"We have changed the program of this year's Tatyana Day: all entertainment events have been cancelled - today we are celebrating another anniversary of the founding of our alma mater in a concentrated and mobilized state," says the address of the rector of Moscow State University (MSU), Academician Viktor Sadovnichy, on the official website of the university.

The next episode of the comedy saga presents Robert De Niro in a new capacity. The change of director from Jay Roach to Paul Weitz (“American Pie”) did not stop him from inviting several more stars to join Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand—Jessica Alba, Laura Dern and Harvey Keitel. In the most expensive film of the year, decade and century, Tron: Legacy (budget approximately $300 million), life is divided into 2D and 3D, with 2D being more complete.

Spain's 2010 budget deficit nearly halved to 53.4 billion euros (5.1% of GDP) thanks to a VAT increase in early July, the country's finance ministry said. In 2009, Spain's budget deficit was 99.785 billion euros. The overall size of Spain's budget deficit for 2010 (taking into account the deficit of the pension system and regional budgets) should be 9.2% compared to the projected 9.3%, Spanish Economy Minister Elena Salgado said at a press conference.

Inter RAO may refuse to buy TGK-14 from Grigory Berezkin's ESN Group and Russian Railways (their joint venture, OOO Energopromsbyt, owns 83.62% of the company's shares), two sources close to one of the parties to the negotiations told Vedomosti. The companies did not agree on the price, one of them noted, but did not name any figures. According to the second source, the reason for the refusal is the state of TGK: its stations are old, and its investment obligations are large.

Transneft expects to conclude contracts for oil supplies to Belarus by the end of today, company representative Igor Demin said. According to him, oil supplies to Belarus may begin today at approximately 18:00-19:00 Moscow time. "The execution of contracts may take about 3-4 hours. As soon as we have legal grounds, we will immediately begin oil supplies," he said. By the end of January, Transneft may deliver about 300,000 - 350,000 tons to Belarusian refineries.

A Honolulu court has sentenced a former engineer who helped develop the engine for the stealth B-2 Spirit bomber to 32 years in prison on charges of selling classified military information to China, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The sentence comes after the recent maiden flight of China's J-20 stealth aircraft demonstrator, the agency notes.

The Russian state and its authorized representative, the Prosecutor General's Office, have shown that it turns out that you can do business with them. Or, more precisely, you don't have to do business with them. For example, the criminal case against Yevgeny Chichvarkin has been closed. Now the founder of Euroset is expected to return home from London, where he hid from prosecution for over two years.

Playwright Anna Yablonskaya, who flew to Moscow from Odessa on Monday, died as a result of the terrorist attack at Domodedovo, director and screenwriter Mikhail Ugarov wrote in his blog. "She was flying to the awards ceremony of the Art of Cinema magazine," he said. Twenty-nine-year-old Yablonskaya is known, in particular, as the author of plays and poems; she is a laureate of numerous competitions and awards.

VTB commercial bank. The main shareholder is the Russian government (85.5%). Capitalization (MICEX) - 194.4 billion rubles. Financial indicators (IFRS, 9 months of 2010): assets - 3.753 trillion rubles, capital - 545.4 billion rubles, profit - 38.8 billion rubles. According to VTB's financial statements under Russian standards, in December the value of the bank's "shares of subsidiary and dependent credit organizations" increased by 20.8 billion rubles.

Eight passenger and ten suburban trains on the St. Petersburg-Moscow route are almost an hour late due to the stoppage of the Red Arrow train caused by a technical malfunction, the Russian Railways press service reported on Tuesday. "Today at 7:00 at Podsolnechnaya station [in Solnechnogorsk] train No. 1 Red Arrow was stopped due to a technical malfunction. As a result, eight passenger and ten suburban trains on the St. Petersburg-Moscow route were delayed," Russian Railways reported.

January 25, 2011, 00:12 / Business "Russian Sea" received the right to raise salmon in the Barents Sea Irina Skrynnik group of companies The Russian Sea will engage in salmon farming in the Barents Sea. It won the competition and received the right to use nine fishing grounds for the commercial production of Atlantic salmon, the company said in a statement.

UBS UBS analysts raised the target price of Magnit GDRs from $29 to $34, and their recommendation from "hold" to "buy". According to experts, the risk of Magnit's quotes falling is low: the company itself is well managed, its revenue is easy to predict. Magnit shows the fastest organic growth and is traded at a premium to its Russian competitors, UBS notes.

45% of large investors surveyed by Bloomberg are confident in this; in countries neighboring China, 60% believe that a bubble is inflating there The economic stimulus package adopted last year, as well as the autumn decision of the US Federal Reserve to launch the second stage of the quantitative easing program, have significantly improved the prospects for economic growth in the United States, the Financial Times quotes the IMF forecast.

Eternal memory to the victims and deep condolences to the relatives! The explosions at Domodedovo in the arrival hall from foreign flights ( I myself recently flew through this airport) evoke sad thoughts. Registration required Only Readers Club members can leave reviews. If you have already registered, log in to the Readers Club . To become a member of the Readers Club, you need to register .

In the context of the discussion on reducing the cost of consumer loans, the possibility of establishing individual conditions for borrowers with a positive history has been actively discussed recently. The logic is obvious: if a person has conscientiously paid off his credit obligations in the past, then he will most likely continue to fulfill them in the future. Accordingly, the risks and rates should be lower.