Gazprom was faced with a collapsible process of reviewing price formulas according to European long -term contracts. At the end of February, the Polish oil and gas company PGNIG announced the filing of a lawsuit in Stockholm arbitration in order to force Gazprom to revise contract formulas and lower prices. Earlier, similar processes were initiated by the Italian Edison, which eventually succeeded, and the German E.on.

When the company cares about the ecology , this is clearly good for its image. For example, the BP website is made in green tones and is so full of the company's environmental initiatives that at first you think that the company is engaged in the struggle for ecology, and not oil production. The image is cool, but what about the money? Are corporate investments in ecology beneficial? This question is answered by a fresh study of the Harvard Business School.

Mexican scientists may be on the verge of discoveries that can change the lives of millions of people . The vaccine, which turns off the “buzz” after the use of heroin, was successfully tested on mice, and specialists are ready to start conducting clinical trials involving people. According to the most optimistic forecasts, the vaccine can be prepared for mass use in five years - this is the minimum is provided for by certification standards for new medical drugs.

The longer the story with Greek duty lasts, the more boring it becomes. Formally, the main goal of negotiations is to solve the problem of Greek debt by providing financial support in the form of additional loans and writing off part of the existing debt. This will allow 2020 to reduce the ratio of debt to GDP from 160% to 120% - in this case, the debt load of Greece will be comparable with the current Italian.

Elections March 4 Return of Nah-Nah A spoiled ballot is a ballot that lacks any protection. Candidates can still make sure that their own votes are counted correctly and not thrown into Putin’s pile. But they won’t care about spoiled ballots • Grigory Golosov

A resident of Komi Roman Pisanchin, trying to help his friend who committed the crime, decided to bribe the investigation: for 50,000 rubles, he hoped to free his friend from responsibility. He was accused of intentionally causing harm to health that caused the death of a person. Pisanchin wanted his friend to be re -qualified for a less serious crime for a bribe of the action of his friend or to be attributed to this insanity.

The number of "smart" devices in the service and in everyday life is growing steadily. So, according to Kaspersky Laboratory , on average, on average, there are 3.3 personal electronic devices with the Internet access and the possibility of storing a large volume of information. According to this indicator, Russia was in the same positions with Mexico and China (however, from the leader, Saudi Arabia from its 4.3 devices for the family, not too far behind).

In the smoked Athenian edition of the news department, the popular cartoonist Statis Stavropoulos finishes his last drawing. This caricature is typical: it depicts a German soldier, a gas chamber, and the signature says that Greek jobs are burned in it.

Wikileaks and more than 20 publications around the world began the publication of a new portion of leaks - this time confidential letters from the private American intelligence company Stratfor. In Russia, the Russian reporter magazine will be published, which will focus on the publication of the most interesting of the 5 million letters that belong to our country. Here are the most scandalous discoveries for today: - Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika - one of the sources of Stratfor .

Being simultaneously a woman and the owner of the business, I constantly get upset when I encounter the theme of “female business” and “women of entrepreneurs”.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered to deal with banks that increase interest rates on loans. The first to react to his statement was not credit, but the bond market: on Friday, the mortgage and housing lending agency decided to transfer the placement of bonds of the 21st series for 15 billion rubles. In the release, the agency referred to the current situation under which the price conditions proposed by investors do not fully meet its interests in borrowed financing.

The presidential campaign-2012 can be called unprecedented in the number of Internet projects devoted to the observation and analysis of the election results: the number of messages about violations in the Duma elections and, as a result, the increased number of people who want to work as observers provoked the emergence of several related or with candidates and from each other's candidates. GD to register with the observer? Where and how to report the violations seen?

The statement of the Ministry of Economic Development on real estate parameters in the framework of the “luxury tax under discussion” causes an ambiguous reaction. On the one hand, relief: Vladimir Putin once said that the middle class for him is people with an income of 30,000 rubles a month. With this approach, the second low -profile in the family and the “kopeck piece” for 5 million in Bibirevo can be considered as luxury.

According to a new study published in The Journal of Finance, people with a high IQ more and more successfully invest their money, choose less risky investment portfolios, they are better to diversify, and they often get married and make children less often. American economists published in The Journal of Finance a study on a fairly slippery topic - how the behavior of people with different intellectual levels differs. So far, it is only about investment behavior.

- Russia feels on itself “the bias, bias and aggressiveness of the criticism involved against it” of Western human rights activists , writes Vladimir Putin in a new election article. The seventh in a row - and the latter - the publication of a candidate dedicated to international relations, was published in the newspaper Moscow News .