M. Stulov / Vedomosti Nikiforov's appointment was announced yesterday at a meeting with the new cabinet of ministers by President Vladimir Putin. Nikiforov met with the staff of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media yesterday, Interfax reported. No radical personnel changes are planned in the ministry, the minister himself told the agency.

May 22, 2012, 18:33 / Management / Business Former resident, ex-deputy general director of Aeroflot will handle PR for UTair Anton Osipov Lev Koshlyakov / UTair Lev Koshlyakov has been appointed Deputy General Director of UTair Aviation. His tasks include building a modern PR and marketing communications system and increasing openness, the company reports. Koshlyakov was born on February 13, 1945 in Leningrad.

The research and production company Electron, together with the German Inter Medical Medizintechnik GmbH, will launch a line in St. Petersburg for the production of isotope diagnostic complexes (IDC) for nuclear medicine with a capacity of 20 complexes per month, said Electron CEO Alexander Elinson. IDCs are used in oncology and cardiology.

The founder of the RosPil project, Alexei Navalny, has sent a statement to the Investigative Committee demanding that a criminal case be opened against the police officers who detained him. The case concerns the events of May 6 near Bolotnaya Square. The statement was written to the head of the Zamoskvoretsky Interdistrict Investigative Department of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Moscow.

If, accustomed to talk of authoritarian modernization, you think that the consequences of dictatorships are always economic miracles, you are mistaken. Dictatorships do have measurable consequences, but they are destructive, not constructive. The vast majority of dictators only create problems for future democratic governments, resort to unfair elections, and see their main goal not in reforms for the benefit of the country, but in holding on to power as long as possible.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for intolerance towards those who parasitize on science and for accelerating the introduction of independent assessment of the activities of scientific organizations.

Global American Internet company Monster Worldwide, Inc. ( professional networking app monster.com), which specializes in recruiting, recruiting and recruiting, is integrating BeKnownTM, its Facebook , with Monster in 34 countries across the Americas, Australia and Europe, according to an official press release . As Monster representatives explain, thanks to the innovation, job seekers will be able to use their Facebook contacts to search.

Richard I. Lesser has been appointed president and chief executive officer of The Boston Consulting Group, effective January 1, 2013. His predecessor, Hans-Paul Bürkner, 59, who has held the post for nine years, will become chairman of the board. Lesse graduated from Harvard and the University of Michigan. He worked at Procter & Gamble. Since 1988, he has worked at The Boston Consulting Group, and since 2009, he has headed the company's business in North and South America.

Rostekhnologii is preparing an IPO for five of its subsidiary holdings, including Russian Helicopters, Optical Systems and Technologies, and Russian Electronics, Sergei Chemezov, head of the state corporation Rostekhnologii, told reporters on Tuesday. "We are ready for an IPO for Russian Helicopters, we are watching how the market will rise," Chemezov said, noting that after the helicopter-building holding, IPOs are planned for four more subsidiaries of the state corporation.

The world's largest Internet company Google has closed a deal to buy mobile technology maker Motorola Mobility, the acquisition of which for $12.5 billion was announced in August 2011, Google CEO Larry Page announced on the company's website. The Google-Motorola deal was cleared by China's Ministry of Commerce's antitrust bureau last week, removing the final legal hurdle to completing the purchase. The U.S. Justice Department and European Union regulators cleared the deal in February.

Marks & Spencer Group Plc reported pre-tax profit of 705.9 million pounds ($1.12 billion) for the financial year ended March 31, compared with forecasts of 693.4 million pounds. That was down 1.2% from a year earlier. The company said in a statement that it had seen its annual profit fall for the first time in three years. Total revenue for the 12 months increased from £9.74bn to £9.93bn.

The next TNK-BP Int. council meeting was scheduled for May 25. The agenda included the issue of dividends and the filing of lawsuits against BP and AAR, which violated the shareholder agreement (the former was going to create an alliance with Rosneft without offering to do so to TNK-BP, and AAR member Renova did not offer the company to buy out GazEx and the TZK in Koltsovo).

In the last few days, internet users in Turkey have been unable to access the social network VKontakte. "The VKontakte system has stopped responding in Turkey," complains a Turkish News user in the Turkish Love community of this social network. "As I understand it, the Turkish government has banned users from going "in contact" by court order," MaryKate, registered on the Mail.ru portal, replies.

On May 21, the day before the news of Igor Sechin's nomination for the post of Chairman of the Board of Rosneft, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on including the oil company in the list of strategic enterprises. The list includes one share of Rosneft, which is owned by the state. The list also includes state shares in the companies FGC UES (79.55%), MRSK Holding (53.69%), RusHydro (60.38%) and OAO System Operator (100%).

The Austrian investment company Immofinanz Group has completed a deal to acquire the remaining 50% of shares in the Golden Babylon Rostokino shopping center on Mira Avenue, the investment company said in a statement. On May 16, the deal received approval from the Federal Antimonopoly Service.