Any human activity sets requirements for those who engage in it. Tall people play basketball, submariners and tankers are below average height, a musician must have perfect pitch. Business activity also requires certain qualities from a person: optimism, stress resistance, increased work capacity, a share of adventurism and what can be conventionally called a "sense of the market", intuition.

March 30, 2010, 11:57 / Business "Sapsan" was late for St. Petersburg by one hour due to a broken wire Vedomosti The high-speed train "Sapsan" arrived in St. Petersburg on Monday an hour later than scheduled due to a break in the reinforcing wire on one of the stages in the Moscow region, the press service of the Oktyabrskaya Railway reported today.

D.Grishkin Over the past year, the share of Orthodox followers has increased from 70% to 75%, thus reaching the maximum value for the entire period of measurement. Moreover, compared to 2006, the number of non-religious respondents has become half as many (from 16% to 8%), claims VTsIOM, having polled 1,600 people in 140 settlements in 42 regions, territories and republics of Russia on January 23-24. The overwhelming majority of Orthodox Russians are baptized (84%, in 1989 - 89%).

S. Porter In 2009, Gazprom’s net profit under Russian accounting standards increased 3.6 times to a record level of 624.613 billion rubles, the concern said in a statement. The income is mostly "paper" - Gazprom itself explains the growth of the indicator by the revaluation of financial investments as of December 31, 2009 (we are talking about Gazprom Neft, says a company employee).

The Customs Union Commission has prepared a draft agreement on export duties, its executive secretary Sergei Glazyev reported; on April 16, the document could be “sent for preparation for ratification” (quoted by Interfax). Glazyev described the project. The duty will be collected by the customs of the country where the export is processed and transferred to the budget of the country of origin of the goods. The duty on oil exported from Belarus to Europe will go to Russia.

March 30, 2010, 02:15 / Business Russians are exchanging junk cars for antique cars The recycling program has spurred demand for AvtoVAZ products; more than half of the applications are for the cheapest rear-wheel drive models Alexey Nepomnyashchy With government help, Russians are ready to exchange the old VAZ “classic” for a new one / A.

March 30, 2010, 02:14 / Business Viktor Vekselberg will release nanocoating for Russia Oerlikon opened the first nanocoating center in Russia. She plans to build a network of such enterprises, but is still looking for clients for the first Alisa Fialko The Swiss Oerlikon, whose main owner is Viktor Vekselberg's Renova, has opened a center for applying nanocoatings in Elektrostal near Moscow.

"We are ready to hire people with any illness, but, unfortunately, not wheelchair users," says Elena Arefieva, HR Director at DPD in Russia (one of the jury members). "The thing is that we are located in a business center building where there are no special elevators, toilets, ramps, etc.

Eyewitnesses note adequate response of doctors and special services to terrorist attack / Reuters The first explosion occurred at 7.52, when a train heading towards Komsomolskaya stopped at Lubyanka. At 8.36, an explosion occurred in a train also heading towards Komsomolskaya, which stopped at the Park Kultury station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line.

March 30, 2010, 10:51 am / Business Protek will go public For the first time, the pharmaceutical holding officially confirmed its intention to hold an IPO - the company could be valued at more than $2 billion. Yulia Shmidt Tatyana Romanova A.

Terrorism has returned to Moscow. Interpretations of the events that have taken place are already being given in a hot head. Naturally, in a period of prevailing emotions, explanations are usually radical. And from both sides. Because everyone sees in any major event only proof of their own rightness.

March 30, 2010, 13:18 / Finance The IMF intends to provide assistance to Greece on its own terms Vedomosti If Greece applies for financial assistance to the International Monetary Fund, a special stabilization program with certain conditions will be developed for it, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn said today. “If Greece asks the IMF for support, then we will provide it as one of the members of the fund,” said D. Strauss-Kahn.

The company has taken a long-term lease on about 400 square meters, says McDonald's Russia Development Vice President Viktor Eidemiller. According to him, the first restaurant will open on this site in a separate building next to the Samolet shopping center in December. Gleb Zarubin, head of the leasing department at Dars Development (which manages Samolet), confirmed this. McDonald's Corporation Fast food restaurant chain. Shareholders: almost 100% of shares in free circulation.

The collection "Fire of Worlds" is the first extensive publication in Russia of the legacy of Vladimir Nikolaevich Ilyin (1890-1971). Ilyin left Russia forever in 1919, and since then only a few of his works have been published in his homeland. “Fire of the Worlds” includes his philosophical, musicological, but mainly literary-critical articles, published in the 1960s in the famous émigré magazine “Renaissance”.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev does not rule out tightening legislation on articles of the Criminal Code related to terrorism. "It makes sense to return once again to the problem of administering justice under terrorist articles, under the articles "terrorism" and related crimes and to talk about improving this kind of practice," the head of state said at a meeting on improving the judicial system.