How to thrive in chaos, do without “external” money, delight people using the Kawasaki method and use at least a piece of Steve Jobs’ know-how The emphasis is on books published in English in 2010 and 2011, which are written in a lively language and which are not boring to read. Some of them are written by entrepreneurs themselves and are full of stories about how to achieve business success.

The presidential elections in Russia are scheduled for March 4. The victory of the current Prime Minister (and in the past twice - the President of Russia) Vladimir Putin, which seemed quite recently obvious, no longer seems so predetermined. Scandals with vote falsification in the December State Duma elections, which caused mass voter protests in Moscow and other major Russian cities, introduced intrigue into the electoral process: will Putin be able to win in the first round.

The largest Russian developer of design software EPAMSystems announced the start of the IPO procedure. The total volume of the initial offering “subject to favorable market conditions” will be 7.4 million ordinary shares, the press release said. For sale, EPAM will offer more than 1.5 million shares owned by the company itself and 5.88 million shares owned by other shareholders.

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ) on Tuesday released the results of a study of ethnic sympathies and antipathies of residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to sociologists, the population of the two capitals is most positive towards Russians (44% in Moscow and 52% in St. Petersburg). In second place in the rating of sympathy are Belarusians (17% and 14%), in third are Ukrainians (15% and 11%).

OJSC RTI, a subsidiary of AFK Sistema, signed an agreement to acquire system integrator NVision Group (ZAO NVision Group). this on Tuesday . reported The RTI press service Sistema's subsidiary will pay NVision shareholders $200 million for a 50 percent stake, and exchange the remaining stake for its own additional shares.

photo Itar-TASS Interview with the chairman of the Yabloko party Sergei Mitrokhin. Commentary by political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky The Central Election Commission has made a final decision to exclude Grigory Yavlinsky from the list of candidates for the presidency of the Russian Federation.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a meeting in Kemerovo on a long-term program for the development of the coal industry until 2030. The program, according to the head of government, will be implemented in three stages: until 2015, 2020 and 2030. “The total amount of funding for the program is 3.7 trillion rubles, including 251.8 billion rubles from budgetary funds,” Interfax quotes Putin .

photo Itar-TASS The investigation is confident that the terrorist attack was organized by militant leader Doku Umarov The investigation will soon bring charges against four defendants in the case of a terrorist attack at Moscow Domodedovo Airport. The Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation reported this on Tuesday, January 24.

photo by RIA Novosti Vladimir Putin and the national question - inconsistencies and false premises in the prime minister’s article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta In the “Political Text” series of materials, Forbes experts analyze articles by Russian politicians. Vladimir Putin has recently especially fallen in love with this genre - see the column “Political text: Putin is not for everyone” about the prime minister’s article in Izvestia.

photo Kommersant/Oleg Kharseev There may be only four large developers left in Moscow. All are associated with the state “Now representatives of inspection services flock as soon as they see the crane! Previously, there were a lot of construction projects, there was enough for everyone,” says the owner of a large Moscow construction company with indignation. “Over the past two months, not a single property has appeared in Moscow,” says Georgy Dzagurov, general director of Penny Lane Realty.

Global unemployment remains at a crisis level and represents one of the key global threats. A third of the world's working population—about 1.1 billion people—is unemployed or lives in poverty even if employed. the International Labor Organization (ILO) in its annual Global Employment Trends report This data is provided by . According to the ILO, ensuring the required rate of economic growth in the next decade can only be guaranteed if about 600 million new jobs are created.

The creator and general director of VKontakte Pavel Durov decided to donate $1 million to the Wikipedia project. this The head of the largest Russian social network himself announced at the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference in Munich. Durov announced his intention to make a large donation to the Internet encyclopedia during a joint speech with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

January 24, 2012 news Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Akunin and Kasparov about the February 4 action: the procession can no longer be banned Forbes newsletter The most important things about finance, investment, business and technology Copy link Share Add to favorites Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Mode for the visually impaired

Workers in Siberia and the Urals began a series of rallies in support of the prime minister. With their help, the Kremlin wants to seize the “street initiative” from the opposition Vladimir Putin attended a rally of his Popular Front supporters in Kemerovo on Tuesday. An action in support of the Prime Minister's policy took place at the SDSmash company. According to the organizers, more than 6,000 people took part in the event.

Factions of opposition parties in the State Duma on Tuesday made a proposal to form a new composition of election commissions at all levels, including the Central Election Commission, before the presidential elections on March 4. The corresponding initiative is set out in a draft resolution submitted by representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, A Just Russia and the Liberal Democratic Party for consideration by the lower chamber.