The fact that the collapse of the Russian stock market is caused by the situation around the "Mechel" is obvious. But if the fall was explained only by this, everything would not be so scary, at least from the point of view of the prospects of the domestic market as a whole. There was a hope that when the situation with one specific company will calm down, everything would return to its place.

Stepnyak-Kravchinsky: “Terror is a reaction of despair during the period of unconditional hopelessness” 130 years ago, on August 4 (16), 1878, the young man Sergey Kravchinsky, not known to the general public, killed the chief of the gendarmes of Mezenstsov. One of the first terrorists, the famous writer Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, by the end of his life, was disappointed in the idea of ​​revolutionary terror The attempt on Mezentsov occurred in the very center of St.

Batman raised $ 350 million at the box office Paper heroes. The next adaptation of the comic book about the Batman “The Dark Knight” beats all the records of the box office - it collected more than $ 350 million in the world rental. The reasons for the adventures of the flying mouse sorted to the New Times.

Malek Korbani from the Iranian town of the death is accused of adultery. Two weeks ago, she was sentenced to public execution through stones beaten. If the verdict of the Supreme Court of Iran is carried out, the execution will be held on one of the crowded squares of Tehran. In the features of the "Middle Ages" in the 21st century, The New Times sorted out Malek Korbani was accused of adultery, ”says her lawyer,“ despite the fact that he does not even know what it is.

Pinus Longaeva rewrites history A sensation circled the world press: a spruce was found in Sweden, which, according to the radiocarbon analysis of its roots, is about 9550 years old. She was immediately called "the oldest tree on earth." However, the “Swede” has competitors - durable pine (Pinus Longaeva), whose age reaches almost 5000 years.

Dolce Vita. The new book of Vladimir Sorokin is a novel in the stories “Sugar Kremlin”, a continuation of the sensational “Oprichnik Day”. Picture of the Great Russian utopia of 2028: From the future to the present The origins and consequences of the pernicious passion of glucose - edible or metaphysical - are impartially studied and set out in the new book of Sorokin.

Vladimir Sorokin - The New Times Our power is cloying to bitterness. Writer Vladimir Sorokin shared his thoughts about his new book with The New Times The Sugar Kremlin unfolds the universe in front of the reader, only partially shown in the previous book. What made you continue the “Oprichnik Day” - a thing, it would seem, completed? I did not let go of the topic. Apparently, indeed it was not written.

The margin will judge everyone. The prime minister’s claims to the Mechel mining holding caused a panic on the exchange. The authorities decided to discharge the situation by starting up two more companies Over two part -time Mechel, the Mechel became the main newsmaker on the domestic business spacing. The main question for the discussion is the one asked by The New Times back No. 30 (dated July 28, 2008): Will the sad history of Yukos repeat?

Wine and travel, two ancient, as a world, process, are equally attractive to humans. How to connect them and get both pleasures at once - I studied The New Times If any people have their own, albeit modest, the kitchen, the wine is made not everywhere. Therefore, wine tourism is not a journey into the capital and megalopolises with their brilliance and tinsel, but in small quiet towns and villages with their wine demolitions and a teasing wine smell, which will pursue all his life after.

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (at about 18.07.08): “We have such a dear company Mechel. By the way, we invited its main owner Igor Vladimirovich Zyuzin to this meeting, but he suddenly fell ill. So, in the first quarter of this year, the company sold raw materials abroad at prices 2 times lower than internal. I ask the Federal Antimonopoly Service to pay special attention to this problem, and maybe even the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office.

Russia - USA: toys apart “We can get to the point where we can stop having substantive discussions on issues of interest to the American side. The United States is on the verge of a full-scale crisis, ”ITAR-TASS reported this statement from an anonymous source from the Russian Foreign Ministry. In the next few hours, it went around every agency in the world. The words about the "full-scale crisis" were appreciated with a grin.

The opening of the Games in Beijing, which will happen on August 8, 2008, has already become a reason for many political disagreements. The level of air pollution in the capital of China is such that it is a serious problem for athletes. But for those who are concerned about human rights and democracy, more importantly, was it worth the international event of such a level in the state that refuses its citizens in basic rights and freedoms?

How to make money in the words of the first persons The sharp critic, with whom Vladimir Putin twice performed the Mechel group twice, turned into a company collapse of both the company and the Russian market as a whole. But not everyone lost. They say that five minutes before the prime minister’s statement in Nizhny Novgorod, some participants in the meeting sent their people SMS messages indicating the shares of a metallurgical giant.

The Chinese go to the record Modern Olympiads are not only a competition of the strongest athletes of the planet, but also the largest international business project.

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