Elena Chekalova about duck breast and home-cooking bonuses. My grandmother, a school director and quite a Soviet businesswoman, always said that it is better to buy almost ready-made food in the culinary department, because only fools cook themselves. Grandfather agreed with her; he generally believed that food was a type of fuel to move faster.

Photo by Reuters When you compare Russian and English-language analytics on venture business, you quickly come across an untranslatable difference - not in words, but in views, points of reference. In Russia, most stories about ventures are stories about shaggy, bearded, bespectacled scientists and inventors. Sitting in a departmental design bureau or academic research institute, they came up with something like this. Often at the expense of the employer, using his reagents and equipment.

On November 2, a rally of medical workers against the capital's healthcare reform was held in Moscow on Suvorov Square, Interfax reports . Those gathered opposed the reorganization of the health care system, the closure of hospitals and mass layoffs. According to the White Counter project , at 16:00 Moscow time more than 6,600 people gathered for the rally. The rally against the “collapse of medicine” became the largest protest of medical workers in recent years.

In the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk "people's republics" of Donbass, elections of heads of republics and deputies of the supreme councils are being held on Sunday, Interfax reports . At 8:00 local time, more than 400 polling stations opened. It is planned to elect 100 deputies to the DPR parliament for a term of four years.

How and when should you start talking to your children about sex? The question is not idle. Forbes Woman thought about harmful awkwardness and artificial taboos and found out that adults have a harder time than children. Some time ago, my close friend and his wife told me that their six-year-old son really wants to understand how their dog Buba ended up with puppies inside, which she was about to give birth to.

photo Getty Images The art market, like the financial market, has its own venture players and long-term strategies. Investing in art is a man-made phenomenon. All major collections that have gone down in history were not intended to be resold. They were made up of passionate people who were completely devoted to their choice.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes How Georgy Mirel created his fund with money from his former employer. The founder of Vega Absolute Fund, Georgi Mirel, became interested in finance in the early 1990s while in high school, where he graduated from an exchange program in the United States. “It was a course about the stock market, we virtually bought shares of companies and followed the news.

Usually people go from journalism to press secretaries, but with you it’s the other way around. Maria Komarova: I really didn’t start out as a journalist, but my career was immediately connected with the media. While still a student in the late 1990s, I joined the Elekom media holding. She developed herself as a manager, her first project was a mass advertising newspaper, then the holding began to create other media.

Microsoft Corporation has suspended cooperation with the Russian publishing house Prosveshchenie to create a tablet specifically for electronic textbooks for Russian schoolchildren, The New York Times newspaper wrote on Sunday . According to the newspaper, the software company took such a step because the board of directors of the publishing house is headed by businessman Arkady Rotenberg, who fell under US sanctions .

Photo courtesy of Mikhail Zolotarev How Dostoevsky triumphantly expels Tolstoy from modern Russia. I’m reading Pavel Basinsky’s book “Escape from Paradise.” I read little by little (is it possible to read a lot these days?) as a medicine before bed. As in the Balkans it is customary to drink moonshine - a glass or two “for health”. Blissful warmth spreads throughout the body.

photo Kommersant Certainty is better than uncertainty. Even bad. Some Forbes magazine readers believe that Russia has embarked on a path leading to death and extinction, and this plunges them into depression. In fact, there is no need to be sad. Indeed, the events of 2014 have changed the prospects for the Russian Federation - short, medium and long term.

photo by Evgeny Dudin for Forbes How the Lipetsk retail chain Uyuterra became a company on a federal scale. “We were very tempted to do nothing more. In 2006, five stores with household goods in Lipetsk brought a stable income,” recalls Alexander Saganov, general director of the Uyuterra chain. Uyuterra sells household goods: the shelves of 120 stores in 44 regions of Russia are filled with lamps, porcelain cups and teapots, flowerpots, vases, ceramic figurines and other interior items.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes The bright box startup team went to the exhibition in Amsterdam in a demo car - they wanted to show their new product Remoto in action, which allows you to control some functions in the car from your phone. The chance to test the application in real conditions came earlier. We stopped for the night in one of the towns, and in the morning we couldn’t find a car. Stolen? Evacuated?

Photo by RIA Novosti The reason for the column will seem funny. A well-known blogger, former press secretary of the Nashi movement, later of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, and now a member of the Public Chamber, Kristina Potupchik, in her blog on the Echo of Moscow website, fiercely criticized an article in the glamorous magazine Tatler about the rules of hiring staff for estates and summer cottages.

Photo by Dmitry Ternovoy Net worth: $1 billion Place: №105 Fund: Bright Capital, founded in 2011 Managers: Mikhail Chuchkevich, Boris Ryabov Aquion Project Aquion Energy develops industrial solar energy storage systems. The fund entered the company in 2013 in the same round with investors from the Bill Gates family foundation. The company's founder, Professor Jay Whitaker, began working on sodium-ion batteries in a laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University back in 2007.