Mail.ru's revenue in 2009 according to IFRS grew by 66.7% - to $126.4 million, said Dmitry Grishin, CEO of the Internet giant. In ruble equivalent, the figure increased by 112.8% - to 4 billion rubles, notes RIA Novosti . According to Grishin, the main share of revenue was made up of income from advertising and additional services - their contribution was approximately equal. The company predicts that this trend will continue in 2010.

The search for 23 miners, whose bodies have been searched for a month and a half at the Kuzbass Raspadskaya mine, will be completed no earlier than September, Governor of the Kemerovo Region Aman Tuleyev said in Novokuznetsk at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

A high-speed train "Sapsan", traveling from St. Petersburg to Moscow, hit a person on Thursday morning in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, a source in law enforcement agencies of the Moscow region said. “According to preliminary data, the deceased turned out to be a local resident who, for an unknown reason, ended up on the railway tracks,” RIA Novosti quoted a source as saying . The incident happened at 10:01 Moscow time on the Senezh - Podsolnechnaya section.

The restoration of the Raspadskaya mine in the Kemerovo region will require, according to preliminary estimates, about 10 billion rubles. Head of Government Vladimir Putin announced this at a meeting with miners in Novokuznetsk, RIA Novosti reports . Earlier, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko called the amount of restoration of Raspadskaya in the range of 6-11 billion rubles. Let us remind you that on the night of May 9, two explosions occurred at the mine, as a result of which 67 people died.

In the suburbs of Barcelona, ​​a long-distance passenger train hit several dozen people crossing the railway tracks. As a result, at least 12 of them were killed, and another 17 were injured of varying degrees of severity. According to the Associated Press , the incident occurred on Wednesday, June 23, at 23:30 local time (1:30 Moscow time) at the Kestelldefels resort station.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday, June 23, during his visit to Silicon Valley, received the latest fourth-generation iPhone model as a gift from Apple President Steve Jobs, RIA Novosti reports . It should be noted that the iPhone 4 will go on sale only this Thursday. Thus, Medvedev became one of the first owners of a new smartphone in the world. In addition, at Apple headquarters, Medvedev was shown other of the company's latest developments.

The first major investor in the Skolkovo project was the American Cisco Systems. The company, which produces equipment for communication networks, will invest $1 billion in the development of Innograd near Moscow over 10 years, the Vedomosti newspaper reports .

One of the largest Turkish banks, Isbank, is completing procedures for the acquisition of a Russian bank, its manager Ersin Ozince said. “We are in the final stages of acquiring a bank in Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes an Isbank representative . Ozince did not specify which specific Russian bank he was talking about, noting only that Isbank intends to open its representative offices in all regions of the country.

The prosecutor's office does not object to the termination of the criminal case against the seriously ill former vice-president of YUKOS Vasily Aleksanyan, Interfax reports . “Due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, there are grounds for terminating the criminal case, the criminal prosecution,” state prosecutor Nikolai Vlasov agreed with the defense position at a meeting in the Simonovsky Court of Moscow on Thursday.

“German policy is a danger for Europe, it can destroy the European project,” says George Soros, head of the hedge fund Soros Fund Management, in an interview with Die Zeit .

The board of directors of LUKOIL decided to place bonds totaling 100 billion rubles through open subscription, according to the company’s materials . It is planned to issue securities of series 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. The organizers of the placement on the MICEX will be Troika Dialog and Raiffeisenbank. The nominal value of the bond will be 1,000 rubles.

Advertising should stop looking like advertising - this is the main motto of its creators In France, the Cannes Lions international advertising festival, one of the most significant events for the industry, is coming to an end one of these days. Having surveyed well-known representatives of the Russian advertising market, Forbes found that their preferences coincided with the jury’s opinion only partly.

Belarus demanded that Gazprom pay off the debt for gas transit by 11.00 Moscow time on Thursday, June 24. Otherwise, Minsk threatens to stop the gas pipeline from Russia to Europe. agency reports this The RIA Novosti with reference to the words of the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Vladimir Semashko.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev became a “thousander” on Twitter less than an hour after he started his microblog on the famous Internet service. And within 12 hours, the head of state had more than 15,000 “followers” ​​in accounts in Russian and English, and this figure continues to grow rapidly (as of 10:20 Moscow time – 17,136).

A story from a participant in Dmitry Medvedev's meetings with venture capitalists and living legends of Silicon Valley I'm currently in California. I am part of the official delegation for the Californian part of the trip. How a Stanford University graduate coordinated a meeting between President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian immigrants working in Silicon Valley.