Millennium was able to, now all the eyes are directed on a new milestone in the future - the middle of the 21st century. So, a year ago, HSBC analysts released the World in 2050 report , not so long ago, journalists of the British magazine Economist decided to exercise in futurology . A new study on this topic was prepared by PWC experts, their report is called “World in 2050. Brik and other countries: prospects, problems and opportunities ”(World in 2050.

The international organization Freedom House, engaged in monitoring civil and political freedoms in different countries, published another annual report . Russia again fell into the category of non -free countries with estimates 6 for political and 5 for civilian freedoms (on this scale 1 - maximum freedom, and 7 - at least). Russia has been receiving such estimates since 2005 (in 2004, points were 5 and 5).

Do you have a raspberry card and on it the points that you changed for goods in stores? Alas, raspberries are over. So, participants in the cumulative programs will be disappointed. Before they had time to try the opportunity to directly spend the accumulated points, as the Bank of Russia intends to stop this practice.

In 2012, a new real estate record was set - according to Jones Lang Lasalle , the total transaction volume reached $ 8.6 billion, increasing by 1.3%compared to the year before last. Unlike 2011, in 2012, the investment leader was not trading, but office real estate, whose share in total amounted to 40.9% or $ 3.5 billion. The largest deal of the year was the purchase of Duka Players III business centers and the Silver City by O1 Properties.

When small companies turn into a corporation, they often unite many directions at once. Therefore, it often happens that the company has become famous for only products and services, but has long been engaged in others. Everyone thinks that Philips makes ironing, and IBM is computers, but it wasn’t there. Philips - TVs or medical equipment? The International company Royal Philips Electronics is known in Russia mainly as a manufacturer of household appliances.

I personally did not know Alexei Kabanov, whose business is now discussing all of Russia. Although, judging by the number of common freeds, if it were not for almost complete indifference to collective feasts in popular places. Therefore, I will not say anything about the crime itself, but only about the often encountered reaction to him, who also did not know any of the participants personally.

As it became known , the Garsdale telecommunications holding, which belongs to the richest man in Russia Alisher Usmanov, began negotiations with the “big triple” of cellular operators on the acquisition and subsequent division of Russian assets of the Swedish Tele2 . In this news, in principle, there is nothing surprising.

"What are you doing if the client has no cash?" - asked Nikolai Zhmurenko of the insurance agent sitting in his car. Often, after all, when insurance, the transaction is concluded in cars, and we can talk about significant amounts. The interlocutor replied: "We have to look for an ATM." After that, the client withdraws the money and pays, and the agent himself, having completed the deal, also goes to the ATM - so as not to drag around the city with money and put them on his card now.

This test is the author of the book “Lift. Raise the internal energy to the maximum possible level ”Igor Kalinauskas recommends first of all to go to people aged 14 to 25 years, although it will not hurt others. But it is precisely this period that the main, in his opinion, stage of life, corresponding to the 25–45 years, during which young people will participate in the “Great Social Competition”.

The famous Russian economist, rector of the Russian Economic School, Sergei Guriev, read a lecture on the Bankruptcy of Market Leaders: causes, consequences, conclusions in the press center of RIA Novosti. Slon publishes the first part of her abbreviated version. (The second part is here .) My goal is not just to tell stories that you can read in Wikipedia , but to talk about what lessons can be learned from other people's bankruptcy.

The party in the authorities decided to work on its own political image after the adoption of the "law of Dima Yakovlev." Just four days after the mass procession against the “Law of the Plotsy”, the United Russia announced the launch of a new project - “every child is important for Russia”. Prior to this, the party was engaged in the construction of pools, sports clubs, roads and support for libraries (in total 48 projects, however, it was recently decided to revise them for expediency).

The judge, the leading case of Apple against Amazon about the copyright violations for trademarks of the App Store and AppStore, invites two companies to settle laws on their own, Bloomberg reports . The meeting at which the lawyers and representatives of both companies are authorized should be present, should be held on March 21. The reason for the trial is the use of the App Store name for its application store.

The former rector of the Peter and Paul Church in the village of Pavlovskoye talked about how he was taken out of the state and how he tried to establish communication with his superiors Priest Dmitry Sverdlov The priest Dmitry Sverdlov became known after he stated that he would like to apologize to the girls from the Pussy Riot group for the amount of hatred that he got from the Orthodox after performing in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The Supreme Court gave a negative feedback on the bill of United Russia Irina Yarova on the tightening of the responsibility of drunk drivers, writes Gazeta.ru . Yarovaya offers to punish the first -time deprivation of rights and a fine of 50 thousand rubles for the first time drunk at two years (now for all violators, it doesn’t matter whether for the first time or not, from 1.5 to 2 years of deprivation).

Al-Kapone Some of my frands on Facebook is outraged: what will you all post about the murder of grandfather Hassan (aka Aslan Usoyan)? Who is he? Minister? Oligarch? And people do not even know what to answer on the move. They write all kinds of nonsense-they say, here they even make films about al-Kapone. But I will say why people consider it important, although they cannot explain.