" Norilsk Nickel " with the approval of shareholders can allow any remuneration to the chairman, notes the executive director of the Association of Independent Directors Alexander Filatov. But such a practice is unacceptable in state-owned companies. But sometimes it is not so.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected for a second term in the June 12 vote. He won more than 62% of the vote. His closest rival, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, received less than 34% of the vote. Even before the official results were announced, Mousavi, representing the reformist forces, declared victory and later accused the authorities of fraud.

Debts and deferments Foreign banks, UC Rusal's creditors, have given the company another deferment - until July 28. This automatically put other UC Rusal agreements on hold, including the one with Mikhail Prokhorov. The company owes him $2.8 billion. In March, the businessman and UC Rusal agreed that this debt would be restructured: $2 billion would be converted into 4.5% of shares (Prokhorov currently has 14%), and $800 million would be paid in installments.

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Cambridge University has awarded honorary doctorates of law to Bill Gates and his wife Melinda for their philanthropic work. The Microsoft founder and his wife have donated around $24 billion to their charity. Cambridge News

The Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) has opened a criminal case against the former rector of the Russian State University of Physical Education (RSUPE) Oleg Matytsin, the committee's website reports. He is suspected of abuse of power. The investigation believes that he leased 66.4 hectares belonging to RSUPE for the Cherkizovsky Market. But the rent payments, bypassing the federal budget, went to the RSUPE accounts.

D. Grishkin Currently, Euroset sells slightly more than 0.5 million VimpelCom contracts monthly and slightly less than 0.5 million MegaFon contracts, says the network's president, Alexander Malis. Euroset signed a new contract with MegaFon shortly after terminating its agreement with MTS ; it envisages selling 7.2 million contracts over 18 months, i.e. no less than 0.4 million per month.

British CEO Barry Houlihan, the Mobile Interactive Group's chief executive, exudes the enthusiasm of a sales manager, the role he has spent most of his career in. His smugness may also be due to the rapid growth of the business he founded five years ago.

"Katren" wholesale pharmaceutical distributor. Shareholders (as of 31.12.2008) – Leonid Konobeev (61.2%) and Vladimir Spiridonov (33.3%). Financial indicators (IFRS, 2008): revenue – $1.7 billion, profit – $19.2 million. According to the Pharmexpert Research Center, it ranks 3rd in the overall rating of Russian pharmaceutical distributors for 2008. Amity International Kazakhstani pharmaceutical distributor. Owner – Kanat Bulegenov. Financial indicators (own data, 2008): revenue – $116 million.

For those wishing to learn more about the Venice Biennale, the Garage cultural center is opening an exhibition with video documents about this global contemporary art show, but the emphasis, of course, is on its own project – “The Invasion of Airships on Venice” by Mexican Hector Zamora. Vedomosti

Rosstat has downgraded its estimate of the decline in real GDP for the first three months of 2009 from -9.5% to -9.8%. The largest drop in gross added value (a basic indicator reflecting the state of the economy, calculated based on the volume of output of goods and services in constant prices) occurred in manufacturing and construction, with a slightly smaller reduction in services, real estate transactions, transport and communications (see infographic).

The week that has passed since Vladimir Putin's famous Pikalevo blitzkrieg has shown that there are many workers in the country who want to see the Prime Minister. Also, ways have emerged in which the authorities will try to solve the problems of single-industry towns without sending the Prime Minister on a continuous business trip. This is giving additional powers to governors and information policy.

The draft recommends that judges combine cases on the consideration of a claim for failure to fulfill obligations and a counterclaim to challenge a contract in one trial, especially if they are filed in the same court. Currently, even within the same court, different decisions are made.

Stalin and his henchmen discredited the word "sabotage", accusing their political opponents and their followers of it. The discrediting consisted in the fact that there was no evidence of sabotage - "deliberate disruption of any event, evasion of work or deliberate dishonest performance of it", as the encyclopedia defines this word. And the word is useful - it is difficult not to use it when talking about how the entrance examinations for the Unified State Exam were held in Moscow.

Donations from abroad to Russian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are not subject to taxation if they are spent on statutory purposes. This decision was made by the Eighteenth Arbitration Court of Appeal on the claim of the public organization "Planet of Hopes" from Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Region. In October 2008, the Ozersk Federal Tax Service Inspectorate demanded that Planeta Nadezhdy pay approximately 1.3 million rubles in additional taxes and penalties.