Antilia skyscraper in Mumbai Bill Gates bought a house in Florida for $ 8.7 million. Despite the impressive amount, this is not the most expensive house of Gates, and even more so not the most expensive housing belonging to businessmen. Recently, conversations about expensive real estate objects that Russian officials and businessmen own (Slon have published a photo gallery of such estates) have not subside.

Vladimir Putin Long before in Russia, a series of resonant revelations of high -ranking officials for plagiarism in their dissertations, employees of the Washington Scientific Center The Brookings Institute, Igor Danchenko and Clifford Gaddy found that the key part of the dissertation of Vladimir Putin was written off from the book of American scientists. In 2006, Washington Post and The Times wrote about this.

After a couple of days, Google Reader will close prematurely, and the war for his legacy is in full swing. While AOL is testing its own reader, and Facebook is preparing a Flipboard newspaper, Digg released its RSS-reader-it is built into the updated mobile application for iOS (a version for Android in a couple of weeks). The service was sent to development just three months ago and wanted to be released by autumn, but recent events were forced to hurry.

Adherents of world conspiracyology are often customary for madmen. Stories about the US attempts to listen to literally the whole world belonged to the invigorate theories of the conspiracy. However, after Snowden's revelations , everything seems so impossible. And what about Russia? Does the officially accepted explanation of the government system in Russia suits us?

Before the next presidential election in Georgia, nothing remains - a maximum of four months. According to the Constitution, they must pass in October. When exactly, the first or thirty -first, the head of state decides. Mikhail Saakashvili clearly hesitates with the definition of the date of voting, as if pulling the inevitable and painful end.

Vladimir Putin today made a whole block of resignations and appointments in the departments of the power unit, reports ITAR-TASS . The President signed a decree entitled "On dismissal, appointing military personnel and employees of some federal state bodies and assigning special ranks." The permutations will be held mainly at the level of the highest leadership of the bodies, but not in the central apparatus, but in the regions.

At the VKontakte social network in Kyiv, law enforcement agencies seized servers. This was announced the day before late in the evening by the technical director of the network Nikolai Durov: “I was informed the following:“ The servers in Kyiv are currently not available, as they were seized by the Ukrainian police for investigative actions. They wanted to drag Nexus with them, but it turned out to be too difficult.

Russia changes gas priorities - it goes from Europe to Asia. New Russian contracts with Asian consumers marked the beginning of Moscow with traditional energy markets in Europe, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He noted that the reasons for changing the strategy were the decreasing demand for gas and the constant regulatory pressure exerted there on Russia.

It seems that sales of the first North Korean tablet begin. We learned about the DPRK plans to release our own iPad last fall - then the device was briefly announced at the exhibition in Pyongyang. The other day, NK News journalists were lucky to become the owners of the new model. The tablet, which uses the Android operating system, is called The Samjion and was created by Chosun Computer. There are not many details so far.

iOS , 299 rubles The best game of the legendary series of fighting fights from the Japanese company SNK is still captivating with small details and captivates atmosphere of Samurai Japan at the end of the 18th century. When SMURAI ShODOWN II on arcade machines in 1994 released in 1994, the game instantly overgrown with a crowd of fans and the cult status, which only strengthened over time.

In recent years, the Russian authorities talk a lot about the openness of the state: the principles of transparency and accountability are enshrined in federal laws and other documents, there is even a special minister for this part - Mikhail Abyzov. With the implementation of these principles, everything is not so unambiguous, so civil society is so actively interested in this area.

Golikova will prophesy a new position: perhaps she will replace Stepashin as chairman of the Accounts Chamber. Already on Monday, July 1, the State Duma must submit candidates for this post to the president (in accordance with the new version of the Law on the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Council must submit to the president at least three applicants, and the head of state may introduce one of them for approval by the Chamber of one or offer his candidate).

The famous media manager, one of the founders of Slon Leonid Burshid no longer advises the RBC Daily newspaper, Izvestia reports with reference to its own sources in RBC. “Leonid Burshid took an active part in the preparation of materials, corrected the work of correspondents and editors. Then he proposed the concept adopted by the leadership of the media holding and which will continue to be implemented by the editorial office, ”the source says.

Microsoft Corporation carried out “Work on errors” and released a new version of its OS - Windows 8.1. The Start button appeared in the new system, the absence of which many PC users complained. True, pressing on it does not throw a voluminous context menu, as before, and depending on the system settings, it opens a screen with living tiles or a page with all installed programs for quick launch.

In the book “Perfect Pitch”, Oren Klaff recommends when communicating with a person who depends on the decision, to try to make two things-at the first opportunity: to refuse something and show disobedience. What does this mean in practice? The author offers to put on the table a folder with the inscription “Private. For Ivan Mikhailovich. " When the latter takes the folder, you need to pick it up with the words: “No, no, not now. You will have to wait a bit before you get it.