Russia's GDP growth potential under current conditions does not exceed four percent. This as reported by Interfax . was stated by the head of the Committee of Civil Initiatives, Alexei Kudrin, According to Kudrin, in the absence of reforms, Russian GDP will grow no more than 3.5-4 percent for 5-7 years or even more.

In February of this year, the Moscow Exchange will open an order book for the purchase of shares on the stock exchange as part of an IPO. The Prime agency reported this on January 16, citing an unnamed source in banking circles.

The IP address of journalist Tina Kandelaki's website tinakandelaki.ru was included in the register of prohibited sites. As stated on website , the IP address 216.185.152.156 was added to the registry twice on January 13, 2013. the blacklist Both times, the basis for entering the address into the register was a decision of the Federal Drug Control Service. At the same time, the domain tinakandelaki.ru is not listed in the register of prohibited sites.

As part of the investigation into the Oboronservis case, the first high-ranking official of the Ministry of Defense, the head of the economic department (HOZU) Nikolai Ryabykh, was detained, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday, January 16. According to the publication, Ryabykh was taken into custody on Monday, January 14, after interrogation in the case of one of the Oboronservis structures, OJSC Slavyanka.

Cuban authorities reported on January 15 about a cholera epidemic in Havana, CNN writes. According to the Cuban Ministry of Health, 51 cases of the disease have already been recorded. It is not yet known whether any of these cases were fatal. BBC News reports that a 46-year-old man died of cholera in December. According to the ministry, the epidemic was caused by food products sold in the city that had not undergone sufficient sanitary treatment.

Peasants in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania intend to organize an action similar to the “Baltic Way” to protest against the agricultural policies of the European Union. TVNET.lv reports this “At the beginning of February we will organize a 'Baltic Way' of bonfires from the Town Hall Square in Tallinn to the Lithuanian-Polish border. We will set hay on fire every kilometer along the entire route,” said Jaan Serra, deputy chairman of the Estonian Farmers' Confederation.

The lower house of the US Congress approved on January 15 the allocation of the second part of the $50.7 billion relief package for victims of Hurricane Sandy, reports the Associated Press . 241 members of the House of Representatives voted for the bill, while 180 voted against it. The document adopted by the lower house will be sent to the Senate for final approval.

Irish band U2 have announced the title of their next album. The 13th album of the famous band was named “10 Reasons to Exist”. The Sun newspaper writes about this. According to the publication, the group has been writing material for the new album for several months. U2 frontman Bono, who paused work on the album in December due to the flu, said the band was in great shape. "We really want to make this album," he said. "And we don't care if the recording takes ten years or never ends.

The authorities of the Kyrgyz capital decided to set a violation limit for each minibus, after which the car cannot be used to transport passengers. As reported by "Evening Bishkek", the mayor of the city, Isa Omurkulov, stated this. He clarified that this initiative is related to numerous complaints about violations committed by minibus drivers, in particular stopping in the wrong places, as well as the unsightly appearance of the cars.

A second addition to the Civilization V strategy has been discovered on the Internet. According to CVG, a mention of it was found in the application database of the Steam service. It says that the DLC will be called One World, but there are no other details about it in the database. The developers of Civilization V from the Firaxis studio have not yet announced that they are planning to release another addition for the game. Civilization V went on sale in 2010.

The Italian company DaVinci Mobile Technology introduced the Nibbio tablet. It comes with two operating systems at once - Android and Ubuntu 12.04, writes Engadget. The tablet user selects which operating system they want to use in the current session when the device boots. The tablet has a quad-core Exynos processor based on ARM architecture, two gigabytes of RAM and 32 gigabytes of internal memory.

By 2050, Russia will be in sixth place in the world in terms of GDP, very close to Japan. This is stated in the latest report “The World in 2050”, prepared by the consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In 2011, Russia, according to PwC estimates, ranked ninth among the world's largest economies. The first place was occupied by the USA, followed by China and Japan. The top ten also included Germany, France, Brazil, Great Britain and Italy. India completed the top ten.

Disney has officially unveiled an open-world game featuring characters from its franchises. According to the Polygon portal, the Disney Infinity project will be launched next June. The project will initially be released on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, Wii and 3DS consoles. It is expected that versions for PC and mobile devices will be launched later, but release dates for these platforms have not yet been announced.

GQ magazine published a list of the sexiest women of the 21st century. The new issue of the American edition of the magazine went on sale on January 15. The list is also available on the official GQ website. Among the women on the GQ list, in particular, was former spy scandal figure and current TV presenter and model Anna Champan, called by the magazine “a naked Russian spy-temptress.” Pop singer Beyoncé took first place in the top list.

01/16/2013, 19:47:23 Print version | PDA/PDA Mark Zuckerberg during the presentation of Graph Search. Photo: Robert Galbraith/Reuters Gives an answer, not a link Facebook introduced "social search" On January 15, the social network Facebook introduced “social search” (Graph search), a new feature that will allow you to search through content published by users.