The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), the creation of which was supported by Vladimir Putin, will allocate investments in the amount of up to 1 million rubles for more than 30 aspiring entrepreneurs as part of the “Startups on the Internet” project, reported on Tuesday.

The Finam investment holding, owned by Viktor Remsha, sold the Finam FM radio station it owned to a group of Russian and foreign investors, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday , citing a company press release. The press service statement emphasizes that the Finam FM radio station is one of the best assets of the investment bank. But management decided to focus on high-tech projects related to the segments of online advertising, social networks and financial services.

photo by RIA Novosti The founder of the cosmetics company Green Mama, Oleg Nasobin, is sure that in 2004 he bought a painting by Benvenuto Cellini at an antique fair for €3,200. However, convincing the art world of this was not easy. Finding an unknown masterpiece is probably every antique collector's dream.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) handed over documents to the Prosecutor General's Office for the extradition of the general director of the Uralkali company, Vladislav Baumgertner, from Belarus, where he was detained on August 26 as part of a case of abuse of power, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the ICR. According to a representative of the Investigative Committee, investigators sent the relevant documents to the Prosecutor General’s Office on October 18.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The ability to swim against the tide and an excellent academic career will help Ben Bernanke's deputy take his chair In December 2001, Janet Yellen attended the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, where her husband, co-author, and Berkeley colleague George Akerlof won the Economic Sciences Prize for his research into market information asymmetries.

Paintings and sculptures created by women that are worth millions of dollars An extensive collection of works by Natalia Goncharova, the famous Russian avant-garde artist who left for Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, was brought to Moscow. This is Goncharova’s largest exhibition in Russia over the past 100 years: until February 16, 2014, the Tretyakov Gallery will display about 400 exhibits, most of which have not been exhibited in Russia before.

Microsoft openly accused Google of reading all emails from its Gmail users, writes the British Telegraph . Microsoft is conducting “outreach” as part of the Keep Your Email Private campaign. On the website of the same name, the corporation claims that absolutely every email is read - Google does this for advertising targeting purposes.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia approved the application of Microsoft International Holdings BV to purchase 100% of Nokia LLC, the Russian representative office of the Finnish manufacturer Nokia, whose mobile business is being bought by Microsoft, according to the website of the antimonopoly agency. Microsoft and Nokia in early September announced an agreement under which the American company would acquire the production of mobile devices from Nokia.

Investigators named the general director of the Uralkali company, Vladislav Baumgertner, who is under house arrest in Belarus, as the organizer of an illegal scheme that caused damage to the Russian budget, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to a report from the Moscow City Court. The court's statement notes that on Wednesday, November 6, it will consider “an appeal against the arrest in absentia of Baumgertner, accused under Part 3 of Art. 33 - part 2 art.

The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) posted on its website in the “Wanted Persons” section a photograph and data of businessman Sergei Polonsky, who was put on the international wanted list by Russian law enforcement agencies on October 14, 2013. The accompanying information states that 40-year-old Polonsky is wanted by Russian judicial authorities for criminal prosecution/serving a sentence on charges of large-scale fraud.

Police officers discovered illegal trade taking place at night on the territory of the Dorogomilovsky market in western Moscow, the capital’s Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on its website on Tuesday. According to law enforcement agencies, the basement of one of the market premises, originally intended for storing and packaging goods, was adapted for trading.

An easyJet plane flying from Moscow to Manchester twice made an emergency landing in Copenhagen due to the violent behavior of CSKA fans flying to a Champions League match; seven people were removed from the flight, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday, citing an official representative of the air carrier.

A gunman armed with a knife killed three people while trying to hijack a bus traveling from the Valdres district in Norway, popular among skiers, to the country's capital Oslo, reports the Norwegian TV channel TV2 . Among the dead were two residents of Norway - a 19-year-old passenger and a 50-year-old bus driver, and a 50-year-old Swede. Police and firefighters were called to the scene 220 km from the Norwegian capital at 17.35 local time on Monday.

The board of directors of AvtoVAZ OJSC approved 58-year-old native of Sweden Bo Andersson as the new president of the company, reported on Tuesday. the automaker's press center Members of the board of directors, whose meeting took place on Monday, satisfied Igor Komarov’s application to relieve him from the post of president of the company from November 4 and approved Andersson in this position. “Mr.

NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine has begun to repay the debt for gas supplies to Gazprom, Interfax reports with reference to a statement by the Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Eduard Stavitsky. “The payments have already gone out... yesterday. This will be in sufficient volume to close this issue,” Stavitsky said at a meeting with journalists in Kyiv. The reaction to Stavitsky’s statement from Gazprom followed immediately.