photo Foto SA / Corbis How two billionaires battle it out over a market potentially worth $1.6 trillion A typical roadhouse on Interstate 5 is the last place on earth you'd expect to see an electric vehicle charger. This place is lost among the farming expanses of the California Valley, it is equidistant 200 miles from San Francisco and Los Angeles. But now this eatery is one of six Tesla Motors Supercharger stations in the world.

photo courtesy of TechShop Jim Newton figured out how to make money from crazy inventors. For the amount that a coffee lover leaves at Starbucks, the TechShop network created by Newton allows you to bring any idea to life In 2006, former Mythbusters science consultant and BattleBots robotics competitor Jim Newton flipped through his notebook of 224 invention ideas.

The opera singer died at the age of 87 Opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya died on Tuesday at the age of 87. This information was confirmed by RIA Novosti at the Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Center. The farewell to the singer will take place at the Opera Singing Center on Thursday, and the next day the funeral service will take place in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The place and time of the funeral will be announced later.

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, believes that the person who ordered the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is one of the untouchable persons, and therefore the announcement of his name is being deliberately delayed. “We respect the presumption of innocence.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, believes that those Muslims who believe in the end of the world on December 21, 2012 are mistaken and are apostates. Kadyrov does not understand how Muslims can believe this. Moreover, buying candles, claiming that there will be no light. “Do none of them know that if the world ends, they won’t need any candles?” - Kadyrov is surprised on the official website of the head and government of the Chechen Republic.

Photo by Fotobank / Getty Images The largest prize of $3 million was received by Stephen Hawking and a group of scientists for experimental confirmation of the Higgs boson Created by billionaire Yuri Milner (No. 92 on the Forbes list of “Russia’s Richest Businessmen - 2012”, net worth $1 billion), the foundation announced the winners of the prize for achievements in the field of physics. There are three prizes awarded in the Physics Frontiers Prize category.

A new episode may appear in the scandalous case of fraud with military property: investigators have questions for the acting. Director of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Olesya Podgornaya. Previously, the Department was headed by Evgenia Vasilyeva, close to ex-minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who is already accused of fraud. Podgornaya signed agreements for the purchase and sale of military property in Abakan with Vostochny Transit LLC.

The modest Volvo of the King of Sweden, the Mercedes of the King of Spain inherited from Franco, the anniversary Bentley of the Queen of Great Britain and other vehicles of royalty Despite the fact that today the monarchy has survived only in a few dozen countries around the world, the concept of a royal crew is still relevant. True, horses and carriages have long been replaced by four-wheeled vehicles, among which there are truly unique specimens.

photo by Max Novikov for Forbes Illegally parked vehicles will be towed. The evacuation fee will be 5,000 rubles. All parking in Moscow within the Garden Ring will become paid by the end of 2013. Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport, told reporters about this. “We will try to ensure that during 2013 all parking space within the Garden Ring becomes paid,” Interfax quotes Liskutov .

Press Secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov denied information published in Novaya Gazeta that the meeting of the head of state with proxies was staged, Interfax reports .

A court in Kazakhstan found border guard Vladislav Chelakha guilty of killing 15 people at the Arkankergen border post and sentenced him to life imprisonment. “To be found guilty due to the absence of mitigating circumstances, to be sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony,” RIA Novosti quotes the judge of the specialized interdistrict military court for criminal cases, Erbol Akhmetzhanov. On Tuesday, the verdict was read out to Vladislav Chelakh.

photo REUTERS 2012 Rusal, Interros and Millhouse signed an agreement on Norilsk Nickel. The document differs from what the parties discussed last week As follows from the joint press release of Rusal and Interros, Millhouse Capital of Roman Abramovich (No. 9 on the Forbes list of “Russia’s Richest Businessmen - 2012”, net worth $12.1 billion) is buying 3,873,537 shares of Norilsk Nickel (2 ’s Rusal .03% of the authorized capital) from Oleg Deripaska (No.

On December 11, 2008, one of the founders of the NASDAQ stock exchange, entrepreneur Bernard Madoff, was arrested on suspicion of creating a financial pyramid scheme that caused $50 billion in losses to its participants. The fraud became known after several investors contacted his investment fund Madoff Investment Securities with a request to return funds totaling $7 billion. Madoff was unable to do this. It turned out that payments by the investor were made at the expense of new investors.

photo ITAR-TASS This is not about politics. Here, perhaps, there were no special illusions: “the process has begun,” as Mikhail Gorbachev said, all that remains is to be patient. But in the economy they remained and were lost in the past year The year seemed to be off to a good start.

Karen Shakhnazarov made Mosfilm the most successful state film company. But the strategy he chose poses a problem for business. Few people in Russia remember the fall of 1998 as a good time. Karen Shakhnazarov was especially uncomfortable. In April, the board of the Mosfilm film concern elected the director as general director. The economy is generally destroyed, the roofs are leaking, the sewage system is neglected, and the electrical wiring is scary to look at.