Alexander Anichkin - about the new “Capital” and its author The main political economic sensation of recent years is the book of the French professor Thomas Piketty, who has already been nicknamed the “new” Marx. It explains why modern capitalism is returning to pre-Marxian inequality, and makes it clear how to combat it.

Before May 1, an audit of the use of property of municipal enterprises and institutions must be conducted in Novosibirsk. This task was set by Mayor Anatoly Lokt to the Department of Land and Property Relations of the City Hall, according to a message on the city’s official website. The mayor instructed to conduct a detailed inventory of the assets of almost 200 institutions.

The first day of the truce passed in Ukraine Donbass yesterday lived its first day without war - according to the Minsk agreements, a ceasefire came into force along the entire front line. However, it is too early to talk about reconciliation: the situation around the city of Debaltsevo is so tense that the leaders of the four countries of the Normandy Group (Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine), who held telephone consultations yesterday, agreed to continue communication today.

Anatoly Aksakov in an interview with Kommersant FM Russian banks recorded a loss of 24 billion rubles in January. Can we say that a banking crisis has occurred in Russia? What should the Central Bank do today to support the financial sector? How can banks survive in the regions?

134 1 min. ... The most expensive known work of art in the world was Paul Gauguin's painting "When will you get married?" (1892). It belonged to the former head of Sotheby's Rudolf Steichelin, and, like other works from the collection, which was started by his grandfather, it was exhibited at the Kunstmuseum Basel. The owner decided to sell the painting because it was time to “modify” the assets, and he was given a very good offer.

In March, KamAZ OJSC will launch into serial production two new models of trucks with Daimler components - the KamAZ-65206 truck tractor and the KamAZ-65207 flatbed long-haul truck, Interfax reports. In this way, the company hopes to offer consumers a car of European quality at a price lower than its foreign counterparts. Buyers have already been found for the first batch of production vehicles, KamAZ claims.

Over the past week, two journalists were arrested by Ukrainian special services on charges of anti-state activity. In addition, the country’s parliament adopted a law depriving a number of Russian media of accreditation with the state authorities of Ukraine. Kommersant FM political commentator Yuri Matsarsky found out what the journalists were guilty of.

Former owners of the troubled bank are trying to remain minority shareholders The former owners of the Baltic Bank suspected its sanator, Alfa Bank, of intending to deprive them of their status as minority shareholders. For this reason, they are trying to challenge in court the transaction for the transfer of ownership rights to 10.9% of the shares of the bank being rehabilitated. However, according to lawyers, the new legislation makes the plaintiffs' chances illusory.

At the request of the investigative authorities of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Khabarovsk Territory in relation to the head of the Okhotsk municipal district Andrei Vasiliev, suspected of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art.

Passengers of an Air France Boeing 777 that made an emergency landing in Yekaterinburg on February 15 have been sent to their destination. TASS reports this with reference to Dmitry Tyukhtin, director of strategic communications at Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport. Let us remind you that the aircraft flying from Seoul to Paris made an emergency landing due to engine failure.

From today to March 31, an architectural competition is being held in Novosibirsk to create a pilot project for the development of an arboretum. “The citizens themselves will formulate their wishes to the architects, and they will choose the winner. And in the summer, the project will be implemented on an area of ​​almost 2 hectares. It is planned to spend 1.5 million rubles on the project itself,” the competition organizers said in a statement.

The Central District Court of Omsk continued the consideration of the criminal case against the former regional minister of property relations Alexander Sterlyagov. The ex-official is accused by the preliminary investigation authorities of exceeding official powers (Part 2 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and causing damage to the regional budget in the amount of 13.7 million rubles.

Blog post 770 1 min. ... In Chelyabinsk last week there was a slight, but still panic: residents reported snow... blue. An amazing property was also discovered: supposedly the snow became brighter over time, people also reported a sweetish taste and a sore throat. The Internet was flooded with pictures of blue snowdrifts, and bloggers argued about the causes of the anomaly You shouldn't be surprised Vadim Shvetsov : “You shouldn’t even be surprised by the number of radiochemical enterprises.

Shelling is still ongoing in the area of ​​the Donetsk airport, said Vladimir Kononov, Minister of Defense of the self-proclaimed DPR. According to him, despite the ceasefire introduced on Sunday, on February 16 the airport was shelled first with small arms and then with artillery. Journalist of the Donetsk Ridge newspaper Igor Sychev answered questions from Kommersant FM presenter Anna Kazakova. Photo: Petr Shelomovsky, Kommersant / buy photo — What is the current stop in Donetsk?

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Yuri Popov Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to the United Republic of Tanzania. By another decree, the head of state "target="_blank">relieved Alexander Rannikh of his duties as Ambassador to Tanzania. This was reported on the official Internet portal of legal information.