Newspaper Izvestia English comments summit of BRICS results

The Supplement is Financial Izvestia. Newspaper Izvestia English comments on the results of the first summit of BRICS, at which the heads of five states signed an agreement on mutual crediting in national currencies. The first deal is already near: VEB intends to place its bonds in yuans. The State Council presidium session in Irkutsk on Monday was devoted to drug addiction and crack down on it. And on Wednesday Dmitry Medvedev visited the Moscow Branch of Federal Service for Drug Control, where before the session Medvedev was shown an exhibition of new anti-drug means and devices. Izvestia English describes the president's visit , during which he made several significant statements. Scientist Filipp Rutberg and his American colleague Arthor Rozenfeld have become the winners of the prestigious international Prize 'Global Energy" that was founded in 2003 and awarded for outstanding studies and projects in the sphere of energy contributing to raising the efficacy and ecological security of the sources of energy.
Sergei Sobyanin was appointed Mayor of Moscow six months ago. Experts assess his first steps as the movement in right direction. Izvestia English examines what has already been done by him. Russia will not buy the rocket cruiser Ukraina from Kiev. Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov explained the reason after his negotiations with his Ukrainian colleague Mikhail Yezhel. Business "European style" and "Russian style" seems to have little in common: different mentality, traditions and culture . Are these differences really big today, in the age of globalization? In Izvestia English interview William Kanninham , Technological Center of Deutsche Bank head, shares his view on the Russian specific features of doing business and on the level of training specialists. Yury Solonin, Senator from Khabarovsky Krai, in December of 2010 headed the Federation Council 's Committee on Education and Science. For many years he has been teaching philosophy at the St. Petersburg State University. In an Izvestia english interview he shares his view on today's system of education. The Moscow City Duma has officially supported the idea of unveiling a statue of reformer Pyotr Stolypin. The statue of the tsarist prime-minister will appear near the gvt White House in 2012-- by the 150th anniversary of his birth.