In the first quarter of 2013, Mechel received a loss under US GAAP of $321 million, with a forecast of a loss of $111 million. In the fourth quarter, the company's loss was $1.11 billion. In January-March 2012, the company received a net profit of $218 million. The company attributed the decrease in profit to a drop in prices. Revenue in the reporting period fell by 16% year-on-year to $2.48 billion.

Deputy Minister of Education and Science Igor Remorenko may resign, and his place may be taken by the current deputy head of the Moscow Department of Education Veniamin Kaganov. This was first reported by Izvestia, and then this possibility was confirmed by sources of RIA Novosti and Interfax.

The average price of a tablet has fallen by 12% in 1.5 years / Angel Navarrete / Bloomberg Computer assemblers have begun to shift to producing inexpensive, small-format tablets similar to Apple's popular iPad mini. Companies like Asus, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo have recently announced Android-based tablets priced under $200. For example, Asus' new MeMO Pad HD will cost $129, while Hewlett-Packard's Slate 7 will cost $170.

The Sibelektromotor plant will move from Tomsk to its suburb, Seversk, in connection with business optimization, Leonid Reznikov, Deputy Governor of Tomsk Oblast for Industry and Fuel and Energy Complex, said in the TV program “Rush Hour. Saturday”. Sibelektromotor occupied a huge territory with a large encumbrance. Today, the issue has been decided that significant production of Sibelektromotor will remain in Seversk.

June 18, 2013, 11:45 / Auto The European car market continued to decline in May Vedomosti In May, sales of new cars in the 27 countries of the European Union fell by 5.9% compared to the same month in 2012, to 1.043 million units, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said. The number of vehicles sold was the lowest for this month of the year since 1993. Among the largest EU markets, sales growth last month was recorded only in the UK (+11%).

Warner Bros. successfully rebooted the Superman franchise: Zack Snyder's Man of Steel was second only to Iron Man 3 this year (with its outrageous $174.14 million opening weekend) and set a new June opening record, beating Toy Story 3 ($110.3 million, 2010). If you count only the three-day Friday-Sunday gross ($113.1 million), Man of Steel ranks fourth among films that are not sequels, behind The Hunger Games, Alice in Wonderland, and Spider-Man.

June 25–27 12th International Asian Real Estate Market Fair Real Estate Investment World Asia – 2013 REIW Asia – 2013 will traditionally be held together with the Asian real estate exhibition The Real Estate Show Asia. Organizer: Terrapinn Where: Singapore, Singapore, Marina Bay Sands www.terrapinn.com/conference/real-estate-investment-world-asia July 8–11 China International Building Decoration Fair – 2013 CBD is the largest exhibition of building and finishing materials in the Asian region.

The team of travelers turned out to be a motley crew: Booker Prize laureates Andrei Dmitriev and Oleg Pavlov, the rapidly rising Dmitry Danilov, a successful debutant, the author of the cheerful and energetic “Doctor’s Notes” Alexei Motorov, his colleague in the medical and literary field Maxim Osipov, the author of children’s books Marina Aromshtam, and the literary columnist for the best Russian newspaper who joined them.

Six architectural firms will work on the concept of the future Zaryadye Park, which will appear on the site of the demolished Rossiya Hotel. Today, the jury of the international competition for the best landscape and architectural concept for the park announced the finalists, who were chosen from 87 applicants representing 25 countries. The winners were Diller Scofidio + Renfro (USA), Gustafson Porter (UK), MVRDV (Netherlands), Turenscape (China), West 8 (Netherlands) and TPO Reserve (Russia).

S. Porter According to Viktor Kochergin, CEO of the Tor architectural bureau (part of FSK Lider ), the first thing that catches the eye is that the aesthetics of the facades of the P-44T/25 series buildings clearly prevail over functionality: “It feels like when developing this series, the architect was more concerned with the plasticity of the facades than with the purpose of the usable areas.

The centenary of Benjamin Britten in St. Petersburg was celebrated with a mini-festival: the British Mahogany Opera and musicians from the chamber Aurora Orchestra presented Three Parables in the Lutheran Church of St. Catherine. "The Curlew River," "The Prodigal Son," and "The Furnace Act" - three performances, each lasting an hour and twenty minutes, took place over three days with a huge influx of the public. On the last day, three performances were given in a row.

A new bill prepared by the Federal Drug Control Service proposes a significant expansion of its powers. According to Kommersant, the Federal Drug Control Service wants to obtain a number of powers from the Ministry of Health, the Prosecutor's Office, and the Accounts Chamber.

2.2 billion rubles have been spent on upgrading the KAPO airfield, Vasil Kayumov, an adviser to the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and former director of the enterprise, told Vedomosti. “We have extended the [runway] surface. We have laid a 60-cm sandwich of crushed stone and concrete on it. This year we will make taxiways, the second and third, and parking areas,” he says.

to park within the Boulevard Ring Electric cars , motorcycles and mopeds will be free . According to Ekho Moskvy , this decision was made at a meeting of the capital's government on Tuesday. Previously, mayoral candidate Sergei Sobyanin promised to consider this issue . At the current meeting, he said that motorcycles and mopeds do not create congestion, and electric vehicles do not create problems for the environment. From June 1, 2013, parking in the center of Moscow became paid.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye met with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, who arrived in Seoul the day before, the Renhap news agency reported. The meeting discussed ways to develop the South Korean economy. Zuckerberg noted during the meeting that South Korea is an important market for Facebook and the company will continue to invest in the Asian market.