Half Barrel How Pierrette Trichet, the first woman cellar master among major cognac producers, became the custodian of the temple In the year of its 290th anniversary, the Remy Martin cognac house, to everyone's surprise, changed its cellar master. This event, important in the life of any cognac house, was of particular significance for Remy Martin.

The grandson of the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin Jr., turned out to be a co-owner of the Wide View Development company, which is going to build a ski resort with an area of ​​450 hectares and a total cost of 39 billion rubles in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region, writes on Thursday, December 4.

The head of the Accounting Board, Tatyana Golikova, called on Thursday not to extend the capital amnesty proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his message to the Federal Assembly to criminal money, RIA Novosti reported . “I don’t think that criminal money received through the arms trade or anything else will become the subject of complete legalization,” the head of the joint venture commented on Putin’s proposal.

Photo by RIA Novosti Commercial use of the new material will be possible in a couple of years Ten years have passed since the experimental discovery of graphene, the first and, perhaps, the most striking representative of a new class of materials - two-dimensional crystals. Graphene is a crystalline film of carbon, just one atom thick.

Georgia refused permission for the Russian airline Transaero to operate regular flights to Tbilisi, and also reduced Aeroflot and Sibir flights from 14 to 10 times a week from December 8, writes Kommersant on Thursday, December 4, citing Ministry of Economy of Georgia. These measures were taken by the country's Civil Aviation Agency, which reports to the Georgian Ministry of Economy, based on the “categorical demand” of the Georgian airline Georgian Airways.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to promptly prepare decisions on the implementation of the provisions, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced earlier on Thursday, December 4, during his address to the Federal Assembly, TASS reports .

The message to the Federal Assembly, which President Vladimir Putin will deliver on Thursday, December 4, will be dedicated to improving conditions for business, the Vedomosti newspaper writes , citing officials who participated in the preparation of the text of the message. Officials from the government’s financial and economic bloc have repeatedly convinced Putin to announce in his message about relaxations for business, one of the publication’s interlocutors said.

A letter sent to telecom operators asking whether the Dozhd TV channel continues to broadcast on their networks was due to the TV channel changing its actual broadcast address, according to a message published on Thursday on the Roskomnadzor website. The department emphasized that no “special control measures” are being carried out in relation to the TV channel.

reports on Thursday, December 4 The head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, considers the ruble exchange rate to be undervalued at current oil prices, Interfax . “If you look at calculations and the balance of payments, then clearly today the ruble exchange rate is determined not by economic factors, but by some kind of game.

By her order, Bank of Russia Chairman Elvira Nabiullina appointed Nikolai Surikov as the new director of the Central Bank’s internal audit department, reported on Thursday. the regulator’s press service Previously, Surikov served as deputy director of this department. Surikov replaced the former director of the department, Olga Polyakova, who on December 2, 2014 was appointed head of the Main Directorate of the Central Bank of Russia for the Central Federal District.

The German automobile manufacturing concern Daimler AG has submitted a request to the government of St. Petersburg about the possibility of building a plant in the city, Interfax reports on Thursday, December 4, citing the press service of the St. Petersburg Investment Committee. “Vice Governor Mikhail Mokretsov instructed the Committee on Industrial Policy and Innovation to deal with this issue, our committee acts as a co-executor.

reports on Thursday, December 4 The head of Sberbank of Russia, German Gref, said that the Russian banking system is faced with the problem of a huge gap in liquidity, Prime . According to Gref, this complicates the ability of banks to invest in infrastructure projects. “To say today that banks will line up (to participate in financing infrastructure projects), and especially banks not from the top ten, but from the second or some third mythical ten, is not at all true.

The Union of European Football Associations banned Crimean football clubs from January 1, 2015 from taking part in the Russian football championships organized by the Russian Football Union (RFU), AP reported on Thursday, citing UEFA Secretary General Gianni Infantino. “A decision has been made to ban Crimean clubs from performing under the auspices of the RFU from January 1, 2015,” he said in Lausanne following a meeting of the UEFA executive committee.

Searches are being carried out in the St. Petersburg branch of the tour operator Biblio-Globus, located in the Helios office center on Marata Street, 47-49, Fontanka.ru reported on Thursday, December 4. According to the portal, the search is taking place as part of a recently initiated criminal case under the economic article of the Criminal Code. This information was confirmed to Fontanka at the police headquarters on Suvorovsky Prospekt, while refusing to make any other comments.

ITAR-TASS Five tips for Russian retailers from INSEAD business school marketing professor Marcel Corstjens, INSEAD marketing professor and creator of retail business simulators Storewars and Mar-Pro , believes that the turbulence in the Russian economy is a good time for bold decisions. In November, Marcel came to Russia to judge the Mar-Pro competition between Russian retailers and suppliers. How to beat your competitors and take your business to a new level in conditions of stagnation?