photo by Artem Korolev for Forbes In an interview with Bloomberg, the entrepreneur confirmed that her fortune is still more than $1 billion, and did not rule out buying a construction company in Europe Elena Baturina, ranked 86th in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes with a fortune of $1.1 billion, is considering the possibility of acquiring a construction company in Germany or Austria.

Megafon OJSC's IPO has been agreed upon by the shareholders and may follow in the near future. This statement was made on Friday by the operator’s controlling shareholder Alisher Usmanov. “I don’t think we have to wait very long,” the businessman said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel, answering a question about the prospects for Megafon’s IPO.

The Supreme Court of Russia did not accept for consideration the claim of a group of citizens to cancel the results of the past presidential elections. “This claim has been rejected,” the told Interfax court’s press service on Friday. However, the reasons for the refusal were not specified.

Dmitry Medvedev relieved Colonel General Alexander Zelin from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force and dismissed him from military service. The presidential decree was posted on the Kremlin website on Friday. Zelin, 58, served as commander-in-chief of the Air Force for nearly five years. He was dismissed from military service before the expiration of the age limit, which for military leaders with the rank of colonel general is 60 years.

The largest iron ore producer in Russia, the Metalloinvest holding, can itself buy out a stake in its shares from VTB for their subsequent sale as part of an IPO, the company’s main beneficiary Alisher Usmanov said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Usmanov himself does not intend to buy out the holding's stake from VTB, since he already owns 50% of the company's shares. According to Usmanov, another shareholder, Vladimir Skoch, is also not interested in this.

photo from personal archive The creator of the Dnevnik.ru portal, Gavriil Levi, tells how to introduce IT technologies into education to benefit your own wallet. In recent years, high technologies and virtualization are increasingly touching upon the most important aspects for a person - raising children, health and education. We talked about the latter with the founder and general director of the Dnevnik.ru school educational network, Gavriil Levi.

photo courtesy of the heroine Why Galina Volkova produces designer clothes and shoes for people with disabilities We meet with Galina Volkova, a famous shoe designer and founder of the Ortomoda company, in her Universal Design Studio. There are a lot of people in the mansion: there are doctors’ offices, two halls with clothes and shoes, fitting rooms, a sewing and shoe workshop, and offices for designers and managers.

April 27, 2012 news Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Rehearsal for the Victory Parade and holiday traffic jams.

OJSC Sollers, part of the Sollers group, and Mazda Motor Corporation agreed to create a joint venture on a parity basis in Vladivostok. This is stated in a press release from the Russian company. The new joint venture will begin operations at the end of 2012. The Far Eastern plant will produce the new Mazda CX-5 crossover and Mazda 6 sedan. Production capacity at the first stage will be 50,000 cars per year, and will subsequently increase to 70,000.

Samsung Electronics overtook Apple to become the world's largest smartphone maker in the first quarter of 2012. The South Korean electronics manufacturer posted record profits that exceeded market expectations. The company also overtook Nokia, taking the leading position in terms of mobile phone production in the world.

The House on Brestskaya promised to announce the winners of the competition for projects to develop the territory of the former Rossiya Hotel. On Friday, the results of a competition of concepts for the development of Zaryadye, the territory vacated after the demolition of the Rossiya Hotel, are to be announced.

photo REUTERS 2012 Two years after the oil spill, the company is back in great shape. But he prefers to keep quiet about it Two years ago, just after the biggest disaster in BP's history, I sat with then-CEO Tony Hayward in a crisis control center in Houston. 11 workers died on the Deepwater Horizon. On 11 screens at the crisis center, oil flowed in seething torrents into the murky depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

President Dmitry Medvedev called the situation that developed in Yaroslavl during the mayoral elections unacceptable. “It is unacceptable when one person wins the primaries, who is capable of winning the election, and the governor decides on the participation of another, based on the fact that he has his own ideas about how political life should be structured,” Interfax quotes him as saying President at a meeting with United Russia activists. “This is a failure,” he emphasized.

Globaltrans' subsidiary, New Transportation Company OJSC, is purchasing the railway operator Metalloinvesttrans (MIT) from the Metalloinvest group. The transaction amount will be $540 million, excluding cash and debt on the balance sheet. Such data are provided in a joint press release of the companies. The deal will allow Globaltrans to increase its own fleet of cars to more than 60,000 units by mid-2012.

East News photo For the first time in 14 years, the Finnish company sold fewer mobile phones than its competitors. Samsung has become a market leader by embracing new trends Few people perceive Nokia as a company that is at the forefront of mobile technology, churning out innovative devices and moving humanity forward. However, the Finns held the lead and since 1998 have remained the formal market leader, selling more phones than their competitors. Now Nokia has lost this status as well.