer. At the same time, according to Brazilian media, the Russian and Brazilian clubs have not yet been able to agree on all the details of the transfer.

Dmitry Medvedev opened the descent Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev yesterday opened a new luge and bobsleigh complex "Paramonovo" in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region. “Until recently, we were poor and could not afford to have such world-class complexes. I am pleased that now we can launch this first complex in the country, because right now we need to start preparing for the Olympic Games in Sochi.

banks Bank of Moscow President Andrei Borodin and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors Lev Alaluev increased their stake in the bank from 8.7% to 17.62%. The bank's official statement states that the ratio of their shares remains the same - 80/20. Let us recall that in mid-February Andrei Borodin announced his intention to increase his share in the bank’s authorized capital to a blocking share within the next two years.