Deutsche Bank wrote off 2.3 billion euros, but remained with a profit Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, published data for the second quarter yesterday. The results turned out to be better than expected - net profit amounted to 649 million euros. Analysts expected this figure at 491 million euros. This level of profit can be explained by the bank's stable business in the field of servicing private clients.

Extra levers found on Hamilton's car Lewis Hamilton's two victories in a row simultaneously summed up the first half of the season and opened the second part. Despite the fact that the English and German races turned out to be completely different either in plot or in the conditions in which they took place, the confidence with which Lewis dealt with his opponents along the way gives the right to combine these two stages into one.

The court declared the decision of the board of directors of TNK-BP invalid After the head of BP Tony Hayward (pictured) recently issued a decisive rebuke to the actions of Russian partners in TNK-BP, one of the beneficiaries of the AAR consortium and chairman of the board of directors of the Russian-British company, Mikhail Fridman, urgently flew to London to continue the dialogue.

The President approved the national anti-corruption plan The National Anti-Corruption Plan , which President Dmitry Medvedev approved yesterday, fits on fourteen pages. In terms of the scale of this phenomenon itself, which today permeates the state system from top to bottom, it is quite small.

OPEN AIR Live music festival "Romantic Fest". A festival for musicians, artists and creative people from all over Russia, in which the most worthy young teams from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Yaroslavl, Ulyanovsk, Voronezh and other Russian cities are invited to participate. Festival participants: “Starov”, Summer Days, Anges, “Give 2”, Growl Town, “DyaDisDyu”, “Hands Off Cuba!”, “Operation Plasticine”, “ Zero Limit”, G-Band, The Pin, “ Easy!”, bumblebee, “Li-Lit”, “Syndrome”.

The well-known master of spatial traps with inorganic life oozing from them, Ilya TRUSHEVSKY, after the super hits “Metro”, “Wagon”, “Sweet”, tried to support his colleagues in combined exhibitions on new, still unexamined topics: “Art and Science” and “Gop Art”. The result is rather intermittent. As, indeed, with most of the excellent artists who jointly developed the Biennale terra incognita.

Olga LOPUKHOVA, curator, art manager, head of one of the most successful Moscow contemporary art projects - “ARTStrelka” (at the same time the head of the gallery with the same name), follows the work of young people with a special passion. He sincerely rejoices at the successes of young talents and is saddened by failures. According to Olga, the biennale gave reason for both joy and sadness... -- The artist Yuri Albert proposed a witty move as one of the intrigues of the biennale.

Turkey's ruling party escapes ban The Constitutional Court of Turkey dealt with the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office, which demanded the dissolution of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), earlier than predicted by local politicians, who believed that the verdict would be rendered in August.

The opposition supports the referendum in Latvia Tomorrow a referendum will be held in Latvia on the issue of amending the constitution to give the people the right to initiate the early dissolution of the Seimas (parliament). Now only the president of the country has the right to demand the dissolution of the Sejm - he can make such a proposal, but the final decision to disperse the deputies is made in a referendum.

Data on election coverage in the media is carefully hidden Serious passions flared up at yesterday's meeting of the Central Election Commission over the issue of changing the charter of the Russian Center for Training in Electoral Technologies (RCET) under the CEC. The provisions regarding monitoring of the media during the election campaign turned out to be controversial.

Diana MACHULINA is the author of the most mysterious opus of the biennale, a puzzle painting on the theme of the decline of the Soviet empire (shown at the exhibition “Invisible Difference”). Recognized for her impressive creative energy, supported by a powerful intellect, the artist talks about her understanding of the specifics of young art. — Initially, I was struck by the list of several hundred, mostly unfamiliar names.

The authorities of St. Petersburg agreed that the Decembrists did not rebel against the Tsar on Decembrist Square The square, bounded on the east by the side façade of the Admiralty, and on the west by the buildings now occupied by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, has regained its historical name. From now on it will be called not Decembrists Square, but Senate Square. As before, during the empire. The corresponding decree was signed by the Governor of St.

Boris Ebzeev will replace Mustafa Batdyev as President of Karachay-Cherkessia President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the People's Assembly of Karachay-Cherkessia the candidacy of its future leader - he will be 58-year-old Boris Ebzeev, a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, a native of Kyrgyzstan, where Stalin deported the Karachais, among other Caucasian peoples, during the Great Patriotic War.

New ammunition is being created in Russia One of the leading enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex, the state scientific and production enterprise "Basalt", is celebrating its 70th anniversary these days. "Basalt" is a diversified enterprise, its customers include almost all branches of the military, special services, including foreign ones. The enterprise has the right to independently enter the foreign market.

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