The Russians got the habit of living in debt: every second car is bought on credit, every third mobile phone and a item of household appliances, every tenth foreign tour. Is it possible to save on a loan and where it is more profitable to get? If you do not have time to collect documents for a credit institution on your own or you hope to get a loan at a preferential rate, you can contact a credit broker.

The UN Security Council capitulated. The question of the future of the region Kosovo returned to the contact group in the former Yugoslavia - it is ordered to organize new negotiations between Belgrade and Primetina. They will begin in early August.

The Central Bank continues to strengthen the ruble, motivating its actions by the need to curb inflation. Those who manage Russia's monetary policy believe that this tactic is not dangerous for the economy, since there is an acceleration in industrial growth.

Wonderland! The sale of low-quality A-80 gasoline in Russia is 30% less than its production. But the implementation of AI-95 is more than more than it is driven in factories. Focus clear? Or still need to explain why candles are changing so often and catalysts burn out on expensive foreign cars?

You have to pay for "friendship". This week, the General Prosecutor's Office may institute criminal proceedings against the head of Rospatent Boris Simonov. At the disposal of The New Times were documents that could form the basis of the prosecution. - Removing menu - In the very near future, interested fellow citizens may be offered a scandal of not a familiar oil and gas property.

By the Day of the Navy, the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov was supposed to receive a new “gift”: it was planned to be appointed chairman of the board of directors of the created united shipbuilding corporation (OSK), although until recently it was about the first deputy prime minister Sergey Ivanov. Ivanov himself said that he recommended Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Naryshkin.

Almost at the same time, the fifth film about Harry Potter was released and the seventh, final book by Joan Rowling about the great and already matured wizard was published. One of the most attractive and profitable components of Harry Potter is the connection of everyday life with the magical world. It is worth going through the mirror, and the magic that surrounds us will become a reality, will come to the surface. Miracles among us.

“Anyone who does not want to be dissolved in a middle -class culture, anyone who does not want to form a bourgeois class as a cementing and fundamental for the future of Russian society will be expelled. Or voluntarily expel himself. ” Anatoly Vasiliev - Arthur Solomonov “All tyrannical power - provides itself - realistic culture " I know that this is the last interview that I give in Russia. After that, I do not want to return to this topic ...

One of the best domestic animators Alexander Tatarsky died. The New Times publishes his conversation with Sergey Kapkov. This is one of the last unpublished interviews of the master. Alexander Mikhailovich, let's remember 1988. An announcement in the newspaper that the new studio "Pilot" invites everyone to study and the work of everyone, has already become a legend, a page of the history of cinema ... Yes, we took people literally from the street. ME created a fundamentally new studio.

The ruble is strengthened against the background of a falling dollar. In this regard, consumer demand switches from American to Russian currency. However, experts, including the Minister of Finance, believe that the stronger and longer the ruble is strengthened, the faster and stronger its fall will be. Is it worth waiting for the ruble devaluation in the near future? Evsey Gurvich, the head of the economic expert group, shared his judgments on this subject with The New Times.

Last week, alarming news came from the foreign exchange market: the euro surrenders to the dollar. Isn't it time to transfer assets into American currency? On July 25, in a pair of Euro dollar, a leader was changing: the dollar, reaching on the eve of a long minimum, began to sharply strengthen its position. The experts interviewed by The New Times are confidently responding to this challenge: it is not worth transferring assets to dollars on this subject.

The nasty word "corruption" is on everyone's lips. Fighting it, if you believe the word, all the powerful, albeit fruitless branches of government and the notorious vertical trunk. Steal, of course, everywhere, and in the West too. But nowhere, except in Russia, could such a dialogue take place as between Emperor Peter I and the Prosecutor General of his Senate, Pavel Yaguzhinsky. Peter ordered an end to theft.

The transfer window in football Russia was just opened, and the clubs have already made serious acquisitions for serious money: only the purchase of Lokomotiv from the French Lille Peter Odimvindzhi, Nigerian with Russian roots, pulled 7 million euros.

With English about Albany. The format of the meeting with Her Majesty's Ambassador Sir Tony Brenton was designated as a lunch with a discussion about the state of affairs on the Russian Internet. I ended up at this lunch, apparently, due to an oversight of the inviting party, and in the living room of the British ambassador, real pros, “bison” of the Russian Internet, stood at the ready with an aperitif - Anton Nosik, Rustem Adagamov, Samson Sholademi, Dmitry Galkovsky, Alexander Plushev ...

The market tickled the nerves of investors, but the fall will be short -lived. - discounts 8% - Last week, the Russian market fell victim to its former benefactors. At first, oil prices were a little adjusted, and by the end of the week, American indices failed by 2% within one trading day. They pulled along with our indices, which lost 8%in a week. However, summer discounts will not provoke the sale in either Russian or American markets.