The cessation of funding for government agencies in the United States due to the budget not being adopted on time cost the American economy $24 billion, RIA Novosti reported on October 17, citing the Standard & Poor`s rating agency. According to him, the rate of economic growth was lower by 0.6% due to the budget crisis. S&P notes that the temporary solution will not relieve the US from the same threats in the short term, and consumer activity during the holidays may be lower than expected.

"Take, Love, Run" at the Kiev Young Theater Premiere / Theater The play “Take, Love, Run” is dominated by the perky tone of a journalistic-satirical farce Photo: Alexander Yalova, Kommersant The Kiev Young Theater hosted the premiere of the play “Take, Love, Run” based on the play by the young playwright Oksana Savchenko and directed by the British director Caroline Steinbeis. The foreign director’s view of modern Ukrainians seemed very sober to IRINE CHUZHINOVA.

Nobody wants to accept Syrian chemical weapons As Kommersant has learned, the Geneva 2 conference on a peaceful settlement in Syria has been postponed again - from mid to late November - early December. The process of destroying Syrian chemical weapons has also encountered unexpected difficulties: it is still not clear to which country they will be transported. According to Kommersant, negotiations are underway with at least four states.

Two governors from the Ural Federal District entered the top ten in the media rating of information openness of regional leaders, prepared by the Medialogy information and analytical system. The indicator of information openness includes the number of links to media materials, circulation of publications, etc. Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Natalya Komarova took fifth place among 83 regional heads, moving up ten positions.

The Ukrainian national team will continue to fight for access to the World Cup in the playoffs Football / World Cup 2014 The hat-trick of Marko Devic (in the foreground) and the helplessness of the opponents did not help the Ukrainian team avoid participation in the play-offs Photo: UNIAN The Ukrainian national football team failed to qualify for the 2014 World Cup from first place in its group.

11 activists and public figures wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin On Thursday, 11 Nobel laureates appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding the release of Greenpeace activists accused of piracy and arrested after an action in the Pechora Sea. Among the authors of the letter are the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, as well as the former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sanchez. Photo: AP The letter addressed to Mr.

The fund assessed the market for investments in Internet ideas Investments in Internet startups at the earliest stages reached $370 million in 2012, according to the Internet Initiatives Development Fund. Over the year, the market grew by 20%, but the main obstacles to the development of the industry - its opacity and low quality of projects - remain.

The work of the Rospotrebnadzor inspection at enterprises in the confectionery industry in Ukraine will be completed by November 4, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said. “On October 21, an inspection by Rospotrebnadzor begins at the enterprises of our confectionery industry to remove claims. We agreed that this work will be completed within 2 weeks. Moreover, the urgent question is that the inspection findings should be transparent and objective,” said Mykola Azarov.

The number of interactive museums is growing in St. Petersburg. They came to Russia from European countries and today are becoming popular anchor tenants for shopping centers - they are guaranteed to generate good visitor traffic. But such projects cannot yet pay for themselves either in the West or in Russia.

The company won a long-term legal dispute International commercial arbitration in Switzerland recognized Oleg Deripaska's Rusal as right in a long-term dispute with the Tajik Aluminum Company, owned by the country's authorities. The arbitration awarded Rusal $274.3 million, which is 10.4% of Tajikistan’s annual budget. Experts and lawyers say that it will be difficult for a Russian company to recover such a significant amount.

A center will appear in the Moscow metro to organize assistance for people with limited mobility. “The center’s inspectors will identify elderly citizens and people with disabilities among passengers, passengers with children under the age of seven, and help them move safely in the metro lobbies, pass through the turnstiles, and walk along the platform to the train,” Interfax reports, citing a press release. metro service.

The draft budget of the Volgograd region will record the region’s increasing debt dependence Deputies of the Volgograd Regional Duma will not consider the regional budget for next year today. The preliminary draft of the document, which parliamentarians did not have time to analyze, was withdrawn by the governor. At the same time, public budget hearings took place the day before, and visitors learned that the “hole” in the regional treasury would not be reduced.

The Volzhsky District Prosecutor's Office checked the activities of some Saratov developers. Thus, during an inspection of the Publishing House Perspektiva LLC (director Dmitry Rysyev), the fact of attracting more than 2 million rubles from a shareholder before registering a share participation agreement with an authorized state body was revealed.

Syrian militants on Wednesday took control of the central prison in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The prison has been under siege by Islamist militants since April this year. No other details have been announced yet. An armed conflict has been ongoing in Syria since March 2011, which, according to the UN, has claimed the lives of over 100 thousand people. Government troops are opposed by detachments of militants belonging to various armed groups, including foreign mercenaries.

The Ministry of Health proposes to increase for some drug manufacturers annual quotas for the shipment of ethyl alcohol, which is used to produce medicines, except for balms and elixirs, at a zero excise tax rate. The draft government decree was published on the Ministry of Health website.