The American media company Playboy Enterprises graduated from 2008 with a net loss of $ 156.1 million against net profit of $ 4.9 million a year earlier. The company's report says that the annual revenue decreased by 14% from 339.8 million dollars to $ 292.1 million. According to the results of the fourth quarter, the company's net losses increased by 132 times from $ 1.1 million in 2007 to $ 145.7 million in 2008.

The new television tower, the construction of which is now being conducted in the Tokyo district of Sumid, was depicted by children who lived in this area 29 years ago, in the drawing "Sumida district in the future", RIA Novosti reports.

The total number of unemployed Russians in January 2009 increased by 5.2% compared to December 2008 and 23.1% compared to January 2008 - up to 6.1 million people, 1.7 million people were officially registered, the Rosstat reported by RIA Novosti . "In state institutions of the employment service, 1.7 million people were registered as unemployed, including 1.4 million people receive unemployment benefits," the department said.

In early December last year, Robert Dudley received a new place of work from the post of President of TNK-BP, the newspaper "News Time with reference to the British oil company VP According to the decision of the board of directors, on April 6, Dudley will take office as a managing director, responsible for the activities of the company in North and South America and Asia. In addition, on the same day, he will officially become a member of the Board of Directors of BP.

St. Petersburg plans to introduce a record number of hotel rooms in 2009, writes RBC Daily . This year, 20 hotels of different classes by 3200 rooms are announced to enter. But, according to the forecast of Smolny officials, the real input will be about 1,500 numbers, which will become an absolute record in the history of the city. The security of St.

Hearing in the case of Iraqi journalist Montazer Az-Ejedi, who threw US President George Bush, during his visit to Baghdad in December, was postponed on March 12. The day before, it was reported that the Central Criminal Court of Iraq is beginning to consider the case on Thursday. Soon after the opening of the hearing, a new date was scheduled. As BBC reports, Muntaser Az-Evedy appeared in the court building wrapped in the Iraqi flag. According to AP, the journalist kissed the flag.

True ministry in the social and spiritual spheres should manifest itself during the period of economic recession, according to the head of the Commission on Church Social Activities at the diocesan council of Moscow, the confessor of the Orthodox Service "Mercy" Archpriest Arkady Shatov, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Russian Orthodox Church, it is called to remember that the Orthodox faith is stronger than damage and the evil eye. “To be afraid (damage. - approx. Ed. ) No need.

Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov advocates the introduction of tax on the export of currency from Russia for legal entities. He announced this at a meeting with representatives of trade unions of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Interfax reports. "We consider it right that any legal entity pays a 20% tax when exporting a currency abroad.

The Ministry of Energy of Russia plans to complete work on the creation of the oil quality bank before the end of 2009, the head of the ministry Sergey Shmatko said on Thursday. “We are conducting very active work on this, we are doing a new modern concept for taking into account the receipt and movement of oil in the pipe,” RIA Novosti cites the words of the Minister of RIA .

The weighted average US dollar exchange rate to the Russian ruble with the term of “Tomorrow” accounts at the auction of a single trading session of the MICEX as of 11:30 Moscow time, on the basis of which there is a process of exchange rate for the next day, decreased by 33.56 kopecks compared to the state of the previous trade day and amounted to 36.091 rubles.

On the 55th anniversary of the Crimea entering into Ukraine on Thursday in Simferopol, a “mourning rally” will be held, dedicated to this date. It is planned to be held by the Russian community of Crimea, the Russian Bloc party and representatives of a number of public organizations.

By 2012, most new cell phones of various manufacturers can be charged from one universal charger. This, according to the British BBC television and radio corporation , agreed on 17 companies, including Nokia, Motorola, LG, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, at the World Mobile Congress, which is taking place in Barcelona these days. Currently, most manufacturers produce chargers that are compatible only with their own phones. Universal chargers will satisfy the Energy Star 4 energy consumption standard.

In the capital of Khakassia Abakan, a special operation with the evacuation of people was carried out due to a parcel with a vibrator, which the postal workers took for a bomb. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, firefighters, sappers, doctors and dog handlers arrived at the scene, law enforcement officers searched the mail building for more than an hour, and the service shepherd examined the suspicious parcel.

The leading cultural institutions of Russia, including the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia named after Svetlanov, Moscow and St. Petersburg State Conservatory and others, will receive a presidential grant, follows from the order of the Government of the Russian Federation.