The government website published an order to sign a protocol with the European Union, which defines the procedure for exporting Russian round timber at preferential rates. Russia agreed to preferential deliveries within the quota during negotiations on joining the WTO. The Europeans will divide the quotas among themselves.

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.

In the third quarter of 2011, AFK Sistema closed a deal to purchase 56% of the shares of OAO Moskovia Broadcasting Company, which manages Channel 3, according to the corporation's materials. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. As stated in the materials, in the third quarter the group spent $47.2 million to acquire new assets, including the purchase of the Altair group of companies by MTS and the purchase of the Moskovia TV channel by SMM (Sistema Mass Media).

Shopping centers only increase the already overloaded traffic of the capital; the city only needs district shopping centers and convenience stores, Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor for Construction, recently stated. The less the better According to the new program "Development of retail and wholesale trade in Moscow for 2012-2016," the capital's supply of stores should increase from the current 700 to 1,200 square meters per 1,000 people (mainly due to extra-budgetary sources) in five years.

In Kyiv, the Pechersk District Court has declared illegal the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office to initiate a criminal case against former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma on charges of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze. The decision to initiate the case has been overturned. Thus, the court has satisfied the complaint of the former president's defense.

Two weeks ago on this same page, when the country was still different, I wrote that the people, transformed into a crowd of philistines during Putin's 12 years, could very quickly become citizens if the minority presented an alternative and examples of responsible behavior. Change does not require a majority, it requires an active minority, even if it constitutes, as some offices believe, some three percent.

The past year was the most important in the short history of the country's real estate market. For the first time, we faced a situation where there was no longer a need to build, build, and build. "Project egoism" was justified several years ago, when it was necessary to provide adequate space to a growing business in the shortest possible time. Today, it is important for a developer to understand that his project is no longer limited by the walls of a building.

An addition has been made to the list of grounds for refusing to pay a monthly child allowance: if the inspection establishes that one or both parents have no income without a valid reason. This amendment to the law "On the monthly allowance" passed its first reading in the Moscow City Duma on Wednesday. According to Mikhail Antontsev, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Committee on Social Policy and Labor Relations, about 700,000 families in the city receive a monthly allowance of 750 rubles.

Governor of the Tula region Vladimir Gruzdev, who received a mandate following the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the sixth convocation, refused a seat in the legislative assembly, as he wrote on Wednesday in his microblog on Twitter. “I gave up my mandate as a State Duma deputy. I wish all State Duma deputies from the Tula region (we have 7 of them) to be worthy representatives of our region. Good luck,” writes Gruzdev.

December 14, 2011, 02:09 / Finance Banks decided to pay more than promised Banks are actively using New Year's offers and cash surcharges to increase the attractiveness of deposits without raising interest rates. Marketing campaigns help them not to attract the attention of the Central Bank with high rates Tatyana Voronova Lyudmila Koval D.

December 14, 2011, 01:56 / Business Energy supply companies will cease to belong to offshore companies Energy sales companies should not belong to offshore companies, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin decided Ksenia Dokukina The government is going to require the owners of energy sales companies to transfer assets from foreign offshore companies to the balance sheet of Russian legal entities, Interfax reported, citing several sources in the industry; Sechin instructed the relevant

"We should not expect a significant increase in tariffs - the competition is too high, and the price increase will most likely correlate with the inflation rate," says Ruslan Fatykhov, director of the Kazan branch of the financial group BCS . "But a certain consolidation in the market will undoubtedly occur," he continues.

M. Stulov The Safe Internet League proposes to amend the laws "On Communications" and "On Information", the league's executive director Denis Davydov told Vedomosti. It is proposed to create a list of sites with child pornography that operators will be required to block.

The number of road accidents in Moscow for the period from January to November 2011 decreased by 1.5%, and the number of injuries decreased by 2% compared to the same period in 2010, reports the press service of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate for Moscow. In total, 10,734 road accidents were registered over 11 months, in which 705 people died and 12,367 were injured.

Ireland, which receives financial aid from international lenders such as the EU and the IMF, may include the question of its membership in the eurozone in a referendum on the country's participation in the "budget stability union" scheduled for next spring, the country's Prime Minister Michael Noonan said in an interview with Bloomberg.