Revelations of the oligarchs in the British court, new excuses of the mask and how not to get caught in the search for work

What Potanin and Deripaska said and did not say Abramovich in the new trial in the high court of London - in the evening newsletter The Bell

Vladimir Potanin and Oleg Deripaska, 2008. Photo: TASS

Roman Abramovich and Vladimir Potanin lost to Oleg Deripaska a dispute about 2% of Norilsk Nickel shares in the high court of London. This was the first public proceedings in recent years between Russian oligarchs, whose world is as interesting as closed.

• To briefly retell the essence of the conflict, we can say that it concerns the money of Norilsk Nickel: Deripaska always wanted to get to them through dividends, Potanin never caused enthusiasm.
• In 2012, a conflict flared up between partners, which lasted so long that he began to cause noticeable irritation in the Kremlin. At some point, Potanin and Deripaska were even threatened by the nationalization of Norilsk Nickel, wrote Forbes. Alisher Usmanov and German Gref tried to reconcile them, but in the end, Roman Abramovich, who became the company's minority, spoke in the dispute.
• Valentin Yumashev, the former head of the presidential administration Boris Yeltsin and the father -in -law of Deripaska, proposed inviting Abramovich.
• The role of the “White Knight” Abramovich was perfectly successful: the company stopped shaking the scandals, and he and his partner Alexander Abramov only in the form of Norilsk Nickel dividends received about 40 billion rubles. But they could even more - if the high court in London had not deployed a deal today to sell the shares of the company.

You can read more about this story here , but it seems to us that the disputes of the Russian oligarchs in British courts are interesting not so much the creature of the claimed claims as that they themselves and their managers tell when they give testimony under the oath. This time we did not wait for the revelations in the spirit of Berezovsky, but we enjoyed, watching how the oligarchs and their entourage are exchanged by custody:

• “This is a natural conflict between people who need money right now, and those who can create a long -term benefit,” Vladimir Potanin argued, proving to the court that, unlike Deripaska, he prefers not to take money from the company, but to invest it in its development.
• “I don’t think that Potanin is so involved in the activities of Norilsk Nickel,” Maxim Sokov answered this top manager Deripaska. According to him, Potanin prefers Norkel in the summer from his yacht, and the rest of the time-not leaving the dacha limits 30-40 km from Moscow.
• But Valentina Yumashev Sokov in court called a very respected man among Russian businessmen. Already after the trial, it turned out that the last 18 years, Yumashev has been holding the post of adviser to Vladimir Putin on a voluntary basis. He does not have specific powers, but he has the opportunity to communicate with the president from time to time - a valuable resource even for the oligarchs.
• “Deripaska called Abramovich a cynic. Perhaps he does not know the exact meaning of the word? " - the long -standing partner Abramovich David Davidovich was surprised in court. - We are not cynics, we are pragmatists. We are interested in money, but how we earn it is also of great importance for us. ”

What am I to me?

The last time people of such a caliber met in the London court in 2011 during an epic dispute between Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky. Thanks to him, the world community recognized the word “roof” - informal patronage of influential people in exchange for loyalty, which, as Berezovsky said, “does not imply dissolved individually.” When and for what reason the oligarchs will meet in court the next time, we do not know, but for the future we advise you to follow such processes - this is much more interesting than the series “House Cards”.

MONEY

Trump spared Chinese investments

Donald Trump and his administration decided not to cross the new border in the trade war with China and not to introduce strict prohibitions on the investment of Chinese companies in the United States. It was assumed that in this way the United States would deprive China of the opportunity to borrow (or steal, as Trump directly calls ) American technologies. Instead, Washington will be limited to the expansion of the powers of the foreign investment commission.

Analysts are to blame again

Ilon Mask is only three days left to hold back the word and bring the production of Tesla Model 3 to 5,000 per week by the end of the first quarter. It's time for his beloved lesson-curses with pessimists analysts. After Goldman Sachs appreciated the company's sales in March-June at 22 thousand cars instead of the expected 28 thousand, Musk wrote a special letter to employees, in which he promised that analysts were waiting for “rude awakening”. The market so far believes the mask - Tesla stocks have grown by 1.7%today. You can follow how Musk fulfills this and other promises here .

Signals

Conversation is not about sanctions

Vladimir Putin met with the US presidential adviser John Bolton and discussed the agenda of the upcoming meeting with Donald Trump. Sanctions against Russia were not discussed, said Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov. The result of the meeting of Putin and Trump, he said, may be the presidential joint statement of “further steps to improve bilateral relations” and “joint actions to ensure international stability and security”. Bolton (the famous hawk) warned that it was not worth waiting for specific results from the meeting, but he admitted that it could be “meaningful”. According to the latest data , Putin and Trump will meet in Helsinki on July 15.

PRACTICE

How to look for a new job so that they do not recognize on the old

You may have noticed that recently your colleague has become longer lunch or go to the dentist more often. It is possible that this is a millennial that is looking for a new job. According to the Gallup survey, employees aged 21 to 38 are changing work three times more often than other employees. But the search for a new job so as not to arouse suspicions at the current workplace may be a difficult task, because you need to at least ask for interviews. Not everyone manages to do this unnoticed - WSJ, for example, gives an example of an employee who forgot to disable notifications from LinkedIn: when he came to the boss with a statement, he had long known about his imminent care. So you can lose your old job without having time to find a new one - but this outcome can be avoided if you follow these tips .

Medical Cloud from Microsoft

IT and Internet giants begin a large race- who will be the first to master the nascent market of artificial intelligence in medicine. Google has already presented a technology that can predict a change in the patient's condition twice as accurately than doctors. Chinese Baidu and Alibaba, American IBM and Microsoft are developing their products. The latter has been working on medical AI for several years, and now a separate team has been created for this, which is working on a cloud that will be stored for patients of patients. It is assumed that artificial intelligence will be analyzed by the analysis of this data.

Irina Malkova