Vedomosti won the prestigious Newspaper Design competition 24.07.2008 The Vedomosti newspaper became the winner of the open all-Russian competition “Newspaper Design 2007”. The Vedomosti newspaper received the highest award in the main category “Best Newspaper Design”, the highest award in the “Redesign” category, a bronze award in the “Front Page” category and a badge of honor in the “Infographics” category.

"The Dove and the Boy" is the last of four novels by Israel's most popular author, Meir Shalev. Before us is a new fragment of the epic canvas that Shalev began to weave in "The Russian Novel." In "The Dove," the fates of the heroes are also set against the backdrop of Israeli history - the kibbutz movement of the late 1920s, the War of Independence, and the post-war years. The novel's heroes have three main activities. The first is the search for a home.

AP Bush laughs. George Bush US President. "Wall Street got drunk <...> and now it has a hangover. The question is how long will it stay sober and not try to invent all these fancy financial instruments." Just 10 days after US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spoke out about the need for government support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lawmakers are taking up the issue. Yesterday, before the House of Representatives began its session, it became known that President George W.

V.Baranov Problems with Detur arose at the end of June. Then it became known that its parent company, the Turkish-Austrian Vasco, had gone bankrupt. About 600 Russian tourists had problems with accommodation in Turkish hotels and returning to Russia. “There is no information about how many tourists were affected.

Dmitry Medvedev admitted yesterday that in Russia decisions on "filling positions are made by connections, on the principle of personal loyalty" or are sold for money.

How much per meter? $10,000 per 1 sq. m. – this is the minimum cost of objects similar to Pietro House, according to the assessment of Yaroslav Kotsuba from Knight Frank $1000 per 1 sq. m.

Yesterday, at the trial of former YUKOS co-owner Leonid Nevzlin, who is being tried in absentia in Moscow, state prosecutor Alexander Kublyakov demanded a life sentence. The prosecutor considers Nevzlin's guilt in organizing three murders, four attempted murders and a robbery proven: one of the attempts failed, the victim got off with beatings and a stolen briefcase. Earlier, Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin was found guilty of committing these crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.

"Akron" fertilizer producer. Net profit – $230 million. Revenue – $1.27 billion. EBITDA – $350 million. Owners – 71.6% of shares belong to Vyacheslav Kantor, 8.5% – to Dorogobuzh, 7.83% – to PhosAgro. Akron intends to place up to 10% of its authorized capital in the form of depositary receipts (GDR) on the London Stock Exchange. Yesterday, the company announced the price range – $12–15 per GDR (10 receipts correspond to one share), or $120–150 per share ($120.6 yesterday on the RTS).

Alexey Kudrin "For us, this is a matter of principle and, in a certain sense, a symbol <...> Sergei, we are with you." The Finance Minister believes that his arrested deputy Sergei Storchak will return to the Finance Ministry. Kudrin is confident in his professionalism.

According to Petrostat, retail turnover in the first half of 2008 was 268.4 billion rubles, which is 14.8% higher than the same period in 2007. But the growth rate of the industry has noticeably slowed. In the first half of last year, Petersburgers spent 206.1 billion rubles, which was 19.3% higher than the 2006 figure.

M. Stulov By August 5, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) must submit to the government a draft resolution on non-discriminatory access to gas transportation networks. Gazprom has almost all of them. The monopoly does not need new rules and, not without the help of its lobby, work on the document has been going on for several years, the head of one of the departments admitted earlier to Vedomosti. But now Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin is rushing officials.

Japanese Panasonic has never held first place in Russia in sales of split systems (air conditioners consisting of two parts - external and internal), explains Georgy Litvinchuk, CEO of the Litvinchuk Marketing agency, which studies the air conditioner market. Until 1995, the Japanese Funai sold the most split systems, then Toshiba, and two years later Hitachi displaced it from first place.

The bulls' morning ambitions were quite justified, but despite the growth of American futures and European indices, our market was declining almost all day, notes Denis Filippov, head of the brokerage operations department at Renaissance Online. The reason was another round of falling oil prices, with quotes reaching $125.5 per barrel. It looks like the nearest support level will be around $120 per barrel of oil, says Mikhail Gonopolsky, deputy head of the analytical department at Binbank.

In countries receiving loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the death rate from tuberculosis increased by 16.6% during the program, according to calculations by sociologist David Stuckler of the University of Cambridge. He and his co-authors studied the death rates from tuberculosis in 21 countries of the former socialist bloc for 1988-2003, trying to exclude the influence of extraneous factors.

Dmitry Medvedev was concerned about the shortage of management personnel. At a special meeting in the Kremlin, he gave an introductory speech in which he acknowledged the lack of a system for training and rotating managers, called for developing criteria for evaluating candidates and institutions for personnel monitoring, as well as creating a database of the best specialists and a "presidential quota" that Medvedev would personally form (for more details, see the articles on pages A1 and A3).