Nikita Aronov found out who “anti-collectors” are and why more and more borrowers trust them The credit situation in Russia is reaching a dead end. More and more borrowers cannot pay on the same terms. But the banks are not ready to negotiate in a new way. Instead of restructuring debts, they are increasingly being sold to debt collectors. In the absence of a solution to the problem in the usual way, debtors look for unusual ones.

In the first year of her reign, Catherine II took up pensions. Retired generals were allocated a substantial amount for payments, and soon civilian officials also received the right to pensions.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has downgraded Russia's sovereign rating to the "speculative" level of BB+ with a negative outlook, according to the company's website . The next rating will be published on April 17. On January 10, the Fitch rating agency downgraded Russia's credit rating to BBB-, also with a negative outlook.

An underground pedestrian crossing will be built from the Strelka metro station to Meshchersky Boulevard in Nizhny Novgorod. According to the NewsNN agency, this was announced today at a city operational meeting by the head of the Main Directorate for Construction and Repair of the Metro, Bridges and Road Networks in Nizhny Novgorod, Yuri Garanin. The cost of the object is more than 900 million rubles.

According to the Bank of Russia, in the Omsk region over the 11 months of last year, 11,981 mortgage housing loans were issued to individuals for a total amount of 17.24 billion rubles, including in November - 910 loans worth 1.36 billion rubles. The weighted average interest rate increased by 0.02% and amounted to 12.41% per annum as of December 1, 2014. Mortgage debt in the region increased by RUB 487 million. - to 38.66 billion rubles, overdue debt decreased by 3 million rubles.

94 1 min. ... State DumaFederation Council Lawyers 40 (8.9%) 47 (27.6%) Candidates of Legal Sciences 14 (3.1%) 15 (8.8%) Doctor of Law 3 (0.7%) 3 (1.8%)

9K 4 3 min. ... President Vladimir Putin approved the idea of ​​​​distributing a hectare of land to everyone who wants to move to the Far East. The governor of the Magadan region, Vladimir Pecheny, immediately took up the initiative, saying that there is a lot of land in Kolyma and the region is ready to allocate not even one, but five hectares to the settlers.

The Sverdlovsk Region Property Fund sold a 17.28% stake in Koltsovo Airport to Airports of Regions OJSC (part of the Renova Group of Companies owned by Viktor Vekselberg). The transaction cost was 1.259 billion rubles, the approximate cost of one share was about 30 thousand rubles. According to Znak.com, Veles Capital LLC was also a participant in the auction for the sale of shares of the Yekaterinburg airport.

On Saturday, an off-site meeting of the inter-factional working group of the State Duma was held in an anti-drug camp near Moscow, at which government officials and social activists discussed the strategy for combating drugs. The conversation, in particular, turned to the employment of drug addicts after their rehabilitation. Deputy head of the Moscow social protection department Lyudmila Mitryuk proposed creating quotas for them at enterprises.

Vegetables, sugar and sunflower oil have risen in price in the Samara region over the past week, the Ministry of Economic Development, Investment and Trade of the Samara Region reported on Monday. “According to operational monitoring data, from January 17 to January 23 of this year, a systematic increase in retail prices for sugar, chicken eggs, sunflower oil, chicken meat, rice and vegetables continued in the region’s trading network,” the report says.

A businessman was arrested in Guatemala for not returning 1 billion rubles. A Guatemalan court has left Russian businessman Igor Bitkov detained in that country in custody. Local authorities accuse Mr. Bitkov and his wife Irina of using fake documents.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation in Ukraine, Interfax reported on January 25. The Chancellor called on Vladimir Putin to prevent a further escalation of violence in Ukraine. Angela Merkel called the shelling of Mariupol “an obvious and completely unjustified violation of the truce.” The press service of the President of the Russian Federation confirmed the fact of the telephone conversation.

Advertising in Kommersant www.kommersant.ru/ad advertising in Kommersant www.kommersant.ru/ad Site materials 01/26/2015, 00:17 January 26 - Tverskaya, 23. The opening ceremony of the Stanislavsky Electric Theater and the premiere of the play “Bacchanka” Theodoros Terzopoulos. Among the guests are Konstantin Ernst, Natalia Timakova, Sergey Adonyev, Sergey Kapkov, Mikhail Shvydka, Alexey Karakhan, Olga Sviblova, Shalva Breus. **** January 28 - cinema "Moscow".

World practice In the United States, mandatory drug testing of all students is allowed only in private schools. Since the late 1980s, random tests have been practiced in public schools. In 1995, the Supreme Court ruled that such tests were constitutional for students on sports teams, and in 2002 for those involved in any extracurricular activity. Testing takes place at the school itself. The results are strictly confidential.

A scandal is raging in Argentina over the mysterious death of federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman. A scandal is raging in Argentina over the mysterious death of federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who accused the country's President Cristina Kirchner of reprehensible connections with terrorists.