Each modernization has its own specifics, but the industries that moved the process forward had a number of similar features in different countries. Their study allows us to establish how successful this or that attempt at modernization will be, already at the stage of declaring its strategy.

File sharing leader. 23 million users – this is how The Pirate Bay estimates its audience. Using a coordinating server (torrent tracker), they exchange files, each of which is transferred not in its entirety, but in parts, so that several users can download the same file at the same time. The founders of the torrent tracker The Pirate Bay (TPB) – Swedes Gottfrid Svartholm Varg, Fredrik Neuilly, Peter Sunde and Karl Lundström will pay a fine of $0.9 million each and spend a year in prison.

On Thursday, JSC Hotel Corporation, which owns the Radisson SAS – Saint Petersburg hotel, filed a lawsuit against the city’s FAS department in the Arbitration Court of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The company is challenging an order issued in early February to prevent concerted actions aimed at setting or maintaining prices during state and city events. The Federal Antimonopoly Service established that in June 2008, during the St.

During economic crises, many simple, understandable to everyone, incorrect solutions to complex problems roam around in society. The proposal to introduce a “gold standard” – roughly speaking, a rigid link between the amount of printed money and the amount of gold held by the Central Bank – is one of such proposals. Nevertheless, the conversation on this topic inspired not only journalists, but also the economic elite.

The Moscow Association of Realtors ( MAR) named the Housing Fund supplement to the Vedomosti newspaper the best publication about real estate in the Moscow region. These are the results of the annual IDA competition “ Golden Pen”, which has been held since 1999. Then, based on the results of 1998, in the only nomination “ For High Professionalism”, the winner of the “ Housing Fund” Sergei Zharkov became the current editor-in-chief of “ Golden Pen” .

ITAR-TASS After the head of Gazprom, three of Vyakhirev's closest associates came to see Putin: his deputy Vyacheslav Sheremet, the president of Stroytransgaz Arngolt Bekker and the chairman of the board of Gazprombank Viktor Tarasov. All of them were members of the board of directors of Gazprom. Putin announced his decision and asked whether who had questions. There were no questions.

S. Porter Until 1992, systems engineer Plutalovsky worked at the department of his native Bauman Institute. Then he was forced to go into commerce: his salary was barely enough to cover travel expenses. He got a job at a company selling audio and video equipment. “A friend from America came to the owner of the company and brought a batch of postcards for sale,” the businessman says.

The company was forced to take extreme measures by the inability to refinance its huge debt. It arose from numerous acquisitions that were carried out using borrowed funds. One of GGP's largest investments was the purchase of Rouse Cos. for $14 billion. The company had to file for bankruptcy after negotiations broke down. on restructuring debt with bondholders for $2.25 billion. In November 2008, it was unable to repay a $900 million loan.

The assets put up for sale are quite modest. They are concentrated in the management company NRK-oil, which includes OOO Klyuchi, Universitet-Nedra, NGDP Yuzhuralneft and NK Samara, which own licenses for hydrocarbon sites in the Samara and Orenburg regions. Their total oil reserves in categories C1 and C2 amount to 6 million tons, Lebedev himself told Vedomosti.

Gazprom is laying claim to 20-24.5% in the Bolivian-Venezuelan Petroandina SAM. This is suggested by the memorandum with its current owners – Bolivian YPFB and Venezuelan PDVSA (signed in September 2008), Gazprom reported in the materials for the latest Eurobond issue. Petroandina's assets are 12 blocks in Bolivia, including Aguragwe, Inau Tiasa and Inigavi with potential gas resources of 300 billion cubic meters, Gazprom indicates.

Dmitry Medvedev "This will not add positive emotions to the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia <...> This decision seems short-sighted and unpartnerial." According to the president, NATO's decision to conduct military exercises on Georgian territory threatens to complicate the alliance's relations with Russia.

After the additional issue of 10 billion rubles, the shareholders became DIA, FC Otkritie and Nomos-Bank. They must elect a board of directors at a meeting on April 30. VEFK commercial bank. Shareholders: DIA (50%), Nomos-bank (25%), FC Otkritie (25%). Indicators (data from Interfax-CEA, RAS as of January 1, 2009): Assets – 82.4 billion rubles, Capital – 500 million rubles, Net loss – 5.9 billion rubles, Deposits of individuals – 17 billion rubles, Loans – 57.5 billion rubles.

Victims of the revolution at Gazprom Yakov Goldovsky paid for the fact that in 2001, without the knowledge of the new Gazprom managers, he diluted the controlling stake of the monopoly in Sibur. In January 2002, Sibur President Goldovsky was arrested on charges of abuse of office, and then of embezzlement on an especially large scale.

Kazanorgsintez (KOS) owes shareholders 780.3 million rubles in dividends for 2007. The company reported that due to the difficult market situation it was able to pay only 569,404 rubles out of the approved 780.9 million rubles (30% of profit for 2007). The payment deadline expired on April 16, 2009. A KOS representative declined to comment. Kazanorgsintez Polyethylene manufacturer. Shareholders: 53.6% of voting shares belong to the TAIF structure, 28.4% to Svyazinvestneftekhimiya.

D. Grishkin Currently, agreements are concluded under foreign law, but such contracts can be challenged in a Russian court. Thus, in 2005, the Arbitration Court of the West Siberian District, at the suit of one of the Alfa Group companies, declared the provisions of an agreement under Swedish law between Megafon shareholders invalid, recalls Ilya Rachkov, a partner at Ner Stiefenhofer Lutz.