The Government of the Russian Federation has prepared its opinion on the draft law “On volunteering”, developed in the Federation Council (FC).

Central banks of countries with developing economies reduced their investments in the European currency last year. Regulators sold 45 billion euros, thus reducing their reserves of this currency by 8%, writes The Financial Times, citing IMF data. According to the report, today euro reserves account for only 24% of all reserves of developing countries, which is the lowest level since 2002. The peak was reached in 2009, when reserves consisted of 31% euros.

Defenders of cultural heritage have made progress in preserving the Arkhangelskoye estate museum. After a meeting at the Ministry of Culture, it became known that the construction of the Ministry of Defense reception house on the protected area will be frozen, and Viktor Vekselberg’s structures, which lay claim to part of the lands of the natural complex, will clear the park at their own expense.

Vladimir Pozner became "Person of the Year" in Ukraine. However, he immediately found himself at the center of a scandal after an interview with Ukrainian media. Journalist Pavel Sheremet believes that Posner was a victim of the stereotypical attitude towards neighbors that is characteristic of the Russian elite.

Text A collection of poems by Boris Grebenshchikov "Tramontana" has been published (Eksmo Publishing House). It includes texts written in the 21st century over the past 13 years. The book is named after the song of the same name from the album ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM (2005). The 2000-2010s were super productive for BG and his group - as many as 18 releases! The catch, however, is that most of them are remakes, live recordings and previously unreleased songs.

The Krylya Sovetov football club is coming under the control of the government of the Samara region; in the near future, 75% of the club’s shares, previously owned by private entities, will become the property of the region free of charge, reported on Monday on the website of the government of the Samara region . “We have finally decided that the controlling stake in the club, 75%, will go to the region free of charge.

538 1 min. ... Last Tuesday, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata submitted his resignation. This is how he reacted to the scandal surrounding the deportation to India of two Italian marines - Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone - who are accused of murder. “Power” has already talked in detail about the misadventures of Italian marines (see the material “Marines in the Jungle”, in N10 of March 12, 2012).

Shortly before the start of sales in Russia Kia Quoris at the Musical Academic Theater named after. K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko staged a theatrical production “...And Spring Again!”, directed by Vasily Barkhatov. One of the acting heroes of the play was the new flagship of the Kia brand.

Sergey Sorokin, photo Mazda Japanese interpretation of American values Let's say you are already over forty. You have two small children - then it’s more likely not “already”, but “still” only forty. You also have a big dog, a dacha in the Moscow region and a house in the Novgorod region. Over the course of a year, you travel thirty thousand miles on hateful daily errands, plus once, in addition to the above-mentioned addresses, the whole family goes by car to Karelia.

Thing Yayoi Kusama. Pumpkin. Bronze. 1998 Lot from the Sotheby's contemporary Asian art auction, which will be held on April 5 in Hong Kong. Photo: Sotheby's

The Gazpromneft - Lubricants company is expanding its product line - to the already existing 400 items, from marine oils to premium G-Energy oils used even in automobile competitions, now we have added motor oils under the Gazpromneft brand for gasoline and diesel engines of passenger cars and trucks.

Context The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow opened a criminal case against the Vice-Rector for Economics of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Moscow Energy Institute" Evgeniy Dovgan. He is suspected of committing a crime under paragraph “c” of Part 5 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (receiving a bribe on a large scale).

NPF clients have nothing to hold on to The struggle for clients has intensified in the pension market - at the end of the year, client flows in large non-state funds amounted to tens and hundreds of thousands of people, and a number of non-state pension funds (NPFs) as a result lost more insured people than they attracted new ones. NPF associates the problem with the intersection of sales networks and dishonesty of agents.

The Customs Union is increasing import duties on a number of dairy products from today. According to the decision of the Council of the Eurasian Commission dated February 27, 2013, customs duties are increased on butter, milk pastes, other fats and oils made from milk, as well as on cottage cheese and certain types of cheeses. The decision comes into force on April 1, 2013.

To travel at a constant speed of 100 km/h, the new XL1 only needs 8.4 hp. When driving on electric power alone, the XL1 hybrid requires less than 0.1 kW/h per 1 km of travel. That is, for 1 km of travel he needs the same amount of electricity as a 100-watt light bulb burns in an hour. The car's maximum speed is 160 km/h, and it takes only 12.7 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h. The electric range is 50 km.