photo Itar-TASS Why did the Renault-Nissan alliance decide to produce engines in Togliatti and revive its own budget brand Datsun in Russia The future of AvtoVAZ seems to be starting to become clearer. If two years ago, when the domestic auto giant presented its own development program until 2020, it caused widespread skepticism, now the points set out in it are gradually beginning to be implemented. At least this is evidenced by the information background of recent days.

The euro to ruble exchange rate in “tomorrow” settlements by 14.03 Moscow time on Monday fell by 48 kopecks to 38.47 rubles against the backdrop of a trend toward weakening of the single European currency in the Forex market, according to MICEX-RTS data. At the same time, RIA Novosti reports, the dollar to ruble exchange rate for “tomorrow” calculations by this time had decreased by 19 kopecks - to 29.10 rubles. The cost of the bi-currency basket decreased by 33 kopecks to 33.31 rubles.

The key risk for the Russian economy remains its strong dependence on the commodity market: a prolonged fall in oil prices could harm the country and lead to a reduction in long-term sovereign ratings by several notches at once. These conclusions are contained in a review by Standard & Poor's. Russia's long-term rating in foreign currency is currently at the level of "BBB" with a "stable" outlook, in national currency - "BBB+" with a "stable" outlook, and the national scale rating is "ruAAA".

Over the next year, the country's largest telecommunications company, Rostelecom, will be reorganized and the Svyazinvest holding will be merged with it. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered this. In his decree, signed on March 24 and published on Monday on the official Internet portal of legal information, the president instructed the government to reorganize Rostelecom within 12 months by merging the Svyazinvest holding company with it.

The former head of the KGB of the republic, Leonid Tibilov, and the youngest of the candidates, the republican ombudsman David Sanakoev, are advancing to the second round of the presidential elections in South Ossetia. agency reports this The RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the Central Election Commission Bella Plieva. The presidential elections in South Ossetia took place on Sunday, March 25. By Monday morning, 40% of the ballots had already been processed.

photo by RIA Novosti Alexander Lukashenko takes the regime he has built very seriously. But his sentence has already been signed When on March 17, Belarusian state television announced the execution of Vladislav Kovalev and Dmitry Konovalov, convicted of a terrorist attack in the Minsk metro in the spring of 2011, a chill went down the spine of many, even in the Russian state machine, which is accustomed to violence and cruelty. We have not officially executed anyone since 1996.

The Investigation Department (ID) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs dropped the criminal case against the former head of the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Metro" Dmitry Gaev for abuse of power - experts considered it legal for Gaev to receive remuneration from the subway for his patents, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a representative of the department.

photo Itar-TASS So far, all claims against the two oil companies look like obvious nit-picking and a desire to redistribute fields in favor of their competitor It was no coincidence that Bashneft faced the threat of revocation of its license for the fields named after. Trebs and Titov during the period of change of government and president: the balance of power changes, and since everyone has their own “favorites,” any market participant can suffer.

photo by Diomedia Hovhannes Oganisyan and Igor Mikhailov, having lost 3.4% and 1.8% of the value of their portfolios, hope for the best The Russian RTS index lost 4.6% over the week, and the model portfolios of the strategist in the stock market of the investment company Troika Dialog Hovhannes Oganisyan and the manager of Uralsib Management Company Igor Mikhailov, succumbing to correction, also sank by 3.4% and 1.8% respectively.

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Their task is to be remembered and to become the lower limit against which everything else will be measured. We recently tried several new wines with colleagues and talked about wine X. One of the participants in the conversation was particularly delighted with it. “It will definitely go on my list of secret wines that I don’t tell anyone about,” he said. What kind of list is this, I ask?

photo Itar-TASS What is instructive about the defeat of the “Moscow candidate” in the presidential elections in South Ossetia Among the four candidates for the presidency of South Ossetia, one undoubtedly had every chance of winning. This is the Ambassador of South Ossetia to Russia Dmitry Medoev. A diplomat with twenty years of experience, a person who represented South Ossetia in Russia even when the republic could only dream of recognizing its independence.

photo by Evgeny Dudin for Forbes CEO of Ericsson in Russia on how to manage people and reinvent yourself Half an hour ago I spoke to new employees - we have such a tradition, all new employees are greeted by the general director. I realized that I had been in the company for 22 years - I came as an intern right after college. It's surprising, but I was never bored. Something was always changing in the industry, in technology, and I always had the chance to change something in the company.

Photo by Photoxpress The state will not decide on a public offering of shares for a long time The “People's IPO,” which VTB management spoke of five years ago as “the most successful... placement of shares among Russian retail investors,” ends with a unique promotion. The bank buys shares from participants in the placement at the placement price (13.6 kopecks), which is almost twice the current market price.

photo Foto SA / Corbis Research on the business climate by various structures is carried out regularly, and small and medium-sized businesses are among the most relevant objects of analysis: due to the dynamism of its development and faster response to environmental changes, this area requires constant monitoring.

photo Kommersant / Gleb Shchelkunov In Russia, Mikhail Gutseriev lost his company and his son. Why did he decide to return and who helped him? A car racing along the M1 Moscow-Brest highway in the direction of Minsk on a July evening in 2007 did not stand out in any way from the stream. The drivers, former president of Russneft Mikhail Gutseriev and one of his friends, drove all night, replacing each other. A private plane was waiting for Gutseriev in Minsk, on which he flew to Turkey.