The crisis, as you know, was arranged by America. The first she suffered from him. However, a simple comparison of consumer prices “there” and “here” is not in our favor. Why is there and traveling to the United States cheaper than in Russia, ”The New Times found out A kilogram of beef in the supermarket on the east coast of the United States - 304 rubles, in Moscow - 367. A liter of milk is 11 rubles cheaper, butter - 15 rubles for 15, and gasoline in the suburbs of Washington is twice as much.

Recently, Vnesheconombank, aka VEB, aka Bank of Development, reported on his activities for October. A net loss for one month amounted to 46 billion rubles. This is twenty times more than for nine previous months, according to the results of which the VEB also managed to spend more than earn. The government must thank the “achievement” for this “achievement”, which has entrusted a series of special responsibilities on it at a crisis.

How to steal 28 thousand rubles Lochotron. Telephone scammers were not lucky. They accidentally got through to those with whom they would least like to communicate - to reporters. The New Times found out how to steal 28 thousand rubles from my own experience, and by voluntary agreement and with the assistance of the victim Hello! Is this number 111-22-33? 1 - Yes. - Hello! My name is Alexei Terekhov. 2 I am the operator-manager of the Audi Sviblovo center.

In Khabarovsk, the first sign of the crisis was panic among Dalcombank's clients, most likely provoked, because there were no grounds: the bank is stable, with good liquidity. This happened due to the bankruptcy of the Khabarovsk base carrier Dalavia, which took loans from this bank. Someone started a rumor that there would not be enough liquidity and the bank would fail. The bank acted competently and managed to prevent panic. carving the sky As for Dalavia, there is great drama.

On November 28, the former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina gave birth to a third child. According to Friends of Svetlana, mother and baby feel good, the birth was simple and not very long. Svetlana, transferred from the Mordovian colony into a civil clinic in the suburbs, was visited by her husband the day before. The next day in the morning, she called him with the words: “Everything happened. I gave birth. " She said she feels normally. Now parents are thinking about how to call a daughter.

Will Russia be the birthplace of ivory? For the first time in history, a sequence of DNA of an extinct animal - a woolly mammoth was determined. This project was implemented by a group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania with the support of twenty scientists from the USA and Russia. At the same time, another group works to determine the sequence of the genome of the extinct species of people - Neanderthals.

How Russian business feels in Transnistria The wave of the crisis came to Transnistria. How the Russian Transnistrian business feels in these conditions - the New Times recognized Without Russia, we can’t survive. So and title your article. You still can’t say better. - What Russia? - objects a businessman. - Already she will not help.

The terrorists made a bloody attack on Mumbai (former bombs), as if following the pages of a tourist booklet, choosing the most impressive points of this multimillion -dollar city - the financial capital of India. In the three best hotels they captured, militants were looking primarily for citizens of the United States and Great Britain. They captured the Habad Jewish Center, killed Rabbi and his wife. For almost 50 hours, terrorists repelled the attacks of special forces.

Boris Nemtsov - On Survival Strategies The fact - devaluation is inevitable. The question that no one knows the answer is when it will happen and how much will the ruble cost in relation to the dollar. The New Times found out what the survival strategy in the crisis should be There are a number of reasons for devaluation, and the reasons for the fundamental, which make it predetermined. The first reason: the pressure on the ruble is sharply increased.

Hot metal stamper Ivan was sent on forced leave three weeks ago. He worked at the city-forming Zlatoust Metallurgical Plant (ZMZ), or, as they say here, "at the metal plant", which is part of the metallurgical holding Electrostal of Russia. “There has been no work at the steel plant since the end of October. If the first rolling shop where I worked produced 480-500 tons of steel per shift, now it is a maximum of 80.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and oligarch Oleg Deripaska independently but literally unanimously predicted that financial turbulence would reach its critical levels in February-March. How accurate is this forecast - analyzed The New Times Economists are a kind of backward prophets. The art of the economist is to explain in hindsight why his prediction failed. And forecasts, with rare exceptions, almost never come true.

Time to lay behind a collar Muscovite Marina P. calmly worked as a chief specialist in one of the capital's banks. But I wanted more: after all, two higher education, the first-engineering, the second-financial. In the summer, she decided to make herself a gift for the fortieth anniversary - go to another bank to a higher position. I chose from three positions and stopped at my bank.

Ivan Turgenev - Russian master and French Gurme. The great Russian classic, born 190 years ago, was a subtle connoisseur of boiled art. Fate ordered that Ivan Sergeyevich shared his addictions between Russian and French cuisines It was ... Gustav Flaubert on Murillo Street, in a small cozy apartment, cleaned in the Algerian taste and entered the Montso Park. We used to meet there on Sundays, invariably all the same.

Pierre Carden - The New Times “There are many people like me. And they only talk about me. ” Russian artists recognized the French fashion designer. Pierre Carden received the title of honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. The Great Couturier told The New Times, as in Soviet times he transported fabric for fabrics for the glory of Zaitsev, why he loves his “Palace of Bubbles” and what expects from the crisis Has the global financial crisis of the Carden Empire touched?

Choosing Hillary. They say: shortly after the Senator from Illinois Barack Obama announced that he was going to participate in the presidential race, he met in the Senate with a colleague, a senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, who had already announced her claims to the oval cabinet of the White House. Obama held out his hand to his colleague, Clinton refused to shake her.