If all projects announced by developers for 2012 are implemented, the volume of commissioning of shopping centers in Europe will be 4.4 million square meters and will be 25 percent higher than last year. This is stated in a study by CBRE. As analysts note, in the first half of 2012, 51 shopping centers with a total area of ​​1.5 million square meters opened in the region. The largest number of shopping centers were commissioned in Turkey in January-June (400 thousand square meters).

In January-July of this year, the Moscow State Construction Supervision Committee (Mosgosstroynadzor) identified 50.4 thousand violations at construction sites in the capital. This is stated in the committee's message . In just seven months, department employees conducted 12.3 thousand inspections. Based on their results, 11.4 thousand orders were issued to eliminate the identified violations. As noted in Mosgosstroynadzor, most of the violations have been eliminated.

The popular music resource Pitchfork announced a popular poll . Readers of the publication are invited to choose the best albums of recent years, starting in 1996, when the Pitchfork website opened. The survey is being conducted from August 8 to 17. Anyone logged in via Facebook, Twitter or Google can select at least 20, but no more than 100 favorite music albums released from 1996 to 2011. Lists containing less than 20 albums will not be allowed to vote.

09.08.2012, 10:22:22 version Print | PDA/PDA Photo by RIA Novosti, Maxim Bogodvid Yanukovych toughened punishment for illegal production of weapons In Ukraine, liability for the illegal manufacture of weapons, ammunition and explosives has been tightened. The corresponding amendments to the Criminal Code were signed by President Viktor Yanukovych , Left Bank reports. The amendments were adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in early July. Their author is the government of Ukraine.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made claims against neighboring Lithuania, BELTA reports. He held the Lithuanians responsible for the fact that a Swedish plane with teddy bears took off from the territory of this republic, which subsequently violated the Belarusian border. “And Lithuania - let them not sit like mice under a broom,” Lukashenko said. “They must answer us why they presented their territory for violating the state border.

against the former head of government, leader of the opposition Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko Another criminal case has been opened . This time, as Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin told the Segodnya newspaper, she is accused of attacking a pre-trial detention center employee. “There is a case of Yulia Tymoshenko causing bodily harm to an employee of a pre-trial detention center while on duty,” the prosecutor said. “There are other cases.

search results Google It will be possible to embed results from the user's Gmail email service into . This was reported in the official blog of the corporation. To the right of the main search results, letters and contacts that match the request will be shown. Google specifically emphasizes that it will be able to “pull” information about planned flights from relevant messages from travel companies.

Global food prices rose 6 percent in July after falling for three months. This was reported in a press release by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The rise in prices primarily affected grains and sugar. According to FAO, the composite index of food raw materials amounted to 213 points, which is 12 points higher than a month earlier. However, the figure is still below the record of 238 points set in February 2011. The grain price index was 260 points, up 38 points by June.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp lost $1.6 billion in the second quarter of 2012. The decision to separate the publishing business from television and entertainment cost News Corp 2.9 billion. The financial report for the second quarter was published on the company's website on August 8. In the same period last year, the company recorded a net profit of $683 million.

Businessman Suleiman Kerimov invested $50 million in the capital of SMP Bank, owned by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg. newspaper writes in its August 9 issue As the Vedomosti , the money was provided to the bank in the form of a subordinated deposit. The contribution was provided by Wandle Holdings Limited, through which Kerimov also controls 40 percent of the shares of the gold mining company Polyus Gold (the second major shareholder is Mikhail Prokhorov ).

The FSB directorate for the Tyumen region issued warnings to four residents of the city of Raduzhny, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, who made an unsuccessful trip to Dagestan with the aim of enlisting as militants, Interfax reports , citing the department’s press service. According to the agency, FSB officers received information that four residents of Raduzhny want to join an illegal armed formation operating in Dagestan to participate in hostilities with Russian security forces.

A new search has been conducted in New York in the May 1979 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Etan Patz. The Wall Street Journal reports this. The search took place on August 8 in the basement of the Manhattan building in which police believe Patz was killed. Investigators collected, in particular, hair samples. Currently, this building houses a store that sells glasses. In 1979, there was a grocery store where Pedro Hernandez, who is accused of killing a boy, worked.

A new video from former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney , who will be nominated for the Republican presidential nomination, accuses Barack Obama of waging a “war on religion.” The video is posted on the Internet. We are talking about the Obama administration's decision to require all institutions, including religious schools and universities, to include female contraceptive drugs in their employees' health insurance.

Georgian thief in law Georgy Zhgenti, also known by the nickname Zhora Lanchkhutsky, was expelled from Ukraine, UNIAN reports. The crime boss lived in Ukraine for about a year. A few days ago he was detained in Kyiv. According to local police, Zhgenti tried to “coordinate the actions of ethnic thieves groups - pickpockets and purse swindlers.” He himself stated that he came to Kyiv for treatment. The capital's police, as reported by UNN, said that Zhgenti was in Ukraine illegally.

Director Pyotr Fomenko died on August 9, according to the website of the Kultura TV channel with reference to director Yevgeny Kamenkovich. Pyotr Fomenko was 80 years old. In 1993, the director founded the Moscow theater "P. Fomenko's Workshop", which he directed until the end of his days. Until 1993, he worked at GITIS, the Vakhtangov and Mayakovsky theaters, as well as at the Leningrad Comedy Theater. In addition, from 1981 to 2003, Fomenko was a teacher at GITIS.