photo Itar-TASS Offended VTB minority shareholders have a chance to return their invested funds - Putin intervened At the forum of Sberbank and Troika Dialog taking place these days, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed VTB management to work on the issue of repurchasing shares from minority individual shareholders.

When we are told to “take care of yourself, and then rule the world around you,” we are terribly deceived. Why a person is afraid of change is understandable: he was born in such torment. It felt good in your stomach - lie down, soak up the warmth and listen to what’s knocking and making noise outside. My wife and I noticed how the child in the stomach gets scared and quiets down if, God forbid, she gets sick and starts coughing when sick. There's noise inside!

Former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov never owned shares in the Bank of Moscow. The ex-mayor stated this in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper , Interfax reports . Luzhkov considers the criminal prosecution of the ex-president of the credit organization Andrei Borodin to be unfounded. “I do not and have not had any shares.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers topped the rankings, displacing the New York Knicks. Beneficial television contracts and the terms of the new collective bargaining agreement have increased the value of the average NBA team to a record $393 million, up 6.5% from last year. No team has benefited more from television contracts than the Los Angeles Lakers, who have unseated the New York Knicks as the league's most valuable franchise.

2012 will be the year of creating a new model of the world. During 2011, many theses that were considered unshakable were questioned. The “Arab Spring” demolished (and will demolish) several dictators who ruled their countries for the last 30-40 years. The earthquake in Japan has once again raised questions about the safety of nuclear energy.

The largest Russian rentiers are getting richer every year. 1 Zarakh Iliev, God Nisanov "Kyiv SQUARE" Moscow Rental income $780 million Beginning The first object in Moscow for immigrants from Azerbaijan Iliev and Nisanov was the “Electronic Fair on Rizhskaya”. Opened in the mid-1990s, it is still in operation. Fact Zarakh Iliev and God Nisanov were the first to open year-round navigation in Moscow, for which they purchased several icebreaking yachts.

The working group of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation on Thursday made a proposal to pardon more than 30 people convicted or accused in criminal cases, including Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. The pardon mechanism itself, according to human rights activists, should be made easier, HRC Chairman Mikhail Fedotov told Forbes.Ru. “I believe that it would be absolutely correct if the president pardoned Khodorkovsky and Lebedev.

Sergey Molchanov Previously: Auditor, teacher, consultant (taxes and accounting) Now: Impresario (opera, ballet, classical instrumental music) Nine years of work at PricewaterhouseCoopers, teaching at five institutes and business schools, publishing seven books on taxation and accounting. Sergei Molchanov’s financial career ended in September 2009, when he preferred notes to numbers and created the SMOLART agency - management in the field of classical art.

Presidents who changed their countries and left voluntarily. There are many cases in the history of the 20th century when totalitarian and authoritarian regimes collapsed, leaving behind chaos and collapse or even harsher dictators. Much less common are episodes when power was transferred to new political forces relatively bloodlessly and without systemic damage to the country and society.

Investigative authorities opened a criminal case against the head of the Stavropol administration, Igor Bestuzhey, suspected of attempting to take a bribe in the amount of 50 million rubles. told the Interfax agency about this on Thursday. Official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin “A criminal case has been opened against I.

The transformation of the first mobile phones into smartphones is an evolution akin to the transformation of a monkey into a human. According to Darwin, it took a monkey several million years to become a human. And, between you and me, not much has changed. Smartphones are another matter: the iPhone4S differs from its predecessors of ten years ago in the same way as a Nobel laureate in physics differs from a Neanderthal.

The best markets in the world are not only for shopping. But also for conversations, pleasant walks and gastronomic discoveries Author: Lisa Birger Riga market The market in the center of Riga amazes first of all with its scale. These are four huge hangars - for meat, fish, baked goods and vegetables and fruits. Plus there is also the same huge vegetable market outside.

Sberbank closed a deal to place Eurobonds worth $1.5 billion at acceptable rates. The president of the largest bank in the Russian Federation, German Gref, announced this on Thursday at the Russia Forum 2012. “We have closed a deal to raise $1.5 billion from international markets at rates acceptable to us,” RIA Novosti quotes Gref . The head of Sberbank added that it was not easy.

Dmitry Rudenko Previously: Own company Crossbow Strategy Partners Now: Director of Development of Pulkovo Airport Wrote a book about the 1990s - “University Station” Rudenko is a professional strategist. Having worked for many years at McKinsey & Company, he eventually began consulting for large businesses.

photo by Pavel Golovkin for Forbes Why did the third number on the Forbes list get involved in the fight for the presidency and what does he want to get? When Mikhail Prokhorov, after a communication session with the Kremlin, returned to the supporters waiting for him in the Nedalny Vostok restaurant and announced: “There has been a raider takeover of the party,” it looked as if the show about the billionaire’s foray into politics was over.