London (Reuters) - the Bank of England , as expected, retained a key rate at a record low level of 0.5 percent per annum, reasoning that the restoration in the country is still too unstable. Inflation already doubled 2 percent - the estimated level of the Central Bank, but the UK economy was faced with a serious reduction in government spending and unexpectedly decreased at the end of last year.

Frankfurt (Reuters)-a German fertilizer manufacturer K+S raised dividends, receiving a profit in the fourth quarter, exceeded the expectations of analysts. The Russian agro -chemical holding " Eurochem " owns 8.7 percent of the shares of K+S. Eurochem reduced the share last year from almost 10 percent. The K+S operating profit in the fourth quarter amounted to 195 million euros with analysts of 154 million euros.

Today, Russia officially joined the sanctions of the UN Security Council against the Libyan leadership. Dmitry Medvedev sign a decree “On measures to implement the UN Security Council of 1970 of February 26, 2011”. Analyst Pavel Felgenhauer believes that Russia has no choice but to come to terms with the fact that our weapons are becoming less and less buyers. - Pavel, why did Russia officially officially announced sanctions on weapons?

Moscow (Reuters)-the American giant PepsiCo will buy the remaining shares of the company in the amount of almost $ 1.38 billion from the Minority of the largest Russian manufacturer of dairy products of the VIMM-Bill-Dann, follows from the New York Exchange website. On Thursday, Pepsico announced the offer to redeem the remaining 10.12 million papers at a price of 3883 rubles apiece.

Ras-Lanuf, Libya (Reuters)-faithful to the leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi, troops struck new blows to the Oil Lanuf oil port in the east of the country's east and stopped the advancement of rebel forces to the west. Libya has been covered by anti -government speeches for several weeks, designed to make Gaddafi resign.

Moscow (Reuters) - the largest private oil producer in the Russian Federation - Lukoil invests about $ 5 billion in the Caspian region in 2011-2017, according to the presentation of the company in 2010. Lukoil also said that the benefits of paying the export duty provided by the companies will bring it $ 4 billion in 2011-2013, and $ 1 billion at the expense of Caspian exports. Lukoil received a benefit of Caspian oil at the end of last year.

Timyan is cheap: for 25 cents you can buy it so much that there is enough for a family of four people. Crazy in the market and pay attention to how people buy expensive fish, chicken or beef to prepare a festive dinner. Almost no one buys fresh greens. What's the matter? I believe that the main dish is so expensive, it requires so much work and so obviously complicated that most people are sure: do not spend efforts on adding greens. Although the greens are changing everything.

Today, in the Metallurgy Appendix , Kommersant’s newspaper “Pipeline Personnoks” was published behind the authorship of Elena Sorokina, exposing the famous blogger Alexei Navalny , who, in turn, exposes Transneft . Elena Sorokina, relying on the same documents that the lawyer refers to her famous post in November 2010, suddenly accused him of bias: Transneft recognized $ 3.7 billion “Losses”, and added $ 300 million for the red word “$ 4 billion”.

Kiev (Reuters) -Forbes magazine, which published on Thursday the next list of the richest people of the planet, estimated at $ 16 billion the capital of the Ukrainian president, metallurgical and financial tycoon Rinat Akhmetov , who headed the list of compatriots-gods. Assets of the owner of Capital Management Systems of 44-year-old Akhmetov are concentrated in the metallurgical, banking and telecommunication spheres.

Moscow (Reuters) - businessman Vladimir Potanin became the owner of almost a third of Norilsk Nickel, increasing the share by 5 percentage points on the eve of the election of a new composition of the board of directors of the company. “ Interros has up to 30 percent of Norilsk Nickel shares.

Moscow (Reuters) -Megafon telecommunications operator in the fourth quarter of 2010 reduced net profit by 8.2 percent to 12.7 billion rubles due to the growth of depreciation, which became the result of an increase in captratas last year, the company said in Thursday. The revenue of Megafon, which occupies 25.7 percent of the mobile market of Russia and inferior to this indicator only MTS, increased by 22 percent to 59 billion rubles over the reporting period.

Dharamsala, India (Reuters)-Dalai Lama announced on Thursday the intention to put the powers of the political leader of the Tibetans. Tibet is part of China, which fights with the separatists led by the Dalai Lama. The leader of the Tibetan separatists, the government and parliament of Tibet in exile conduct their activities from the city of Dharamsala in the north of India.

Moscow (Reuters) - Gazprom and the German Wintershall agreed on parity when mastering two additional sections of the Achimov deposits of the Urengoy gas field. In exchange for this, Gazprom will receive equivalent shares of participation in Wintershall projects for exploration and gas production in the North Sea, Russian concern said.

New York (Reuters)-the growing world prices for raw materials and the rapid growth of the Asian economy helped the growing billionaires in the BRIC group, showed the annual rating of the American Forbes magazine. Brazil, Russia, India and China provided this year half of the newcomers in the world number of rich-214 compared to the 97th year earlier. In total, the magazine list is 1210 billionaires with a total of $ 4.5 trillion.

At midnight, when carriages turn into pumpkin, we continue the working day. For an hour and a half, we are talking with Petersburg Alexander Egrashin on how he lives and is undertaken. Alexander works so that you immediately begin to feel like a loafer: on the eve, he spent more than 16 hours on his feet - from 9 a.m. to 10 pm he taught students, then he allocated time to talk with me, and when we agree, he would sit down at night for the translation of the English text.