How MTS increased sales of its tariff using the RedQuest game In November, Gena Svirin, captain of the Ozery team from the town of the same name near Moscow, announced that he would marry his girlfriend Masha (she is also a team member) if they win the RedQuest game. During the two and a half months that the competition, organized by MTS to promote the Red Energy youth tariff, lasted, its participants could really get to know each other well.

The French group Societe Generale is not yet considering the possibility of acquiring VTB's stake in Rosbank and does not exclude the purchase of this stake by another investor. This was announced on Friday by the first deputy chairman of the board of Rosbank, Marc-Emmanuel Vives, who worked at SG for many years. “VTB has made it clear that it does not intend to remain a long-term strategic investor in Rosbank.

The annual meeting of shareholders of OJSC Gazprom is scheduled for June 24. According to the gas concern's press service, the list of persons entitled to participate in the meeting is closed according to the register of shareholders on May 6. The company's board of directors approved the list of candidates for board members at a meeting on Friday. It included all its current members, except for the representative of the German concern E.on - the ex-head of E.on Ruhrgas Burkhard Bergman.

Three police officers were killed when the convoy vehicle, which was transporting the arrested person in Karachay-Cherkessia, was fired upon. This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by the representative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic, Evgenia Bastanova.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has introduced restrictions on the maximum volume of deposits attracted from citizens in relation to Sotsgorbank, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday , citing representatives of several credit institutions.

The information that appeared in the media about the completion of a transaction to acquire the investment company Troika Dialog by Sberbank does not correspond to reality, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the largest Russian bank. “The only source of information about transactions of this kind is official information from Sberbank of Russia,” the press service said in a statement.

Three bottles of Château Lafite 1869 sold for $233,000 each, becoming the most expensive bottles in auction history The author is a wine journalist, writer and critic The fanfare about the records set by wine auctions last year had hardly died down when we began to witness new auction successes and achievements at the beginning of 2011. First, Acker Merrall & Condit raised almost $11 million at a two-day January auction in Hong Kong, selling all of the 1,200 lots available.

Chinese communists have been fighting bribe-takers and embezzlers for three decades. Any progress? What is behind the Chinese economic miracle? One of the common explanations comes down to the foresight of the leaders of the Communist Party of China (CCP), who abandoned the futile experiment in building a communist society in time. Former Financial Times Beijing bureau chief Richard McGregor takes a critical look at this myth. In Russia, his book is called “Party.

Anastasia Dunaevskaya Author American cinema, French painting, Thai massage and other things that cannot be learned in Russia Having graduated from school, college and having worked for a certain number of years in their profession, many begin to think that the knowledge they have is not enough, and that instead of the information and unclaimed skills archived in their heads, they want something completely different.

Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS) has terminated its offer to buy out Eurobonds issued by Mobile TeleSystems Finance SA for $400 million, MTS said in a statement to investors. Payments were to be made on January 28, Interfax reports . As reported, the High Court of London on January 26 froze the assets of MTS Finance as part of the proceedings regarding the Kyrgyz Bitel.

Having lost the support of the army and the United States, Hosni Mubarak has no chance of holding out until September. Who will win now?

The creator of the virus “Grandmas are singing Britney Spears” - about the advantages and dangers of viral marketing Forbes continues to publish interviews with famous Russian Internet entrepreneurs. Today, talks about the specifics of preparing viral campaigns and the nuances of interaction with the customer, for which companies viral marketing is relevant and what you need to know so that the virus does not harm your business Andrey Buzina, General Director of the digital agency Smetana, .

The Board of Directors of OAO LUKOIL at a meeting on Friday approved the list of candidates for the new composition of the Board of Directors. Donald Vallett, President for the Russia/Caspian region of ConocoPhillips, was not included in it, the company said in a statement. A total of 12 candidates were nominated for 11 seats.

Rosneft could receive more than $1 billion through the sale of non-core assets, company president Eduard Khudainatov said during a telephone conference for investors. According to him, currently, in particular, an assessment of service assets is being carried out. “We are now conducting a large-scale audit of each enterprise to assess its economic efficiency and its need to ensure the business process in the company.

The main beneficiary of Severstal OJSC and the majority shareholder of the Italian Lucchini, Alexey Mordashov, reached an agreement with Lucchini's creditor banks regarding the restructuring of the company's debt. reported this on Friday The newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore .