This ministry has one hand that does not know what the other is writing. On the one hand, they promise the end of the recession in 2013. On the other hand, they predict a further decline in economic growth rates “in some sectors.” Sheer verbiage and sci-fi, but not a penny of truth and sanity. And where does sanity come from? The goal of this army of officials is not an objective analysis of the situation. They are not capable of this, and they do not want it.

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Due to the deterioration of the macroeconomic forecast, budget revenues in the next three years may be lower than planned: in 2014 - by 197 billion rubles (1.5% of revenues), in 2015 - by 553 billion (3.7%), in 2016 - by 871 billion (5.5%), said Deputy Finance Minister Andrei Ivanov (quoted by Interfax). Now, according to Ivanov, the Ministry of Finance is considering a revised forecast prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development.

Investigators came to the Moscow gay parade organizer Nikolai Alekseev on Tuesday with searches as part of the case of insulting deputy Elena Mizulina, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia confirmed today. Alekseev himself initially reported this on Twitter: "In Moscow, the police have been breaking into Nikolai Alekseev's apartment since 7 a.m. Urgent!" he wrote.

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The growth of foreign investment in Russia is largely due to loans from Russian investors who previously withdrew their funds abroad, according to analysts from the HSE Development Center.

In the presence of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian Ministry of Defense and the UAC signed a contract worth 80 billion rubles for MAKS-2013. for maintenance of the entire current Air Force aircraft fleet for three years starting in January 2014.

Over the past week, Muscovites' interest in the mayoral elections has grown - the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) has raised its forecast for turnout in the Moscow mayoral elections on September 8 to 50-51% from 48% in mid-August. The VTsIOM forecasting methodology is based on the construction of a probabilistic model of electoral behavior.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti In 2012, Russia took 2nd place in Europe in terms of the specific number of apartments built. In 2012, 5.8 apartments per 1,000 residents were built in our country; this is 75% higher than the average for 27 European countries - 3.3 apartments. Only France is ahead: 7.8 apartments. These are the results of the study "Real Estate Index" conducted by the consulting company Deloitte, which studied data from the statistical services of 12 European countries and Russia.

European Union countries have lost $4 billion in fuel fraud, smuggling and theft in recent years, Bloomberg reports. The crimes are partly due to a 52% increase in diesel prices from 2009 to the present. The heads of eight of Europe's 10 largest refineries told Bloomberg that the shadow market is also putting pressure on their profits. The Association of European Refiners does not provide figures on the fraud, but government data suggests its scale.

Mikhail Degtyarev, candidate for Moscow mayor from the LDPR / D.

Lithuania has already handed over Russian citizen Dmitry Ustinov for criminal prosecution in the United States. As Rozita Rožarskiene, prosecutor of the Criminal Prosecution Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Lithuania, told BNS, Ustinov was handed over to the Americans last Friday.

M. Stulov / Vedomosti Potencial-Invest LLC will build a class A business center with an area of ​​40,000 sq. m. on Varshavskaya Street (the site north of building 7) in St. Petersburg, the press service of Knight Frank Saint-Petersburg (the project consultant) reports. Yesterday, the results of the architectural competition for the project of the future business center were summed up, the winner was the architectural bureau Grigoryev and Partners, Knight Frank reports.

Phosagro OJSC completed the repurchase of shares of Apatit OJSC (Murmansk region) from minority shareholders, consolidating 100% of the company, the company reported. Phosagro has completed all procedures related to the fulfillment of the requirement dated April 17, 2013 to buy out all shares owned by minority shareholders of Apatit OJSC, allocating about 1.99 billion rubles for these purposes,” the company said in a statement.

A. Makhonin / Vedomosti Official secret. 81% of the population has no idea what the government and ministers are doing, and 42% believe that the government has not had a single achievement in a year, VTsIOM found At the end of June, ministries and departments published their plans for the next five years.