Hard Reception Stretch marks and advertising banners telling about the first anniversary of the reincarnated MMM pyramid have appeared online and on the streets of Russian cities. Citizens argue about the legality of this scheme and its promotion not only among themselves, but also with the authorities. Thus, several hundred people recently took to the streets of Yekaterinburg, supporting the project and dissatisfied with its oppression by the state. Now this problem is no longer purely Russian.

Fragments of a multi-story office building under construction collapsed on guards in Chelyabinsk this morning. Rescuers pulled three people out from under the rubble. "At 05:16 on March 15, a message was received that in the city of Chelyabinsk on Surikova Street, 2, as a result of construction work, three or four floors of an office building collapsed.

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The political council of the Saratov regional branch of Pravoye Delo (seven people) yesterday announced its self-dissolution, as well as the liquidation of local party cells in the region. The regional branch has a total of 1,082 party members.

President Dmitry Medvedev will instruct the prosecutor's office to check the law's compliance in the case of environmentalist Suren Gazaryan, said Mikhail Fedotov, head of the presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. "Gazaryan was mentioned at the Council several times, and the president said that he would instruct the prosecutor's office to look into this whole story in the most detailed way," Fedotov said after a meeting of the council in Novokuibyshevsk.

State Duma deputy, SR Gennady Gudkov refutes the words of the leader of "A Just Russia" Sergei Mironov that Gudkov was given a "final warning" at a meeting of the bureau of the party's central council for participating in protest rallies.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow has decided to arrest Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front movement, for ten days. The oppositionist, who was detained after a rally on March 10 on Novy Arbat, was found guilty of disobeying police officers. In response, Udaltsov announced a hunger strike. "I cannot accept this decision, I will appeal it and in connection with this I am declaring a dry hunger strike," the coordinator of the Left Front movement told journalists.

The Petrovsky branch of Otkritie Bank has closed a third of its branches since 2009, including 26 in 2011, leaving 103 offices in St. Petersburg and six in the Northwestern Federal District, its manager Andrei Atamas reported yesterday. The bank has given up unprofitable and non-standard premises – branches in basements, currency exchange points or duplicate offices, the banker says. All the premises were rented, and the maintenance of one cost about 500,000 rubles a month, he adds.

A sinkhole was recorded in the area of ​​Moscow State University, a law enforcement source told Interfax. "On Thursday, a sinkhole occurred on the roadway near the intersection of Akademika Khokhlova and Lebedeva Streets," the agency's source said. He added that the sinkhole was three by five meters in size and about two meters deep. "Traffic in the area of ​​the sinkhole is limited. The probable cause was most likely a washout," the source told Interfax.

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For 2011, employees of German automakers will be paid record bonuses, Deutsche Welle reports. Employees of BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Daimler and Porsche will receive an average of 4,100 euros to 9,000 euros each. In 2011, BMW's revenue increased by 51% to 4.9 billion euros. In this regard, the company management decided to pay permanent employees bonuses of an average of 9,000 euros.

March 15, 2012, 11:27 am / Finance The Ministry of Economic Development proposes to increase the export duty on fuel oil from 66% of oil to 90% Vedomosti The Ministry of Economic Development proposes to increase the export duty on fuel oil from 66% of oil to 90% from April or May. Three sources in government circles reported this to the agency. According to one of them, this issue is being discussed at a ministry meeting on Thursday.

The price of gold at Thursday's auction is adjusted upward after a significant fall the day before, which occurred against the backdrop of declining investor confidence in the Federal Reserve's US intention to conduct a third round of stimulation of the national economy, trading data shows. As of 12.53 Moscow time, April gold futures added 0.24% to $1,647.10 per troy ounce.

March 15, 2012, 22:47 / Auto Russian officials will have to give up Mercedes Dmitry Kazmin Maxim Tovkaylo The Ministry of Economic Development is going to propose to the government to allow the purchase of only Russian-assembled cars for state needs, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Mikhail Oseevsky told Vedomosti.

The construction site on Bolshoy Kozikhinsky Lane, where they are trying to demolish the remains of building 25, was pelted with smoke bombs. As a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax, this happened late Wednesday evening. About fifteen people tried to enter the site, but a security guard would not let them in. In desperation, they threw three smoke bombs onto the site and disappeared.