Yesterday, the State Duma Constitutional Committee considered the issue of 100,000 citizens' signatures collected by the editorial board of Novaya Gazeta against the counter-law to the Magnitsky Act, which prohibits, in particular, the adoption of Russian children by Americans. They were collected in two days and sent to the State Duma after its adoption.

Russia will provide Bangladesh with a $1 billion loan to purchase Russian weapons, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday after a meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "Our countries intend to expand military-technical cooperation. Russia will provide Bangladesh with a loan of $1 billion, which will be used to purchase Russian weapons and military equipment," Putin said.

Gildo Zegna, CEO of Ermenegildo Zegna Group / A. Makhonin / Vedomosti 1989 joined the board of directors of Ermenegildo Zegna Group 1997 appointed CEO of Ermenegildo Zegna Group Ermenegildo Zegna Group Manufacturer of luxury clothing and textiles. Owned by the Zegna family. Financial indicators (2011): revenue – 1.13 billion euros, net profit – 115 million rubles. Produces fabrics, clothing and accessories under the brands Ermenegildo Zegna, ZZegna, Zegna Sport, Agnona.

January 15, 2013, 09:32 / Finance Geithner reminded Congress that the Treasury's measures to curb the national debt will not last long Vedomosti US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday joined President Barack Obama and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in calling on Congress to quickly resolve the issue of increasing the debt ceiling from the current $16.4 trillion.

Russia and Belarus have generally reached a consensus on the oil balance for 2013, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at a press conference on Tuesday. "[Russian President Vladimir] Putin and I have agreed on all issues. We have mutual obligations on oil and natural gas, and we are fulfilling them and will continue to fulfill them," Lukashenko said.

The government has lifted the salary cap for the heads of 45 budget and state institutions. The lucky ones will now negotiate their salary with the relevant ministry. The order, published during the New Year holidays, says nothing about the selection criteria; the recently introduced remuneration system (the salary of a manager should not exceed eight average salaries of employees) turned out to be unsuitable for unique managers.

The ban on over-the-counter sales of codeine-containing drugs has led to a "phenomenal recovery" of the nation, said Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Drug Control Service. According to him, the market for desomorphine, which can be obtained from codeine-containing drugs, has decreased by 10 times, and the number of drug dens has been halved. The ban on the sale of codeine-containing drugs without a prescription came into effect on June 1, 2012.

A section for publishing petitions and collecting signatures for them may appear on the Duma website, United Russia deputy Robert Shlegel told Izvestia. He called the State Duma website one of the "most obvious platforms" for creating a petition system and voting on them. The committees on constitutional legislation and on work with the media are currently working on this proposal.

Head of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin / D. Abramov / Vedomosti The final cost of building the stadium, which is currently being built by PSC Transstroy on Krestovsky Island in St. Petersburg for the Zenit football team, should be 43.8 billion rubles. Smolny previously stated that the project would cost the budget 37.7 billion rubles. The estimate can easily be reduced by a quarter and save 10 billion rubles, says Sergei Stepashin, head of the Accounts Chamber (AC).

For now, VimpelCom subscribers have access to mobile Internet only in 3G or WIFI networks / D. Abramov / Vedomosti On the way to a million. 500000 LTE subscribers were in Russia at the beginning of 2013 (Telecomdaily data). Of these, 95% were served by Scartel and Megafon. 15 The operators who won the competition in July 2012 must invest billion rubles per year in the construction of LTE networks over the course of seven years.

In the 1990s, after the collapse of communism, there was, as they used to say, a thawing of many conflicts that had been frozen by the structural confrontation between the USSR and the USA, the then East and West. The external framework for the actions of states and societies was dictated more harshly by the USSR, a little more delicately by the USA, sometimes by both of them together. When, for example, they hand in hand imposed non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Portfolio managers are now spending the most money on stock purchases since February 2011, and optimism about the global economy is at its highest level since April 2010, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey of 254 managers with total assets under management of $745 billion. The number of investors taking on more risk than usual has reached its highest level since 2004, and the overweight of bank stocks in portfolios has been recorded for the first time since 2007.

Fluffy Law On the editorial article “Who sells orphans” (No. 1 of 14.01.2013, p. 01) What's wrong with the Magnitsky Law? Does it give an incorrect assessment of the state of corruption in our country? Did it distort the description of the fate of the late Magnitsky? Or do the sanctions against Major Karpov somehow affect the interests of the state? What is the essence of the claims against the law? Why is the Duma suddenly so offended?

Rosinter will feed Kazan Rosinter Restaurants Holding has become the catering operator in the new terminal of the Kazan International Airport. The terminal will have one restaurant, Il Patio, two American Bar and Grill restaurants, and three Costa Coffee shops. Interfax Expansion of "Children's World" Detsky Mir plans to open 30 new stores in Russia in 2013. In 2012, 48 new stores were opened in Russia and Kazakhstan, bringing the total number of stores in the chain to 195.

I have already described four organizational pathologies: splitting, mania, rigidity and totalitarianism. The fifth type of organizational disease is called “ organizational fragmentation” and is often found in government organizations ( ministries and departments).