S&P justified the current ratings of the Russian Federation on commodity prices and social inefficiency The rating agency Standard & Poor's has published a full rating report on the Russian Federation, justifying the country's current rating at the BBB level and its "stable" forecast.

The company is preparing a new service for online music listening. Google has not yet officially confirmed the launch of the new project. As part of the global fight against pirates, the company wants to offer users a “white” way to listen to their favorite artists, and at the same time promote its Google Android mobile platform, analysts are sure. Google is launching its own music service. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company will present it today at a conference in San Francisco.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed considering the issue of medicinal treatment of criminals who have committed violence against children. The President stated that a liberal approach to such crimes is inadmissible. “The punishment should be as severe as possible. The state must apply all measures of influence, and a liberal approach is absolutely unacceptable here.

Marina Abramovich will soon come to Garage to perform a performance called The Artist is Present. Dmitry Butkevich talks about the upcoming event and the character traits of the “grandmother of world performance”. Soon, the legend of contemporary art Marina Abramovich will come to our Garage. Already, once in January, I talked about the performance that she will be holding here in the fall called The Artist is Present; even invited you to take part in it.

A modern bicycle is not only two wheels, a steering wheel, and a seat. Now it's something more. Alexander Levy spoke about the new two-wheeled ponies in a titanium body and with an electric drive. What is a bicycle? Two wheels, steering wheel and seat. But that's yesterday. An electric drive should be added to the modern model. The new BH Emotion NEO line has a complete set. All three models: Extreme, Cross and City are equipped with a 250 W brushless motor.

73% of Russians would like to live abroad, sociologists from one of the Russian research centers recently found out. Australia ranks first in popularity - this is where the majority of Russian citizens surveyed would like to live. Is this really so and what is the secret of the fifth continent? Let me introduce you to the wonderful world of Australia - a continent as beautiful as it is underestimated in Russia, perhaps due to numerous stereotypes and misconceptions.

Today, May 10, the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, before the next interrogation at the Prosecutor General's Office, announced that she had appealed in the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office to initiate a criminal case against her regarding the gas contracts signed in 2009.

216 1 min. ... Transaero Airlines reported a loss in the first quarter of 2011, increasing it by 45% compared to the same period last year, to RUB 350 million. This is stated in the carrier's message. As a Kommersant source at Transaero explained, the deterioration in financial results is explained by the situation with a temporary ban on flights to Egypt and Tunisia.

The businessman intends to sell a blocking stake in the energy company Mikhail Prokhorov has planned to sell a blocking stake in Quadra. According to analysts' expectations, the buyer will be Inter RAO. Investors are not satisfied with low profits and unclear rules of the game in the energy market. Mikhail Prokhorov is tired of energy. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the businessman wants to sell a blocking stake in the generating company Quadra. It owns 25 power plants in Central Russia.

During his performance "Sensitive Zone" at the Beijing Contemporary Art Gallery, Chinese artist Chen Li reportedly performed a sex act on his assistant. The performance was part of the exhibition “Artistic Prostitution”, and only experts and critics attended the opening. The main idea of ​​the exhibition and art event is a critique of “the trend of commercialization, which is nothing more than the sale of sex for commercial purposes,” Chen Li previously stated.

21 years of building a multi-party system ended with the emergence of a “guiding and directing” The “All-Russian Popular Front” around “United Russia”, initiated by Vladimir Putin, will be a natural outcome with which the country will complete the 21st anniversary of the formation of its multi-party system. Or rather, the result will be a virtual abandonment of the multi-party system.

and insurance of country houses With the onset of the summer season, the issue of safety and security of country cottage housing arises. According to analysts, about 85% of individual seasonal and permanent housing are not equipped with security systems. The spring season adds more work to insurance companies. Spring accounts for up to 40% of customer requests. Today, the most popular way to protect villages is through permanent security posts for the entire village (a guard with a dog).

Banks are getting rid of paper Banks will be able to get rid of the need to store documents in paper form; a corresponding project was submitted to the State Duma last week. The savings from eliminating paper document flow in large banks are estimated at 100 million rubles. in year. Experts note that electronic copies of documents will have to be stored in the Central Bank, otherwise there is a high risk of prompt destruction of documentation by unscrupulous players.

Marketing communications Only two Russian brands were included in the top 100 most expensive brands in the world published yesterday by the consulting company Millward Brown Optimor (part of the Millward Brown research network). The MTS brand, which increased in price by 12% over the past year, to $10.883 billion, occupies 80th place, and Sberbank, which entered the rating for the first time and is valued at $8.535 billion, is in 99th place.

The Prosecutor General's Office has extended the detention of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak by 15 days. This decision was made after the interrogation of Mr. Mubarak by investigators at the Sharm el-Sheikh hospital on May 10. The interrogation of the ex-president was authorized by the hospital doctors, who had recently somewhat stabilized Hosni Mubarak's health condition.