Revolution in Europe and its consequences 1989 is rightfully considered the year of miracles. The reasons for the end of communism are explained differently depending on where the question is asked. As they say, “the point of view depends on the point on the geographical map.” The American will answer that the US policy contributed to this.

How innovations are born in the world Success stories ...The two guys met at Stanford, then began working in the university computer center, built with a $6 million donation from Bill Gates. Like other Internet users, they were extremely annoyed by the lack of normal search engines, which turned work on the Internet into sorting through the rubble of various links. The idea was that sites that were most relevant to a query and had higher traffic would appear at the top of the search rankings.

The Central Bank eases monetary policy The Bank of Russia continues to exclude banks from anti-crisis unsecured lending. More than a third of credit institutions previously admitted to it will no longer be able to use this tool. However, as market conditions improve, the need for this mechanism becomes less and less. Meanwhile, the Central Bank will continue to ease monetary policy. Restoring liquidity could return funding costs to pre-crisis levels as early as next year.

United Russia denied the State Duma the right to observe the elections The hopes of the parliamentary opposition to recreate a special Duma commission for monitoring elections were buried by representatives of United Russia.

Obama spoke to Shanghai students The official part of US President Barack Obama's three-day visit to China began today with negotiations with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Last night, the guest and Chairman Hu had dinner together in Beijing. And on Monday afternoon, the American president in Shanghai spoke with three hundred students from eight universities in China's largest metropolis.

Dmitry Medvedev has applied to open a Russian restaurant in Singapore “Some time ago I put forward the idea of ​​a comprehensive modernization of the economy. The experience of Singapore is very interesting,” said President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with the heads of the largest Russian and Singaporean companies. The main gift, however, went to the mainstay of the unmodernized resource-based economy, Russia's largest company, Gazprom.

Kozlov opened his personal account of the season Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Carolina” – “Minnesota” – 5:4 (bull.), “Atlanta” – “Edmonton” – 3:2 – Afinogenov “A” (1+0), Kovalchuk “A” (0+ 1), Vyach. Kozlov “A” (1+1), “Chicago” – “San Jose” – 4:3 (OT). Atlanta forward Vyacheslav Kozlov opened the scoring with his goals this season. The 37-year-old veteran last scored more than six months ago, and has finally broken his dry streak.

The German concern E.ON is committed to a combination of different energy sources that ensures progress in climate protection with an optimal risk profile in matters of energy security. According to its own strategy, E.ON intends to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.

Russia and the European Commission signed a memorandum on early warning in anticipation of the energy crisis The pace of Russian-European energy cooperation is not yet impressive.

Leaders of the Solidarity movement were detained for supporting Limonov Five leaders of the Solidarity movement were detained on Monday while trying to hold a picket near one of the Moscow pre-trial detention centers, where their opposition colleague, co-chairman of the Other Russia coalition, leader of the banned National Bolshevik Party Eduard Limonov, is currently serving an administrative arrest.

US financial authorities discuss banking sector regulatory reform Representatives of US financial authorities believe that the country's economy is still vulnerable and therefore should postpone the strategy for exiting the crisis. Moreover, they continue to express their readiness to bankrupt large companies if necessary. “The US economy is developing weakly.

Georgian border guards did not allow Russians to attend the presentation of the historical and literary prize The confrontation between Russia and Georgia has moved to the cultural plane. At the end of last week, Georgian border guards did not allow into the country the leaders of the organizing committee of the historical and literary award "Alexander Nevsky", who had come to participate in the event of colleagues from Tbilisi - the presentation of the David the Builder Prize.

Will another presidential envoy appear in southern Russia? By the beginning of the week, nothing had become clear in connection with President Dmitry Medvedev’s initiative to establish the post of special commissioner for the problems of the North Caucasus, which he put forward in his address to the Federal Assembly last Thursday.

The Kremlin Museums hosts the exhibition “General Battle. To the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava" The exhibition in the Kremlin Museums, dedicated to the anniversary of the Battle of Poltava, completes and crowns a series of Moscow exhibitions on this topic. If the exhibition that opened this spring in the hall of the Federal Archives offered a fundamental overview of the history of the entire war, then the Kremlin exhibition builds an impressive dialogue of first-class museum relics.

The European gas industry faces major challenges today. The current market situation can be briefly described as follows. As a result of the economic crisis, many gas utilities had to cope with a decline in sales volumes of more than 10 percent in the first half of the year in the industrial consumer sector alone. Accordingly, the level of gas supply on the market is high, which determines low spot prices and increased competition.