Story "Ogonyok" wrote about how the monastery was blown up, which is now being restored In February 1930, Ogonyok published a photograph of the ruins of the Simonov Monastery on the cover, and inside the magazine - a note under the heading "Instead of a fortress of church obscurantism - a workers' Palace of Culture." The note reported that Leninskaya Sloboda is a working-class district and will soon become a large proletarian center, and there is only one workers’ club for 300 people.

The general producer of the television company MB Group, Margo Krzhizhevskaya, is engaged in an incompatible business: she produces popular programs, owns a SPA sanatorium on Rublyovka and is building a chain of restaurants in Kuban Yulia Larina On television there are shots that are in the frame and shots that are off-screen. She was always behind the scenes: director, program producer.

Officials lost the lawsuit over the building on Pokrovka Trust Bank managed to challenge the ownership of the city of Moscow to part of a building in the center of the capital. Reconstruction of the facility at Pokrovka, 8 was started back in 1996 by MENATEP Bank, and completed in 2005 by Trust. The Moscow government registered two premises in the disputed building, but on Friday the Moscow Arbitration Court, following the bank's claim, declared this registration invalid.

Well planned collapse Andrey Plakhov Well planned collapse If anyone thinks that the annual plot of Russian cinema was exhausted six months ago by the ambitious Sochi “Kinotavr”, this is a big mistake. The year is already ending, but our reserve of achievements does not dry out. Every week two or three, sometimes up to six, domestic films are released.

Investing in them will become much cheaper The State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship recommended adopting the bill “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in the Russian Federation”” in the second reading. The amendments reduce the minimum threshold for investment in industrial zones by three times and ten times in port zones, and also expand the list of possible activities in port and technology development zones.

Reaction In connection with the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a special statement was published by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Vladimir Lukin. Here are excerpts from it: “The goal of protecting the health of persons in places of forced detention sometimes conflicts with the goals of executing sentences, which are a priority for the penal system. Hence the direct road to human tragedies.

The head of the Ministry of Finance of Belarus, Andrei Kharkovets, announced on December 7 that the country’s budget for 2010 included the price of Russian gas at $166. Let us remind you that the Russian side provides Belarus with a 30% discount on gas purchases. In the fourth quarter of this year, Minsk purchases fuel at a price of $122 per thousand cubic meters. Belarusian Finance Minister Andrei Kharkovets indirectly named the price of Russian gas for next year.

Judging by the number of blogging services on the world Internet, almost every web user keeps a diary or participates in a collective blog. It has long been thought of that in this way one can not only express oneself, but also earn money - however, the results of implementing the idea abroad and in RuNet vary greatly. VLADIMIR BOROVOY How to sell a hobby On a global scale, the blogosphere is a mass phenomenon that is constantly growing larger.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that Georgia will send more than 900 troops to Afghanistan to support the US armed forces. Mikheil Saakashvili made this statement on December 7 during a meeting with the commander of the US Air Force in Europe, General Roger A. Brady, AP reports. Mr. Brady thanked the Georgian president for his “invaluable” help. Let us recall that earlier in 2009, 170 Georgian military personnel were already sent to Afghanistan.

Administrative resource Five years have passed since Russia ratified the Kyoto Protocol. During this time, Moscow fulfilled all the institutional and political obligations it assumed under the agreement, but neither the state nor business were able to derive any economic benefit from it. Alexey Shapovalov Ecology and economics In June 1992, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed and ratified by 186 states, including Russia.

Russia and the United States will still work on a new START treaty Russia and the United States, having not had time to prepare a new treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive arms (START) by December 5, expect to sign it in the second half of this month. This possibility was suggested by US Presidential Assistant for National Security General James Jones, who hinted that START could be signed after December 18.

Today, December 7, it became known that the music magazine Rolling Stone intends to create a chain of restaurants of the same name, the first of which will open in May 2010 in Los Angeles, reports the Los Angeles Times . The establishment will be located in a two-story building. On the ground floor there will be a bar for selected guests, on the second floor there will be a bar and restaurant, which can be accessed by everyone.

// SALES! The Russia.com domain was sold by its previous owners, a private company NewMedia Holdings, registered in Seattle (USA). Unknown buyers paid $1.5 million for it at the Sedo domain auction - for comparison, $5 million was paid for the Korea.com domain at similar auctions in the recent past. However, for 2009 the price of the domain sold was one of the highest.

6K 2 minutes. ... Text: Mark Rozin, President of Ecopsi Consulting It seems to me that the hero of the article, remaining to work in the company, did the right thing, and the remorse that he later experienced was unfounded. I'll try to explain why. The relationship between boss and subordinate—the shareholder, to a certain extent, is the boss of the hired general director—may be based on one of two ideologies.

The main owner of the Retail Group, which is developing the Velika Kishenya grocery chain, Roman Lunin, received permission from the Antimonopoly Committee to purchase more than 50% of Aster International Group, the committee reported on Thursday. “These are internal transactions taking place in the group,” Velikaya Kishena clarified to Kommersant.