Photo by Yuri Chikov for Forbes As the founder of 1C, Boris Nuraliev built a sales network that is the envy of the largest retailers. The interior of the office of the director of the 1C company Boris Nuraliev is ascetic: a table, standard cabinets, shelving. On the shelves are yellow boxes of computer programs from his company.

Photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes Moscow authorities are going to spend more than 1 trillion rubles on new lines and metro stations. Among those allowed to use this money, there are no accidents. The construction site of the new Petrovsko-Razumovskaya station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line is surrounded by a spontaneous market.

There are no and cannot be untouchables in the fight against corruption in Russia, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. “In the fight against corruption, there are no untouchables in the hierarchy of officials and no untouchable regions,” Interfax quotes Peskov . According to him, only those who do not break the law can consider themselves untouchable.

The Cypriot authorities and representatives of the troika of international lenders (EU, ECB and IMF) have agreed on the terms of a loan agreement to provide the island state with financial assistance in the amount of 10 billion euros, Cypriot government spokesman Christos Stylianides told reporters on Tuesday. “We have reached a memorandum. This is a significant event,” Stylianidis was quoted as saying by Reuters .

MP Dmitry Gudkov, who was expelled from the A Just Russia party in mid-March , denied accusations published by the Izvestia newspaper on Tuesday that he concealed a stake in a family business in Bulgaria when submitting a declaration before the 2011 parliamentary elections. “The 23% share of the Bulgarian company Marie House... is indicated in all Duma declarations,” Dmitry Gudkov said in his microblog on Twitter on Tuesday. His father, Gennady Gudkov, also denied the published information.

Eliminating the consequences of the flood in Krymsk that occurred last summer will cost 20 billion rubles, the Ministry of Regional Development reported on Tuesday . “A total of 15 billion rubles from the regional and federal budgets have already been spent on eliminating the consequences of the Crimean flood.

The first deputy governor of the region, Arnold Shalmuyev, is suspected of exceeding his official powers and coercing a transaction in the framework of a case of theft of budget funds allocated for road repairs in the region, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “The reason for initiating a criminal case was the discovery of facts of theft of budget funds allocated for road repairs in the region,” the press center noted.

The UN General Assembly adopted the first ever arms trade control treaty (ATT), Reuters reported on Tuesday . Representatives of 154 states voted for the adoption of the document, 3 delegations voted against, 23 abstained. In the future, each country will have the opportunity to choose whether to ratify the treaty or not. The treaty will reportedly come into force once 50 countries have ratified it. This may take approximately two years.

A family mini-hotel seems to be an easy and pleasant business. Our heroes in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kolomna told us what it’s really like to drive it in Russian conditions. Halima Mirsiapova, Elizaveta Tatarnikova Alexander House Boutique Hotel, St. Petersburg In 2007, an international inspection from London suddenly arrived at a small hotel in St. Petersburg.

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin is collecting information on ongoing inspections of non-profit organizations (NPOs) to provide it to President Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday. “We are collecting materials on why this check is being carried out, what are the real grounds for the check, what are they checking,” Lukin told reporters on Tuesday.

The scheme for reverse gas supplies from Europe to Ukraine is absolutely legal and complies with international law, Deputy Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of the country Vladimir Makukha told reporters on Tuesday. According to Makukha, gas leaves the country and then comes back. “This is an absolutely legal and clean scheme - gas crosses the border of Ukraine,” he emphasized.

Royal cuisine, starry wilderness and oyster and beef tartare - a restaurant critic about gastronomic hotel restaurants. Dmitry Alekseev The way to a loved one's heart is through the stomach. Hotels have always been partial to people with taste, but it was only in 1886 that they took the issue of their stomach seriously. It was then that the collaboration between the failed artist Auguste Escoffier and the former waiter Cesar Ritz began.

Father: Aras Agalarov, President of the Crocus Group of companies Critic: Emin Agalarov, vice president of Crocus Group The conversation on this serious topic took place in the atmosphere of either lunch or dinner. Business, but family, fun, easy. With mutual teasing, cross irony and self-irony of the participants. At the same time, all the questions managed to become clear in such a way that there was not much room left, not even any clearing for interpretations and clarifications.

Habit is more valuable than clothes, or the secret of black tie. In my Soviet youth, I came across a textbook of good manners from a second-hand bookseller called “The Art of Conducting in Society.” What to wear, when to come, how to give it and who to tell. The advice seemed hilariously funny and old-fashioned, a textbook on secular circulation was no more suitable to Soviet life than Elena Molokhovets’s cookbook was to the empty shelves of “Gastronomy”.

Why bank ratings do not grow following the sovereign rating of Russia. The rating of Russian banks and companies is, as a rule, lower than the sovereign rating of Russia. What is the reason for this and is a rating needed at all in this case? Assessment of the credit quality of companies and government entities by rating agencies - international (such as Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch) or local - is an important factor when making investment decisions.