photo Russian Look/Picvario A venture investor from Silicon Valley on his impressions of Russian startups Over 21 years, I managed to create and develop 8 companies, half of them have already become public, two work well, and two simply failed. When I lost $35 million on one of my companies, I called my mom and told her about it.

Delegates to the United Russia congress on Friday approved a new composition of the party’s governing bodies - the general council and its presidium. reports this RIA Novosti . Delegates of the event, the first day of which takes place at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, supported the proposal of the Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council Sergei Neverov to remove seven people from the body, including the head of the Russian government apparatus Vyacheslav Volodin.

Opposition leader Michael Sata won a landslide victory in the presidential elections in Zambia, leaving behind the country's incumbent President Rupiah Banda. reported this on Friday, September 23 RIA Novosti . After counting votes from almost all 150 constituencies, Sata has 43% of the vote, while Rupia, his main rival, has only 36.1% of voters, Zambia's electoral commission chief Irene Mambilima said. The remaining eight candidates split the remaining votes among themselves.

Russia has not abandoned its intention to purchase bonds of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Sergei Storchak announced this on Friday. “Of course, we will make (amendments to the list of assets allowed for investment by the Reserve Fund and the National Welfare Fund), and the position of the Minister (of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin) is that we will use this instrument,” Interfax quotes the official .

Photo by Foto SA/Corbis Margaret Thatcher about herself, family, work • I often only sleep an hour and a half, preferring to sacrifice sleep time to have a decent hairstyle. • The day consists of twenty-four hours, and if you devote all of them to work, your mind will be constantly busy - and you will have no time to think about yourself. Do one thing, then switch to another, third, etc.

The Russian stock market completed the last trading of the week, which was marked by a landslide decline, a decline in the main indices by another 4.5-5% against the backdrop of negative oil price dynamics and growing pessimism about the state of the eurozone and US economies. At the end of the day, the MICEX index fell by 4.48% to 1327.19 points. The RTS Index closed down by 5.18% to 1,315.95 points.

Following the meeting in Washington, the finance ministers and heads of the G20 central banks promised that in the face of new economic challenges, the G20 will take all necessary steps to maintain the stability of financial markets and the banking system.

On Friday, September 23, the rapid fall of the main stock indices that began the day before continued on the stock markets in Asia. The leader of the collapse is the South Korean KOSPI index, which is declining by almost 4% amid ongoing concerns about the prospects for the global economy. KOSPI by 8.25 Moscow time decreased by 3.92% to 1729.88 points. At the same time, at the opening of trading the index fell by more than 4%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 1.68% to 17,710.70.

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A new high-profile crime was committed on Friday morning in the capital of Dagestan. On the outskirts of Makhachkala, unknown persons killed the deputy head of the FSIN department for Dagestan, internal service colonel Magomed Murtazaliev, as well as his daughter, nephew and driver. As reported by RIA Novosti with reference to investigators, the attack occurred at 07:45 Moscow time near the village of Semender.

At a meeting on September 21, the government approved draft amendments to the agreement between the Russian Federation and Switzerland on the avoidance of double taxation, which provide for the transfer of data on accounts of Russian citizens in Swiss banks. Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina announced this on Friday. Switzerland has already initialed this agreement, Interfax reports .

Following the results of foreign exchange trading on Friday, the ruble did not change against the dollar compared to Thursday - the American currency at closing cost 32.05 rubles. The euro exchange rate increased by 20 kopecks to 43.35 rubles amid sales on global trading floors and lower oil prices, according to exchange data.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will soon submit to the State Duma a bill to improve public administration in the field of combating corruption. The head of state himself announced this at a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council. “This bill, in particular, expands the grounds for dismissal of a civil servant, including loss of confidence,” RIA Novosti quotes the president .

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation canceled the weekend in Bashkiria during the Islamic holidays Kurban Bayram and Eid al-Fitr. The plaintiff was a resident of Ufa, according to whom the Constitution and the Labor Code of the Russian Federation provide for rest on these days. In particular, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha “violate the right to work on discriminatory religious grounds,” the appeal emphasized. The Supreme Court of Bashkiria did not satisfy the claim in the summer of 2011.

Board of Directors of Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday, as expected , decided to dismiss Leo Apotheker as the company's chief executive officer. His successor will be the ex-CEO of eBay Inc. Meg Whitman. She joined HP's board of directors in January 2011, Bloomberg recalls . Rumors about Apotheker's possible resignation appeared on Wednesday.