Since the beginning of the year, every tenth advertiser has abandoned television commercials, according to a study by Media Logics, which is published by RBC. According to experts, in the first quarter of 2015, 12 of the 100 largest buyers of television advertising completely abandoned broadcasting. RSUH teacher, director of the Strong communications group Dmitry Senderov discussed the topic with Kommersant FM host Maxim Mitchenkov.

On Thursday, the House of Antiquarian Books will host an anniversary auction dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory. Hundreds of posters, documents and rare books from 1941-45 will be auctioned. Among the lots is the famous poster of Irakli Toidze “The Motherland Calls!”, but in the Kyrgyz language, says Kommersant FM art columnist Dmitry Butkevich.

Issues of housing and communal services and landscaping were discussed in the Volzhsky district At the Municipal Educational Institution “Lyceum of Applied Sciences” a meeting was held between the head of the administration of the Volzhsky district of Saratov and residents of the microdistrict.

Yuri Luzhkov is ready to become a supplier of products for Nikita Mikhalkov’s fast food. The former mayor of Moscow reported this to the Izvestia newspaper. According to Luzhkov, he could supply Mikhalkov’s catering network with environmentally friendly products - lamb, buckwheat, oats and wheat.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications will slow down the modernization of Federal State Unitary Enterprise The economic downturn forced the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to reconsider the development plans of Russian Post. The department has increased the time frame for launching new automated sorting centers, for which it plans to spend 25.1 billion rubles.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko dismissed the country's ambassador to the United States, Alexander Motsik, from his post. The corresponding decree was published on the website of the head of state on Tuesday. Mr. Motsik has been Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States since 2010.

The Russian government has approved the procedure for calculating the amount of pension savings. This will allow saving the funds of the insured persons in the event that the Russian Pension Fund receives a negative result from their investment.

Kommersant Publishing House columnist Daria Tsivina talks about the new bar menus of the gastropub “We’re Not Going Anywhere” and Barbara Bar. Photo: Sergey Kiselev, Kommersant The gastrobar “We’re not going anywhere” has introduced four new spring cocktails from mixologist Alexander Kan. Topping the list of seasonal cocktails is the famous Canova twist on the theme of James Bond's favorite cocktail, the Vodka Martini.

Melt waters flooded residential buildings and summer cottages In the Novosibirsk region, a dam on the Tula River burst. Melt waters flooded the private sector and summer cottages. 70 people were evacuated, 23 residents were removed from the roofs by rescuers. The reasons for the breach of the dam, which was repaired less than a year ago, have not yet been announced.

In the first quarter of 2015, the Gorky Railway, subsidiaries and branches of Russian Railways OJSC operating on the territory of the State Railways transferred 2.16 billion rubles to regional and local budgets. This was reported by the press service of the State Railway. In total, since the formation of JSC Russian Railways, about 100 billion rubles have been transferred to budgets of all levels and extra-budgetary funds.

The Tatarstan branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation filed an application with the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, challenging the refusal of the city election commission to register an initiative group to hold a referendum on paid parking in the city center.

Agricultural producers in Kyrgyzstan intend to supply fruits and vegetables, meat products, cheeses and other farm goods to the Sverdlovsk region. According to the information policy department of the head of the region, issues of interaction were discussed during a video conference between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan. “We expect a significant increase in trade with Russia and its regions.

Academic Secretary of the Institute of Ukrainian Politics Alexey Poltorakov on Ukraine’s inevitable departure from the Soviet past: “Ukraine from a post-Soviet country, like Russia, Belarus, some countries of the Caucasus, Central Asia, is becoming post-post-Soviet, like Poland, like the Baltic states, like some other countries of Central Europe and so on.

The problems of agricultural producers in the Jewish Autonomous Region were discussed today at a meeting of the working group on issues of the agro-industrial complex and the consumer market of the region. The event, as reported by the press service of the regional administration, was chaired by Deputy Chairman of the regional government Vladimir Oschanovsky.

For the first time in the Urals, a criminal case has been initiated due to red tape by officials The Chelyabinsk police opened a criminal case, unprecedented for the Ural Federal District, on the fact of obstruction of business activities by officials (Article 169 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason was the inaction of Chebarkul administration officials, who for eight months refused to give the local company Alfa permission to put into operation a market complex.