The long-suffering capital program “People's Garage”, which failed to reach its design capacity over the five-year period, is becoming overgrown not only with scandalous details, but also with criminal cases.

American engine for the hope of the Russian aviation industry The Irkut Corporation yesterday completed the selection of suppliers of the main systems for the MC-21 aircraft it is designing - the most ambitious project of the domestic aviation industry. By 2016, a family of medium-haul aircraft should be created in Russia, superior in key characteristics to the American Boeing-737 and European Airbus-320, which currently dominate this market niche.

Young British artists are presented at the Hermitage until 17 January As part of the Hermitage XXI program, an exhibition of young British art from the collection of the Saatchi Gallery is being held. The exhibition is part of a thoughtful policy to attract public attention to create a new image of one of the most conservative (in a good sense) museums in the world.

Central banks have convinced investors that the financial system is recovering Global stock markets began to rise again thanks to the confidence of European central banks in the economic recovery. Regulators are not yet ready to raise rates, but they no longer plan to expand emergency support measures. The Swiss National Bank announced that it was suspending corporate bond purchases it had been carrying out to support the economy.

Kaliningrad authorities again raised transport tax rates, ignoring protest rallies The westernmost Russian region is considered one of the most “motorized” - for 950 thousand residents of the Kaliningrad region there are about 350 thousand cars. Therefore, the population perceives the increase in transport tax very painfully: they used to tie “protest” orange ribbons on cars and hold rallies, but now they stop paying it. But the Kaliningrad authorities stubbornly continue to raise rates.

Olympic equipment presented The Russian Olympic Committee and its partner, the Bosco company, yesterday at the skating rink on Red Square presented the clothes in which Russian athletes will compete at the start of the upcoming Winter Games in Vancouver and in which they will possibly receive Olympic medals and generally appear in public. This time, the designers tried to take into account all the situations that our athlete might find himself in abroad.

At the Australian Open, Russians will play in all quarterfinal pairs Yesterday's victories of Elena Dementieva and Svetlana Kuznetsova on the next playing day of the Australian Open on the courts of Melbourne allowed Russian tennis players to achieve a unique result. Absolutely all quarterfinal matches will be held with the participation of our girls.

Girls from Odintsovo lost in a tiny Polish town The Group D match between Mushinyanka (Poland) and Zarechye-Odintsovo, held in the town of Mushin with a population of 5 thousand, ended the second round of the Champions League for Russian women's teams. Alas, all three of our clubs were defeated. “Zarechye” lost on Thursday with a score of 0:3 (20:25, 19:25, 22:25), earlier failures befell the capital’s “Dynamo” and “University-Tekhnolog”.

Wojciech Jaruzelski denies accusations of collusion with Moscow The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (INR) yesterday published material in its newsletter that refutes claims by the former leader of socialist Poland, General Wojciech Jaruzelski (pictured) , that he decided to impose martial law in December 1981 to save Poland from a Soviet invasion. In fact, the documents say, he himself asked for military assistance from the USSR.

Member of the Central Election Commission Igor BORISOV, who returned from the 33rd meeting of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly, held in St. Petersburg, told Vremya Novostei correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA about how and why Russia is participating in the development of uniform standards for international election observation. — Igor Borisovich, why was the issue of international election observation raised at the next meeting of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly?

IEA advocates changing gas pricing principles in Europe The chairman of the board of one of the largest buyers of Russian gas, E.ON Ruhrgas, Bernhard Reutersberg, in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, said: “If we do not choose the minimum volume of gas (under contracts with Gazprom - Ed.

Talking about Olya in the past tense is the same as talking about contemporary Russian art in the past tense. This cannot happen by definition. But the impossible happened: as a result of a postoperative complication, Olga Lopukhova died suddenly at the age of 51. It is very inaccurate to call her simply an art manager (although she called herself that) or a curator. Olya, in fact, was an Artist. An artist creating the space of Russian contemporary art.

The effectiveness of on-site tax audits turns against business The Federal Tax Service (FTS) makes claims against taxpayers based on the results of 100% of on-site audits. The tax authorities themselves explain such high results by using tax risk criteria, which make it possible, even at the stage of forming lists of organizations where inspectors are going to carry out inspections, to identify companies with obviously suspicious tax reporting.

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate supported war and sanctions The criticism surrounding the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award the Peace Prize to 48-year-old US President Barack Obama has forced him to carefully balance his remarks in Oslo. After all, opponents of this decision found it premature.