You don’t have to be a believer to recognize that the importance of the church as an institution in Russia is growing. The number of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church has increased by more than 10 thousand in the last decade, and the number of priests has doubled. "Ogonyok" asked where the church gets qualified personnel and how it trains them. Finally, what does it mean to make a career in the Russian Orthodox Church?

He gave up commission income for the sake of lending growth Starting today, Sberbank is canceling all commissions on retail loans. At the same time, the bank will not compensate for the lost income through lending rates - they are reduced by an average of 0.5-1 percentage point. These measures should reverse the trend of reduction in the volume of Sberbank’s loan portfolio, which has been observed for more than a year.

Today, April 19, the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting at a meeting accepted the resignation of council member Yuri Plaksyuk. According to the message, the decision to dismiss Mr.

6K 6 min. ... Last week in Russia the publication of income declarations of officials for 2009 began. Having studied the documents released by the Kremlin and the White House, Vlast columnist Dmitry Kamyshev was convinced that the economic crisis, if at all, did not affect government officials too much.

Divna Ljuboevich and the Melody choir performed in the capital concert/vocal In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Vladimir, concerts of the Serbian singer Divna Ljuboevich and the vocal ensemble “Melody” were held for three evenings at the Mystetskyi Arsenal museum complex.

General line Last week, Mikhail Khodorkovsky continued his speech in court (see the last issue of Vlast ). On Monday, he concluded his refutation of the indictment with a rhetorical question about how he could steal all of Yukos’ oil if the company, as the state prosecution admits, received income and even profit from its sale.

Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev admitted that the growth of shale gas production in the world poses a problem for Gazprom. The gas company may lose some customers on the global market. Taking advantage of new technologies, the United States has greatly increased production of shale gas from common sedimentary rock in recent years and hopes to soon eliminate imports.

The largest Russian insurers have signed an agreement to combat unscrupulous insurance brokers. As a result of the actions of such brokers, insurance companies suffer significant losses. As Danil Khachaturov, president of the Rosgosstrakh group of companies, said at a press conference, Rosgosstrakh, ROSNO, RESO-Garantiya, AlfaStrakhovanie and Ingosstrakh joined the agreement. Mr.

The largest Russian insurance companies have signed an agreement to combat unscrupulous insurance brokers. Insurers intend to create “black lists” of fraudulent brokers. The losses of each company that signed the agreement from their actions in 2009 are estimated at approximately 130-150 million rubles. As Danil Khachaturov, president of the Rosgosstrakh group of companies, announced on April 19, Rosgosstrakh, ROSNO, RESO-Garantia, AlfaStrakhovanie and Ingosstrakh joined the agreement.

Kommersant-Weekend took friends to the cinema again On Thursday, the capital's Ukraina cinema hosted a private screening of the directorial debut of the famous designer Tom Ford, A Single Man. Fifty guests, including RITA RUSAKOVA, arrived to evaluate the sensational film, the appearance of which cannot be expected in the Ukrainian box office.

The Ministry of Finance is one step away from victory in the fight for government priorities The “Program for Increasing the Efficiency of Budget Expenditures until 2012” developed by the Ministry of Finance has been approved as the basis for a new long-term strategy of the Russian government. The text of the program has caused strong substantive objections from all departments - from the Ministry of Health to the FSB, but they will be taken into account only if possible.

The Kulczyk Oil Ventures Ltd company of Polish businessman Jan Kulczyk plans to acquire natural gas production assets in Ukraine, the company reported on Friday. In May, Kulczyk Oil will hold an IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, hoping to raise $265 million, the bulk of which will be invested by Kulczyk Investments in Ukraine, as well as Brunei and Syria.

Defender Open the door! Sheriff Boyce was the only official in the United States working on the case of 7-year-old Artem Savelyev (Hansen), who was sent back to Russia by his adoptive mother. After the State Department stated that it saw no formal reasons to bring any charges against the woman, and Tori Hansen herself refused to testify or generally talk to the authorities unless the court required it.

Path People fell in love with actor Nikita Mikhalkov for his roles as not entirely moral and not entirely correct, cynical, but vital heroes. Playing correct, exemplary "sovereign servants", military men and officials, Mikhalkov is much less convincing Practical young man "I'm walking around Moscow", 1963 Self-confident, on his own, observing Soviet conventions, but thinking too rationally and even cynically and does not hide it.

Every April, a flower festival is held on the Portuguese island of Madeira in the city of Funchal. The culmination of the festival is a flower parade, during which floats decorated with flowers pass through the streets of the cities.