Luxury goods will be sold around the clock Don't want to meet people you know while trying on a suit from the new Brioni collection? Then you will appreciate the new service that the Mercury company, which owns “boutique streets” in Tretyakovsky Proezd and Barvikha near Moscow, is going to offer. Presumably, starting from June, the boutiques will be open to visitors at night.

3. Gazprombank ASSETS 431.9 billion rubles CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Andrey Akimov The bank with a self-explanatory name was created in 1990. After 16 years, Gazprom enterprises account for about 60% of all financial flows of Gazprombank clients. Gazprom now owns 87.5% of the shares of Gazprombank, and the rest belongs to its subsidiary, New Financial Technologies LLC.

Good replacement for home TV Once a year, the editorial office of the magazine Popular Mechanics, which I head, gets decent video projectors for testing. Typically they cost well over $10,000. We look at them, say “great”, pack them in boxes and send them back to the manufacturers. And we continue to live peacefully. It's like test driving a Ferrari - the car is good, but I don't personally know a single person who bought it or was planning to do so. And I know a huge number of people...

How to fire the president of a company using the Internet Billionaire Eitaro Itoyama, owner of a 4% stake in Japan Airlines (valued at $4.2 billion), used his personal online diary (blog) to attack the unwanted president of the airline, 63-year-old Toshiyuki Shimachi. In one of the entries, Itoyama held Shimachi responsible for the company’s losses, which could reach $400 million by the end of the year, accused him of “betraying” shareholders and demanded his resignation.

If a millionaire metallurgist takes on the production of vodka, everything becomes very serious How much can you spend on advertising vodka? Five million dollars? Ten? The Ukrainian Soyuz-Victan is going to spend $18 million to promote the new SV Original vodka, which, according to the company’s website, “is produced using a unique technology of purification with rock crystal.” Mars spends about the same amount on advertising its chocolate bars.

14. Citibank ASSETS 95.7 billion rubles PRESIDENT Mark Robinson Citibank is part of the largest American financial corporation Citigroup. The bank has been operating in Russia since 1993, but began serving the population only at the end of 2002.

Yuri Maltsev and his colleagues found a way to “take away” part of the banks’ business Who among you has not seen devices for accepting payments that look like a squat ATM? They are available in many supermarkets, shopping centers and even small shops. But did you know that the owners of these machines are not banks?

To buy shares, it is not necessary to come to the office of the management company. More than 70 mutual funds are now available through e-commerce A little over a year ago, senior student at Kabardino-Balkarian State University Alibek Khakiev (he studies applied computer science in economics) bought shares of five funds managed by Maxwell Asset Management and Troika Dialog.

Businessmen are ready to pay Denis Avdyushin for moving papers from place to place. Why? The warehouse of the archival company Delis A in Podolsk near Moscow looks like an ideal labyrinth. There are several thousand completely identical cardboard boxes on the shelves. There are no inscriptions or numbers on any of the boxes - just a small sticker with a barcode. What is inside? Accounting and business documentation of hundreds of Russian companies. Why do they keep the papers here?

Having traveled through Czechoslovakia and Poland on a motorcycle, in the summer of 1979 the editor-in-chief of American Forbes found himself in front of the USSR border. Continuation. For the beginning, see Forbes, 2006, No. 3. Translated from the book “Malcolm Forbes. Around the World on a Balloon and Two Wheels,” which was not published in Russian. The author of the chapter on Moscow is Roger Hull, editor-in-chief of the biker magazine Road Rider.

Raider, vodka magnate and member of the Federation Council - Alexander Sabadash successfully combines all these roles Entrepreneur Alexander Sabadash does not like to wear a suit, but he has to. His favorite informal style of clothing does not fit into the atmosphere of the Federation Council, where Sabadash has represented the interests of residents of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug since 2003.

Many owners of cellular networks in the regions sold their companies to the Moscow Big Three. Maybe they were in a hurry A lion is definitely stronger than a cat. And if the lion has nothing to eat, the cat may not be happy. But this does not mean that a cat, finding itself in the same territory as a lion, is doomed to death. At the beginning of this decade, Moscow cellular operators, having completed the development of the capital, moved to conquer the regions.

In 14 years, Igor Kim built the largest retail bank beyond the Urals. But this is not enough for the banker You won't find Igor Kim standing still. One of his banks is located in Novosibirsk, another in Yekaterinburg, and a third in the Far East. Two more banks from Kim’s collection operate in Moscow. Previously, he had a project in Kazakhstan. Now - in Latvia. I have to fly to Europe to meet with foreign investors.

For Russian football - $380 million? The price to pay for leaving the oil business is not too high for Roman Abramovich It was in vain that football fans worried about CSKA and counted Roman Abramovich’s money. Last year, when the governor of Chukotka sold Sibneft (for $13.1 billion), this oil company terminated its sponsorship contract with the Russian football champion ahead of schedule. Concerned fans immediately calculated that CSKA had lost at least $24 million.

Photo by PhotoXpress Entrepreneurs are not ready to put up with extortionists from government agencies. They hand over bribe takers to the police and the FSB. What motivates these businessmen? There is no desire to fight corruption “Large clients, good relations with customs, what else is needed for happiness?” — thought the director of the Baltic Customs Agency, Kirill Ilyin, on an April morning in 2004, while parking a Toyota Land Cruiser in the courtyard of his office.