photo GOLOSCHAPOV Artem for Forbes The management of Rusnano is ineffective and allows for interested party transactions, the projects being implemented are economically untenable, and some of them have nothing to do with nanotechnology at all. This conclusion is contained in the report of the Accounts Chamber The State Nanotechnology Corporation appeared in 2007 at the suggestion of Vladimir Putin - then it was called “Rosnanotech”, and in 2010 it was renamed “Rusnano”.

Illustration Fotobank/Getty Images The My-Apps project, a semi-finalist in the Forbes startup competition, attracted almost $2 million in investments, but has not yet been able to monetize its solutions In the summer of 2011, young entrepreneur Vyacheslav Semenchuk, lying in the hospital with a broken leg, tried to manage his business. It was inconvenient to use a laptop in the ward, and Semenchuk was thinking about purchasing a mobile business application.

The Moscow police are planning to protect cars from theft and introduce their own satellite system for this, Anatoly Abramochkin, head of the private security department of the capital's main headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, said on Wednesday. Abramochkin said that, along with the security of stationary facilities, the service he heads plans to introduce vehicle security in the near future.

Chancellor of Germany 58-year-old Angela Merkel topped Forbes magazine's list of the 100 most powerful women in the world for the seventh time in the last 10 years . Merkel was ahead of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, 65, and Melinda Gates, 48, who heads the Bill and Melinda Gates Charitable Foundation. They take second and third places respectively.

VTB Bank, which previously acquired Tele2 Russia, expects that the mobile operator will soon receive a license to operate in Moscow, Yuri Solovyov, the first deputy chairman of the bank, told reporters on Wednesday. “The company is growing, calls are cheap. When we break through to Moscow, I recommend changing your operators,” RIA Novosti quotes Solovyov . At the same time, the deputy chairman of VTB expressed hope that Tele2 Russia will soon receive permission to work in Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, during a meeting with VTB head Andrei Kostin, announced the need to create a system for protecting bank deposits of Russians abroad. At the same time, he explained his position by the situation that recently occurred in Cyprus.

The foundation of Mail.Ru Group CEO Dmitry Grishin - Grishin Robotics - will invest $500 thousand in the development of the second generation of the Swivl video robot, used in conducting lectures and performances and organizing distance education, according to a press release received by Forbes . The funds raised will be used to complete the development of the second generation of Swivl and expand the capabilities of the device through integrated cloud video services.

A copy of the first edition of the novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” with notes and illustrations by the author JK Rowling (No. 78 in the ranking of the most influential women in the world , net worth: $17 million) was sold at Sotheby’s on Tuesday for $228,000, reports the Associated Press .

The governor of the Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, on Wednesday testified in the Leninsky Court of Kirov in the case of the theft of property of the Kirovles State Unitary Enterprise, saying that he does not know about the damage allegedly caused to the region's budget by the actions of the defendant - his former adviser, oppositionist Alexei Navalny.

President of Russneft Mikhail Gutseriev (No. 34 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia , fortune - $3 billion) said that he bought out the share of businessman Magomed Bilalov in OJSC Krasnaya Polyana, which is building a ski resort in Sochi, for $20 million, while the owners of the package They offered him a price of up to $100 million.

The power of the destructive tornado that hit the state of Oklahoma reached the maximum category EF5 on the Fujita scale, CNN reported , citing the US National Weather Service. American media claim that the power of the tornado was eight times greater than the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Wind speeds in the area of ​​the city of Moore, which bore the brunt of the storm, reached 210 miles per hour (about 337 km per hour).

Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia Viktor Grin sent to court a criminal case about mass riots in Moscow on May 6, 2012, in which 12 people are involved, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Wednesday . “Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin approved the indictment under the so-called "Bolotnaya case". During its investigation, 12 people were brought to criminal responsibility,” the department said in a statement.

A tornado hit the city of Efremov in the Tula region on Wednesday afternoon, and a state of emergency was declared, according to the website of the region's governor, Vladimir Gruzdev. “As a result of the disaster, roofs were severely damaged, glass was broken in many houses located in populated areas of the city, including the buildings of three schools and two kindergartens.

The Moscow prosecutor's office sent to the court a demand to liquidate the Russian branch of the association "International Committee for Combating Organized Crime, Terrorism and Corruption" ("Inokrim"), according to the website of the Prosecutor General's Office on Wednesday. The report notes that in 2011, the Tagansky Court of Moscow already banned the activities of this representative office until the violations were eliminated, but nothing has changed.

Photo by Diomedia Domestic air traffic growth continues to lag behind international air traffic, leaving low-cost carriers with little business in the market By the end of 2014, the first airport for low-cost airlines may appear in Russia - Ermolino in the Kaluga region . UTair is designated as the base carrier.