IBM and Samsung announced the start of joint work on new technologies for the production of microprocessors. The research program includes the development of new materials for semiconductors and technologies for the production of microcircuits, as well as the optimization of production processes. The main goal of the developments is technologies for mobile devices (smartphones, tablet computers) and cloud computing.

The proposal by members of the European Parliament to introduce visa and economic sanctions against Russian officials involved in the absurd sentencing of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, of course, does not guarantee that such sanctions will ultimately be introduced. But it is good that this topic has to be used to satisfy the information hunger of Russians who have woken up after a multi-day winter holiday.

January 13, 2011, 12:44 pm / Finance 2011 will bring a steady increase in investment demand Alexey Zabotkin Our model portfolio. We are starting the new year by betting on shares of oil companies ( Surgutneftegaz , Rosneft , Bashneft ), the steel sector ( Evraz , Mechel ), media representatives ( STS Media ) and real estate ( LSR ) and reducing weight of base metal producers, retail sector and banks. Will 2011 be like 2010?

January 13, 2011, 04:19 / Business Toyota may build another plant in Russia with a capacity of 150 thousand cars per year Toyota, which opened the smallest plant in Russia - 25,000 cars per year, plans to build another one - with a design capacity of 150,000 cars per year Alexey Nepomnyashchiy Anatoly Temkin Toyota Motor the world's largest automaker. sales - 7.48 million cars (2010). Capitalization - $132 billion.

Goldman will report its fourth-quarter and 2010 results on January 19. The quarterly results will be disclosed in a change that will significantly affect the trading and core investments division, which has earned the bank most of its profits over the past 10 years. Starting in the fourth quarter, Goldman's new institutional banking division will report revenue and pretax profit from bond, currency, commodity and prime brokerage operations, Bloomberg reports.

The presidential administration has prepared a package of anti-corruption measures, among which it is proposed to introduce a fine multiple of the bribe. Fines imposed under four articles of the Criminal Code vary from 10 to 100 times the bribe itself. The upper limit of a possible fine is 300 million rubles. As is known, not all corruption is expressed in monetary terms. How will bribes in the form of any material objects and non-material corruption be fined?

Russia will make a decision on oil supplies to Belarus within the next week, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said. "We expect that within the next week we should make a decision on supplies to Belarus," Shmatko told reporters on Thursday. "We expect that both the companies and the Belarusian side will find an appropriate compromise," the minister noted. Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev confirmed that the company hopes to resume pumping oil to Belarus soon.

It is not advisable to spend the reserve fund in 2011, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said at a meeting of the government presidium on Thursday. "Our assessment is that it is not advisable to spend the reserve fund next year with the higher incomes that we have, but it is advisable to keep it as insurance that may be needed," he said. According to the official, the volume of the Reserve Fund at the beginning of 2011 was 775 billion rubles.

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January 13, 2011, 14:38 / Business Assange will release files on Murdoch if something happens to him Sergey Smirnov Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he has insurance in case anything happens to him. In an interview with the British magazine The New Statesman, Assange said that 504 diplomatic cables from US embassies were ready for publication, shedding light on the activities of Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp., but did not talk about their contents.

January 13, 2011, 16:50 / Finance Russia is among the ten most dangerous countries for investment Political risks in our country are the highest among the BRIC countries. Anna Shpyntova maplecroft.com Political Risk Index 2011 Russia is "one of the most dangerous places to invest." This conclusion is contained in the Political Risk Atlas study, published annually by the British company Maplecroft, specializing in business risk analysis.

The premiere of the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre "Summer of One Year" sold out well in advance. There was no need to prove it, it couldn't be otherwise: Alisa Freindlikh and Oleg Basilashvili starred. The play is a "fantasy on the themes of E. Thompson's play "On Golden Pond".

Novosibirsk Region Prosecutor Yevgeny Ovchinnikov is demanding through the court that Novosibirsk Governor Vasily Yurchenko cancel the decree (December 13, 2010) that deprived pensioners and beneficiaries of free travel on public transport. The lawsuit was filed in the regional court, the prosecutor's office reported. Before the beginning of the year, about 700,000 beneficiaries rode municipal transport for free.

General Motors is not against the return of Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov to the ranks of shareholders of the Swedish carmaker Saab, the newspaper Dagens Industri reported on Thursday, citing sources. Antonov was not immediately available to reporters, and Saab's press service said it could not comment on the newspaper's data.

On Russian Press Day, January 13, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov congratulated all journalists and promised on behalf of the deputies to provide the media with as many positive news items as possible. In his opinion, the media are needed by the people - "they are trusted, they are listened to", and their journalists are necessary and sought-after intermediaries in public dialogue.