photo ITAR-TASS The first Russian defense minister had a lot to tell, but he never wrote a memoir It so happened that five or six days ago I noticed on my Facebook: “Why doesn’t P.S. Grachev write memoirs!? After all, they would become an event! Judge for yourself - he was among those who prepared the State Emergency Committee, and he also turned to Yeltsin on August 19 and sabotaged the State Emergency Committee. He shot up the White House in '93.

From February 1, 2013, the movement of freight transport along the Moscow Ring Road will be prohibited during the daytime, Interfax reports , citing the head of the capital’s transport department, Maxim Liksutov. As Liksutov clarified, trucks with a carrying capacity of more than 12 tons will no longer be able to drive along the Moscow Ring Road during the day. According to Liksutov, each such car takes the space of 4-5 cars.

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) has discovered dangerous microorganisms in products from Ukraine. E. coli bacteria were found in a batch of cheese produced at PJSC Khmelnytsky Maslosyrbaza. Salmonella was found in poultry meat from Complex Agromars LLC. Mesophilic aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms were identified in a batch of milk powder produced at the Romensky dairy plant.

photo REUTERS 2012 Microsoft founder on “catalytic philanthropy” and how it is better than government and corporate philanthropy Bill Gates was the featured speaker at the Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit. He spoke during a gala dinner in New York at the Rubin Museum. 161 people (all billionaires or nearly billionaires) listened to Gates talk about “catalytic philanthropy”: how to use capitalist methods to create new markets to organize systematic, long-term programs to help those in need.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received a one-year suspended prison sentence and a $19,170 fine for violating the public trust. In July, the court found that Olmert, as Minister of Industry and Trade, made a number of decisions beneficial to the business of his close friend Uri Messer.

The export duty on oil from new fields in Eastern Siberia will be halved. The Russian government's decision to almost halve the burden on oil export duties from new fields in Eastern Siberia was announced on Monday by Energy Minister Alexander Novak.

The Russian government has allocated 1 billion rubles to modernize the preschool education system. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution on the distribution of subsidies between 72 regions, RIA Novosti reports. “I signed a resolution on the distribution of subsidies to the regions for the modernization of the regional and municipal preschool education system.

September 24, 2012 Mode for the visually impaired Materials read by Marusya - voice assistant from VK Share Add to favorites Forbes 10/2012 Forbes newsletter The most important things about finance, investment, business and technology Copy link Share Add to favorites Materials read by Marusya - voice assistant from VK Mode for the visually impaired

The full question goes like this: The tax inspector conducting an on-site tax audit of our enterprise stated that we are involved in schemes involving fly-by-night companies and will have to pay an additional income tax and VAT on transactions with such companies in the amount of 5 million rubles. The inspector offered to pay him 1.5 million, and at the same time he would write only 1.5 million rubles in the act. What to do? This situation, unfortunately, happens quite often.

For the eighth time, Forbes magazine has prepared a rating of the 200 largest non-public companies in Russia . The total revenue of the rating participants reached record values ​​- more than 10.2 trillion rubles (+27.5% compared to last year’s result). The main result of the rating : thanks to government orders, construction companies grew the fastest (absolute record - +800% for the Second Krasnodar SMU company ), as well as car dealers (+74% for Transtekhservice ) .

photo Kommersant/Color Sport After losing to Abramovich, the disgraced oligarch sells off his property Five years ago, Boris Berezovsky put everything on the line. By filing a lawsuit against Roman Abramovich in a London court, he expected to receive $5.6 billion allegedly underpaid to him for his shares in Sibneft and Rusal. But the decision of Judge Elizabeth Gloster, who not only denied Berezovsky's claim, but also called him a liar, put the former oligarch on the brink of ruin.

Not a single opposition party entered the new parliament of Belarus as a result of Sunday's elections. In total, it included 5 political parties. Secretary of the Central Election Commission of Belarus Nikolai Lozovik told reporters about this on Monday. Two opposition forces took part in the current elections: the movement “For Freedom” and the party of opposition communists.

Russia is recognized as a partially free country in terms of freedom on the Internet. This is evidenced by data from Freedom House's annual report on Internet freedom. The Freedom House rating , in which countries are ranked depending on the level of freedom on the Internet, divides all countries into 3 categories - free, partially free and not free. This time, 14 countries were included in the free list.

September 24, 2012 Career and business Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Startup competition 2012: beginning The Forbes editors and the competition jury welcome the participants and talk about the conditions of participation.

photo Foto SA / Corbis Chapter from the book “App Store Millionaires” Mann, Ivanov and Ferber recently published a book by Chris Stevens, an iPad and iPhone app designer, about how independent developers took advantage of the opportunities created by the advent of the App Store - App Store Millionaires . With the permission of the publisher, we are publishing an abbreviated chapter where the author explores the secrets of success of the creators of the popular gaming application Doodle Jump.