Why the creators of Implosion pharmacies Grant Bezruchenko refuses to recognize himself as a market leader For several weeks, the Forbes journalist unsuccessfully tried to contact the owner of the Implosion network, Grant Bezruchenko. On the night from Friday to Saturday the call rang. “This is the one you are looking for,” said a male voice. The caller was categorically against Implosion being called a pharmacy chain. The conversation was short.

Evgeniy Pereverzev/Kommersant Together with Transaero, Aeroflot will receive not only 56% of the air transportation market, but also $2 billion in debt. Forbes found out why he needed it On Tuesday, September 1, it became known that Aeroflot will buy Transaero in the near future. For 1 ruble Aeroflot will receive 75% plus one share of the company. An Aeroflot representative confirmed to Forbes that Transaero could be integrated into the Aeroflot group .

photo TASS/Mikhail Palinchak/press service of the President of Ukraine In his opinion, Russia, cynically trampling on international law, annexed Crimea and is inciting an armed conflict in Donbass Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on “all peoples of the free world” to unite and oppose the “Russian aggressor,” the press service of the head of state said in a statement published on Wednesday, September 2.

The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), Igor Armemiev, called Gazprom’s scheme for purchasing large-diameter pipes (LDP) “self-mutilation” and promised to complain about it to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax reported on Wednesday . “I believe that the pipe procurement operation, when an intermediary appears, is similar to self-harm,” Artemyev said. He explained that under this scheme, Gazprom bought pipes much more expensive than it could.

Rosneft and the Norwegian Statoil have engaged the Chinese China Oilfield Services Limited to drill two exploratory wells in the Magadan-1 and Lisyansky areas in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, according to a statement from the Rosneft press service published on Wednesday, September 2 . The Chinese company that proposed the Nanhai-9 semi-submersible drilling rig won the tender based on a combined assessment of technical and economic indicators, Rosneft emphasizes.

About conquests To be free <...> means to understand that all conquests are useless, even the conquest of one’s own “I”. — Henry Miller Our people, defending their allies, <...> conquered the whole world. — Cicero All European states were founded by conquest. Enmity is their beginning. <…> The Russian state, on the contrary, was founded not by conquest, but by the voluntary calling of power. Therefore, not enmity, but peace and harmony are its beginning.

photo TASS/Ekaterina Shtukina/press service of the Russian government In conditions of a total shortage of money, the role of the treasury increases. And along with it comes the weight of the government that controls the budget. Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev allegedly agreed on the “exchange” of the presidential and prime ministerial posts during a joint fishing trip that happened in August 2011.

Even in the non-core sphere of charity, businessmen have the opportunity to create something new. “In front of you is Sheredar,” Mikhail Bondarev points to a narrow, fast river with high banks. “Here, at the confluence with Kirzhach, the world’s best rehabilitation camp for children after cancer will grow.” For now it is just a field of daisies, but there is no doubt that a children’s camp will be built.

Animaccord studio plans to close the animated series Masha and the Bear, project producer Dmitry Loveiko said in an interview published on Wednesday in the Izvestia newspaper. “Despite the rating, we have not yet made a decision whether to film a third season, we are gathering our strength,” Loveiko said. And he explained that the studio is assessing whether it has enough resources.

photo TASS/Elena Kenunen/Interpress Earlier, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky was also against the transfer. The authorities of St. Petersburg have decided on the status of St. Isaac's Cathedral, refusing to transfer it to the St. Petersburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Interfax reports on Wednesday, September 2, citing Andrey Kibitov, press secretary of the city governor Georgy Poltavchenko. “If the cathedral is transferred to the use of the St.

Defeating corruption does not mean defeating poverty. Many countries are poor because their governments are corrupt. And after they stop looting the treasury, poverty will disappear. It's convenient to believe this. This approach successfully combines the promise of prosperity and the fight against injustice.

The founders of SDEK thought about online trading. But they focused on servicing online stores. SDEK CEO Leonid Goldort grins when he remembers what he had to do at the start in 2000. One day a client came to him with a wad of money and asked him to deliver it to Vladivostok. The entrepreneur packed the money in a cardboard box, called the courier in Vladivostok, and took the parcel to the airport. But the recipient received an empty box.

During the 14 years that Alexander Tkachev was the head of Kuban, his family’s business grew greatly. What will happen now to the companies of his relatives. Those entering the Kuban village of Vyselki are greeted by a billboard “Choose Kuban”, from which a man in a gray jacket looks wearily. No signature.

Valery Panyushkin about the struggle of two physical therapists for freedom of movement If customs officers at Pulkovo airport had inspected the luggage of Swiss citizen Christine Jenny, who arrived from Bern, they would have found two large—three kilograms each—bags of cherry pits in her suitcase. Mrs. Yenny brought the bones (as well as other know-how) to her St. Petersburg colleague Ekaterina Klochkova. The seeds are needed to stuff bags with.

Forbes has collected the most striking quotes from the new old president of the RFU Today, September 2, at an extraordinary conference of the Russian Football Union (RFU), Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko was unanimously elected president of the RFU. There were no other candidates for this post. Mutko already headed the RFU in 2005-2009. and returned ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.