In the report “Gazprom Neft’s Revenues” (No. 85 of 13.05.2011, p. 07, “In Brief” section), the comparison period for Gazprom Neft’s indicators for the first quarter of 2011 is incorrectly indicated. The new results are compared with the fourth quarter of 2010. In the articles “Oil is combined” and “Oil is drained” (No. 85 of 13.05.2011, p. 10 and p. 12 of the “South of Russia” issue), the manufacturer of “Oleina” oil, Bunge, is incorrectly indicated. The editors apologize.

Maya Kucherskaya The just published book by Masha Gessen about the mathematician Grigory Perelman “Perfect Rigor” - an example of journalistic professionalism - makes you think not only about the fate of mathematics in Soviet and post-Soviet times, not only about the path of an individual genius, but also about the structure of our human world, but also about small-scale Perelmans and non-Perelmans at all.

IIC "Real Estate of St. Petersburg" This segment was considered the most problematic even before 2008, and during the crisis it completely “froze” at zero. But it seems that developers believe that the economic climate should noticeably warm up in the near future. According to Knight Frank and Citigroup, 118,000 citizens in Russia have liquid assets of $5 million or more.

May 16, 2011, 00:00 / Auto / Photo "Yor-mobile" Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Putin in Yo-mobiles. View / 5 photos

May 16, 2011, 00:11 / Business FSK helped Stroytransgaz For the first time since 2007, Stroytransgaz managed to overcome losses due to contracts for the construction of electrical networks Oksana Gavshina Until 2007, Stroytransgaz was the country's largest oil and gas contractor by revenue (at the end of 2009, it was only the third).

D.Grishkin Entrepreneur Mikhail Prokhorov has expressed a desire to head the political party "Right Cause." He told journalists about this in Kaluga, saying only that he had sent a corresponding proposal to members of the party's political council, but he declined to comment further "until the party makes such a decision and convenes a congress," news agencies quote Prokhorov as saying. In Kaluga, Prokhorov is opening a new power plant built by the energy company "Kvadra" that he controls.

A New York borough court in Manhattan on Monday remanded in custody the 62-year-old managing director of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of attempted rape and false imprisonment, Reuters reports. The next court hearing is scheduled for May 20. Thus, the court refused to release the international official on bail of $1 million. Strauss-Kahn was detained on Saturday in New York on board a plane 10 minutes before departure to Paris.

Up and down Residential property prices are rising rapidly in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Singapore, South Africa and Sweden. In the US, UK, France, Germany, Ireland and Italy, they are stagnating or falling. The "two-speed" global economy that experts started talking about shortly after the crisis has left its mark on real estate markets, The Wall Street Journal notes. The real estate market is developing in the same way as the economic situation.

Japanese copper producer Sumitomo Metal Mining and trading house Sumitomo Corp are investing $724 million in a copper mining project in Chile that will produce 110,000 tonnes of copper cathode annually. The joint venture, in which Sumitomo Metal Mining holds a 70% stake, will acquire 45% of Minera Quadra Chile and enter the Sierra Gorda project, the companies said in a joint statement. Minera Quadra Chile is currently wholly owned by Canada's Quadra FNX Mining Ltd.

An EU advisory body called the Article 29 Working Group (G29) is preparing to publish recommendations on data protection. The idea is to treat location information collected by mobile operators and manufacturers as personal data such as names and birth dates, and to regulate its use under special laws. Companies like Google and Apple should only collect data about customers with their consent, according to G29 members. And this data should be anonymized and periodically deleted.

Sberbank reported that in January-April 2011 it increased its net profit under RAS by 2.3 times to 111.2 billion rubles compared to 47.4 billion rubles a year earlier. Profit before taxes amounted to 137.6 billion rubles (69.9 billion rubles a year earlier). "Both figures are record-breaking for Sberbank's performance in the first four months of the year," the bank's materials say.

American chemical giant DuPont has received the consent of the vast majority of shareholders of the Danish enzyme and nutritional supplements manufacturer Danisco to take over the company. DuPont's offer of DKK 700 per share was accepted by shareholders owning 92.2% of the company's shares. The total transaction amount is DKK 34.3 billion ($6.49 billion).

I have always admired people who have achieved outstanding success. And it doesn't matter in what area. Communication with masters is a huge resource and source of inspiration for me in the profession of a consultant and in life in general. I want to share this inspiration with you. Part 1. Knife Master His name is Dmitry Sinkevich, he is originally from Minsk. He looks about 35 years old, his profession is a designer.

JSC "Deka" production of soft drinks and beer. co-owners – Konstantin Barinov and Andrey Mansky (2009, company data). financial indicators (2010, RAS): revenue – 2.79 billion rubles, net profit – 233.73 million rubles. Corrected version.

The conflict around Domodedovo Airport has taken a new turn in the last month. The Audit Chamber's report called the situation in which the airport's main owners are offshore companies "unacceptable." The narrative that has emerged—the way in which this story has become ingrained in the minds of the mass reader of articles about what is happening in and around Russian business—goes something like this.