Czech-Swiss Falkon is trying to gain a foothold in the Russian power industry The notorious Czech-Swiss investment group Falkon Capital , which participated in a scheme to pay off Russia's debt to the Czech Republic in 2001, announced large-scale plans for the construction of wind power plants in Russia. This was reported yesterday by the Prague newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes, citing the head of the company, Josef Cimbora.

The head of the corporation, Steve Jobs, brought the new Apple product to a special presentation at Macworld 2008, held in San Francisco, in an envelope. Inside was a laptop - ultra-thin and ultra-portable, as Apple describes it. The thickness of the computer, called MacBook Air, is only 19.3 mm and weighs just over a kilogram. Sales of the MacBook Air in the US will begin in two weeks, and its base price will be $1,799 (excluding sales tax).

America collapsed world stock markets The Russian stock market yesterday experienced all the “delights” of globalization. The mortgage financial crisis , which swept the United States and Europe and plunged the world's largest banks into losses, became the main reason for the collapse in stock prices of Russian companies. Against the backdrop of negative news from the United States, domestic indices experienced a collapse of 4.5%. Major blue chips lost 4-7%.

Today in Moscow the first Russian-Ukrainian gas negotiations are planned since the appointment of Yulia Tymoshenko as Prime Minister of the country. A delegation from Naftogaz of Ukraine headed by the chairman of the board of the state concern Oleg Dubina is scheduled to arrive at the Gazprom office. On the eve of the meeting with guests from Kyiv, Gazprom organized demonstrative information maneuvers.

Boeing 787 is behind schedule again The aircraft manufacturing company Boeing yesterday for the third time postponed the launch test flight of the long-haul Boeing 787 airliner it is designing. The start of commercial deliveries of the aircraft, known as the Dreamliner, has also been delayed.

Vladimir Putin will have to convince the Bulgarians to agree to Gazprom's terms Vladimir Putin will arrive today in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia - apparently, as they say in the Kremlin, this is his last foreign visit as President of Russia (Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov will participate in such an event as the opening of the Year of Russia in India).