How to protect the personal budget and prepare for the consequences of a new financial crisis? How to determine “dangerous” and “safe” methods of preserving capital? What are the "assets" of the personal budget and how can they manage their risks? How is it customary to invest without significant savings in developed countries? What is investment real estate and how to choose it? Why do most of the owners of large states invest funds with the help of the "English method"?

The Ros administration portal, created by the activist Gleb Suvorov, for the money of the Kudrinsky Committee of Civil Initiatives, collected and beautifully laid out the statistics of sentences for various crimes related to drugs, on its basis, drawing up a map of the relative popularity of various types of drugs in Russia. The absolute values ​​of the mention of narcotic drugs in the sentences of the courts of first instance in the regions over the past three years were compared.

Alcoholism in South Korea is considered almost a national disaster. By the number of people drunk per capita, she confidently occupies the first place in the world. Drunking to the pig’s screech is considered an integral part of culture, and not just household culture, but also a corporate one. Most often, Koreans drink a lot and for a long time with colleagues. There is even a special word for such horses: Hoosik.

In July, the Department of territorial executive bodies of Moscow held a competition for 16 million rubles , To monitor the activity of municipal deputies on the Internet. The tender was called "information and analytical support for the development of local self-government in the city of Moscow in 2012", and the IMA-Consulting PR agency won, whose track record is very impressive (more on this below). The term of work is November 2012.

© cnn.com The Syria government turned off the Internet throughout the country, mobile services were not available in certain territories, the Associated Press agency reports. Turning off the Internet was confirmed by two American network security companies. Syrian activists, with whom journalists managed to contact the satellite phone, also said that the Internet was disconnected.

Today, FOM has published weekly political indicators. The authorities continue to lose points. Putin’s electoral rating decreased by 3% compared to last week, since May it fell by 10 percentage points. And amounted to November 25, 43%. This happens against the background of growth of those who do not want to go to the polls. True, last November Putin had the same 43%, which instilled in the opposition hope, which was not destined to justify.

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At the end of December, in addition to the ringing of chimes, all the inhabitants of Russia, excluding, perhaps, a community, vaguely called “banking”, awaits happiness in the form of the entry into force of the 9th article of the Law “On the National Payment System”. This article obliges banks and other payment organizations practically without any conditions to return all the amounts of challenged operations on cards, “wallets” and other payment instruments.

Vladimir Putin , apparently, launched the process, not fully aware of his possible destructive political consequences for his regime. A toy anti -corruption campaign, which arose as a result of exacerbation of intra -elite conflicts by the careless consent of the president, became public. And she will live her own life, and the Kremlin can be her victim.

Victor Ishaev © Anton Lukanin/ITAR-TASS Viktor Ishaev, Minister of Development of the Far East and Presidential Envoy in the Far Eastern Federal District, gave an interview to Vedomosti, in which he told why people continue to leave the Far East, due to whom the region survived the crisis and what benefits should be introduced in the Far East. Slon chose interesting interview fragments. Why, despite the growth of state investments in the region, do people continue to leave?

© Flickr.com/ahmetcoka In the "Startup Academia" of the Skolkovo business school, a funny day happened. The director of the Moscow office of Boston Consulting Group Sergey Plykin held an informal lecture on consumer research.

Will the next Facebook appear in Asia? It may very well be. At least my new favorite among all social applications is from there. And I am far from alone. It seems that at least a couple of hundred million people on the planet are of the same opinion. However, to love WeChat (in China the application is called Weixin), only completely getting rid of anthropological prejudices.

The chief editor of the newly discussed by the Yekaterinburg news agency Ura.ru today announced on its Facebook page that the editors are almost completely left for the site. “That's all ended. For almost seven years, the team, led by Aksana Panova, was made by the URA.RU agency - we can argue about whether it was the best in the Urals, but the fact that it was the most popular, most noticeable and most discussed is no doubt.

Gastarbiters in South Korea are no less than in other developed countries, but there are no problems with them © Choo Youon-Kong/Reuters Last year, I had a chance to go to the city of Suvon, one of the distant industrial suburbs of Seoul, late in the evening. The picture in a half -empty car was slightly different from the same in the evening Moscow metro: about half of the passengers stood out with a pronounced non -reality appearance.