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The Central Bank has already taken into account inflation expectations in the government The decision of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia to raise the key rate by 0.5% was unexpected for the market. The Central Bank returned the cost of refinancing the banking sector to a level above inflation until mid-September 2014, anticipating possible changes by the government to its own policies.

And about. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said that the republic is ready to accept not only refugees from the eastern regions of Ukraine, but also Ukrainian citizens who do not want to participate in the military operation carried out by Kiev. “We will try to support people who are in trouble, whom the criminal authorities in Kyiv are pushing to war with their fellow citizens. Today, not a single mother wants to send her son under bullets for unknown reasons.

Acting Governor of the Kurgan Region Alexey Kokorin and Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Kobylkin signed a program of activities to implement the cooperation agreement concluded in 2011. The program involves activities in the fields of education, culture, art, state protection of cultural heritage sites, tourism and sports, healthcare, social protection, reports the press service of the head of the Kurgan region.

Genetics 1K 1 min. ... The Danes have one of the happiest genomes, and not figuratively, but in the most literal sense. Such data were published by scientists from the University of Warwick Center who decided to compare the genotype of different countries. It turned out that among the Danes there are the fewest people who have a certain version of the gene responsible for the regulation of the “joy hormone” - serotonin. Owners of this gene are prone to depression and tolerate stress worse.

At the beginning of last week, a large-scale operation took place in Turkey, during which dozens, and according to some reports, more than a hundred active and retired police officers were arrested. According to the Hurriyet newspaper, special operations were carried out in 22 provinces of the country. Among those arrested is one of the country's most famous and influential police officers, the former head of the anti-terrorist unit of the Istanbul police, Omer Kese.

Losses from the reform of the Russian payment market have been calculated The reform of the payment market, initiated by the Russian authorities after the disconnection of a number of banks from international payment systems against the backdrop of American sanctions, has received the first official quantitative estimates. Visa estimated its losses from the transition to processing Russian partners at $50 million. This is a tenth of its revenue in Russia.

Did you know that Russia was defeated in the First World War even before it began? Photo: RGAKFD/Rosinform, Kommersant But could the result have been different if Nicholas II, as his associates recalled, was in constant ignorance of the true situation of the army and the country?

Has housing on credit become more accessible? The belief that owning an apartment on credit is better than renting is one of the most expensive. Now it is as expensive as 20 years ago, when loans were given in foreign currency for two years at 25% per annum. The development of mortgages has not made decent housing accessible to everyone Photo: Yu.

In the first half of the year the company earned 2.13 billion rubles Inter RAO's net profit for the first half of the year fell by almost half, and revenue decreased by more than a third. In particular, revenue from the sale of electricity on the domestic market fell by 52% and export revenue decreased by 36.2%. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant / buy photo Net profit of Inter RAO according to RAS in the first half of the year decreased by 48.8%, to 2.13 billion rubles.

An explosion occurred in the Kurgan branch of Sberbank, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the agency, citing the press center of the Ural branch of Sberbank, the explosive device was placed in one of the ATMs in the self-service area. There were no injuries, the amount of damage caused is being determined. “The criminal ran into the office and discovered that cash was left inside the self-service devices. Realizing that he had nothing to steal, the attacker disappeared,” the press center said.

Analysts' opinions and forecasts on how the ruble will behave on July 29 After a short respite, the situation on the Russian foreign exchange market worsened again. The ongoing military conflict in the south-east of Ukraine, which caused a new wave of US sanctions against large Russian companies and banks, the crash of a Malaysian airliner in the combat zone in Ukraine - all these events only increase pressure on the Russian currency.

Last week it became clear that there is at least one person on the planet who is seriously concerned about the possibility of Argentina defaulting, and that this is not Cristina Kirchner, the country's president, or its ministers. The man's name is Thomas Griesa, and he is a U.S. District Judge in Manhattan. Last Tuesday, he issued a court order obliging the Argentine government and its creditors to begin round-the-clock negotiations to resolve the debt.

In Ukraine, the country's authorities approved a draft agreement with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the deployment of a short-term monitoring mission, according to a government order dated July 23, 2014, Interfax reports.

Album. Early 1900s Cities die in different ways. Some are losing their lives - businesses are closing and young people are leaving without finding work. And gradually the main employer in the city becomes the social service that looks after the elderly. Then the city is declared a village. Sometimes a small town is crushed by sprawling megacities, as happened recently with Troitsk near Moscow. And ancient Mologa (pictured) was swallowed up by the Rybinsk Reservoir in 1940.