How to check the reliability of ratings? Not so long ago, the head of the Presidential Administration, Sergei Ivanov, said that it is not worth trusting in numerous Western ratings, but it is necessary to create your own. “I do not really trust the numerous ratings, primarily the Western, where they arbitrarily different organizations, for example, Transparency International, are put on one or another place,” he said.

Over 20 years of existence, the Russian luxury market has occupied a confident position among analogues in other countries with a developing economy and gained its unique features. It all started with raspberry jackets, gold chains and six hundredth Mercedes. The modern Russian consumer managed to take a sink in the knowledge of world brands and is now understanding them no worse than immigrants from Western countries.

The billionaire and main owner of the AFK System Vladimir Yevtushenkov on the air of the Hard Day Day's Night program “Rain” told why the first smartphones with GLONASS were not popular, which of the politicians he would be friends and for which of the entrepreneurs he would not have stood up, and also to whom he did not give a hand for 10 years. Slon chose the most interesting of yesterday's conversation with a businessman.

Digital Sky Technologies (DST), which owns the Facebook shares, is going to attract $ 1 billion to create the DST Global III (DSTG III) technological investment fund. The fund will be invested in IT projects at a late stage of implementation. In return, investors are offered a share in the most popular social network. DST is founded by Yuri Milner , co -owner and former chairman of the board of directors Mail.ru Group .

The Rosselkhoznadzor introduced a ban on the import of live livestock from the EU countries due to the danger of the spread of the Shmallenberg virus (causes congenital malformations in animals) and blutang (catarrhal fever). And not to say that this was very unexpected: since the beginning of the year, the department has warned several times about such consequences if measures to control the spread of viruses and the fight against them were not taken.

It will cost presidential certificate for Vladimir Putin . The new certificate that he will receive in May will be made without a competition and in accordance with all the parameters indicated in the last resolution of the CEC. Earlier it was assumed that the document would be slightly different from the fact that Dmitry Medvedva is now-a dark-baking book with a gold coat of arms on the cover and the inscription “President of the Russian Federation”.

- The Security Service of Ukraine has collected evidence of the preparation of attempts on Vladimir Putin : the SBU charged to the native of the Terrible to Adam Osmaev and the citizen of Kazakhstan Ilya Pyanzin in the creation of the Russian terrorist group for the physical elimination of the first persons, Kommersant reports . The defendants gave confession, which were confirmed during investigative actions and examinations. Initially arrested, Art.

In thought over the eternal question - where the market will move once again, caught itself on the "deja vu." The lack of technical arguments to explain new market heights forces us to turn to the original sources, think about the eternal, about the physical laws of the surrounding world and the cyclicity of natural phenomena. The evolution of relations increases the frequency and metabolic rate.

Vladimir Putin is more popular in the Moscow Region than in the capital - 56.85% of the vote against 46.95%. And in some areas, the result simply rolls over, for example, 99% or 98%. Slon took a closer look at such a brilliant results and was not surprised to find an important component of the election process - voters.

Last summer, we made a list of 10 startups in which the Yuri Milner DST Global Foundation could invest. The Fund was then going to invest in the dairy rental rental of housing Airbnb.com, its strategy began to clear up. Since then, much has changed: last week it became known that Milner left Mail.Ru Group and decided to concentrate on international assets. Today's news explained a lot: DST is going to attract $ 1 billion to create the DST Global III technological investment fund.

service The Yandex.Traffic provides perhaps the best information on highway congestion. Moreover, for some time now you can see not only the current situation, but also traffic jams depending on the day of the week and time. Although this is to some extent the average temperature in the hospital.

How they steal in Russia. Revelations of a cell phone store salesperson “If you work in a store and don’t steal, then you are an autist who doesn’t need anything in life...” Slon explores who, how and how much steals in Russia - and how you can resist it

"To be friends or not to be friends?" - As a rule, people do not even have such a question in communication: if there is a desire, then to be friends, of course. Another question is, if we are talking about friendship with colleagues, there are a variety of opinions on this subject.

Photo by ITAR-TASS/ Sergey Fadeichev The Russian space industry has recently adhered to the principle of "not a day without a scandal." As soon as Vladimir Popovkin managed to justify himself about his own hospitalization on the eve of the holiday on March 8 (according to some media reports, this happened after a drunken fight with a colleague, according to official information-due to overwork), as the leadership of the GLONASS company struck.

The two -year anniversary of Viktor Yanukovych’s stay as the President of Ukraine was almost unnoticed. The only event that is drawn for a gift for a round date can only be considered a landing of the “orange” leader and Minister of the Interior under Tymoshenko Yuri Lutsenko.