photo by Ivan Kurinny for Forbes Chief Executive Officer of UBS in Russia Elizabeth Sullivan about her work in the USA, Russia, charity and adopted daughters I arrived in Russia in December 1993, on election day. The time was interesting, but everything was very uncertain - no one knew what he wanted or what needed to be done. I was hired by London Business School to provide training for entrepreneurs who had recently privatized a business and were looking for investors.

Turkey's antimonopoly authorities have given Sberbank official permission for the acquisition of DenizBank. reported this on Monday Bloomberg . Sberbank announced an agreement to purchase the Turkish division of the Franco-Belgian financial group Dexia on June 8. For 99.85% of the shares of the credit institution, the Russian side will pay $3.5 billion (1.33 capital).

The head of the government apparatus, Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov, will oversee issues of interaction with religious organizations in the Cabinet of Ministers. According to Interfax , such changes were approved on August 10 by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Previously, the work of executive authorities on issues of interaction with religious organizations was coordinated by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets.

Communication has been established and is being maintained with the Telkom 3 telecommunications spacecraft, which was launched into an off-design orbit last week as a result of the unsuccessful launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Briz-M upper stage, the developer and manufacturer said in a statement spacecraft of JSC Information Satellite Systems named after. Reshetnev". “The satellite is oriented towards the Sun. A positive energy balance is maintained on board.

The Olympics are now everything to us, and Olympic medals are serious support for the careers of officials and businessmen heading sports federations. We have identified the main winners and losers among them In 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that officials and big businessmen leave the leadership of sports federations. But many such structures are still headed by people whose names appear in lists of the richest and reports from government meetings.

Anna Kasyan Author Databases of users of discount services have entered the market, and authorities are trying to investigate this story. “Secret” databases are sold so widely and of such poor quality that the investigation is completely pointless At the end of last week, hackers began selling a database of users of discount services - about Vedomosti reported this, whose correspondent received an offer to buy such an “exclusive database” for $500.

The head of the executive committee of the All-Russian Muftiate, Muhammadgali Khuzin, spoke out against leniency for Pussy Riot, who will be sentenced this week. “Our religion does not allow any condescending and complacent attitude towards conscious desecrators of holy places,” Interfax quotes Khuzin as saying .

photo ITAR-TASS The paradoxical result of the Olympics: the leaders of the Olympic standings in terms of the amount of “prize money” paid will be completely different from the countries that are leading in the medal standings. At the top of the list is Russia, followed by its CIS neighbors - Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. The XXX Summer Olympic Games - the third in London's history after the 1908 and 1948 Games - are over.

The head of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, officially declared the XXX Summer Olympic Games closed. The London Olympics took place from July 27 to August 12, and 302 sets of medals were awarded at the games. The US team took first place in the unofficial medal standings of the Olympic Games. She has 104 medals: 46 gold, 29 silver and 29 bronze. China is in second place with 87 medals: 38 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze.

photo Getty Images / Martin Klimek Sergey Brin and Larry Page turned to Cheriton for advice on how to find a way to monetize Google's algorithms. He helped with advice and money The sun sets behind the horizon and its rays, with the last of their strength, illuminate the pages of the Superyachts magazine, which lies on the table in the office of Stanford University professor David Sheriton. He looks at the bright pictures on expensive paper without much interest.

August 13, 2012 news Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill and Lake Baikal: the history of relations in pictures Evgenia Rastashanskaya Author Evgenia Rastashanskaya Author # Baikal # CBK Forbes newsletter The most important things about finance, investment, business and technology Copy link Share Add to favorites Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Mode for the visually impaired

Review of world media. What threatens the desire of the Chinese authorities to build new cities around cars, and not around people? Why does North Korea need a dolphinarium? China Over the past five years, China has built over 35,000 kilometers of highways. In Shanghai alone, 2,500 kilometers of new roads were built. However, according to scientists, the urban population of China will grow by another 350 million people by 2020.

The author of the term BRIC - about why Russia has good prospects in comparison with other BRIC countries and how to realize them The murmur of investors disappointed in emerging markets, who consider the letter “R” to be superfluous in the BRIC acronym, is becoming more and more persistent. Emerging markets have indeed not looked very convincing lately.

It is necessary to revive public space - there is almost none left in the country: Boris Grozovsky about the collection “Russia 2020: Development Scenarios”, published by the Carnegie Center Russia 2020: development scenarios. Edited by Maria Lipman and Nikolai Petrov. Carnegie Moscow Center, Rosspen, 2012 Trying to think through future scenarios is very difficult. I realized this when I participated in the work on Strategy 2020.

The average price of Urals oil, Russia's main export, rose to $102.57 per barrel in July after declining for three months in a row. provides such data with reference to Ministry of Finance expert Alexander Sakovich RIA Novosti . The average price of Urals in July 2011 was $115.29, and in June of this year the minimum value in 2012 was recorded - $93.44 per barrel.