Products for newborns have become a safe haven for many companies during the crisis. In this niche, businessmen compensate for losses from other areas and launch bold startups. It’s not too late to join - the market is far from saturation. Text: Yulia Gordienko In June, the Rigla pharmacy chain (part of the Protek group) opened the first store of the Small Small Small chain of goods for mothers and babies. This is an unprecedented case in the pharmaceutical market.

Shareholders of the Maritime Transport Bank (Odessa) at a general meeting on July 8 decided to rename the institution “Marfin Bank”. In addition, the shareholders approved the decision to transform the bank from an open joint stock company to a public joint stock company. According to the bank, as of April 1, its largest shareholders were Pontadel Limited (direct participation - 49.2363% of shares) and Rostock UK Limited (48.4485%; both from the UK).

Seven years ago, co-owner of the Parquet Hall company Andrey Liner became seriously interested in show jumping and learned to overcome obstacles on horseback. Over the years, he realized that management and riding have much in common. Text: Ivan Marchuk Moscow hippodrome. A short, strong older woman carefully watches as Andrei Liner runs circles on a gelding named Interval. “Andryusha!” she suddenly shouts to the entire arena. “You’re sitting poorly!

As Boris Gryzlov, Speaker of the State Duma and Chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia, reported on July 12, the party has decided on candidates for the positions of heads of Karelia and Chuvashia. Acting was included in the lists. head of Karelia, but the current president of Chuvashia was not included.

Dmitry Medvedev ordered to develop a strategy that will help the Far East become part of the Asia-Pacific region. To do this, he advised local authorities to work with Asian investors. Vlast correspondent Alexander Gabuev, who visited Primorye shortly before the president, saw how such work is going on now. “Working with our neighbors in the Far East is a resource for boosting our own economy. This chance must be used,” Dmitry Medvedev wrote on July 2 on his Twitter microblog.

The Ochakovo company produced the first premium kvass in Russia, investing 1 billion rubles in the project. The most expensive experiment on the market is also the most dubious. Text: Dmitry Kryukov T-64 tank, three artillery pieces, torpedoes. This arsenal is not located at the combat unit, but on the territory of the Moscow Ochakovo beer and soft drink plant. Military equipment is a gift from the Russian Ministry of Defense for charitable activities.

Today, July 12, the international rating agency Moody's supports the recommendation of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) based on the results of stress tests to carry out additional capitalization of financial institutions for a total amount of about 40 billion UAH. “On July 2, the NBU published a stress test of Ukrainian banks and recommended increasing their regulatory capital by UAH 40 billion (about $5 billion).

471 1 min. ... Yesterday, Russian human rights activists completed a three-day picket in Paris called “The Other Russia.” They pitched a 100 square meter tent. m opposite the Paris City Hall to “show the unostentatious side of life in Russia”—the action was a response to the Year of Russia in France, organized at the state level.

646 3 min. ... Good afternoon I would like to know what is happening at Moscow State University and to what extent their initiative is within the legal framework.

235 1 min. ... Telephone exchanges , the first in Russia, began operation on July 13, 1882. At first they functioned only in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa and Riga. Several telephone operators worked simultaneously at each station; due to the constant noise and confusion, they often made mistakes in the connection. But by 1901, the St. Petersburg network served 3.8 thousand subscribers, the Moscow one - 2.86 thousand.

Karya Tour clients are evicted from Turkish hotels More than 1.5 thousand Ukrainian tourists who bought Karya Tour packages found themselves hostage to the company’s problems - at the end of last week they began to be evicted from hotels in Antalya. The Russian Federal Agency for Tourism announced on Friday that the cause of the incident was the bankruptcy of Karya Tour, the third largest operator in Ukraine in the Turkish direction.

Personal 1K 3 min. ... As soon as the first rumors appeared that Russia had offered to exchange 10 people arrested in the United States for Igor Sutyagin, I remembered that a friend of mine from the United States shared an office with him for almost a year Ten years ago, I learned that former Greenpeace expert and old friend Joshua Hendler (pictured) was an American spy.

"The Twilight Saga. Eclipse" in Ukrainian box office premiere/cinema The third picture from the vampire saga "Twilight" - "Eclipse", about the love of a high school student and a vampire, contains, in addition to conversations and kisses of lovers, a couple of battle scenes, but in general the entertainment of the picture is still of a modest nature.

The head of the European Council refrained from assessing the actions of the new government On Friday, President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy visited Ukraine. The visit of the European leader showed that Brussels, unlike Washington, is not ready to fight for the preservation of democratic freedoms in Ukraine. Speaking in front of journalists, Mr. Van Rompuy avoided even neutral statements on this issue.

Nothing human is alien to them - the top officials of the companies shared with "The Secret of the Firm" the joyful events that they remembered in the last month. Leonid Abayushkin Co-owner and member of the board of directors of the ABC network “I’m still living in gray everyday life, but I’m looking forward to a three-week trip to the USA. This is already a tradition - I’ve been spending my vacation there for six years in a row.