photo Reuters Is it possible to buy startups through a smartphone app and will this become popular among the middle class? Alexander Dresen created both a dating service and a social network. The projects generated income, but did not become either the new Mamba or the new Facebook - the Russian programmer lost these battles. Now he wants to combine his work and create a mobile club for venture investors.

Aeroflot airline may soon transfer to its controlled Orenburg Airlines both Boeing 737 aircraft from the fleet of the low-cost airline Dobrolet, which suspended its operations in early August due to sanctions from the European Union, RIA Novosti reports citing a representative of the press service Aeroflot.

Russian Ambassador to Warsaw Vladimir Grinin was summoned to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in order to give an explanation in connection with the statements of the leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, that Poland is “doomed,” the portal Thenews.pl reports , citing the statement. department representative Marcin Wojciechowski. Voitsekhovsky announced the summons of the Russian Ambassador to the Foreign Ministry on Polish Radio.

The retailer X5 Retail Group, controlled by billionaire Mikhail Fridman and uniting the Pyaterochka, Perekrestok and Karusel chains, informed the Ministry of Industry and Trade that suppliers had increased prices for products, the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing a source close to the department.

Boss Jeff Author How to allocate free time in your work schedule for creativity and strategic planning How do you spend your free time on weekdays when you're not in meetings or checking hundreds of useless emails? Sociologists from the Executive Time Use Project recently studied the habits of 94 CEOs of Italian corporations and asked them to record all the activities to which top managers devote more than 15 minutes a day.

The budget will spend 5 billion rubles in 2015-2019 on the development program of the Crimean Federal University named after Vernadsky, which Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered to create , Anna Usacheva, a spokeswoman for the head of the Ministry of Education and Science, told reporters on Wednesday. She noted that the Ministry of Education and Science must submit a university development program for approval to the government within six months, RIA Novosti reports .

MDM Bank began cooperation with UnionPay International, a subsidiary of the Chinese international payment system UnionPay, reported . the bank's press service After the completion of the technical implementation of the project, UnionPay cardholders will be able to receive cash from the MDM Bank ATM network, as well as pay in stores and shopping centers where MDM Bank card service terminals are installed, the report notes.

The Ministry of Economic Development proposed to exclude the Smolensk diamond-cutting plant "Crystal" from the list of strategic enterprises for its subsequent privatization, follows from the draft corresponding decree of the Russian President, prepared by the department and posted on Wednesday on a single portal of information about the regulations being developed. The Ministry of Economic Development prepared a draft of the corresponding presidential decree on its own initiative.

photo Reuters Analysts are increasingly comparing Europe to Japan, which has struggled unsuccessfully with deflation and a stronger yen since the 1990s. Are they right and how will this affect financial markets? The yield on ten-year bonds in Spain and Italy has come very close to the yield on US government bonds. Irish securities are already more expensive; their spread to Portuguese ones is less than 1%. Greek bond yields are at five-year lows.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, threatened on Wednesday that a convoy with Russian humanitarian aid would not be allowed through the territory of the Kharkov region. “No Putin’s “humanitarian convoy” will be allowed through the territory of the Kharkov region,” Avakov wrote on his Facebook page, emphasizing that this is an official statement.

Kurt Badenhausen Author Russian Maria Sharapova topped the list for the tenth time in a row On August 12, 2014, Forbes USA published a ranking of the highest paid female athletes in the world for the period from June 2013 to June 2014. The list was topped by tennis player Maria Sharapova, who earned $24.4 million. The Russian athlete was at the top of the Forbes ranking for the tenth time in a row.

The Russian Gazprom has promised to optimize its pricing policy in the event of sanctions being imposed against the company, according to a quarterly report published on Wednesday on the gas monopolist’s website.

The Ministry of Agriculture has asked the government for more than 20 billion rubles to pay off debt on subsidies for investment loans, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Yuryev told Interfax on Wednesday. According to him, the remaining debt amounts to more than 20 billion rubles, but the Ministry of Agriculture’s request contains an indicator slightly higher than this amount.

In Brazil, in the state of Sao Paulo, a private plane Cessna 560XL crashed on Wednesday, carrying the country's presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, Reuters reported , citing a source in the candidate's party circle. Contact with the plane was lost while landing in the city of Santos, the Brazilian Air Force said in a statement. National television shows a plume of smoke rising from the scene of a plane crash in a residential area of ​​the city.

Shareholders of the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) at a meeting on Wednesday prematurely terminated the powers of Yuri Matvienko as general director of the company and elected Sultan Batov as the new general director, Interfax reports . 82.7% of shareholders were present at the meeting, 75.5% of the total number of registered participants voted for Batov’s candidacy, 24.3% abstained, and the rest were against.