Finance Minister Anton Siluanov , speaking at the Gaidar Forum, promised the fight against cash. According to him, the shadow sector is up to 30% of GDP, the share of cash payments in monetary circulation is 25% (in developed countries - 7-10%, in developing - 15%). “If all the large purchases, all salary calculations would be made in non-cash form, transparently, then we could increase the volume of taxes,” Siluanov said and added that this can be imputed through the regulatory field.

The beginning of 2012 was not set for the Serbian special services. For two weeks, almost all senior Serbs in the world were announced three times by the target of terrorists: Serbia President Boris Tadich, President of the Republic of Serbian (as part of Bosnia and Herzegovina) Milorad Dodik , the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Irini, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Dachich and others, as they say, officials.

The implementation of routine cases can be more productive if you imagine that this is just a game, the expert of Money Watch Dave Logan is sure . “Come up with a way to improve indicators in routine work. For example, imagine that you do not respond to 555 working letters accumulated in the mail overnight, and play a person responsible for letters. This saves from the feeling that you are turning into a zombie. The more fun, the easier to work. ”

Today, the International Economic Forum “Russia and the World: 2012 - 2020” continues its work at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. Famous Western and Russian economists and politicians are performing. The report from the first day of the forum can be read here . 15:51 Ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin spoke interestingly. Given that he is now almost an opposition politician, his words are a political program.

Photo: Reuters/Remo Casilli A month ago, I missed something grandiose, posted articles on Facebook about the last flight of Titanic. And on January 15, I almost reached him with a hand: they didn’t let anyone in the rocks, and in the first days, when democracy and a complete “casino” reigned on the island of Gillo, (and in our opinion, “ a mess”), I looked at the “concordia” from a distance of 15 meters: the upper deck was already standing almost vertically, a basketball platform, aquap, basins.

The ex-adviser of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Jonathan Powell admitted that the so-called spy stone demonstrated on Russian television several years ago and became a symbol of paranoia of the Russian authorities, was really used for espionage purposes. You will not surprise anyone with a stone now-hollow stones are sold on the Internet at a completely similar price: only $ 7.95. Special services are much more sophisticated. Where they just did not hide their equipment!

The Russians are satisfied with how they spent the New Year holidays, showed a VTsIOM survey, dissatisfied with only 16%. The holidays of the house spent 28%of respondents, 14%, as a year ago - at work, the percentage of those resting abroad is minimal - 1%. There are no visible reasons to cancel the ten -day New Year holidays? During 2011, labor migrants from Tajikistan working in Russia were transferred to their homeland, exceeding the level of 2008 by $ 444 million.

At the last hearing in the claim of Boris Berezovsky was a whole detachment of lawyers who acted on the side of Roman Abramovich : his two personal lawyers (Michael Atkin and Helen Davis), as well as Hodge Malik, the representative of Vasily Anisimov , a former co-owner of the Metalloinvest (also ex-campaign of KrAZ , who later entered the Rusal ). The public part of the most expensive process in British history is over: about $ 6 billion costs to Kon.

In Cheboksary, a criminal case has been instituted against the police major. 34-year-old Andrei Kacocralatov is suspected of receiving a bribe for the “roofing” of the brothel. Two years ago, Kacocralatov held the position of head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Department of Internal Affairs of Cheboksar. At the end of 2010, according to investigators, he received from a local resident-41-year-old E.

Alexei Navalny will protect the person involved in the case of Yukos, lawyer Pavel Ivlev . Together with other lawyers, he is already seeking to introduce the report of the Presidential Council of Human Rights to the case file , who justified Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. So, in the smoldering coals of the Yukos affairs splashed a large mug of gasoline. Alexei Navalny , the most popular lawyer of Russia, came into business. The Russian Orthodox Church is obviously left for later.

The press secretary of the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Peskov on Thursday, January 19, denied the rumors spreading to the market about the possible resignation of Alexei Miller from the post of chairman of the Board of Gazprom. “This is nothing more than speculation,” he said to Interfax-AGI. On New Year's Eve, large personnel permutations have already occurred in the gas monopoly, in particular, Alexander Ananenkov left the post of deputy chairman of the board.

Vladimir Putin said that Russia is concerned about the possibility of placing elements of the US missile defense system near its borders, including in Georgia. “And what, we will have to aim our shock systems on Georgian territory? Can you imagine what horror? " He said. Meanwhile, the director of the Center for Military Forecasting, Colonel Anatoly Tsyganokov, is confident that the danger of about Russia is an obvious prime minister.

-The British intelligence services really used the Spy Stone in Russia , the former official of the administration of Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted . According to Jonathan Powell, Russia knew about the stone for a long time, but “adhered” it for political needs. The scandal with an intelligence devices, disguised as a stone, erupted in 2006. Soon after, the law was adopted in the Russian Federation that tightened the financing of non-profit organizations from abroad.

Over the incomplete two years of reigning, the government of Viktor Orban brought Hungary to an unprecedented from the collapse of the social camp of the political and economic crisis. Without exaggeration. Otherwise, on January 18, Orban would not have to go to the European Parliament to make excuses for the fact that the new Constitution of the country and laws on the court and the Central Bank do not comply with the EU norms.

Today on the Russia-1 television channel in the debate in the program “A fight with Vladimir Solovyov” , Gennady Zyuganov seemed a little convincing to the viewers more convincing Mikhail Prokhorov: candidate for president From the Communist Party With a small margin, he defeated the businessman (135,474 votes against 130 093 by Prokhorov). - I declare war in a lie, irresponsible populism and empty impossible obligations.