In 2013, Forbes compiled an anniversary ranking of the richest entrepreneurs. We can sum up the first results. This year, Forbes publishes the 10th anniversary ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia. Where did the history of counting the world's largest fortunes begin? For the first time, Bertie Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine, took it upon himself to assess the fortunes of major businessmen.

A court in the DPRK sentenced US citizen Kenneth Bay, suspected of plotting a coup in North Korea, to 15 years of forced labor, reported on Thursday. Reuters 44-year-old Kenneth Bay (birth name Bay Jun Ho), born in South Korea, is a naturalized American. He, as part of a tourist group of five people, arrived in the DPRK on November 3, 2012.

The founder of the Magnit chain, Sergei Galitsky (No. 17 on the Forbes list), explains how a retail empire with a capitalization of about $20 billion is created and managed. In 1998, this man had one store. He now operates seven thousand stores. “I still think that this is impossible - the results that we showed,” Sergei Galitsky knocks his palm on the table so that the cups rattle. The general director of Magnit is used to backing up his words with energetic gestures.

Photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes As a former paratrooper, partner of Mikhail Fridman and ally of Anatoly Chubais, he was included in the Forbes list. The train from Kyiv arrived in Moscow exactly on schedule. When the crowd subsided, only two remained on the dusty summer platform - a fit, military-looking man of about thirty, next to whom, among the bags and suitcases, his wife was shifting from foot to foot in confusion.

To go from entrepreneur to billionaire, you need to be able to keep going and manage your emotions. And don't be afraid to lose. When about twenty years ago I began to study the types of super-successful individuals, I thought that any person could be turned into a capable entrepreneur who manages some large and even global projects and systems. As it turned out, this is not at all the case.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday took part in the opening ceremony of the new stage of the Mariinsky Theater, noting the merits of artistic director Valery Gergiev in the implementation of the project, RIA Novosti reports . Accompanied by Valery Gergiev, who was awarded the title of Hero of Labor on May 1 , Putin inspected the stage, rehearsal rooms, and auxiliary premises of the theater.

Photo REUTERS 2013 How George Soros became an icon and then a laughing stock on Wall Street in the 1980s. The phenomenon of hedge funds, which currently manage more than $2.3 trillion, according to Deutsche Bank, is the main subject of research by Sebastian Mallaby, author of the book More Money Than God, forthcoming from Career Press. . Forbes publishes an excerpt from the book dedicated to the legendary George Soros, founder of the Quantum hedge fund.

The famous film director and screenwriter Nikolai Mashchenko, who directed the films “The Gadfly” and “How the Steel Was Tempered,” died at the age of 85 in Ukraine, the RIA Novosti agency reported . Among the most famous works of film director Mashchenko are the films “There is Sky Everywhere” (1965) and “Commissars” (1970).

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov expressed hope that Russia's largest social network VKontakte will survive and operate successfully, despite the problems surrounding its creator Pavel Durov. “I am confident that the network will survive, since it is very popular in Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes Surkov as saying during a speech at the London School of Economics. According to Surkov, complex processes are currently taking place in society.

What high-profile projects of the Putin era are carried out by companies registered in Cyprus. The registration of parent companies of Russian holdings in Cyprus, where convenient English law applies, has made small Cyprus a major economic partner of Russia.

Photo by Eric Millette for Forbes How an obsessed surfer created the world's fastest-growing video camera company. Nick Woodman is 37 years old. But his perpetually tousled hair and mischievous half-smile make it impossible to give him more than twenty-seven.

Kyiv will take measures to ensure that in six months the United States revises Ukraine’s status on the list of copyright violators, in which the country is in first place, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Konstantin Grishchenko promised on Thursday. According to Grishchenko, the status of the most “pirate” country in the world does not reflect the real state of affairs in this area in Ukraine.

Photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes How Sergei Chemezov and the managers of Russian Technologies took control and privatized the titanium monopolist of Russia. In the fall of 2006, high-ranking guests from Moscow arrived in the small industrial town of Verkhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Region. The delegation was headed by the head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport (now the Rostec state corporation) Sergei Chemezov, one of Vladimir Putin’s friends.

The International Affairs Committee of the Irish Parliament has decided not to create a list of Russian citizens who may be involved in the death in pre-trial detention of Hermitage Capital fund auditor Sergei Magnitsky, similar to the “Magnitsky list” published in the United States, reported on Thursday. the Irish newspaper The Irish Times Instead, the committee unanimously adopted a document that calls on the government to take into account the committee's concerns regarding Magnitsky's death.

photo Corbis/FOTO SA The more billionaires in a country who have achieved success through connections, the slower the economy grows. Russia's richest businessmen are getting poorer and aging: in recent years, their fortunes have grown approximately 1.5 times slower than Russian GDP. The owners of this wealth have aged 6 years since 2004, to 50 years. The influx of new people to the Forbes list has not been rapid in recent years, and its regulars do not have the elixir of youth.