Can the police help double GDP? At least he's trying Bank employees dealing with large amounts of cash are increasingly encountering law enforcement agencies in their work. Not because attacks on exchange offices and cash-in-transit vehicles have become more frequent. The thing is that departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are conducting massive checks of cash transactions of Russian banks. The goal is to eradicate illegal cash transactions.

You won’t surprise anyone with gold plumbing fixtures. Mikhail Khrolenko creates fashion for heaters made of semi-precious minerals Moscow, bath accessories store. On the shelf there are two types of stones for the stove: gray basalt (200 rubles for a 20 kg bucket) and greenish jadeite (4800 rubles). What will the buyer choose? “They are taking more and more jadeite from us,” says Yana Razvetskaya, manager of the Sauna Light salon.

One hundred sociable computer bosses will help sell your product Attorney Ralph Arnheim, who works for technology companies, loves the $600 digital plumbing miracle he recently installed in his California home. “Miracle” combines the functions of a toilet, a bidet and, sorry, a hairdryer. How could you not like it? After all, Arnheim got the digital “plumbing kit” completely free, like 50 other famous people from Silicon Valley like Napster co-founder Sean Parker.

Over the course of five years, a private coal mining holding company worth $1 billion has grown in the Kemerovo region. Will it be able to maintain independence in a situation where metallurgists are buying up raw material companies? Anatoly Skurov dearly loves his Porsche Carrera. This is probably the realization of an old dream. You need to work at a coal engineering plant in Kopeysk for 20 years, as Skurov did, to appreciate walking around Moscow in a silver convertible.

At the end of summer, Russian business goes to the Cote d'Azur, where balls and parties are held on this occasion. Here is a short calendar of events On the twentieth of August in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat at the Rothschild villa the next Bal des Fleurs (Flower Ball) will be held. The host of the ball, businessman Leonid Rozhetskin, decided not to change traditions, despite the unclear situation with the criminal case surrounding the sale of a blocking stake in MegaFon to him.

Don't think your baldness is respectable? Then you have to pay and take risks At 200x magnification on the monitor, my bald patches on my forehead resemble the surface of the moon. Dermatologist at the Vostokomed center Alexey Belchenko moves from crater to crater, working magic over my head with an “Engineering MC-027 computer microvideo diagnostic device.” “There were hair follicles here,” the dermatologist explains the origin of the craters.

Companies don't have enough people ready to stand at the machine. There is only one way out - to organize the migration of workers within Russia Can a worker from a provincial town earn more than $1000 a month? Yes, if he is highly qualified, say, a sixth-grade milling operator, and is on the staff of a company that is doing well with orders, for example, he works at the plant of the engine-building corporation NPO Saturn in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region).

The collective farm "Sunrises of Communism" has become a leader in the international tourism business At Murmansk airport you can often see a Boeing 767 arriving on a charter flight from London. He is often accompanied by the personal planes of famous businessmen and crowned heads.

In the Kaliningrad region they have learned to make goods under any foreign brand - this does not require large investments. Will the region see truly large-scale investments? At the end of June, Kaliningrad greeted its guests with the roar of road construction equipment. The noise was everywhere - the city authorities were selflessly using 1.5 billion rubles received from the federal budget for the 750th anniversary of Konigsberg-Kaliningrad.

A financial advisor can help you understand foreign investments. If you learn to understand consultants Who will competently create an investment portfolio for a private investor, help him save for a dignified old age and pass on his capital by inheritance? The common job title for people who do this is financial advisor. In fact, consultants can be private practitioners who work for a fee (like lawyers), or quite large partnerships operating throughout the world.

Blogging is a relatively new way of distributing information on the Internet. Do not doubt that someday it will affect your business. When a couple of years ago the technology of blogging (Internet diaries) was called “the most powerful breakthrough in the information world since the advent of the Internet,” many considered this a clear exaggeration.

Traditional acheto balsamico is added to food in drops, drunk in glasses, and given as a gift in barrels The small Italian city of Modena was very lucky. Here they produce cars without which the world's automotive industry would look boring, slow and cheap: Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari. Here they weave fabrics known throughout Italy and make clothes known throughout the world from them.

02 August 2005 Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Rating 50 stars 2 Philip Kirkorov Pop music $2,200,000 / 14th–16th places in income The famous “master of remakes” outdid himself last year by staging the first full-fledged “Hollywood” scandal in the history of Russian show business - with waves of popular anger, high-brow discussions on television and, of course, legal proceedings.

Last season, the Russian Super League became the most expensive national hockey championship in the world. And therefore - the most unprofitable The world's highest-paid hockey player, Jaromir Jagr, always wears number 68 to commemorate the 1968 invasion of his native Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks. This did not stop Jagr from playing the 2004–2005 season as part of the Omsk club Avangard (under the same number, of course). “My principles have nothing to do with it.

Rashid Mursekaev bought 12 used Boeings and revolutionized the passenger air transportation market It would seem that nothing could be simpler. The flow of tourists traveling abroad is growing. It is served by charter airlines. All of them use exclusively domestic aircraft, which consume too much fuel, and besides, some of them cannot fly to Europe due to the high noise level. Why not buy economical Western airliners - even used ones - and build a charter business from scratch?