Periodically, significant economic events take place in the world, which at first no one understands or takes seriously. Over the past decade, several such events have occurred. These include the transformation of China into the most important source of world economic growth, which determines the dynamics of world prices, employment and well -being.

The new economic situation that arose after the crisis has increasingly affects art and the theater, in particular. Everything is reduced: fees to directors, production costs, touring activities. Halls of many Russian theaters are half empty. Obviously, the theaters in our country in the near future will become less. Why should it happen? Who will decide which theaters to live, and which - to die?

The attention of Russians to what is happening on the power Olympus is as strong as recently is a rare phenomenon. Traditionally, the power elite exists in itself, the population in itself. By and large, they intersect only in the elections, and here there is a period of violent activity.

The concept of the quality of the urban environment, as well as the very concept of the urban environment, is extremely “multi -layered” and therefore can hardly evaluate, especially, accurate quantitative. The first “layer” is a material component of the environment with which a person is directly in contact physically.

Brussels (Reuters)-US Minister of Finance Tim Gaytner fears that the plan for regulating the activities of hedge funds and private investment companies, which is carried out by the European Commission, can cause voltage in the EU relations with Washington, the Financial Times said.

London (Reuters) - British oil company BP has agreed to purchase Devon Energy assets in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico for $ 7 billion, companies on Thursday said. BP will also sell Devon Energy 50 percent of the Kirby oil and Kirby oil project in Canada for $ 500 million, and the companies will create a joint venture to develop this field. Analysts are difficult to assess the assets acquired by BP, as they include deposits, whose stocks are still unknown.

New York (Reuters) -Motorola Inc agreed with Microsoft Corp on the use of the Bing search and navigation system on its phones using the Google Android operating system. Motorola reported that the agreement will allow the default link of the Bing link on cell phones. In the coming weeks, this will be done on devices sold in the Chinese market. Earlier, Motorola made a similar deal with the Chinese Baidu Inc.

Moscow (Reuters) - Alrosa Diamond -Providing Gosmonopolis, this year expects to put precious stones in India for about $ 1 billion, which will provide a third of its revenue, the company representative Andrei Polyakov said. Of this volume, part of the three Indian jewelry companies with which Alrosa recently can sign long-term agreements as part of the visit of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to this country.

Moscow (Reuters) - the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation allows the possibility of reducing the rate issued by banks to subordinated state edits after the calculations of possible budget losses; The opponent of the idea is the Central Bank.

Moscow (Reuters) - Inflation in Russia from March 2 to 9 amounted to 0.2 percent, as well as in the previous week, Rosstat said. Since the beginning of March, prices have risen by 0.2 percent, compared with 0.4 percent over the same period last year and 1.3 percent as a whole for March 2009. Since the beginning of the year, Rosstat recorded inflation of 2.7 percent (4.5 percent a year earlier).

Moscow (Reuters)-“Russian Railways” plan to sell one of the largest fixed operators “ Transtelcom ” (TTK ”in the Russian Federation: Investbanks received an offer to consider the possibility of private placement of TTK or IPO shares, Kommersant said with reference to the top manager of the large operator and two investbankers. The size of the package that can be put up for sale, as well as how much it plans to attract Russian Railways , has not yet been determined.

Moscow (Reuters) - the second largest Russian manufacturer of UNIMILK dairy products invest $ 100 million in the development of production this year, expecting an increase in revenue in rubles at the end of the year within 10 percent, the head and co -owner of the company Andrei Beskhmelnitsky told reporters on Thursday.

Washington (Reuters) - US Senate on Wednesday missed a bill for the help of unemployed and tax benefits worth $ 149 billion, as democrats continue to fight high unemployment in the anticipation of Congress elections in November. This document, approved by 62 votes against 36, is now sent to the House of Representatives, where democrats are seeking more active actions to create jobs in the conditions of the worst economic recession in the United States since the 1930s.

London (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings reported on Thursday that the data stolen by his former employee relate to 24,000 accounts and affect the interests of 15,000 Swiss customers of the bank, although it previously stated that "there are less than 10 customers." The theft of the database in the Swiss division of the HSBC and its subsequent transfer to the French tax authorities was performed by the former HSBC computer, Erve Falciani , who admitted this year.

Los Angeles (Reuters)-worldwide box office film brothers last year increased by 7.6 percent to $ 29.9 billion, the American Association of Films ( MPAA ) said. At the same time, the most significant growth was noted in the Asia-Pacific region. Also, according to MPAA, over the past year, 20 films in 3D format were released, which amounted to four percent of all films that came out in the USA and Canada.