Russia needs to prepare for changes in the structure of the energy market Now that the initial fog of the crisis has cleared a little, the challenges and opportunities of the next decade are better visible. At the global level, only some elements of the big picture are evident. The debt burden in the US consumer sector will decrease.

The Sapsan high-speed train may be launched from Russia to Ukraine. According to the RIA Novosti agency , such a statement was made by the Ukrainian Ambassador of the Russian Federation Vladimir Yelchenko at a meeting with the Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko. According to the ambassador, the head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, told him about this. “They want to launch the Sapsan to Kyiv,” Yelchenko said.

How to beat the stock market using corporate bonds? Private investor Vadim Voronin shares the secrets of his craft You can sometimes earn more on corporate bonds than on the stock market. The example of private investor Vadim Voronin, who has been involved in fixed income instruments since the early 1990s, is the best confirmation of this. The average return of his portfolio, which is 80% bonds, is 15% per year.

The goal of fiscal policy should not be restoration of the economy to its pre-crisis form, but structural restructuring As one might expect, the restoration of economic growth did not become synonymous with recovery from the crisis. The dynamics remain unstable and largely tied to government incentives rather than natural household demand. The need to maintain a high level of budget expenditures while it is impossible to raise taxes implies an increase in public debt.

How Yuri Milner managed to buy Facebook shares and why this deal turned out to be fateful Last January, two users of the social network Facebook met “in real life”. To do this, one of them had to travel by plane from Moscow to California, and then get from the airport to an office building on Hamilton Avenue in the town of Palo Alto, the informal capital of Silicon Valley.

The net profit of Wimm-Bill-Dann Food Products OJSC (WBD) for the first half of the year according to US GAAP amounted to $69.5 million. This is 7.1% more than in the same period last year. Revenue grew by 17.1%, reaching $1.255 billion. EBITDA for the first six months amounted to $159.7 million, according to a press release from the largest Russian producer of dairy products and drinks.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow extended by one month the detention period of three defendants in a criminal case on smuggling in the Altyn jewelry holding. this to RAPSI . Nadezhda Savenko, press secretary of the court, reported According to her, the court granted the investigation’s request and “extended the arrest period for the executive director of Altyn-St.

The net loss of Evraz Group in the first half of 2010 according to IFRS decreased by 3.7 times, amounting to $270 million compared to $999 million in the same period last year. Such data is provided in the company's press release . The loss figure turned out to be worse than analysts’ expectations: according to the consensus forecast compiled by RIA Novosti , experts predicted a loss of $12 million.

On Thursday, September 2, investigators came to the editorial office of The New Times magazine, Interfax reports, citing the publication’s deputy editor-in-chief Ilya Barabanov. Initially, the purpose of their visit was unclear. “We are first waiting for our general director, editor-in-chief and lawyer to arrive, after which we will figure out what’s going on,” said Barabanov.

The transfer of bribes has become a separate business. How is it built? At noon on February 8, 2009, the head of the village of Toksovo, Leningrad Region, Vasily Pakhomov received a visitor in his office. Pakhomov assured her that today he would sign a permit for the construction of 32 cottages, which the administration had been dragging around for the last year and a half. “Where is this?” — the visitor asked, nodding at the heavy bag.

ZiL turned to Porsche Engineering for help in creating a cab for a new truck. newspaper about this the Vedomosti An employee of one of the automobile companies and an official of the Moscow government, which is the main shareholder of the plant, told . An agreement on this project is currently being prepared. According to the publication, ZiL is now developing a platform on which it will be possible to produce vehicles of various types, from medium-duty trucks to small buses.

Investors in non-public companies have themselves to blame. They handed out money to everyone - even athletes In theory, investments in private equity companies should generate higher returns than investments in traded instruments such as shares. First, companies go public after reaching a high level of maturity (exceptions like pyramid schemes and ventures during the “high fashion” period do not count). Public investors get the stock at the end of its life.

US President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday the start of direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine, which will take place in Washington on Thursday. “After almost two years of silence, the parties will resume direct dialogue,” the American leader said in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Where do clean institutions come from in a corrupt environment? The idea of ​​18th-century Russia as a thoroughly corrupt country does not correspond to reality. These are the very preliminary and completely raw results of one unpublished study.

Why did the creator of the Vitek brand come up with a new brand of household appliances? Competitors joke that Golder Electronics has a second leg. The first is Vitek, the most successful Russian brand of small household appliances and electronics. The second is the Maxwell brand, which Golder Electronics brought to the market in September 2009. The company is positioning it in the lower price segment, where it once started.