While the oligarchs were fighting over mining enterprises, former KGB colonel Nikolai Bogachev was quietly buying up geological exploration companies. Now he is going to arrange the supply of natural gas to America Of all the companies in the world, the Russian Gazprom has the largest reserves of natural gas: 29 trillion cubic meters. This is over $87 billion at current prices, or 16% of global reserves.

Why do Iskander Makhmudov’s enterprises support the “separatists” What is the basis of the economy of South Ossetia, a tiny self-proclaimed republic of 70,000 people that the world considers part of Georgia? In rubles coming from Russia. The Transmashholding company (controlled by entrepreneur Iskander Makhmudov) this year allocated 15 million rubles for the purchase of metal and components for the Elektrovibromashina plant, located in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.

A year ago, we advised you to buy six interesting bonds, and our advice paid off. Now - great deals for the coming season Those who last summer took the time to take their money out of the bank and use it, on our advice, to buy corporate bonds were very lucky. By purchasing the securities we offered and selling them now, you could earn at least 14% per annum. And four bonds from the list brought over 18% per annum (see table on page 94).

The diamond monopoly's namesake, the ALROSA investment group, promised to attract hundreds of millions of dollars to the company's projects. Where's the money? From the window of the office of Sergei Vybornov, CEO of the ALROSA investment group, an impressive panorama of the Kremlin opens up. Perhaps this adds to his significance in the negotiations.

About medical examination, gold, Wal-Mart advantage JANUARY 1926 All for medical examination “Thousands of people acquire chronic diseases over the years. Meanwhile, the entire future life of a person and his family can be changed if he undergoes a basic medical examination every year - this kind of inspection is usually done for all complex man-made mechanisms, but not for one’s own body.” AUGUST 1984 Where's the gold?

Entrepreneur Vladimir Logvinenko wanted to create a museum of Russian icons, but ended up getting involved in the story of a missing European rarity All people are divided into introverts and extroverts, and all art collectors are divided into those who hide their masterpieces behind safe doors and those who exhibit them in museums. Moscow collector Vladimir Logvinenko clearly belongs to the latter.

Investments in foreign real estate funds can bring more income than buying apartments in Moscow It turns out that not all investors are satisfied with the rate of growth in prices for residential and commercial real estate in Russia. Azamat Kumykov, a senior investment analyst at Colliers International, knows this firsthand - almost every day he has to answer clients’ questions about where to get higher returns. What does Kumykov usually advise? Foreign real estate funds.

McDonald's “The McDonald's company is actively involved in the implementation of the concept of “State policy in the field of healthy nutrition of the population of the Russian Federation,” approved by the Russian government,” states the Russian website of the corporation. In fact: on the leaflet that every visitor to McDonald's now receives, the energy value of the products is printed. The recommended daily intake for adults is also indicated here - 2950–3300 kcal. But who recommends it?

Last spring, the president of a large holding company that unites mining and transport companies explained his strategy in an interview with Forbes. Russia’s competitive advantage, he said, is its vast territory, therefore, the company’s task should be reduced to two actions - “dig and transport”: extract minerals, which are in abundance, and establish transport flows from deposits to consumers.

Renault Recently, Renault opened the long-awaited production of the Logan car in Russia. Will the turnover of Avtoframos OJSC, a joint venture between a French company and the Moscow government, increase? More likely. Although... they grew well before. Already in 2000, long before the launch of assembly lines, the revenue of Avtoframos (Renault owns 76% of the joint venture) was about $30 million, and in 2004 it rose to $213 million. How is this possible?

Other people's opinions that inspire, irritate and surprise us The government's solution to a problem is usually worse than the problem itself. — MILTON FRIEDMAN, American economist Preservation period. The main task of the Putin regime excludes any qualitative changes in principle... Vladimir Putin leads and personifies the classic regime of conservation - complete preservation of the status quo...

Focus on Western examples or act on inspiration - which is better for ice cream production? In 1998, one of the managers of the Novosibirsk company Inmarko (now you can’t remember who) made the wrong call. The Novosibirsk ice cream manufacturer was going to buy a large Altaikholod refrigeration plant in Barnaul. Trying to collect the missing amount, Inmarko offered its Omsk cold storage plant to chocolate wholesaler Andrei Sitnikov. Yeah, the merchant thought, ice cream is an option.

Prices for ancient Russian coins are rising. How to make money from this? John Shemyakin became a numismatist by the will of fate. He inherited a collection of European and antique coins from his father, a subject of the British kingdom. John considered it his filial duty to preserve it and increase it.

Paradise nature plus a hellish investment climate - this is the Republic of Crimea As a child, everyone told me: “You, pioneer, will never be in Artek.” And what? Here I am - at the International Children's Center (ICC). I watch how young envoys from 21 countries, as part of the “Let’s Change the World for the Better” festival announced by Artek, stomp along the paths in organized groups. As a child, I would not have liked it here: collectivism, uniforms.

While the state is thinking about what to do with utility systems, Vasily Zonov is creating an alternative water supply system Outskirts of the city of Kirov. Weekday, late afternoon. At the “Key of Health” kiosk, a dozen housewives with bottles and cans lined up for artesian water. No, there is no emergency on the city water supply - it's just time to cook dinner. “We now use tap water only for laundry and cleaning floors. It’s unclear how we could drink it before,” says a woman in line.