A. Mudrats / ITAR-TASS The main thing is not actions, but words. The European Court of Human Rights asked the Russian government to report on the fate of orphans who were not given to the Americans because of the ban on adoption (see the article “Strasbourg asked about orphans”, Vedomosti, 26.11.2013).

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov supported the proposal to allocate 100 billion rubles from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) in 2014 to support small and medium-sized businesses, despite the expected non-repayment. The proposal to place these NWF funds on deposits in Vnesheconombank with a yield of inflation plus 1 percentage point was put forward by the Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev.

In the coming years, the state will have to solve a difficult problem: how to reform the social services sector without increasing budget funding. And in this regard, a very clear example of how, in the conditions of budget sequestration, we very actively engaged in the PPP law. That is, material restrictions stimulate creative activity. I hope that this law will be adopted.

November 27, 2013, 13:05 / Business RusHydro: The designers are to blame for the flooding of Zagorskaya PSPP-2 Alina Fadeeva Insurance companies will be able to assess the damage from slab subsidence in February, said Anatoly Slyusar, head of the RusHydro insurance department .

Balint Porneczi / Bloomberg French media conglomerate Vivendi will split its business in two. Its telecommunications unit SFR will be spun off into a separate company with a stock exchange listing. This decision was made by the board of directors. Following the restructuring of its business, Vivendi announced a reshuffle in its top management. Vincent Bollor will replace 74-year-old Jean-René Fortu as chairman of the board of directors.

2. Putin: I also have rusty water flowing from my tap 50 Russian President Vladimir Putin complained about shortcomings in the housing and communal services sector at the forum of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). “Just imagine, even I, sometimes I also have rusty water coming out of my pipes. Funny, but true. It's embarrassing to even say this.

The Italian Senate has voted overwhelmingly to strip former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of his senatorial powers, Reuters reports. The parliament has thus upheld an earlier court ruling that banned Berlusconi from holding public office for two years. In the near future, the former prime minister's place in the Senate should be taken by one of the members of the party list of Berlusconi's Forza Italia! party from the Molise region.

The average monthly salary of civil servants in federal government agencies in January-September was 81,600 rubles, which is 34.7% more than in the same period last year, according to Rosstat data . On average, salaries in Russia for January-September grew by 14.8% compared to the same period in 2012 - to 29,102 rubles, according to previously published data.

“Freedom is not genius” is the best title for an exhibition from the Damien Hirst collection. The most successful artist of our time collects masterpieces and everything he wants. You can see the exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum. 21 photos Protests by thousands of supporters of European integration continue in Ukraine. In Kyiv, at least 500,000 people take part in opposition rallies.

November 27, 2013, 13:25 / Finance "Home Credit" slowed down the issuance of loans to a record low The bank showed the lowest financial result in its entire history Tatyana Voronova Denis Abramov / Vedomosti Based on the results of nine months, Home Credit Bank (HKF Bank) earned 9.4 billion rubles. profits, it said in its international accounts. This is 22.5% less than in the same period last year.

Increased subsidies for remote factories - payment for high costs / Igor Zarembo / RIA Novosti Automobile plants that specialize in the production of a particular category of vehicles (50% or more, with the exception of passenger cars) or are located in the Far East and Kaliningrad Oblast will be able to receive federal budget subsidies at increased rates from January 2014.

Sorry, I Ruined Your Company: Why Business Consultants Are the Problem, Not the Solution Karen Phelan Alpina Publisher, 2013, 224 p. When a crisis hits, business leaders rush to hire business consultants to tell them what to do next. Consultants will tell you in detail what is wrong with your supply chain, work schedule, employee compensation, etc. But do you need this? As in medicine, fashionable “patented remedies” for health improvement regularly appear in consulting.

The conference heard many proposals for improving the "road map". Which ones is ASI ready to listen to? - The draft "road map" is a fairly extensive document, in which we tried, together with our fellow developers, to take into account all the proposals of experts and the professional community. The conference convinced us even more of the need for the changes we propose.

We have good experience in the healthcare sector. We started doing this work in 2007, when together with Fresenius we implemented a project to create a private dialysis center. The state-owned center had fallen into disrepair, and there were not enough funds to quickly reconstruct it. The company came up with the construction initiative, after which we began purchasing the service. The life expectancy of the corresponding patients increased by more than 30%.

Andrey Makhonin / Vedomosti The total revenue of the marketing program of the Paralympic Games in Sochi exceeded $90 million, the Olympic organizing committee reported yesterday. 100 days before the start of the Paralympic Games, partnership agreements were signed with P&G, McDonald's, Rostelecom and the Ural Plant of Anti-Icing Materials, the report says.