Due to lack of offer Participants in the mortgage market are beginning to realize that the development of mortgages alone will not lead to the creation of an affordable housing market. To achieve this goal, “the development of mass housing construction is necessary,” said Viktor Ivanter, director of the Institute of National Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at the XIV All-Russian Economic Forum “Modern Housing Market: New Opportunities” yesterday.

Photo chronicle of the Solovetsky camp published An album of 148 photographs telling about the Solovetsky special purpose camp was published by the St. Petersburg Kirov Museum and the Solovetsky State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve. Photographs from 1923-1929 represent the “ceremonial” side of life in the giant camp, since the basis of the publication was an album prepared by the OGPU as “positive agitprop” and presented to Kirov as a report on the work done.

The authorities of St. Petersburg advise foreign students how to avoid becoming a victim of skinheads The other day, the authorities of St. Petersburg came up with a very unusual initiative, where recently there have been a number of attacks on foreigners, including fatal ones. For students from other countries, of whom there are about 18 thousand studying at St.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell visits the Middle East Local media do not call the current visit to Israel of US Secretary of State Colin Powell anything other than a “farewell” visit.

Thirteen servants of Themis “forgot” to appoint after the renaming of Moscow courts In Moscow, the largest “purge” of the judiciary in recent years is being carried out - in recent months, 13 people have been excluded from the list of judges. Most of them, under pressure from their superiors, were forced to voluntarily resign.

The opposition disputes the victory of Viktor Yanukovych The Ukrainian authorities are preparing to declare the winner of the presidential elections in Ukraine the single candidate of the “party in power,” Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.

Georgia celebrates the anniversary of the “Rose Revolution” Today Georgia celebrates the first anniversary of the “Rose Revolution,” which installed 36-year-old Mikheil Saakashvili at the head of the state after the early resignation of 76-year-old Eduard Shevardnadze as president. In January, Saakashvili received almost 98% of the votes in the presidential elections. The euphoria has long ended, but its position is still strong.

The Germans are carried away by the export of Sberbank securities The Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) yesterday issued a special statement containing a negative assessment of the activities of investment banks that issue unsponsored (without the participation of the issuer) depositary receipts for shares of Russian companies.

NET Theater Festival announced its program When two theater critics, Marina Davydova and Roman Dolzhansky, conceived the NET festival (New European Theater, which will open in Moscow for the sixth time in a week), they precisely wanted to “introduce a new generation of European directing to Moscow and draw attention to the new generation of directing Russian, which was just beginning to appear then." But still, previously NET showed almost exclusively foreign productions; Now that young Russian

The state will increase tax benefits for parents Income tax for Russians with children under the age of 18 should become less burdensome starting next year. As Vremya Novostei learned, the Ministry of Finance has submitted to the government amendments to the Tax Code, doubling the amount of “standard” tax deductions for such citizens. Depending on the size of the salary, if the amendments are adopted, parents will be able to save on income tax from 600 to 14 thousand rubles.

Theater figures and Mayor Luzhkov appealed to Putin and Fradkov Yesterday at the STD, after a long and heated meeting, in which, in addition to theater workers, the director of the Pushkin Museum, Irina Antonova, took part (we must unite), a collective letter addressed to President Putin and Prime Minister Fradkov was signed.

The Moscow prosecutor's office promises to respond to every snowfall The last hope for forcing the capital's public utilities to fulfill their direct duties for Muscovites seems to be the city prosecutor's office.

The Egyptians and Israelis decided to simply eat the locusts attacking their countries. The real attack of locusts, which occupied Egypt, Lebanon, Israel and a number of other Middle Eastern states in a few days, forced two irreconcilable parties - the Arabs and the Israelis - to act as a united front. Moreover, people decided to take revenge on the voracious insects with their own coin.

The last of six tournaments of the year in professional sumo crossed the equator in Fukuoka. Our first representative in the elite of the most popular sport in Japan, 24-year-old Russian Soslan Boradzov made his debut in the top division (makuuchi) in September and then showed a grandmaster result for a beginner - ten wins and five losses. Now the wrestler nicknamed Rojo (Russian Phoenix) is performing even better - in nine fights he lost only once.

Forecast for the coming days There is practically no place on the European territory of Russia that has not experienced the elements of an active cyclone. In the central regions, its activity led to record snow cover at that time, the height of which was 24 cm compared to 18 cm in 1933 and 1914. And in the south of European Russia there were very heavy snowfalls and accumulation of wet snow, in some places reaching a thickness of 20 cm.