Luxury perfumes become publicly available Despite the fact that perfumes are not considered essential items, the perfume business is considered one of the most profitable. Sales of perfume products are growing steadily all over the world. Over the past five years, the average growth rate in this market was 2.3% per year, and its global volume in 2000 was estimated at $23.3 billion. The luxury perfume category is characterized by high growth rates (4.9%).

The head of the Department of Microbiology at the Russian State Medical University, 56-year-old professor Vladimir Korshunov, was killed late last week in Moscow. According to information from the capital's Main Internal Affairs Directorate, his body was discovered early on Friday morning at the entrance of a house on Academician Bakulev Street. According to experts, the scientist's death was caused by a traumatic brain injury inflicted by unknown criminals with a baseball bat the night before.

The plant management is going to clear the market The main KamAZ conveyor was stopped last Friday. The plant decided to take this step due to temporary difficulties in selling cars on the domestic market, which is explained by a change in the sales strategy. During the first quarter, the conveyor will stop several times. The first stop will last until February 11. And from the beginning of April the enterprise will begin to operate at full capacity.

Six Russian tennis players are among the “seeded” players at the Australian Open, which starts on January 14 with a prize fund of 16.5 million Australian dollars. Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Marat Safin occupy the 4th and 10th lines in the “seeded” players’ bracket. Russian Elena Dementieva is 12th, Nadezhda Petrova is 25th, Tatyana Panova and Elena Likhovtseva are 30th and 31st. The lists are headed by Australian Lleyton Hewitt and American Jennifer Capriati.

Alexey Kudrin pleased the G7 with a story about the achievements of the Russian economy Russia intends to continue to regularly pay its external debts, carry out structural reforms and is ready to join the WTO soon. According to ITAR-TASS, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin pleased his colleagues with such optimistic news at the traditional meeting of finance ministers and central bank chairmen of industrialized countries in Ottawa. Mr.

The fight between two heavyweights (over 86.183 kg) Lewis-Tyson for the WBC and IBF world champion title will take place on April 6 in Las Vegas and promises to be the most expensive fight in boxing history. According to some estimates, the fight between two iconic boxers of the last decade should bring in around £70 million.

Berlin festival embraces diversity The catalogs and posters of the Berlin Festival bear the motto: Accept diversity. This is the idea of ​​the new festival management, who decided in this way to respond to the realities of the post-September world. The call, however, turns out to be somewhat ambiguous - either we need to respect the right of terrorists to have a special point of view, or we need to join the culture of Islam, then there will be fewer terrorists.

Swiss "gnomes" complain about US "imperialism" Swiss banks are “under pressure,” Georg Krayer, president of the Swiss Bankers Association (ASB), said at a traditional press conference in Zurich.

RFBR canceled the auction for the Eastern Oil Company There has been a key twist in the scandalous story of the Russian government's intention to sell its stake in the Eastern Oil Company (36.817%). On Friday, the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) announced in its official publication “Reform” the cancellation of the auction for the sale of VNK shares.

Krokin Gallery and “Dom” are fighting for the purity of language The “Straight Line Project” was presented at the Krokin Gallery on Bolshaya Polyanka. You walk in and think: you’ve entered the design bureau of a terribly secret Soviet research institute. They were also called “mailboxes,” remember? On the walls there are tables, formulas, diagrams, fantastic mechanisms and even a cross-section of a submarine. The tables were drawn by artist-mathematician Alexander Konstantinov.

An unprecedented rescue operation was carried out on the night of February 8 in the Gulf of Finland. The sailors literally passed the child from hand to hand, who needed to be taken to the hospital as soon as possible. Two-year-old Sasha, the daughter of Captain-Lieutenant Vitaly Kostyrko, commander of the border outpost on the island of Gogland, got into trouble. A foreign body was stuck in the child's windpipe; urgent surgery was required, otherwise the girl was in danger of suffocation.

The Russian team defeated the Swiss in the Davis Cup The Russian national tennis team still managed to reach the second round of the Davis Cup. “Our native walls helped us a lot,” said the captain of the Russian team, Shamil Tarpishchev, after the final match. - If we played in Switzerland, the score would probably be the same - 3:2, but not in our favor. The fans and... the ground helped us.

Ukrainian heavyweight Vitaliy Klitschko won his thirty-first victory in the professional ring last Friday. The American Won Bin was defeated and stopped resisting in the eleventh round. At stake in the fight was the WBA Intercontinental Champion title. Bean appeared in the ring first. His favorite turban adorned his head, and he showed with all his appearance that he was very determined today. The fight turned out to be very sticky and unspectacular.

Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze are in the lead after the short program As soon as it became known that the Russian couple Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze were the third to present the short program, my heart sank. It seemed that it was impossible to imagine a worse draw. It is always difficult for the first ones, because judges tend to hold back their scores, counting on the next duets.

The “party in power” is parting with its past Last weekend, the Russian elite actively said goodbye to the legacy of 1999. Three political organizations at once - “Unity”, “Fatherland” and “All Russia” - announced their self-dissolution. The reason is the creation of a new party “United Russia”, which will include leaders and activists of the dissolved organizations.