Oil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhilips took the first three places in the ranking of the largest US taxpayers. At the end of 2011, ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhilips paid $27.3, $17.4 and $10.6 billion to the country's budget, respectively. Fourth place in the ranking compiled by Forbes went to JP Morgan Chase, which paid $8.2 billion in taxes, and fifth place went to the country's largest retail chain, Wal-Mart, with $5.9 billion.

Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev, during an extended planning meeting held yesterday with his deputies, heads of departments and employees of regional executive authorities, announced his intention to reduce 20% of the regional administration staff. “These are very serious changes. But I see that we need not to gain weight, not to inflate the staff of officials, but to optimize it.

After the meeting with the investigator, the accused remained with their As Kommersant learned, recently the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, as part of the criminal case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, held a confrontation between the Chechen “authority” Lom-Ali Gaitukaev and the former head of the operational search department of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov.

A full scan of the body was carried out by Svetlana Kolchik You are lying in a thick, cramped tube, with earplugs in your ears to block the sound, but even through them you can hear strange and rather ominous sounds: a piercing grinding sound, interspersed with loud knocking. For the next hour and a half, it is forbidden to move; you need to lie quietly and breathe, trying to ignore the periodically rolling claustrophobic sensations.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurred on April 17 in the capital of Chile, Santiago, reports Reuters . According to the US Geological Survey, the epicenter of the earthquake was recorded 48 km north of Valparaiso and 116 km from Santiago. The source of the earthquake lay at a depth of 25.9 km. No tsunami threat has yet been declared. There is no information about casualties or injuries.

The opposition will not demand the cancellation of the election results in the 13th district State Duma deputy from the LDPR Anton Ishchenko does not expect to sue for his party from Saratov City Duma deputy Vladislav Malyshev a seat in the Saratov representative body in the 13th electoral district. Last week, the court found guilty four Saratov residents who threw in ballots for Mr. Ishchenko’s opponent in the elections to the Saratov City Duma on March 13.

Spring is a time of renewal not only in nature. At this time, restaurants and bars in St. Petersburg are undergoing a seasonal menu update. Guests will also enjoy exciting events, celebrity chef tours and special gastronomic offers. From April 19, the chef of the restaurant "Europe" Ognjen Gajić will present new dishes of modern haute cuisine.

United Russia proposes to toughen penalties for violations during rallies. In particular, deputies consider it necessary to increase the fine to 100 thousand rubles and introduce mandatory community service for offenders. Such initiatives can be considered a response to increased protest activity, lawyers say, but the proposed measures are unfounded. A broom instead of a prison. The protesters will be sent to improve the streets.

The court arrested an official suspected of taking a bribe for two months. In Novosibirsk, the court granted the request of the investigative authorities to arrest the head of the regional department of physical education and sports, Valery Yarov, suspected of receiving a large bribe through an intermediary. The defense, which proposed to release the official on the guarantee of well-known athletes in the city or a bail of 3 million rubles, intends to appeal the arrest. Speaking in court, Mr.

The Board of Directors of Ruspolimet refused to issue an additional share issue The Board of Directors of OJSC Ruspolymet canceled the decision on the additional issue of shares of the enterprise. By purchasing the additional issue, the state corporation Rusnano planned to enter the authorized capital of Ruspolimet, but a minority shareholder of Ruspolimet intervened in the process and delayed the issue of shares through litigation.

This business idea is for happy parents and their young children. Imagine that you need to tell your child a fairy tale, but you don’t know anything more original than “Kolobok”, and you only know how to make up fairy tales on the fly at work. This is especially true for dads. What to do? Of course, come up with another business idea. The essence of the idea We are creating a website on which fairy tales will be automatically generated. Not the easiest, but quite solvable task.

The Tomsk region received the first tranche from the Federal Fund for Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reform in the amount of 25 million rubles. for the resettlement of citizens from dilapidated and emergency housing. The press service of the regional administration reported this today.

Elimination of the landslide and comprehensive reconstruction of the Pochainsky ravine in Nizhny Novgorod will require about 100 million rubles. The head of the administration of Nizhny Novgorod, Oleg Kondrashov, spoke about this yesterday at the entrance of an off-site meeting at the site of the landslide. Let us remind you that on April 11, as a result of ground movements, a landslide occurred in the Pochainsky ravine area.

In Tatarstan, the circumstances of the derailment of one of the carriages of a freight train, which contained bags of ammonium nitrate, are being clarified. “The incident occurred at noon on non-public railway tracks, near the Shemordan station. Several carriages were being unloaded at the base of one of the industrial enterprises. Nothing fell apart. No one was hurt, no harm was done to the environment,” said a law enforcement source, adding that passenger traffic was not affected.

On April 5, the Arbitration Court of the Perm Territory rejected the counterclaim of OJSC Scientific Research Institute of Control Machines and Systems against Pakt LLC. The court's reasoning decision was recently published in the file of cases. NIUMS challenged the deal according to which the institute leased the institute’s premises with a total area of ​​1,204 thousand square meters to Pakt LLC, which is close to Perm businessman Vladislav Shinkevich. m. from July to December 2007.