The profit of the Detsky Mir group of companies, owned by AFK Sistema of Vladimir Yevtushenkov , in 2014 increased by 77% compared to 2013 - to 2 billion rubles, reported on Monday, March 2. the company’s press service Detsky Mir's revenue increased by 26.2% and amounted to 45.4 billion rubles, the retailer's gross profit increased by 24.1% to 17.3 billion rubles. The retailer's like-for-like sales increased by 13.6%.

Oil (accompanied by gas, of course) is the basis of Russian statehood. This is a men's club with an expensive membership card. You rarely see women here. It is all the more interesting to find out how much oil a man is willing to give up to a woman, what place and, most importantly, for what merit? Larisa Kalanda Vice President of Rosneft Year of birth: 1964 Education: Sverdlovsk Law Institute (1985) Career: Larisa Kalanda is considered a confidant of the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin.

Falling oil prices, recession and limited access to external financing could lead to the fact that the reserve fund will be practically exhausted over the next two years and only 0.5 trillion rubles will remain in it by 2017, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Monday , citing based on materials from the Ministry of Finance.

Ukrainian model Anna Duritskaya, who became a key witness in the case of the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, will refuse to testify on a polygraph due to her serious psychological condition, Interfax reported on Monday, March 2, citing lawyer Vadim Prokhorov. “She is now in a difficult psychological situation, and the polygraph is also stressful,” Prokhorov said.

Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB) Vladimir Dmitriev on Monday, March 2, said that the state bank could finance the Yamal LNG project for $1 billion, TASS reports . According to Dmitriev, currently we are talking about lending to the project along with Sberbank and Gazprombank, while there is no talk about buying out bonds.

During the crisis, it became clear that Russia’s financial management was, at least in appearance, a triumph of feminism. Women of the Central Bank, women from the Ministry of Finance, a woman at the head of the Accounts Chamber. It’s clear that no one really lets you steer. The mandate is with the man, the financiers are mainly on errands. Their job is antenatal clinic. They warned about the oil market and about the seams along which the budget would fall apart.

Photo by Evgeny Petrushansky for Forbes Internet company founders sometimes become millionaires. The programmers who ensured their success usually remain in the shadows. The car escaped from the streets of Orlando (Florida, USA) and rushed along the highway towards the coast. Newly crowned world champions in programming Nikolai Durov, Andrey Lopatin and Oleg Eterevsky celebrated their victory.

From “Taffy” to antique chandeliers. How a documentary filmmaker became an interior designer. Katya Gerdt's workshop design office, shop and showroom Katya Gerdt, daughter of actor Zinovy ​​Gerdt and wife of film director Denis Evstigneev, graduated from VGIK as a documentary film director. She worked in film and television for twenty years, and her film about the singer Isabella Yuryeva was nominated for the Tefi Award.

Photo by Max Novikov for Forbes The opposition should not give in to fear; now its main task is to form a broad political coalition for the 2016 Duma elections What awaits us after the tragic death of Boris Nemtsov? We have already heard many statements that his murder will be a “turning” point in Russian political history, but where exactly will this turn be? Few doubt that the organizers of the murder pursued one understandable goal - to sow fear among opposition-minded circles.

The unsettled relations between major world players prevents them from uniting against terror. Whenever there is a surge of extremism with bloody consequences somewhere in the Old or New World, expect a new round of talk about how it is time to unite in the fight against terrorism. The instinct of “barbarism against civilization” is triggered, and politicians are calling to close ranks to stop the Middle Ages.

Photo by Francoise Huguier / VU / East News What will our country be like in a year? And in three, in twenty? Strange questions, you might say, especially against the backdrop of war and the economic crisis. Okay, I’ll rephrase: how did you see the future of our country ten years ago? And a year ago? I daresay the uncertainty has increased. Which is not surprising: crisis events never add confidence in the future.

Forbes Editorial Forbes Editorial Vladimir Potanin took away the status of the richest businessman in Russia from Alisher Usmanov On March 2, the American Forbes published its traditional, 29th, global ranking of billionaires. This time, the list included 88 businessmen from Russia, 33 less than a year earlier, and Vladimir Potanin became the leader for the first time - he displaced Alisher Usmanov from the first “national” line.

The Moscow Metro has denied information that the turnstiles at the metro exit are going to be equipped with devices for reading tickets, according to a message published on Monday, March 2, on the capital’s subway website.

“An iron hand in a velvet glove”—that’s what the loyal French press wrote about her Socialist Anne Hidalgo had not even served as mayor of Paris a year when the fabulous city postcard shattered into mournful pieces.

Photo by Eric Millette for Forbes USA American billionaire Wayne Hughes helps war veterans. When former paratrooper Chris Carlisle first arrived at the California ranch of Wayne Hughes Jr., it was the end of August, the hottest time. Chris was deeply depressed and has trouble remembering his first impressions. He took part in several military campaigns and was wounded twice in Afghanistan.