Why are the reforms initiated or approved at the very top so often in Russia? The fault of this is the disgusting quality of public administration in the country, Herman Gref is convinced. In order for plans to be implemented, the head of Sberbank in early spring offered Vladimir Putin a technical exit - to create a structure subordinate to the president, regardless of the Cabinet of Ministers, exercising control over the progress and fulfilling priority state tasks.

The ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov will sell all the assets belonging to her. The Vedomosti was told about this by two sources in the structure of the group, as well as the interlocutor, and the acquaintance of Prokhorov, who received a proposal to buy some assets. According to sources, “Onexim” is now looking for buyers himself, without involving any intermediaries to this. Representatives of ONEXIMA refused to comment on this situation.

Kharkov Tractor Plant. Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters Recently, the Ukrainian economy has shown better dynamics than Russian, follows from the official statistics of the two countries. In the fourth quarter of 2015, the GDP of Ukraine did not fall as deep as the GDP of Russia, and in the first quarter of 2016, even slightly grew against the background of the fall of the Russian indicator. This year, the Russian economy will be reduced by 0.2%, the Ministry of Economic Development believes.

The Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC) is considering three reasons for the IL-76 crash in the Irkutsk region, said the Committee representative Sergei Yakimenko. “Three possible causes are considered - the human factor, the work of technology and the influence of the natural environment,” Yakimenko quotes Interfax . Both “black boxes” found at the crash site were delivered to Irkutsk, from where they will be sent to Mac experts to Moscow for decoding, Yakimenko added.

In addition to the funds of the population, there are no other sources for the overhaul of residential buildings in Russia. This was stated by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Interfax reports.

More and more Russians are convinced that their salaries can be reduced. This was written in the issue of July 4, the newspaper Kommersant writes with reference to the operational monitoring of the Russian Academy of National Economy and the Public Service (RANEPA), where the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting (Insap) is presented. In May 2016, according to Insap polls, the share of Russians who reported salaries amounted to 26%, although in February 2015 it was at 15%.

The resignation of Pavel Astakhov is the most important plot in the Russian realities, which can be considered completely convertible, that is, it can be easily told by a foreigner in the terms he knew, without being distracted by any “but in fact” and not moving the fingers of both hands in the air, depicting quotes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that prohibits foreign companies to measure the television audience in the Russian Federation. The signed document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information. In accordance with the document, companies that measure television are required to receive accreditation from the Roskomnadzor commission.

Pure outflow of foreign investment from the Russian stock market in the second quarter of 2016 reached 46.3 billion rubles. This was reported by RBC with reference to the calculations of the Moscow Exchange. According to the exchange platform, the largest sales were recorded in the oil and gas sector - 36.7 billion rubles. The outflow of investments in the financial sector amounted to 3.9 billion rubles.

The Australian-British mining corporation Rio Tinto sold the Blair Athol mine in Queensland for one Australian dollar (75 US cents). According to Financial Times, the transaction price was less than a cup of coffee. According to the buyer of the asset, Terracom, the parties to the parties also provides that Rio Tinto will additionally pay a mine about $ 60 million. These funds will be aimed at restoring and reconstruction of Blair Athol.

The shareholders of the London Stock Exchange (London Stock Exchange, LSE) almost unanimously (99.92%) voted for merging with the Frankfurt Deutsche Boerse. This was reported on July 4 in the LSE ( .pdf ) press release. After the voting results are announced, the LSE promotion fell by 0.5%, Reuters indicates.

The Bank of Russia began conducting operations with assets in the yuan in the fourth quarter of 2015. This is stated in the review of the Central Bank of the Currency Asset Management. According to the regulator, as of December 31, 2015, the share of China in the currency assets of the Central Bank was 0.1%. For comparison, the assets in US dollars reached 47.5%, in euros - 37% (a year earlier, their share was 44.4% and 42.4%, respectively).

There are no grounds for the rise in price of communication services in the case of the adoption of the “anti -terrorist” package. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on Combating Corruption Irina Yarovaya in an interview with Russia 24. “Maybe there is a desire to simply increase tariffs, and I want to find some kind of digestible justification. Objectively, there are no grounds for a rise in price.

A brief retelling of the book by Eric Hobsbaum “Nations and Nationalism after 1780” (M. “Aletaea”. 1998). Context Eric Hobsbaum, one of the largest British historians and thinkers of the 20th century, first published “nations and nationalism” in 1990. The second edition will be released after the collapse of the USSR, which the Hobsbaum predicts, and by 2016, more than one prophecy came true.

The volume of oil reserves in the United States exceeded the indicators of Russia and Saudi Arabia. This follows from the results of the analysis of the consulting company Rystad Energy. During a three -year analysis, about 60 thousand world deposits, experts of the Norwegian company calculated that US oil reserves amount to 264 billion barrels, when Russian indicators do not exceed 256 billion barrels, and Saudi Arabia - 212 billion barrels.