Review of the world press: how Mark Zuckerberg is taking business away from competitors, how much Tehran is losing due to UN sanctions and why Shell needs a hydrogen gas station in California Energy wrote on Thursday Sanctions by the international community against Iran are costing the Islamic republic dearly, Bloomberg . Tehran is losing $133 million every day due to shortfalls in oil supplies.

The government discussed the program for the development of the continental shelf until 2030. Based on its results, it was decided to form a working group that will work on finalizing the program. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich to lead this work. According to the Prime Minister, the economic effect from the program will amount to 8 trillion rubles by 2030.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich again publicly expressed doubts about the advisability of Rosneftegaz’s participation in the privatization of fuel and energy complex assets. According to the official in charge of the energy sector in the government, “there is no predetermination regarding transactions with FSK, IDGC, additional capitalization of RusHydro, Inter RAO UES yet.” “The government will work on this topic...

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photo provided The creator of the online hotel booking service Oktogo.ru Marina Kolesnik on the virtualization of tourism and the possibilities of fighting powerful foreign competitors Maxim Spiridonov: It’s summer — a time when the growth of most businesses slows down, or even stops altogether. But these months are the peak season for tourism companies.

The operators are negotiating two options for the deal: the first involves an exchange of assets, the second - the creation of a united company A new major deal is being prepared on the Russian telecommunications market, the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Thursday, citing sources close to the negotiation process. According to their information, Rostelecom and Tele2 are currently discussing the exchange of assets.

02 August 2012 news Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites This day in business history: the father of telephony and the plant named after.

Who will be able to establish a water transport system in the capital: a private owner or the state? I really love ships, so I was happy about at least one of the initiatives of the government of Sergei Sobyanin. Last fall, Moscow authorities announced that they would launch a “river bus” - ten 34-seater Tvertsa motor ships would run between the Pechatniki district in the southeast of the capital and the Kitay-Gorod pier in the center, the ticket price was 49 rubles.

Two St. Petersburg chemists reduced the cost of the process of obtaining gasoline. How can they conquer the oil refining technology market? Associate Professor of the Department of Petrochemistry at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology Dmitry Sibarov spent an hour talking to the vice-president of the Indian Oil oil company Sunil Rajagopal about the advantages of producing gasoline using the technology invented by his students Oleg Parputs and Oleg Giyazov.

Banker Andrey Serebryakov worked in Andrey Kostin’s team. A few years later, VTB agreed to become the first investor in his private equity fund. Serebryakov offers to make money on this and others. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior is flooded with sunlight. Opposite the temple, on the veranda of the Vanilla restaurant, it is still fresh, despite the July heat.

Why does the Clover Company produce almost two dozen brands of children's cosmetics? The general director and co-owner of the Clover Company, Gleb Bobkov, picks off the film on a shampoo bottle with the image of Spider-Man with his finger. A recess opens in which a figurine of a fantastic hero is hidden.

Idols [In the USSR] tyranny makes the entire population readers of poetry. The whole people reads the same newspaper, listens to the same broadcast, that is, a uniform speech has been established for the whole country. Under these conditions, anyone who risks deviating from the template and pushing the boundaries of speech becomes an idol. - Joseph Brodsky Aksenov and Gladilin were the idols of our youth. Their heroes were our peers. I myself was a little Viktor Podgursky.

The growth of military spending, control over the fuel and energy complex and the accumulation of the Reserve Fund are the main elements of the Russian economic system. Increased military spending suddenly became a key issue in economic policy. Due to controversy on this topic, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin resigned a year ago, and it is around military spending that there are fierce discussions in the new government. Why did the military topic acquire a political connotation?

Hockey has become a court sport - now they play for big money. Is Russian national team forward Alexander Radulov able to single-handedly beat the Dynamo hockey club (Riga), owned by the Russian oil and gas company Itera?

The best way to create a robot industry is to stop striving for engineering perfection and rely on consumer selection. Recently, Mail.ru Group CEO Dmitry Grishin, a roboticist by profession, launched a venture fund designed to invest in developers of consumer robots. It is difficult for a Baumanka graduate to accept the fact that there are not enough robots in life, there are few companies that would produce them - in general, the automatic future is not coming.