Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and his wife, Inteko president Elena Baturina, do not intend to emigrate from Russia if Luzhkov resigns from his post as the capital's mayor. Baturina stated this in an interview with The New Times magazine, published on Monday. "We will get down to business. Business," Baturina said. Luzhkov has been on a week-long vacation in Austria since Monday.

A fascinating study of the mental world of the “zero” generation is being released in the form of a comic book film. The highest-grossing film in history, Avatar, will be released for the second time in a special director's cut.

In early May, Russian legislators stepped up the development of a bill allowing private helicopter flights over the capital's waterways - commercial use of this type of transport would help relieve congestion on the capital's highways. In anticipation of legislative changes, Russian developers began designing and constructing buildings, so to speak, for the future back in the 1990s - that's when the first commercial facilities with helipads appeared in Moscow.

September 20, 2010, 00:51 / Business Gazprom is not keeping up with competitors in new markets Gazprom should prepare for very tough competition in the global gas market: the United States may itself start exporting fuel, and even Lukoil is planning to supply gas to China Elena Mazneva There was so much noise in Europe about how the region depends on gas supplies from Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lamented at a forum in Sochi on Friday.

www.trec-uk.org.uk The Hevel company, founded by the state corporation Rusnano and Viktor Vekselberg's Renova group, plans to build the first solar power plant in Russia in Kavminvody (Stavropol Krai) worth 3 billion rubles with the support of the local government. This was reported by Interfax, citing the press service of the regional Ministry of Economic Development.

Income tax has once again become a weapon of election campaigning. At first glance, there is nothing special about it: taking more taxes from the rich is a slogan that is at least 100 years old. The Fair Russia party, which proposes making the income tax rate progressive, has already introduced a similar bill. The Communists once put forward a similar proposal.

September 20, 2010, 00:56 / Finance The ruble market got rid of speculators The ruble regained some of the positions lost on Wednesday and Thursday - on Friday the bi-currency basket fell by 43 kopecks. up to 35.24 rub.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday raised its forecast for global trade growth in 2010 from 10.0% to 13.5% year on year, Reuters reported, citing a statement from the organization. This would be the fastest growth since the WTO began tracking this indicator in the 1950s. World trade fell 12.2% in 2009, the biggest drop since World War II.

Sergey Ivanov "I've been appointed to so many places. I've held forty posts in six years. <...> I'm staying on in the government." The Deputy Prime Minister said he does not plan to take up the post of Moscow mayor if Yuri Luzhkov leaves the post. (RIA Novosti) Sergey Tsoi "Our history has seen many city lunatics who came up with crazy ideas in a state of hallucination.

"Transcontainer" railway container operator. Revenue (IFRS, 2009) – 16.4 billion rubles, Net profit – 589.61 million rubles. At the IPO, TransContainer owners will sell up to 40% of its shares at a price of no less than 2,311.3 rubles per share, the company reported on Friday. Thus, the entire TransContainer is valued at 32.1 billion rubles. This value is minimal: if investors value the company lower, the placement will not take place, notes a representative of Russian Railways.

Pussy Riot trial 16 photos Since the beginning of the week, the Khamovniki Court in Moscow has been holding a trial of three participants in the anti-Putin performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich. The girls, two of whom have young children, have been under arrest since March. Modernization of animals 10 photos The Moscow Zoo is expecting changes.

Last Saturday, pictures from the official website of the Russian Academy of Sciences spread across the Internet at incredible speed, in the English version of which there were illiterate translations of the names of institutes. The famous Institute of Protein, for example, was called the Squirrel Institute. It would be correct to translate the name as the Institute for Protein Research (in fact, this is the official name of the institute in English).

September 20, 2010, 00:03 / Finance Beware - Russian IPOs! Stephen Dashevsky Russian IPOs - a way to lose money? The proposed topic sounds banal - in recent years, a large number of analytics have been published, where the increased probability of losing money as a result of purchasing shares during an IPO, both in Russia and abroad, has been mathematically proven.

October 4–6 13th International Commercial Real Estate Exhibition Expo Real – 2010 All key players in the real estate market gather here, and all important centres, enterprises and partners of the European real estate industry are represented. Organizer: Messe Munchen Where: Germany, Munich, Neue Messe www.exporeal.net /ru October 5 International Forum "Modern Real Estate Market. What to Modernize?" Rostrums for speeches by representatives of government and business.

September 20, 2010, 17:44 / Business Indian Sahara is in talks to buy MGM for $2 billion Dmitry Dmitrienko The little-known Indian conglomerate Sahara India Pariwar is in talks to buy the legendary American film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Inc., which was on the verge of bankruptcy, for more than $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing an informed source. He emphasizes that negotiations are at an early stage and MGM has not yet expressed any clear interest in the proposal.