photo Itar-TASS Renova incorrectly divided its gold and platinum mining business, says a shareholder of a company controlled by it A lawsuit against the company Koryakgeoldobycha (KGD), which is controlled by Renova, was filed by one of its minority shareholders, Andrey Gvozdev (the lawsuit was registered in the Arbitration Court of the Kamchatka Territory on Tuesday, Forbes has a copy).

The Meshchansky District Magistrate Court of Moscow on Friday fined the Golos association 30,000 rubles for violating election legislation. This was reported by a Forbes correspondent from the scene. Judge Svetlana Kalantyr found that the organization violated the procedure for the participation of the media in information support of the elections.

On Sunday, December 4, 2011, elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation will take place. This will be the 6th Duma of modern Russia. This is the first time she has been elected for a 5-year term.

“Like all normal children, I was sent to a music school. After which I hated music with every fiber of my soul.” Alexander Baru , Director of Marketing and Sales, CJSC Capital Asset Management Group The group I play in is called Angry Duck. Our spectrum ranges from the hits of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and the Beatles to Jackson, Rolling Stones, AC/DC. New ones include hits from Muse and Offspring.

What worries Russia's World Trade Organization (WTO) partners most is the country's government's propensity for commerce. The Russian Federation, in turn, intends to make concessions and reduce state participation in business structures, Interfax reported on Friday with reference to the Vedomosti newspaper . The decision on Russia's accession to the WTO will be made at the organization's conference on December 15-17 with the participation of ministers responsible for foreign trade.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov What answers are politicians looking for in the national question? During the Duma election campaign, the topic of nationalism unexpectedly came to the fore. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation proposes to make Russians a “state-forming nation”; some oppositionists call: “stop feeding the Caucasus”; The LDPR claims from its posters that they are “for the Russians”... Why has the national theme suddenly become so popular?

photo Kinopoisk.ru A world without a passport and passwords is closer than it seems Alessandro Acquisti, a scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, recently conducted an experiment: he took a $35 webcam and photographed 93 students on campus. Then he put the pictures into a program that, within a few seconds, compared faces with Facebook profiles and, as a result, identified every third subject.

photo by Roman Shelomentsev for Forbes How Mikhail Goncharov stopped communicating with officials “There are hundreds of you, but here I decide everything, so close the door on the other side” - this phrase, uttered in 2002 by the deputy prefect of one of the capital’s districts, Mikhail Goncharov, owner of the Teremok pancake chain, still remembers with resentment. “Dozens of officials laughed in my face.

“Opera is a hobby. I'm a marketer, not a singer. Although music could become a second profession.” Grigory Trusov, founder and president of Kontakt-Expert company First steps My good friend Volodya Markin brought me into music, namely professional music. At some point, he took me by the hand and took me to the Prokofiev School to see his first teacher, who once taught him his voice.

The president of the Solo company, Salavat Timiryasov, told Forbes Style about his discoveries at the American art festival Burning Man. An alien desert landscape, a daytime haze, in which a numerous fiery procession moves, followed by an art bus in the shape of a ship, and people dressed in the most bizarre costumes are dancing on board. There are thousands of such people, hundreds of such cars, dozens of such processions per day.

Randall Graham is a Californian winemaker who became famous despite the rules of business. In the early eighties, when coming up with the nickname “Rhone Ranger,” American winemaker Randall Graham played on the image of the Lone Ranger from old films. But even then he was much more like Paganel from the novel by Jules Verne than a romantic lone hero. Over the years, this similarity has intensified.

drawing by Geoff Pugh / Kommersant The rules of life of Roman Abramovich, told by himself. And mastered by followers What is the secret of success of one of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia, Roman Abramovich?

Antique dealers will never show a buyer a painting without a frame. Watchmakers too. For them, the best frame is the dial ring. If watchmaking is an art in itself, then artistic miniatures on watches are art for art’s sake. A grandiose event was launched at Vacheron Constantin, even though we are talking about a circle with a diameter of 31.5 mm. It is to this size that 200 square meters are compressed. m of the ceiling of the Paris Grand Opera.

photo Martin Klimek/Getty Images for Forbes Having invented remote data storage, young programmer Drew Houston refused to sell it to Steve Jobs. Now the company he created, Dropbox, is worth $4 billion. In December 2009, Steve Jobs, who was struggling with illness and still firmly held the reins of Apple, invited a young, unknown programmer, Drew Houston, to his office in Cupertino. Houston now admits that he could not recover from excitement: “This is Steve Jobs,” recalls 28-year-old Houston.

The most generous employer is the state, the most generous bank is VTB Where are top managers paid the most? And who will receive the greatest reward when moving to a new position in 2011? You will find answers to these questions in the next annual Forbes salary ranking. The results of the expert survey turned out to be quite unexpected: according to headhunters, managers will receive the maximum rewards when moving within holdings.