Private bussiness Born on January 29, 1958 in the village of Bykovo, Arkhangelsk region. Graduated from the Arkhangelsk Medical Institute (1980), the business school of the University of Portland (1994), and the All-Russian Correspondence Institute of Finance and Economics (1998). He worked as a dentist and started the forestry business in the early 1990s.

Tournaments The absolute world champion in professional boxing in the weight category up to 76.2 kg, Russian Natalya Ragozina, won the title of world champion in the heavyweight category according to the Women's International Boxing Federation on Saturday. In a match held in Yekaterinburg, she knocked out Pamela Landen from Guyana, South America, in the eighth round. For Natalya Ragozina, this was her debut fight in the heavyweight division. Perhaps he will be the last.

The retailer would like to receive bonuses from suppliers in advance X5 Retail Group (store chains Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, Karusel) offered suppliers to pay it part of the bonus due for the first quarter of 2010 by the end of the year - 10-15% of the cost of future deliveries. In addition, new contracts It is proposed to include a bonus of another 10% - this is the maximum bonus allowed by the law “On Trade”, adopted on Friday in the third reading and coming into force on February 1.

The company claims 10% of the broadband broadband market At the end of last week, General Director of Interregional Transit Telecom OJSC (MTT) Eldar Razroev said that the company would concentrate on strengthening its position in the broadband Internet access (BBA) segment. The operator plans to achieve this goal, including through the acquisition of small regional providers or partnerships with them. True, analysts have little faith in the success of this strategy.

Today, December 21, Welt , citing its sources in the antimonopoly authority, announced that Germany's three largest coffee concerns Tchibo, Melitta and Dallmayr will be required to pay a large fine for price collusion. The amount of the fine has not yet been disclosed, however, according to the publication, it ranges from one hundred to several hundred million euros. It is expected that the German Antimonopoly Committee will make an official statement on this matter.

At the end of last week, the first meeting of the supervisory board of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VFV) took place. This body turned out to be the most representative in composition among all similar structures in Russian sports. The council was headed by Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, who resigned as president of the VFW, and Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin was elected as his deputy. In addition to Messrs.

On December 16, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin summed up the results of the 11 months of 2009, informing parliament about the country's exit from recession. At the same time, the Ministry of Economic Development submitted to the government a new plan for socio-economic development for 2010-2012, promising very decent growth rates for the Russian economy next year. But the most optimistic were international officials - from the IMF.

Making an annual forecast in January, Vlast suggested that the coming to power of Barack Obama and the continuation of the crisis would change little in the usual order of things. And so it happened: no new world problems appeared during the year, just as no solutions appeared for the old ones. EGOR NIZAMOV Fight against heritage If anyone was expected to change in the past year, it was, of course, Barack Obama.

Mikhail Krutikhin partner and analyst at RusEnergy agency Recently, guests from neighboring countries have been visiting Ashgabat. The day before, the leaders of China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan visited there to attend the opening of a gas pipeline from Central Asia to China.

The column is led by Nikolay Zubov Paris, France “Does art serve anything? Hundreds of young pregnant Russian women will answer this philosophical question “yes.” They took a course in harmony in the museums of St. Petersburg. “They say that a pregnant woman should look at beautiful things. I am sure that these courses benefited me and my child,” says 25-year-old Masha Zvereva, who is expecting a baby in the spring.

Manufacturers will help fight “gray” imports State customs and manufacturers of household appliances and electronics are uniting in the fight against “gray” importers. As Kommersant has learned, plans are now being developed to control the import of these goods, as has already been done in the markets for cars and mobile phones. Several vendors, including LG and Samsung, believe that it is possible to counteract “gray” competitors with the help of licensed customs warehouses.

It seems that the years that are fashionable to define as “fat” (the recovery from the 1998 crisis, phenomenal oil prices, the arrival of Putin, freedom in exchange for prosperity) are over. And it's not a crisis at all. Dmitry Gubin And here’s how it happens: you’re standing, say, on an April day on the bank of an ice-bound river, and suddenly - pew! Ding!

Moscow said goodbye to the reformer On Saturday, about 10 thousand Muscovites came to the Great Ritual Hall of the Central Clinical Hospital to say goodbye to Yegor Gaidar. He was called an absolute moral authority, who was not afraid to take full responsibility for the economic transformation of the country.

The column is led by Dmitry Polonsky // UNREAL MONEY The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office opposed the bill on the so-called decriminalization of the payment of taxes, prepared by a group of influential United Russia members led by State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov and adopted in the first reading in October 2009. Let us remind you that the project amends the Tax, Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes and contains three important innovations.

Today, December 21, Deputy Director for Sales and Marketing of the Kyiv Champagne Wine Factory Yuriy Naumchuk said that nine companies producing champagne and sparkling wines have created a public Association of Sparkling Wine Producers in Ukraine. “The association has actually already been created,” said Yuriy Naumchuk.