02 July 2013 ForbesLife Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Gas racing: how Miller and Kadyrov's horses competed for the President's prize At the Central Moscow Hippodrome on Monday evening the races for the prize of the President of Russia took place The races for the prize of the President of Russia took place at the Central Moscow Hippodrome on Monday evening.

The tradition of superiority of state interests over human interests is becoming a threat to Russia’s position in global competition. Humanity is entering a new stage in history - the contours of a future world order, unlike the current one, are becoming more and more visible on the horizon. Traditionally, the global hierarchy on the planet was established as a result of wars.

photo by Tatyana Zommer for Forbes Why and for whom are Moscow restaurateurs opening establishments in London. In the evenings, a queue of well-dressed Englishmen forms at the entrance to the Burger&Lobster restaurant. After seven in the evening, the tables of a rather large restaurant in the fashionable Soho district of London are already occupied; there are only seats at the bar counter. You cannot reserve a table in advance at Mikhail Zelman's restaurant. Live queue only.

The damage from the accident of the Proton-M launch vehicle, which crashed with three GLONASS-M space satellites almost immediately after launch, could amount to $200 million, Interfax reports , citing a source in the space industry. “The cost of services for launching a payload using the Proton-M launch vehicle is estimated at $80-100 million. The spacecraft themselves can cost approximately the same amount,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes On the tenth anniversary of the YUKOS case, Forbes publishes the memoirs of the former deputy head of the company's external debt directorate, Vladimir Pereverzin, who received 11 years in a maximum security colony On July 2, 2003, the chairman of the board of directors of the Menatep MFO, Platon Lebedev, was detained in Moscow. This is how a criminal case began in Russia, which changed Russian business and politics, and the country too.

Egypt's army on Tuesday proposed suspending the constitution, dissolving parliament and holding early presidential elections if the country's President Mohamed Morsi and the opposition do not agree to resolve the country's political crisis, reported . Reuters Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which ruled the country until the last presidential elections, developed its own plan for overcoming the crisis.

The State Duma Committee on Science and High Technologies recommended that deputies reject in the first reading the bill on reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), as evidenced by the official conclusion of the committee posted on Tuesday on the State Duma website. “To recommend that the State Duma reject this bill when considering it in the first reading,” says the decision of the relevant committee.

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the Kirov Region Maria Gaidar on Tuesday spoke in the Leninsky District Court of Kirov at a hearing on the case of organizing theft from the Kirovles State Unitary Enterprise, in which oppositionist Alexey Navalny and businessman Pyotr Ofitserov are involved. Maria Gaidar was called as a defense witness.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes The owners of the startup Zoon.ru decided to spend more than $15 million to create a new service search system. Will the investment be returned? “About 300 people a month come to each of our restaurants through this application. More than through Afisha,” says Anna Lavrova, director of four Uryuk restaurants in the capital. To maintain a “more visible” position for restaurants in the Zoon directory, she pays 5,000 rubles per month for each restaurant.

Employees of the French antimonopoly authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) conducted searches in several Apple brand stores, as well as distributors of the company's products, BBC reports . was the first to report the searches The French newspaper Les Echos . The BBC press service confirmed this information and reported that the searches were carried out last week. The department refused to name the reason for these actions. Apple declined to comment on the searches.

About billionaire Makhmudov Artem Zug. Factories have been raised from the ruins and are producing quite intelligible products [Transmashholding of Iskander Makhmudov]. Most workers retained their jobs. What's wrong with capitalism? Is it that the enterprise works for results, and not for keeping unnecessary mouths to feed? The man raised an entire industry without descending into chaos. What was the alternative? Leave Feduleva Kushva?

The Forbes competition was won by startups with a clear “consumer” idea. “My friends constantly pestered me - they asked me to recommend a good doctor to them. One day I received 12 requests for help, my patience ran out, and I decided: it’s time to make money from this,” says one of the finalists of the Forbes startup competition, Dmitry Petrukhin. We are holding this competition for the third time.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes While playing war, former officer and manager Dmitry Krupennikov found the way to his own business. The founder of the Epaulet group of companies, Dmitry Krupennikov, takes a Red Army cowhide boot from the shelf. He turns it over and explains: the boot is modern, sewn in the Epaulet workshop, but the sole is genuine, from old stocks written off from the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense.

The structures of Dmitry and Boris Mintsev (No. 120 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , fortune - $0.9 billion) received control over the NPF Telecom-Soyuz, which services the corporate pension programs of Rostelecom and Russian Post, reported the Tuesday newspaper "Kommersant" citing sources in the financial market. According to sources, the deal took place about a month ago.

Alexey Petyaev Author Glikin Konstantin Author On July 2, the Russian space industry suffered another setback: the Proton-M launch vehicle was unable to launch 3 Glonass-M satellites into orbit. Forbes recalls the history of the failures of Roscosmos and the cost of these failures for the country