How to create a company that cheaply purifies 100 million liters of water every day? Harvard graduate Luke Daly spent 10 years on this and still barely makes ends meet Luke Daly was one step away from victory. In January 2011, after months of negotiations, the 52-year-old entrepreneur received a promise from a Canadian hedge fund to give him $27.5 million. The money was intended for Ferrate Treatment Technologies, a Florida-based startup founded by Daley.

The MiG-31 interceptor fighter that crashed in the Perm region exploded in the air shortly after takeoff. about this RIA Novosti A source in the region's law enforcement agencies told . Earlier it was reported that the plane “landed on arable land, turned over and burned out.” The incident occurred on the morning of Tuesday, September 6, when the MiG-31 was performing a scheduled flight.

The Trial Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague sentenced former Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army Momcilo Perisic to 27 years in prison for committing war crimes during the conflict in the 1990s. in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Perisic is the highest-ranking officer of the Yugoslav army to appear before the ICTY, notes RIA Novosti . He headed the general staff from August 1993 to November 1998.

A subsidiary of Sberbank, Sberbank Investments LLC, is purchasing a 5% stake in CJSC Inteko owned by Elena Baturina (No. 77 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, worth $1.2 billion ) for further resale to a third-party investor or during a possible IPO . A source close to the deal told Interfax about this on Tuesday. At the moment, the wife of former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov remains the sole shareholder of Inteko.

The Basmanny Court of the capital on Tuesday placed former governor of the Tula region Vyacheslav Dudka under house arrest, RAPSI reports. On Monday, September 5, the former head of the region was officially charged with receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. After this, the investigation made a motion to choose a preventive measure against Dudka in the form of house arrest.

Police officers on Tuesday began searching the office of TagAZ LLC (Taganrog Automobile Plant). this to RIA Novosti . A representative of the press service of the GUMVD for the Rostov region reported “Currently, employees of the operational investigative unit No.

Dmitry Medvedev made a number of personnel changes in the structure of plenipotentiary representatives of the President of the Russian Federation in the federal districts. The rotation followed the appointment of plenipotentiary representative to the Central Federal District Georgy Poltavchenko to the post of governor of St. Petersburg. The Kremlin press service announced new personnel decisions by the head of state on Tuesday.

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed information about the crash of the MiG-31 fighter-interceptor in the Perm region. As reported by RIA Novosti , citing a representative of the military department, both pilots were killed. The incident occurred on the morning of Tuesday, September 6, when the MiG-31 was performing a scheduled flight. At about 6.48 Moscow time, the plane took off from a military airfield in Perm and disappeared from the screens 4 minutes later.

Gazprom on Tuesday began pumping natural gas into the first line of the Russian-German offshore gas pipeline Nord Stream. The command to start the procedure was given by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Interfax reports . The Chairman of the Government at the compressor station dispatcher terminal used a computer mouse to open the process gas tap.

The owner of B&N Bank, Mikail Shishkhanov, in partnership with Sberbank’s subsidiary, Sberbank Investments LLC, acquires Elena Baturina’s Inteko CJSC (No. 77 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, fortune: $1.2 billion ). This is stated in the company's press release.

One of the first investments of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), created by decision of President Dmitry Medvedev to attract foreign capital to fast-growing sectors of the Russian economy, may be the purchase of shares in Oleg Deripaska's En+ Group holding. newspaper reported this on Tuesday, citing informed sources The Kommersant . According to the publication, RDIF may spend up to $500 million to purchase a minority stake in En+.

Due to the terms of the gas contract with Russia, Ukraine loses $5-6 billion annually; over ten years of the contract, the amount of loss on Kiev’s part will reach $60 billion. This assessment was given by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper . Kyiv is seeking a revision of the gas price formula laid down in the long-term gas agreement between the Russian Federation and Ukraine for 2009-2019, considering it unfair.

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) on Tuesday announced it was fixing the minimum exchange rate of the Swiss franc to the euro at 1.20 francs. The regulator promised to defend the target level with “maximum determination” if the need arises, Interfax reports . As the Swiss Central Bank said in a statement, the SNB “strives for a significant and sustainable weakening of the franc” in order to protect the stability of the Swiss economy.

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The Russian stock market, which changed direction several times during the day, ended the day with a slight increase in indices, which followed the release of strong data on business activity in the United States, RIA Novosti reports . At the end of the day, the MICEX index rose by 0.46% to 1499.70 points. The RTS index rose by 0.10% on Tuesday to 1,618.63 points.