Chamati Palihapitia. Photo: Brendan McDermid / Reuters Chamat Palihapiti is an example of success history in Silicon Valley. He was born in a family of refugees who emigrated from Sri Lanka to Canada. He grew up in poverty, while studying at school, he worked as part at Burger King. After graduating from the university, he moved to the United States, got a job in AOL, at that time the largest Internet provider, where he headed one of the units.

Businessman Alexander Mamut plans to unite his Rambler & Co, the Cinema Park and Formula Cinema, and the ABC-Atticus Publishing House in a single structure. The entrepreneur told about this in an interview with Kommersant. Mamut wants his assets to unite in a single structure “Operationally and at the level of legal entities” in 2018. The head of the new company will be Roman Linin, who is now engaged in management in Sinma Park and Formula Kino.

Sberbank will send dividends 50% of profit in 2020. Bloomberg told about this. In this case, investors did not set the target for dividends until 2020. In 2020, the bank will pay dividends according to the results of 2019. At the same time, one of the interlocutors of the publication said that the level of 50% could be reached earlier, but the Bank’s supervisory board did not want to take on such obligations.

Pepsico announced the intention to purchase 100 Tesla Semi electric loaders. According to Reuters , at the moment it is the largest order after the start of sales of trucks a few weeks ago. The cost of the truck can be $ 150-200 thousand - depending on the stock of the battery, which can be designed either for 482 or 805 kilometers at full load. How much money Pepsico paid as an advance payment, the company was not specified.

Tomorrow, December 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his traditional large press conference. This will be his first full -scale communication with the press after the announcement of the intention to again take part in the presidential election. As a rule, the head of state uses such measures in order to convey certain messages to different audiences: from various electoral groups to Western partners, with which Putin also loves to conduct an indirect dialogue on comfortable sites.

Every time Ksenia Sobchak, in the role of “candidate for candidates”, show on TV, it is important to understand only two things about her.

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Roskomnadzor notified Twitter about the possibility of blocking the service in Russia if it does not delete the open Russia account. Twitter notified the organization about this. Twitter took one day to block the account. Open Russia, in turn, said that they did not disseminate information violating the law, and the actions of the Prosecutor General and Roskomnadzor are considered political pressure to freedom of speech.

When visiting the investigative insulator "Sailor Silence", human rights activists from the Public Supervisory Commission (PMC) of Moscow discovered the so-called VIP cameras. This was told by the Deputy Chairman of the PMC Eva Merkacheva, RIA Novosti reports : “When visiting the second corps of“ sailor silence ”, we found on the fifth floor of the camera, the conditions of which can be compared with four -star hotels.

The head of the Moscow United Russia branch Andrei Metelsky forbade municipal deputies from the party to give signatures in support of opposition candidates so that they could not pass the municipal filter in the election of the mayor of the capital in 2018. The text of Metelsky’s speech was studied by RBC. “We won the right to the municipal filter during the election in the course of the elections, then to neglect this achievement.

The Google search engine presented the annual “Year in the Search” project , collecting the most fast -growing user requests in it in 2017. Events and phenomena of the year. The three most popular queries in this category belonged to sports events. The most popular of them was the draw of the 2018 World Cup, followed by the World Hockey Championship and the Confederations Cup. Spinner and iPhone 8 were the leaders of the search among the phenomena. What's happened?

The French publishers would not publish the writer and the Nobel laureate Claude Simon, follows from the experiment that one of his fans conducted. He sent a 50-page passage from his novel “Palace” of 1962, but everywhere he received a refusal, reports AFP. Writer Serge Volla sent an excerpt from the “Palace” to 19 French publishers; 12 of them refused to publish a novel, and the other seven simply did not answer.

The risk of dementia and related cognitive diseases in the elderly living in rural areas is higher than in citizens. The corresponding study is published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The study was based on the data obtained as part of the Health and Retirement Study program - a national telephone survey conducted among Americans over 55 years old. For their work, scientists took the results of 2000 and 2010, each of them had about 16 thousand people.

Roskachestvo did not discover a single serious violation when checking only two products sold in Russia - vodka and drying. This is stated in the report of the organization that studied RBC. In total, the agency checked the quality of products of 49 manufacturers of vodka from Russia, Belarus, Finland, France and Sweden. 31 goods were recognized as produced with increased requirements. It is noted that the researchers did not find “pale vodka”.

The Italian gas pipeline operator SMA RETE GAS restored the reception of Russian gas after an explosion on a gas hub in the Austrian Baumgarten. It is reported by Interfax . The National Gas Transport Operator GAS Connect Austria promised to the environment, on December 13 to restore the supply of gas to Italy, Germany and Hungary. Until now, the company has not announced the return of supplies, but Snam Rete Gas began to give gas on Tuesday evening.