Forbes continues to collect applications for participation in the fifth startup competition “School of a Young Billionaire.” This time - presentation of a mobile application for reading scanned documents Project name: Shuffle Reader The essence of the project: a comprehensive application for reading scanned documents Project leader: Ramil Khairullin City: Kazan The rules for participating in the competition and submitting applications can be found here

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich will become the head of the organizing committee for the world chess “crown” between the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and the Indian Viswanathan Anand, TASS reports on Monday, October 6 . “I welcome this decision. Arkady Vladimirovich is well known in the chess world and has extensive experience in organizing such events. A number of high-ranking tournaments have been organized in Russia in recent years.

The Nobel Prize Committee at Karolinska Institute of Medicine has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to researchers John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser for their discoveries of the cells that make up the brain's positioning system, the announced Nobel Prize's official website Monday. October 6.

Evraz has not yet received proposals to purchase the assets of the Mechel company Igor Zyuzin , but is ready to consider them, said Evraz President Alexander Frolov . “When there are offers, then we will consider it. Six months ago, I asked Igor Vladimirovich (Zyuzin) a question on this topic, but he did not plan to sell,” TASS quotes Frolov .

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which additional oil and gas revenues intended to replenish the Reserve Fund can be used to cover the budget deficit from January 2015, follows from the corresponding document published on Monday, October 6, on the online legal information portal. At the same time, it is allowed to use additional oil and gas revenues to replace government borrowings both at the execution stage and at the planning stage of the federal budget.

President Vladimir Putin canceled the annual budget messages of the head of state to the Federal Assembly, as follows from amendments to the Budget Code posted on Monday on the official portal of legal information. The document states that Article 170 of the Budget Code (“Budget Message of the President of the Russian Federation”) has been declared invalid.

Facebook has closed a deal to acquire mobile messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, October 6. As part of the deal, WhatsApp co-founder Ian Koum joined Facebook's board of directors. He will also remain chief executive of WhatsApp. The WhatsApp mobile messenger is used in more than 100 countries. The application can be installed on devices running iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia S40, Symbian and Windows Phone.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Energy Alexander Novak on Monday, instructed him to continue negotiations on the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine until a compromise is reached, RIA Novosti reports .

The founder of the Latvian company Food Union, Andrei Beskhmelnitsky, signed an agreement to purchase a subdivision of Premia Foods, specializing in the production of ice cream and frozen products, the reports . Food Union press service As part of the deal, two of the three business areas of Premia Foods will be sold, which together account for half of the company's total turnover. The transaction amount was €27.1 million.

Transaero chief executive officer Alexander Pleshakov said that the airline will raise fares for destinations by 10-15% from the winter season, which starts at the end of October, TASS reports on Monday, October 6 . “An increase in tariffs is inevitable. This is one of Transaero’s steps to optimize its activities in a shrinking market,” Pleshakov said at a conference of the Association of Russian Tour Operators (ATOR) for partner tour operators.

photo East News/AFP How leading motorcycle manufacturers are fighting for the right to create the first popular electric motorcycle The roar of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine is as recognizable as the pop of a champagne cork. Would you like to have this beautiful and powerful motorcycle, but with a silent engine that does not guzzle gas? This is exactly the question Harley-Davidson asked itself and in 2014 presented its Project LiveWire, a futuristic prototype of an electric motorcycle.

A working group will appear in the State Duma that will consider the legality of receiving monetary compensation by deputies who do not attend meetings of the lower house of parliament, Interfax reported on Monday, citing First Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov. Melnikov said that the working group is being created on the basis of the State Duma committees on regulations and on constitutional legislation and state construction.

Transaero executive director Alexander Pleshakov denied earlier information that the airline was going to increase fares by 10-15% on all routes from the beginning of the winter season, RIA Novosti reported on Monday, October 6 . “The information that the Transaero airline has been raising fares on all its routes since the beginning of the 2014-2015 winter season is not true,” Pleshakov said.

photo Kommersant Coal magnate and Forbes list member Alexander Shchukin decided to conduct family affairs in London. How did a businessman become a victim of a fraudster? In 2012, co-owner of the Polosukhinskaya coal mine and ex-partner of Andrei Melnichenko , Alexander Shchukin (No.

The defense of the ex-head of Bashneft Ural Rakhimov will seek to close the criminal case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, the defendant’s lawyer Ilnur Salimyanov said on Monday. “I believe that the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution has expired in the case, so the investigator did not have the right to initiate it,” RIA Novosti quotes Salimyanov .