Business card Robert Jobson is a journalist, author of books about the royal family: “Diana: A Closely Guarded Secret,” a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, co-written with Princess Diana’s personal security guard; "William's Princess" and "Harry's War: The True Story of the Soldier Prince." Winner of the Scoop of the Year award for his 2005 material about the upcoming wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Today, April 18, it became known that the US State Department secretly supported the Syrian opposition and transferred funds to the opposition television channel Barada TV, which began broadcasting in 2009. This is evidenced by data from cables published by WikiLeaks. According to the documents, financial support began to be provided after US President George W. Bush recalled the ambassador from Damascus in 2005. The Barack Obama administration continued to follow its previous course.

Dmitry Medvedev ordered the preparation of the corresponding law Dmitry Medvedev ordered the development of a federal law on testing schoolchildren for drug addiction. He stated this at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council in Irkutsk, dedicated to the fight against the spread of drugs among young people. Representatives of public organizations involved in the rehabilitation of drug addicts have ambivalent views on the president’s initiative. As Mr.

I know what post and what topic will be in the top in the next two or three days. Lawyer Navalny has once again stirred up the blogosphere. This morning at 10.00 one of the most popular bloggers on the RuNet began showing the third episode of the series “Caste of the Untouchables”. The storyline is simple - “the theft of 5 billion 400 million budget rubles.

Today, April 18, the stock price index at Ukrainian Exchange trading decreased by 98.62 points, or 3.56% to 2,669.86 points. The total trading volume at 17.45 was UAH 398,292,817 (stock market UAH 271,899,468, derivatives market UAH 126,393,349). Since the beginning of 2011, the Ukrainian Exchange index has increased by 226.16 points, or 9.25% from 2,443.70 points.

Corporations spend cash reserves to buy competitors and favor shareholders Since the beginning of 2011, the number of mergers and acquisitions has increased sharply, with companies increasingly financing all or part of the deal in cash. The largest American companies alone have accumulated approximately $1 trillion in cash.

It is 25 years since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. But even today Chernobyl may become the site of a new environmental disaster: the sarcophagus erected over the reactor of the fourth block is on the verge of destruction, and they cannot raise money for a new shelter. But they are ready to spend them on the construction of a floating nuclear power plant off the coast of earthquake-prone Kamchatka.

Naguib Sawiris may have the largest voting stake in the company On Friday, Vimpelcom Ltd (manages the operators VimpelCom and Kyivstar - joint assets of Alfa Group and the Norwegian Telenor) closed a deal to merge Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris with Wind Telecom. On the same day, Alfa Group announced that it would sell a significant part of Vimpelcom's preferred shares. As a result, Mr. Sawiris could become the owner of the largest voting stake in the combined company.

Today, April 18, the lawyers of the owner of the Arbat Prestige chain of stores, Vladimir Nekrasov, and businessman Sergei Schneider (Semyon Mogilevich), Alexander Asnis and Olga Kozyreva, reported that the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District had dropped the criminal case against their clients. “The case against our clients, based on the results of an additional investigation, was closed due to the lack of corpus delicti in their actions.

Today, April 18, a mutiny among members of the regular army of Burkina Faso has spread to another city in this West African state. The soldiers were joined by gendarmes and together they took to the streets of the town of Kaya, about 100 km northwest of the capital Ouagadougou. There is a shootout in Kaya, crowds of protesters have burned the houses of the commander of the military district and the commander of the regiment stationed there.

Event 147 1 min. ... On April 22, the Pashkov House of the Russian State Library will host a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the “Stars of the Commonwealth” award, established by the Council for Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS Member States (CHS). The prize is awarded annually to achievements in the field of science and education, culture and art, and humanitarian activities.

Context 226 1 min. ... At the end of last week, the United States successfully tested the missile defense system being created. As explained by the US Defense Missile Defense Agency, this was the most difficult flight test within the program. We are talking about intercepting an intermediate-range ballistic missile using the Aegis sea-based multi-purpose anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) over the Pacific Ocean.

Toyota has started production at all its factories in Japan, but not yet at full capacity. In addition, to provide its customers with "peace of mind", the company checks the radiation levels of all products exported. All of Toyota's Japanese plants are operating as of today, most of which were suspended after the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan on March 11.

Mexican authorities are going to punish Carlos Slim. His company Telcel is accused of inflating roaming and landline prices. Telcel denies the accusations and promises to challenge the fine in court, said Kommersant FM correspondent Mikhail Bocharov. Mexico's Federal Competition Commission has never imposed such fines before. The authorities suspected the mobile operator Radiomovil Dipsa, which operates as a subsidiary of the world's largest mobile network Telcel, of monopolistic pricing.

Quotes 400 1 min. ... The President of Belarus on terrorist attacks After the explosion in Vitebsk on September 22, 2005: Why do we become complacent and think that it is somewhere far away, it cannot happen to us? Society needs to wake up. The world became scary after the collapse of that large country where we could feel calm and protected. Today everything is breaking apart, I saw this in New York. Nobody cares about anyone, just to crush someone, crush someone, capture markets, and so on.