The Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation about how he became a biker. How did you become a biker? A.S.: The idea was in childhood, about twelve years old, I was younger than my son is now. My brother rode a moped, and I also really wanted the same moped, one that smelled like gasoline and rumbled loudly. But the parents had no opportunities, times were difficult. And about five years ago I saw my friend Alexander Novak on a motorcycle, and it came to me.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection proposed a gradual increase in the retirement age for officials from January 1, 2016 for six months, Interfax reported on Friday, October 2, citing a statement by the head of the department, Maxim Topilin. He noted that the department initially came up with an initiative to “quite strictly” raise the retirement age for officials. “Immediately for 10 years for women and 5 years for men,” the minister clarified.

Dmitry Filonov Author The course of import substitution in the field of electronics, taken by the Russian authorities in the last two years, has not yet produced tangible results. But this does not mean that Russia has nothing to boast about in the global market. Forbes has collected ten companies of Russian businessmen that are successful abroad. In the overwhelming majority, high results were achieved thanks to the persistence of entrepreneurs, and not assistance from the state. 1.

The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, appealed to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with a request to provide the project for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with state support, similar to the Power of Siberia, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, October 2. “This does not require any government funding,” noted the head of Gazprom.

Transaero spoke about the conditions for returning tickets purchased from the airline. The corresponding message was published on the Aeroflot website on Friday, October 2. The message clarifies that tickets will be returned at the place of purchase: through an application on the Transaero website, at the company's offices or at a third-party agency where they were purchased.

02 October 2015 Special project Mode for the visually impaired Speech synthesis “Marusya” works Listen Share Add to favorites Video stories of the world's richest businessmen: Forbes special project Olga Proskurnina Author How Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Bernard Arnault and Michael Bloomberg ended up at the top of the Forbes list Olga Proskurnina Author Forbes newsletter The most important things about finance, investment, business and technology Copy link Share Add to favorites

TASS/Marina Lystseva Instead of ineffective import substitution, we need targeted support for non-resource companies It is common knowledge that Russia is dependent on oil and gas exports. What is less known is how consistent this relationship is. According to Russian statistics, in both 2000 and 2014, approximately three quarters of exports were made up of four groups of commodities: oil and gas, metals, timber and precious stones.

Even yesterday's students can create high-tech production. An example is KillAqua. There is a stack of white paper on the table in the meeting room of FutureTech. General Director Sergei Krupkin takes the top sheet and pours water from a glass onto it. The water freezes into a large trembling drop. The sheet is tilted and the drop rolls down the paper like a ball. “The paper is treated with a superhydrophobic,” explains Krupkin. — This is our new product, suitable for any surface.

Illuminated skirts, printed dresses, touch vests, scarves customized by customers and other science art innovations in the Forbes Life review. A couple of months ago, a Chinese woman under the nickname SexyCuborg made a skirt with LED lighting and became an Internet star. She achieved worldwide popularity not so much because of her skirt, but because of her appearance: SexyCyborg looks like a kind of digital pin-up girl. Her next project was lighted sandals with a Wi-Fi router.

The leaders of the Normandy Four countries, Presidents Francois Hollande (France), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Petro Poroshenko (Ukraine) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, gathered on Friday in Paris, where their talks on the Ukrainian settlement will take place, the TASS agency reported . President Putin arrived in the French capital on Friday afternoon.

vocco.ru As Forbes found out, Rosseti managers were suspected of wanting to cut the property of the Khimprom plant into scrap metal and fire the remaining employees of the enterprise The only thing left of the former giant of Russian chemical production, Volgograd-based Khimprom, is debt and equipment. It was planned to create new production facilities on the basis of the most profitable workshops of the plant.

The share of counterfeit products on the Russian cheese market does not exceed 10-15%, says the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev. He called Rosselkhoznadzor’s data on almost 80% of counterfeit products on the Russian cheese market erroneous. “The information is not true, there is no need to scare the market. I allow 10-15% on the entire market. Where does Rosselkhoznadzor get this information?

AFK Sistema, owned by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov, bought a 25% stake in Medsi for 6.1 billion rubles and consolidated 100% of the group, reported on Friday. Sistema’s press service AFK Sistema acquired a 25.02% stake in the Medsi group of companies from the State Unitary Enterprise Medical Center for Managing the Affairs of the Mayor and Government of Moscow for 6.116 billion rubles, 50% of which will be paid in installments within a year, the press release says.

Vitaly and Olga Muravyov open the first Russian chocolate production in Europe. The Pobeda Confectionery factory in the Latvian city of Ventspils is reminiscent of a technological enterprise in its architectural austerity - glass, metal, gray and red panels. The production will start operating in test mode in December 2015 and will continue to produce chocolate products for export. What's surprising?

A hobby for a businessman can be designing electronic machines and developing fundamental scientific theories. Weekend at the machine On the outskirts of Golitsyno near Moscow there is a quiet street and a wooden hut. It seems as if time has stopped here. But a drone is flying over the house - a new generation videophone. Inside there is a laboratory where dozens of hand-assembled technological innovations, powerful computers and various machines fit into a few square meters.