On Thursday, March 1, Gazprom filed a claim against the Lithuanian government in international arbitration. According to Interfax , a representative of the Russian monopoly made a corresponding statement today at a meeting of the board of directors of Lietuvos Dujos.

Bonus payments to management and employees of leading US financial companies decreased by an average of 14% at the end of last year, in particular due to weakening investment banking activities, as well as due to a significant deferment of payments, Interfax reports citing the Financial Times. However, New York State's projected reduction in bonus payments to $19.7 billion, down from $22.8 billion in 2010, is less significant than, for example, the drop in financial institution revenues.

Forbes choice: the most interesting government contractors of 2012. The most healing Victor Kharitonin Company: "Pharmstandard" Customers: Ministry of Health, Moscow Department of Health Amount of state contracts: 15 billion rubles. In 2003, in the interests of Roman Abramovich and other shareholders of Sibneft, Kharitonin bought five pharmaceutical plants and a pharmacy chain from the American company ICN.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation positively assessed the intention of the DPRK leadership to introduce a moratorium on nuclear tests to begin the process of denuclearization of the country. This was stated in a press release on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, published on Thursday, March 1.

Illustration by Rodion Kitaev Why Russia does not live according to the laws of the market. “Russia is not a bad market, but simply not a market.” This is the ultimate expression of an idea increasingly advanced by many social scientists. Olga Bessonova, Simon Kordonsky, Svetlana Kirdina and others note that in Russia an institutional order has developed that only superficially resembles a market. Its essence is completely different.

Photo by Yuri Chikov for Forbes Created by the son of a Russian governor, the service allows you to call a black Mercedes with a driver with one touch on your smartphone screen. Can it compete with taxis? “I know how to drive, but I don’t want to, I don’t even have a license,” says Anton Chirkunov, the son of the former governor of the Perm Territory, about what prompted him to come up with the Wheely service. While studying in Switzerland, a student at the University of St.

Photo by Rudy Archuleta/Redux/East News Group buying services were one of the brightest stars on the horizon of the Internet economy at the turn of the decade. Why did these stars go down? “Our success in selling products is a credit to the Groupon brand. Our users perceive us as a platform with unbeatable prices,” insisted the head of the world’s largest discount service Groupon, Andrew Mason, after the publication of regular financial results in the fall of 2012.

Exchange-traded funds are increasingly popular among investors. How to reduce costs when purchasing them? The asset management market is undergoing radical changes. The volume of funds in exchange traded funds (ETFs) at the beginning of 2013 exceeded $2 trillion, increasing, according to investment giant BlackRock, by 27% for the year.

Photo by Dmitry Ternovoy for Forbes Using this issue of Forbes, you can not just compare two completely different environments, but explore two worlds with a deep chasm between them. One is the world of the Internet, where incredible ideas can suddenly materialize and turn into very real capital (read the ranking of Runet leaders on page 78). Take, for example, such a phenomenon as online games.

Why are there scandals and crimes committed at the Bolshoi Theater? On December 31, 2008, Alexey Ratmansky left the post of artistic director of the Bolshoi. Ratmansky's contract expired, and he simply did not renew it, deciding to “devote himself to creativity.” On March 15, 2011, with approximately the same explanations that did not inspire confidence, Yuri Burlaka left the post of artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet.

photo East News / AFP / ImageForum Leonid Bershidsky on Murdoch Jr.'s resignation as head of News International In 2009, James, the youngest son of the founder of News Corp. Rupert Murdoch was given the prestigious Mactaggart Lecture on the state of the British media industry. Murdoch took the opportunity to scold local regulators for focusing too closely on television.

photo East News/ AFP The microblogger had to go beyond the usual 140 characters to explain why the Russian authorities can be trusted only if you don’t check April 2009. I am sitting in the office of a public organization close to one ministry. An advertising agency affiliated with it is participating in two tenders of the same department and is seriously planning to win both.

Gazprom will adjust the terms of Russian gas supplies to the Italian Eni. RIA Novosti reported this on Thursday, March 1, citing a joint press release of the companies. Today in Moscow a working meeting was held between the chairman of the board of the Russian gas giant, Alexey Miller, and the general manager of the Italian concern, Paolo Scaroni. “The parties discussed current issues and prospects for further development of cooperation in the energy sector.

Egor Moskvitin Author Bureaucracy that swallowed up the entire population, films based on Orwell, genetic fascism in Gattaca, “Putin’s plan” based on the script by Vladimir Sorokin Over the past three months, the culture of mass protest, which had been considered missing for eighteen years, has returned to Russia. This means that hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets and millions of sympathizers will have a demand for mass culture for the protesters.