119 1 min. ... Nikolai Burov considers Valentina Matvienko’s decision balanced and calm. — How do you assess the statement of Valentina Matvienko and representatives of Gazprom, will words turn into deeds? “I think this is a balanced decision, quite calm, without unnecessary fuss. Quite against the background of those verbal battles that have been going on for several years around this project.

Egor Galenko about the Yota Space festival in St. Petersburg The Yota Space festival is being held for the first time and immediately loudly declares itself: it is an exhibition-collection of the achievements of the latest video technologies. The Frunzensky department store was going to be demolished three years ago, but then it was left in some kind of limbo - of the events held there, one can only remember a strange rave with the participation of the Fischerspooner group.

La Colline care products La Colline care products met Yana Panyushkina The La Colline brand appeared in the late 90s. Its creator, chemist Hugis Geyon, decided that it should become synonymous with Swiss quality - a kind of cosmetic version of a Swiss watch. The product line was formulated by biological scientists and meets local production standards, which are considered the most stringent in the world.

A new underground station and railway tracks could be built at Domodedovo Airport, along which passengers will be transported by Aeroexpress trains from Moscow directly to the center of the airport terminal. The cost of the project is estimated at 10 billion rubles. Construction of the new station and tracks could begin as early as 2013, and design work will begin in the near future, a source told RIA Novosti on December 3.

Boris Barabanov about the "U-Piter" concert at the Arena Moscow club Two years ago, Vyacheslav Butusov finally decided on his intentions and feelings about the legacy of the Nautilus Pompilius group. Tensions with the group's lyricist Ilya Kormiltsev, which became even more complicated after U-Piter's performance in front of Nashi on Seliger, prevented the musician from using Nau's works to the extent that fans would have liked.

3K 1 min. ... The joint intention to build an office complex for Gazprom structures in St. Petersburg in 2010 was announced by its head Alexey Miller and governor Valentina Matvienko in November 2005. For construction, the government of St. Petersburg allocated Gazprom a plot of 1.5 hectares directly opposite Smolny on the banks of the Neva.

An aventurine-colored car was seized from the suspected official Yesterday, the Perm Regional Court declared legal the arrest of a Volga car worth 150 thousand rubles, belonging to the head of the Komarovsky rural settlement - the chairman of the council of deputies of this municipality Vasily Galochkin and his wife. An official from the Osinsky district is suspected of abuse of power, fraud using his official position and is recognized as a civil defendant in a criminal case.

An investigation has begun into the delay of the plane from Istanbul As Kommersant learned, the Sverdlovsk Transport Prosecutor's Office began checking the implementation of air legislation by Turkish Airlines. The reason was the fact that passengers on the Istanbul-Ekaterinburg flight last Monday were forced to get home by rail from Ufa, where the carrier’s plane landed due to weather conditions. Turkish Airlines believes that all obligations to passengers were fulfilled in full.

The head of the Moscow Construction Department, former head of the Ministry of Construction of Tatarstan, Marat Khusnullin, has been appointed deputy mayor of the capital. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced this today at an operational government meeting. The head of the Moscow construction complex, Vladimir Resin, remains in the position of first deputy mayor. Let us recall that Mr. Khusnullin was appointed head of urban construction in Moscow on November 18.

As Prime Minister of the region Valery Sukhikh told Kommersant, two new ministries will be created in the structure of the regional government. “We will propose to the governor that the sports agency be upgraded to the status of a ministry. There must be a mandatory youth component, or at least the formation of a policy towards children who play sports,” noted Mr. Sukhikh. It is also planned to create a Ministry of Transport and Highways in the Infrastructure block.

On Friday, French veteran Alex Gopher (pictured) will perform at the Art Academy. Versailles native Alexi Latrobe (that's his real name) started out in the 1990s at the same time as Daft Punk and Cassius, and is roughly in the same weight class with them. In the 1990s, Alex was known as a house aesthete and included jazz and soul in his sets, but now his music library has become heavier.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on December 3 that the WikiLeaks leaks demonstrate the full extent of the cynicism that dominates US foreign policy. Let us remind you that the Internet resource WikiLeaks, which specializes in publishing “closed” information, posted more than 250 thousand secret documents this week.

According to the results of a vote by members of the FIFA executive committee held yesterday in Zurich, Russia received the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. She managed to get ahead in the number of votes received from England and the states that submitted paired applications—Portugal with Spain and Belgium with Holland. The application submitted by Russia for the competition indicated that the championship would be held in 13 cities, divided into four clusters.

254 1 min. ... Leasing company Brunswick Rail yesterday announced the closing of a series of transactions to raise $500 million, which will be used to purchase freight cars. The main volume was raised in the form of loans from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, ING, Raiffeisen, Societe Generale and UniCredit Group.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia for Chuvashia fined OJSC AKB Avangard and CJSC Insurance Group Avangard-Garant for violating the Law on the Protection of Competition. According to the press service of the Department, the bank and the insurer entered into an oral cooperation agreement between themselves, according to which insurance was imposed on the bank's clients when providing car loans at ZAO SG Avangard-Garant. In accordance with Part 1 of Art.