The Greek authorities and the country's creditors, represented by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, on Thursday agreed on the terms of the austerity measures necessary to unlock the second package of financial assistance to the state worth €130 billion and implement agreements to write off part of the public debt with private investors. This information was confirmed by Prime Minister Lucas Papadimos, reports Reuters .

Vladimir Putin arrived at the congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. The head of government began her speech with a loud initiative - the prime minister proposed limiting the New Year holidays to January 7, and moving the days after Christmas to the May holidays. “I propose to limit all these Christmas holidays to exactly January 7, Christmas, and move everything that accumulates further to, say, May,” RIA Novosti quotes Putin .

Revenue from Groupon Inc, which owns the world's largest online discount service, grew 5.2 times in 2011, to $1.6 billion from $313 million in 2010. The company provided such data on Thursday. Free cash flow increased 3.4 times, to $246.6 million. Net loss decreased by 30%, to $350.8 million from $456.3 million. In the fourth quarter of 2011, Groupon doubled its revenue to $506.5 million and free cash flow 3.6 times to $155 million.

photo Itar-TASS Buyback of VTB shares: about 9,000 minority shareholders will remain dissatisfied. Can they protect their rights? On the evening of Thursday, February 9, VTB announced details of the buyback of the bank's shares placed during the public IPO in 2007. The repurchase price coincides with the placement price - 13.6 kopecks per share.

New details have become known about the upcoming buyout of shares from VTB minority shareholders who participated in the so-called “people's IPO” of the bank. reported this on Thursday, February 9, Interfax with reference to a presentation for a briefing by the bank’s management on this issue. Both individuals and legal entities who have retained their packages by February 1 will have the opportunity to participate in the buy-back.

Vladimir Putin, during a speech at the RSPP congress on Thursday, confirmed the price for the repurchase of VTB shares from minority shareholders - participants in the “people's IPO” at an offering price of 13.6 kopecks, approximately twice the current market value of the securities. The Prime Minister recalled that the state bank will pay for the buy-back procedure from its own profits.

The parameters for the repurchase of VTB shares will be announced on Thursday. Vladimir Putin can announce the terms of the buy-back - the Prime Minister will attend the RSPP congress on Thursday and hold a meeting of the government presidium.

Award ceremony of the competition for entrepreneurs “Business Success 2011” On February 6, the Forum for Entrepreneurs “Business Success 2011” was held at Expocentre , the key event of which was the awarding of the laureates of the All-Russian competition organized by OPORA Russia. Photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes.ru

09 February 2012 news Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites What do Forbes list members want from government? Business election program Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with the business community at the RUIE congress on Thursday. What does business expect from the authorities?

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images In order for the budget to receive something from expensive real estate and “movables” - from cars to yachts imported into the country, a new tax is not needed, it is enough to set up the existing ones In his programmatic “economic” article, presidential candidate and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin put forward an initiative to introduce a luxury tax.

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Detailed analysis of the UniCredit Bank case The author is a media planning specialist at the iConText contextual advertising agency. Contextual advertising has ceased to be a cheap tool for independent promotion. Over the past year, rates for some popular requests have almost doubled, and the monthly budgets of large projects amount to millions of rubles. But investing more money does not always mean getting a better result.

The oldest, largest, most inconspicuous and other most amazing traces of meteorite falls Humanity has already become accustomed to meteor showers: this beautiful sight is not such a rarity. But there are not so many material traces left on our planet by fallen cosmic bodies, and they are all unique in their own way

Software developer Epam Systems Inc. placed 6 million shares as part of an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at a price of $12 per share. As a result, the entire company was valued at $490 million. This was reported by the Interfax agency , citing the company’s press service. The placement was at the lower limit of the range. So, back in January the company expected to list at $16-18 per share. The IPO was organized by Citi, UBS, Barclays Capital and Renaissance Securities.

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Semi-finalist of the Forbes startup competition on how he seduced investors and why, on the advice of his curator, he stopped this activity Continuation. See the beginning here Three months after the site went live, the number of our registered users was not increasing at the rate we wanted.

Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin called for closing the topic of privatization of state assets in the 1990s, a Forbes correspondent reports from a meeting between the leadership of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Prime Minister. According to Putin, now society cannot accept the results of “dishonest” privatization and “all sorts of auctions,” so we need to look for ways to change people’s opinions.