Vimpelcom Ltd. will be headed by a citizen of the Russian Federation. The Federal Antimonopoly Service and the largest shareholder of the telecommunications holding, the Norwegian Telenor, came to such an agreement, FAS Director Igor Artemyev said on Tuesday. On July 30, the government commission on foreign investment agreed on the terms of resolving the dispute between the FAS and Telenor regarding the company's share in Vimpelcom. Details of the world side were not disclosed.

The head of the Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Major General of Justice Ivan Glukhov, was dismissed by decree of President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press service reports. By the same decree, Major General of Police Vladimir Morozov, who previously headed the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Smolensk region, was appointed as the new chief investigator of Moscow with the rank of deputy chief of the GUMVD of Russia for Moscow.

The Board of Directors of the United Aircraft Corporation decided to terminate the powers of the President of the Irkut Corporation Alexey Fedorov ahead of schedule. UAC Senior Vice President Oleg Demchenko, who previously headed this corporation from 2005 to 2011, was elected in his place, the UAC statement says. At the meeting of the board of directors of Irkut held today, Demchenko was elected president of the corporation, and he was also elected chairman of the board of Irkut.

The net profit of Yandex in the second quarter of 2012 according to US GAAP amounted to 1.983 billion rubles - 76% higher than the same figure for April-June 2011, the Internet giant said in a statement. Yandex’s financial indicators turned out to be higher than the forecast of analysts, who expected net profit of 1.827 billion rubles, RIA Novosti notes . The company's revenue increased by 50% - to 6.8 billion rubles.

The Presidential Fuel and Energy Commission approved the first deal involving a state holding. According to the “market”, the purchase of a stake in Irkutskenergo will cost Rosneftegaz approximately $1 billion The Commission on the Fuel and Energy Complex under the President of Russia decided to sell a stake in OAO Irkutskenergo, owned by Inter RAO UES, to the state company Rosneftegaz, the holder of large shares in Rosneft and Gazprom.

The net profit of the British oil and gas company BP Plc in the first half of 2012 decreased by 2.9 times compared to the same period last year, amounting to $4.53 billion, the company’s report says. The company's net loss in the second quarter amounted to $1.39 billion, while in the second quarter of last year BP showed a net profit of $5.72 billion. On a per common share basis, the company's net income was 23.84 cents. In the first half of 2011, this figure was 68.81 cents.

Unemployment in the 17-country eurozone stood at 11.2% in June 2012, the highest on record since 1995. This is evidenced by data from the Statistical Office of the European Union. In June 2011, unemployment in the eurozone was 10.0%. Thus, the unemployment rate remained at the level of the upwardly revised May figure. The previous estimate revised the original May figure from 11.1% to 11.2%. In the EU as a whole, the unemployment rate also remained at the revised May level of 10.4%.

photo ITAR-TASS Yuri Milner established a prize for achievements in the field of fundamental physics in the amount of $3 million. The investor told Forbes about his motives Well-known entrepreneur Yuri Milner, one of the founders of Mail.Ru Group and DST ( No. 92 on the Forbes list ), has established a new annual prize for significant achievements in the field of fundamental physics in the amount of $3 million.

Photo by Fotobank / Getty Images India's economy is growing slower than China's, but its growth fundamentals are stronger. However, there are dangers here too. India and China. Western investors like to compare the world's two most populous countries as if their economies differed only in stage and speed of development. Over the first decade of the 21st century, China's GDP grew by an average of 10.3% per year, and India also showed a very impressive 7.4%.

Photo by Fotobank / Getty Images What and in what terms will Londoners remember when they hear the word “Olympics”? On the opening day of the Olympics, my colleague Caroline and I were talking about the ceremony. Caroline - a frail woman, a mother of three, drives an ancient Defender and is able to stop a galloping horse - said: “This, of course, is not good, but for some reason I expect and even somewhere hope that something will go wrong in the evening.” .

Anton Trofimov Author The defendants from Pussy Riot face a much more severe punishment than the organizers of “Barricade” in the center of Moscow, “x... in captivity of the FSB” and other scandalous performances suffered

photo by Max Novikov for Forbes Today, blogger, politician and lawyer Alexei Navalny again appeared at the Investigative Committee, where he should be formally charged in the Kirovles case (on Monday he also visited the Investigative Committee, but the filing of charges was postponed ). A Forbes correspondent reports that several dozen journalists gathered near the Investigative Committee building, just like yesterday.

illustration Blackpool Creative The smartphone will become thinner and its screen will grow to 4 inches. The diagonal of the tablet can be reduced to 7 inches. Competitors' successes are pushing Apple to change Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce a new version of the iPhone smartphone on September 12. Information about the date of the presentation was confirmed to Bloomberg by two sources familiar with the plans of the American corporation.

photo ITAR-TASS What is the origin of the funds of the faction and party members who unanimously voted for the law on foreign agents, and why “Nashi” is also a foreign agent “Foreign agents” is no longer an idiom, it is now a legal term.

On July 31, the financial pyramid gifted all Muscovites, the outstanding economist turned 100 years old, Americans forever linked the dollar with God The heroes of today are Sergei Mavrodi with his gifts, the roaring lion of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, paper American bills, an economist who did not live to be 100 years old, as well as citizens who for the first time received a real sentence for theft of Adobe Systems software.