One of the mysteries of the world economy is that the rich countries grew faster than the poor for two hundred years, as a result of which the gap between the rich and the poor increases (a sort of divergence, gradual discrepancy). In the past few decades, this trend, however, has changed: while some countries continued to increase the gap (the Netherlands - Kenya, the Netherlands - Nicaragua), part of it was reduced (the Netherlands against China and India).

The price of life grows in youth, falls in old age, and in women it reaches a peak five years later than in men People value their lives most expensive when they are 45-50 years old. This conclusion was reached by Joseph Aldi from the Harvard Institute of Public Administration. John F. Kennedy and Simus Smith from the Caxton Associates hedfond, conducting a study among 20 thousand respondents.

In Moscow, as part of the Poetry Ambassador project, with the support of the British Council, the first British-Russian evening will be held with the participation of Shineid Morrissi and the Russian poet and translator Stanislav Lviv. August 21 in Moscow at 19.00 in the library-reader named after I.S.

The introduction of food sanctions against Western countries forced Russia to ask the question: who sells us food and who ultimately benefits from our trips to the store, in addition to retailer networks? Slon collected 10 largest grocery corporations and found out the structure of their property. Interestingly, most of the shares of these companies belong to various intitual funds, with minority shares.

The Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Pavel Sheremet resigned, the Interfax agency reports on August 21 with reference to the press service of the department. The message clarifies that on August 20, the minister wrote an appropriate statement, which was after that sent to the country's parliament. The reasons for the resignation of the head of the department did not specify the press service.

The ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov is ready to sell the media holding of RBC. On Thursday, August 21, reports Kommersant, citing the heads of unnamed Russian media holdings and business partners of the entrepreneur. The article clarifies that Prokhorov expects to receive more than $ 250 million for the holding, of which approximately $ 227 million will go to cover the company's debt.

Photographs appeared on the Internet allegedly taken in the Lutuginsky district of the Luhansk region, which captured the landing armored vehicle captured by the Ukrainian military (as states BMD-2) and documents that are related to the 234th Guards A landing regiment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, based in Pskov. Photos and related information were published on Facebook by Ukrainian journalists Leonid Shvets and Roman Bochkala .

The motorcade with humanitarian aid will not dwell on the destination in the territory of Ukraine. This was announced by Interfax with reference to the statement of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. “On Wednesday, employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were instructed by drivers of the humanitarian cargo of Russia in a security auto -racer.

Oil is a favorite substance of conspiracyologists, it has a universal answer to all questions. Whatever happens in the world, the details are not important, because in the end the root cause will still turn out to be oil. Saddam overthrew-because of oil, graters with Venezuela or Iran-because of oil, Ukraine, however, occurred due to shale gas, but it is the same oil.

Continuation: • Rospotrebnadzor found in Jack Daniel's remedy for ticks → Rospotrebnadzor demanded by Friday to remove the Jack Daniel's whiskey and Bourbon Jim Beam from the sale in the Sverdlovsk region. This is stated in the message posted on Thursday, August 21, on the website of the Sverdlovsk department of the department. The report notes that the turnover of these drinks was carried out with a marking that does not meet the requirements.

The case of reproaching the star on the spire of a high -rise building in Moscow was retrained from the article “Vandalism” to the article “Hooliganism”. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to a source in the metropolitan police.

Dmitry Potapenko Checking and closing the McDonalds Rospotrebnadzor is nothing more than the game by muscles. A sort of bureaucratic competition: who will better demonstrate his patriotism at the expense of the next embargo - and the “more imported” it is, the more patriotic the official. In fact, a misunderstanding is simply used that McDonald's “foreign” and “American” is essentially not. All "foreignity" is in the head.

Moscow took second place in the world ranking of cities, where most billionaires were born, losing only to New York. Such data are given by SPEAR's publication based on the data of the Wealthinsight analytical company. 52 billionaires were born in New York, 22 in Moscow, in London, which took third place-21. In St. Petersburg, which fell into the middle of the TOP-25 (divided 14-17th place with Madrid, Foshan and Hangzhou), 6 billionaires were born.

Today it happened to get acquainted with the revelations of a certain “source in the government”. The source is supposed to be a portion of fresh water through the state agency, through the state agency. “Previously, McDonald's clearly withstand all the standards, now - no. Why should we endure if they do not withstand quality standards? " - said the source. Firstly, this, of course, is a story about the lies of the level of some kind of preschool.

Naftogaz Ukraine intends to return Gazprom $ 10.54 million paid by the Russian concern for gas transit in July 2014. This was reported by UNIAN with reference to the press service of the Ukrainian state-owned company. “According to our calculations, Gazprom’s advance payments have not yet been completed. We consider the Gazprom payment erroneous, now we deal with this. We plan to return the funds back, ”said Naftogaz.