Olga Plaksina, Chairman of the Board of IFD Capital, Member of the Board of Directors of Petrocommerce Bank (Otkrytie Financial Corporation Group) My first acquaintance with America happened back in school. I was entering ninth grade when our school (a regular school in Perovo) “exchanged” with the Americans, directly with the school in New Jersey.

Getty Images Investigators are looking into Jerome Valcke's banking transactions Investigators investigating corruption in the leadership of the international football organization FIFA have discovered that the second only to the head of the organization, Sepp Blatter, Secretary General Jerome Valcke, may have transferred $10 million to one of the main defendants in the case, reported on Tuesday, June 2.

Banks and consulting companies take patronage over the heirs of wealthy clients. “A banker I know in Switzerland is already serving the third generation of a wealthy family,” says the head of the private banking department of one of the Russian banks with envy. “The client comes to talk to him not about money, but about what her grandfather was like, about the family’s past.” Such client relationships are the dream of any wealth management banker.

A hockey story in three periods about why Russian business got on skates. First period: box in the forest The referee blows the whistle to start the match, ice chips fly from under his skates, world hockey champion Alexei Yashin makes an accurate pass, and his team opens the scoring, by the end of the first period it is already leading 4: 3. This is not a game of the professional Continental Hockey League, and the morning training session of two amateur teams.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, June 2, that the Kremlin does not yet have sufficient information to comment on the resignation of FIFA President Joseph Blatter, Interfax reports . “I can’t say anything (about Blatter’s resignation) because we don’t have detailed information yet. This can be done only after receiving information,” Peskov said.

The Russian air defense concern Almaz-Antey is not involved in the crash of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 airliner in the Donetsk region on July 17, 2014, the concern’s general director, Yan Novikov, said at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday. “The purpose of the press conference is to prove the concern’s non-involvement in the tragedy in the skies over Ukraine, and, accordingly, the incompetence and injustice of applying economic sanctions against it,” Interfax quotes him as saying .

photo AP / East News Cities are trying to give passengers the opportunity to transfer from subway to bus without getting their feet wet. When a large shopping center opened above the Planernaya metro station in 2011, not all residents understood that it was not just a commercial facility, but a transport hub. Most of the space is rented. In order to get on the bus after exiting the metro, you need to go up to the second floor of the shopping center.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports on Tuesday, considered the possibility of creating a publicly accessible sports channel, Interfax reports .

Former Spartak forward Sergei Rodionov has been appointed to the post of general director of the Moscow football club by decision of the board of directors, according to the Spartak website on Tuesday. Rodionov’s appointment is “a direct confirmation of the words of the club’s president, Leonid Fedun , that process management is transferred to professionals,” Spartak emphasized.

Russian state-owned companies should spend money on developing domestic sports, and not on purchasing foreign sports stars, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Council on Physical Culture and Sports on Tuesday. Putin noted that professional sports in Russia, due to competent and thoughtful management, can effectively use commercial, market sources of financing, RIA Novosti reports .

PhotoXPress In May, Russia overtook Saudi Arabia in production Russia produced 10.708 million barrels of oil per day in May 2015, becoming the world's largest oil producer and overtaking Saudi Arabia in production volumes, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday . Saudi Arabia produced 10.25 million barrels per day in May, Bloomberg reported on June 1. Oil production in Saudi Arabia remained at a record level for the country for the second month in a row (since April 2015).

MTS announced plans to cancel fees for incoming calls during intranet roaming within the framework of the “United Country” tariff option, the connection of which is not charged, the Vedomosti newspaper reports , citing the operator’s representative Dmitry Solodovnikov on Tuesday, June 2. The publication clarifies that now one incoming minute in domestic roaming is valued by the company at 8 rubles 90 kopecks.

The founder and former general director of the social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, said on Twitter that he got into a fight in San Francisco with several unknown people who were trying to take his phone. “Just got into a fight with some guys who tried to take my phone near Mission 980. Dangerous area? Not for Russians,” Durov wrote in English. The founder of VKontakte did not specify the number of attackers.

The euro exchange rate at trading on the Moscow Exchange on Tuesday, June 2, exceeded 59 rubles for the first time since April 8, reports the website Finanz.ru . As of 16:16 Moscow time, the euro rose in price by 80 kopecks compared to the close of trading on Monday, reaching 59.379 rubles. At the same time, the dollar exchange rate dropped to 52.99 rubles per $1. By 16:36 Moscow time, the euro exchange rate again fell below the level of 59 rubles, trading at around 58.1810 rubles.

The wife of the Minister of Education and Science Olga Mordkovich about a serious career in telecoms, which was not influenced by her husband from the government Olga Mordkovich, IT director at Tele2, is an example of a female career whose independence for some reason is usually questioned. A woman in a top managerial position in telecom, and also the wife of an official. Mordkovich is in the news in connection with the income declarations of government members.