Earl Browder led the US communist party activists. His grandson William is interested in assets of a different kind What William Browder shares with his grandfather Earl, who died in 1973, is a sincere belief in Russian leaders. Earl believed in Joseph Stalin, with whose blessing he became the leader of the US Communist Party in 1932. And William, now 41, is sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the early 1990s, many believed that the Soviet economic system would quickly become a thing of the past. The planned economy will collapse, and competition will force enterprises to produce consumer goods. Finally, the shortage to which Soviet people have become accustomed, it seems, at the level of genetics will disappear (remember how residents of the European part of Russia, under the influence of crazy rumors, recently swept table salt off store shelves!). The economy really collapsed.

photo by Marc Bonneville Even with the simplest product you can conquer the entire Russian market. If you have a little imagination At the Turin Olympics, Russian fans were visible from afar: in the stands they were distinguished by their red and white Bosco Sport equipment. However, tourists from Russia could also be recognized where they usually do not wear any clothes - in a public sauna. How?

Africa again wants to be friends with Russia. Or at least with its individual regions In the first week of February, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Zambia to Russia (as well as to Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) Peter Lusaka Chintala was in Samara. Held a number of important meetings and exchanged views on the prospects for bilateral relations with the local business elite.

Russia has the richest fish reserves. Seafood consumption in the country is growing by 15–20% per year. But here’s a paradox: fish production and its processing are two industries unrelated to each other The situation at the Moscow Meridian cannery is alarming. The entrance to the administrative building is sealed with a metal grill. Militant workers dragged a fire hose to the upper floor window - they are ready to spray anyone who approaches the building with it.

In the coming year, the staff of MTS will be reduced by 1000 people. This is not about a crisis—it’s just that the period of extensive development of cellular operators in Russia has ended. Until now, companies' business growth has been driven by connecting new clients. However, according to J'son & Partners, by January 2006, Russian mobile operators served 127 million subscribers - there was no one else to connect.

Russia has railway engineering again In 25-degree frost, several hundred workers are shuffling chilly from foot to foot at a makeshift podium - a platform in front of the monument in memory of the factory workers who died in the Great Patriotic War. Welcoming speeches are heard from the rostrum. This is followed by awards for industry leaders. And this is not the 70s of the last century - this is today.

photo by Alexey Morozov for Forbes Can a Russian company supply navigation equipment and simulators to NATO flotillas? Three sailors from St. Petersburg proved: it’s easy The helmsman is blinded by the sun beating into his eyes and the snowy plain around him. A cargo ship is crawling along a narrow strip of water with large ice floes floating in it. A kilometer ahead, an icebreaker paves the way for the caravan. Thick ice threatens the cargo ship with sharp protrusions.

RAO UES of Russia may soon have a luxurious platform for organizing conferences, exhibitions and, if you like, presentations on industry reform, which RAO Chairman of the Board Anatoly Chubais loves to hold. We are talking about profile pavilion No. 55 (“Electrification”), located at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. For the last 15 years, the territory of the famous exhibition was given over to trade.

Projecting pictures onto the wall is not only memories of Soviet childhood, but also a serious business for the M.Concert company On a gloomy, rainy day on December 8, 1852, residents of the French city of Lyon gathered with candles, lanterns and torches for the unveiling of the statue of the Virgin Mary on Fourvière Hill. It turned out so beautifully that annual torchlight processions have become a tradition. Ten years ago, this event grew into the Festival of Lights.

Why workers at Russian Coca-Cola factories create unions secretly from management You can also get pleasure from working at Coca-Cola, reports the Russian website of this company. It seems that not everyone is enjoying it - otherwise, workers employed at the numerous Russian factories that bottle American soda would not have formed unions.

East PR January 1921 “Unfortunately, most corporations do not yet know how to properly present themselves to the public. John Rockefeller once said: “Of course, it is very important to do the right thing. But it’s equally important to let people know you’re doing the right thing.” Medicines Frankenstein January 1981 “Deciphering the genetic code, genetic engineering.

In 1979, the editor-in-chief of the American magazine Forbes became the first biker to penetrate the Iron Curtain. Translated from the book “Malcolm Forbes. Around the World in a Balloon and Two Wheels”, never published in Russian. The author of the chapter on Moscow, journalist Roger Hull, is one of Malcolm Forbes' five traveling companions. The book's protagonist, Malcolm, was born in 1917, the same year his father B.C. Forbes founded the magazine.

“Give preference to industries not yet represented on the market” Over the past two years, 15 Russian companies have raised more than $5 billion through share placements. Not bad at all for our market, considering that in all previous years investors did nothing but sluggishly “shuffle” shares of privatized Soviet enterprises.

What is hidden behind the multi-billion dollar transactions of Russian banks with their counterparties in Central Asia? A strange thing happened in February. The Bank of Russia has issued an alarming statement regarding the largest Asian Universal Bank (AUB) in Kyrgyzstan. What didn’t the Central Bank like? The volume of AUB’s transactions with Russia is too large—170 billion rubles for January–July 2005.