Mark Lennihan / AP Google announced yesterday a stock split that will give the founders more control over the company. The split will involve all Google shareholders getting one share of common stock plus one share of a new class of non-voting stock. The shares will then be listed separately on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The split was approved unanimously by the company's board of directors.

"Raspadskaya" Coal company. Shareholders: 80% – Cypriot Corber, which is divided between Evraz and Raspadskaya management, 20% – in free float. Financial indicators (IFRS, 2011): revenue – 726 million rubles, net profit – 136 million rubles. Raspadskaya has reduced its coal production forecast for 2015 by 9.7% to 16.7 million tons, Interfax reports, citing the company's memorandum for the placement of Eurobonds.

The United States has proposed that Russia hold a bilateral summit after Vladimir Putin's inauguration in May. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Washington that after the inauguration, President Putin is expected to "confirm his participation in the G8 summit at Camp David" in May. Washington also wants to hold a separate Russian-American summit on the occasion.

The Farnborough Air Show is taking place this time without the Russian Knights aerobatic team, which, due to bureaucratic delays associated with the overload of the UK visa center in Moscow, have not received the necessary documents. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the number of people affected by the flood in Kuban is 35,000, including 29,000 who lost their property completely or partially. 172 people died.

US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle earned $789,000 in income, up from $1.7 million a year earlier, the White House press service announced on Friday. The president and first lady paid $162,070 (20.5%) in federal taxes, as well as nearly $32,000 in taxes in Illinois, the president's home state. About half of the money the Obama family received came from Obama's salary as US President, with the rest coming from royalties and fees for books he wrote.

In fact, the situation with Russia’s positioning in the global market of venture projects is changing for the better quite quickly. If this were not so, then RVC would not have opened its offices in Boston and California. Moreover, the relative freedom of regional venture funds operating in Russia gives them the opportunity to get big shots and improve their work experience.

With the new automatic broadcast mechanism on Facebook ( “extended like”), sharing the articles you read on Vedomosti.ru with friends has become very simple. What is an “ extended like”? “Advanced like” ( frictionless sharing) is a new type of application that the social network Facebook recently began to support. These apps allow you to automatically broadcast to Facebook the actions you take on other sites.

Putin in the Duma 9 photos Vladimir Putin answers questions from deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Read more on Vedomosti.ru Evacuation from the Indian Ocean coast 10 photos On Wednesday, an earthquake of magnitude 8.6 occurred near the island of Sumatra. Evacuations began in coastal areas. Indonesia's disaster management agency spokesman Sutopo told the BBC the country was in panic. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center later canceled the threat.

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April 13, 2012, 03:00 / Finance How Buffett made money twice at Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs is famous for its ability to buy low and sell high. But when he had to sell off his assets at the end of last year, they found an equally zealous buyer - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which had already managed to make money on investments Matt Wears In November 2011, Goldman sold $85 million in loans issued to media holding Lee Enterprises.

April 13, 2012, 13:51 / Finance Russian funds lost money After 10 weeks of influx of funds into funds investing in Russia, investors took $40 million from them Margarita Papchenkova M.Probst / AP After 10 weeks of stable inflows, Russian country funds finally recorded an outflow of $40 million last week, according to EPFR Global data. Russia came as an unpleasant surprise, breaking the steady positive trend that had lasted since January 25, say Renaissance Capital analysts.

The Farnborough Air Show is taking place this time without the Russian Knights aerobatic team, which, due to bureaucratic delays associated with the overload of the UK visa center in Moscow, have not received the necessary documents. The Zoological Museum of Moscow University has been operating in the building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya since 1911. It contains more than ten thousand exhibits, and in terms of the volume of scientific funds it is one of the largest collections in the world.

The RBC board of directors has removed the company's CEO German Kaplun from his post and appointed Sergei Lavrukhin, the executive director of Onexim, to this position, a source in Mikhail Prokhorov's group said. Valery Senko, a representative of Onexim, has replaced Lavrukhin as the chairman of the RBC board of directors.

April 13, 2012, 08:07 / Management X5 broke up with its manager because of his political views undefined Alexandra Kreknina Yulia Yarosh The supervisory board of X5 Retail Group (store chains Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, Karusel, etc.) is leaving Vladimir Ashurkov, former director for control over asset management of the Alfa Group consortium. company The X5 was his last place of work in Alpha structures. X5 Retail Group The largest retail company in Russia. Operates 3,139 stores.

More than 40 commercial properties under construction (or already built) in Russia have applied to the certification organizations BRE Global and GBCI to receive the corresponding "green certificate" - LEED or BREEAM, said Ksenia Agapova, a member of the board of the council, manager for environmental innovations at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). According to her, more and more developers are interested in creating the right (including environmentally friendly) real estate objects.