Russian users will be able to pre-order the new Apple smartphone models - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus - from September 26, according to a statement on the company's website. It is not yet known when the new iPhones will go on sale in Russian stores. In the US, pre-orders are available from September 12, and on September 19, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will go on sale in nine countries: the US, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Vincent Mundy / Bloomberg Poland's state-owned PGNiG said Gazprom has been reducing gas supplies to Poland since the beginning of the week, Reuters reports. According to PGNIG, supplies fell by 20% on Monday and by 24% on Tuesday. Poland is not Gazprom's largest client in Europe. In 2013, the country purchased 8.9 billion cubic meters of gas. For comparison: the largest buyer is Germany - 40 billion cubic meters. And the total supplies were 160 billion cubic meters.

Leon Neal / Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that she supports the adoption of a new package of EU sanctions against Russia, Reuters reports. "Considering the current state of affairs, we can now really talk about an improvement in the situation in Ukraine - it is not a 100% ceasefire, but we are still talking about progress.

Next week, a bill on the special status of certain regions of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics will be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced at an extended government meeting. "The Ukrainian law on temporary self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions clearly provides for the status of these regions within Ukraine.

A dream come true. Vladimir Konstantinov Chairman of the State Council of Crimea. “Today we can confidently speak about the comprehensive support from the country’s leadership of all ethnic groups of Crimea, their rights and freedoms, everything that Crimeans have been striving for for so long.” Vedomosti, 6.09.2014 In Crimea, people are still afraid of war.

Vladimir Putin / AP Western countries provoked the Ukrainian crisis in order to revive NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes. "A great many new threats are emerging. As you know, a decision was recently made to build up NATO forces in Eastern Europe. The crisis in Ukraine, which was, in fact, provoked and created by some of our Western partners, is now being used to revive this military bloc," he said at a meeting on the state armament program until 2025.

4.66 million passwords for Mail.ru mailboxes and 1.26 million passwords for Yandex were posted in the public domain on the Internet. It seems that this is the largest leak of mail accounts in the RuNet, and the numbers are not small for the companies themselves. The entire monthly audience of the Mail.ru mail service (the number of unique users who visited it at least once a month) was 43.2 million in July of this year, and Yandex.Mail - 27.8 million.

September 10, 2014, 11:00 / Personal account The emergence of individual investment accounts can change the Russian financial market With the introduction of the IIS in 2015, a tool is being created to generate that very “long-term” money, without which neither sustainable economic growth nor stability in the financial market is possible Irina Krivosheeva In just over three months, an event will occur that could become a major milestone in the development of the domestic securities market and

September 10, 2014, 17:24 / Finance Fitch: Sanctions will force the Russian fuel and energy complex to more actively take money from buyers of raw materials Restrictive measures will whet the appetite of Russian companies for prepayments, according to agency analysts Ekaterina Kravchenko Smartmoney Sectoral sanctions by Europe and the United States against Russia were introduced at the end of July: they limited long-term financing of Russian companies and banks (over 90 days) and the supply of

At the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago, American company Local Motors is creating the first fully-fledged electric car on a 3D printer in front of visitors, The Wall Street Journal reports. 3D printing technology involves building up material on an object layer by layer. Unlike traditional technologies, 3D printing allows you to model an object on a computer and “print” it from plastic, metal or composite materials.

On September 9, late in the evening, information appeared that a database of logins and passwords for Gmail mailboxes (Google's email service) had been published on the Internet. In particular, the information was published on the Bitcoin Security forum, which two days earlier reported on a leak of data from the Yandex and Mail.ru email services. This time, we are talking about the appearance in the public domain of a database of 4.9 million Gmail boxes.

Nikolay Denin does not feel guilty, but agrees with the resignation / PhotoXPress Denin's resignation is only the third time a governor has been dismissed with such a harsh wording (see inset) and the first since direct gubernatorial elections returned in 2012.

The United States has completed the formulation of measures to strengthen sanctions against Russia's financial, energy and defense sectors, U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said at a regular briefing. According to her, Washington is in close coordination with the EU on this issue. Yesterday, the European Union postponed the introduction of new sanctions against Russia in order to assess the implementation of the peace plan within a few days. Washington intends to do the same.

Foreign medicines that have no analogues in Russia will not be "blocked", promised Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with the United Russia party activists and the party's candidates for deputies in regional legislative assemblies. "As with food, our main task now is to ensure some kind of drug independence, but this does not mean that we should abandon imported drugs, God forbid," Medvedev said.

September 10, 2014, 01:34 / Management From centralization to decentralization - five years Mark Rosin Five years ago, I identified a pattern that I called the “centralization pendulum.” Organizational structures rarely remain static - usually they undergo either a centralization process (supporting functions are taken away from producing units and centralized) or a decentralization process (independent business units are formed with all supporting functions inside).