iPhone 4S conquers Germany. Sales of a new smartphone from Apple have started in Berlin. The number of pre-orders has already broken a record – 1 million on the first day of accepting applications. The iPhone 4S price in the US is $199. Kommersant FM correspondent in Berlin Oleg Zinkovsky told the details to presenter Svetlana Tokareva. –– Do you have the same excitement as in other countries? -- Exactly the same.

Show-revue in memory of the famous singer Irina Kiseleva Revue show “Salut, Joe Dassin!” with the participation of Julien Dassin, the son of the famous singer, will be brought to Yekaterinburg for the first time in October. A truck with decorations - a podium structure, lighting and sound equipment - is already on its way. Before Yekaterinburg, the musical show will be presented in Perm, then it will be shown in Chelyabinsk, Ufa and Orenburg.

General Director of OJSC VSMPO-Avisma Corporation Mikhail Voevodin denied information that appeared in the media about plans to create a joint venture for the production of paints and varnishes with the largest American chemical company DuPont. According to him, the two companies have a potential niche for cooperation - the production of titanium dioxide.

OJSC Rostvertol (part of the Russian Helicopters holding) has supplied the Russian Air Force with a batch of six Mi-28N helicopters, an official representative of the company said. “This is the first time we are sending such a large shipment. I talked with old-timers, and they confirmed that sending six cars at once is happening for the first time in the history of our enterprise,” he quoted the general director of the enterprise, Boris Slyusar.

It would seem that God himself ordered Alexander Vasiliev and his colleagues in the group “Splin” to play acoustic concerts. There is a well-founded opinion that the frontman and author of most of the compositions of this team is the heir to the traditions of the older generation of Russian rock poets. From the crop of rockers of the 1990s, it was Alexander Vasiliev who proposed texts that immediately answered many pressing questions.

He plans to cut a third of his staff in two years. To reduce costs by 20-25%, VTB Bank intends to not only transform most of its branches into additional offices by 2013, but also cut a third of its staff. At the rate of growth of the corporate loan portfolio that VTB has recently demonstrated, the bank really does not need 4.5 thousand employees, experts point out. Yesterday, VTB Bank announced plans to reorganize its network and reduce employees.

A.N. Larina “The History of Moscow in a Postcard” - M.: Moscow Studies, 2010 On March 16, 2011, the Moscow Department of Culture appointed Roman Abramovich’s business partner Sergei Kapkov as the new director of the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation, and was tasked with reconstructing the park.

A new global recession threatens the global economy not only from Europe, but also from China. Analysts have discovered hidden signs of a slowing Chinese economy. It could prove fatal. Find out more from Kommersant FM columnist Andrei Zagorsky. Experts' attention has been drawn to the fact that China's copper reserves have risen to a record level of almost 2 million metric tons.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has downgraded Spain's long-term sovereign credit rating by one notch - from AA to AA-. The rating outlook is “negative,” Reuters reports. S&P experts explain their decision by both macro- and microeconomic reasons.

Mikhail Kasyanov about the capabilities of PARNAS The Moscow City Court considered the complaint of representatives of the People's Freedom Party against the refusal to register. The judge returned the case to the first instance. It is difficult for a party with an “orange tint” to gain recognition from the official authorities, political scientists say. The Moscow City Court sent PARNAS's case of refusal to register back to the court of first instance.

Political scientist on vote of confidence in Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi remains as Prime Minister of Italy. The Italian Parliament supported the government. The Prime Minister himself raised the issue of a vote of confidence before the Chamber of Deputies this week. Political scientist Ilya Konstantinov commented on this decision of the Italian parliament to Kommersant FM host Margarita Polyanskaya. –– A logical question: why did Berlusconi decide to raise the vote right now?

Six-year-old Timur Rudyko will be saved by someone else's bone marrow Timur takes the book and reads slowly, not pronouncing, but singing the syllables. This means he has recently learned to connect letters. The process has begun, now you can’t stop it. Letters into words, words into sentences. How houses are made from bricks, and how neighborhoods, streets and entire cities are made from houses. He lives in one such city, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

The exhibition “Western European Crosses and Crucifixes of the 8th-19th Centuries,” which came to the Hermitage from Milan, is the private collection of Giovanni Cova Minotti, who chose a section of applied art that is far from being the most popular among private collectors. The exhibition features about forty altar and processional crosses and crucifixes. The oldest cross in the exhibition is Byzantine, from the 8th century; very few of these have survived.

As Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on October 14, reports from a number of media outlets about the need for the prime minister to participate in the primaries for nomination as a presidential candidate have no basis. “The norm mentioned by a number of media about mandatory passage through the primaries procedure is in no way a legal incident in the context of Putin’s nomination as a candidate for the post of President of Russia.

The appointment of Sergei Sobyanin to replace Yuri Luzhkov was the last chord of a large federal campaign to replace regional personnel. This work can be considered the most completed project of President Dmitry Medvedev. He himself speaks about this with some pride. On August 9, the house at 25 Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane was demolished. Before this, 50 employees of an unknown security company beat up local residents who were guarding the building from demolition.