The head of a company at any level has to manage his staff. As Russian experience shows, many have never specifically studied this and, unfortunately, often arrive at certain management models at the cost of trial and error. Elvira OSIPOVA, HR director and head of the HR department at the Ingosstrakh insurance company, told the Vremya Novostey newspaper about how to avoid them and create a team of like-minded people in the company.

Live props become unnecessary after the holiday season ends. Last Friday, in the forest near the Sochi village of Sergei Pole, a 65-year-old local resident, picking mushrooms, came face to face with a bear. This is a unique case: there have been no bears in the coastal forests of the resort for a long time. All Caucasian brown bears, whose numbers are constantly declining, live in the mountains, mainly in the territory of the State Biosphere Reserve, 70 kilometers from the coast.

“Invasion of the Barbarians” is underway in Moscow At a press conference that took place at the Central House of Writers on the eve of the premiere of “Invasion of the Barbarians,” the film’s director Denis Arcand said that he was prompted to make the film by a feeling of fear of death and of the hospital (the director’s parents died of cancer).

The Patriarch of All Rus' and the President of Estonia found a common language Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II visited one of the most problematic points of the “canonical territory” of the Russian Orthodox Church - Estonia. Such a visit seemed almost unreal just a couple of years ago.

Rome and the Vatican spent Sunday without power Early yesterday morning, at half past three, Italy was left without electricity. Emergency generators kept hospitals and airports running. Only the island of Sardinia, cut off from the mainland, was not affected. The Italians, who were sleeping peacefully in their homes, also got off lightly. It was worse for those 30 thousand who traveled by rail (110 trains froze).

The Constitutional Court will explain the concept of “campaigning” to officials in October The Constitutional Court will soon put an end to the flaring conflict between journalists and the Central Election Commission over the law “On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation.” At the end of last week, at their closed plenum, the judges decided not to postpone until the end of the election campaign the consideration of

In international practice, dietary supplements refer exclusively to food products. Russian officials have allowed manufacturers to claim medicinal or prophylactic properties for too long, says Svetlana ZAVIDOVA, legal adviser to the Confederation of Consumer Societies. — In your opinion, is the current policy of the Ministry of Health regarding the registration of dietary supplements correct? - Of course, it’s correct.

The black box story The commission of the 13th Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense, investigating the causes of the crash of the Tu-160 strategic bomber, which occurred on the morning of September 18 in the Saratov region, completely restored the picture of the tragedy. The accident occurred during a so-called technical flight, when the crew was testing a new engine installed on the plane.

American singer Mariah Carey performs in Moscow Russian audiences first became acquainted with Mariah's work in the early 90s, when a video with the ballad Vision Of Love was played on Superchannel. The voice and appearance of the young star were captivating, but Carey truly became famous in Russia only after she sang the song The Prince of Egypt (When You Believe) in a duet with Whitney Houston and immediately quarreled with her over whose last name should come first in the credits.

Alexander OREKHOV, Chairman of the Committee for Expertise on the Efficiency of Health Products and Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, talks about what changes in the market the new rules for the production and sale of dietary supplements may lead to. — Alexander Nikolaevich, how important is the very fact of the emergence of new sanitary rules regarding the circulation of biologically active food additives?

The French discuss the issue of euthanasia “You have the right to pardon, but I ask you for the right to death,” wrote Vincent Humbert to French President Jacques Chirac. The 21-year-old young man achieved his goal: last Friday at exactly 10.45 am, doctors at a hospital in the town of Berck-sur- Mer, in the north of France, Vincent’s death was confirmed. His own mother helped him pass away. She injected a large dose of sleeping pills into the IV to which the disabled person was connected.

Rusal will receive a five-year CSFB loan Russian Aluminum received a loan of $100 million for five years from Credit Suisse First Boston International (CSFB). To date, this is the longest-term loan received in the Russian metallurgical industry. The funds are intended to finance the production and export of primary aluminum. The loan will be repaid quarterly in equal installments upon expiration of the deferred repayment period.

A wave of earthquakes swept across the continent from Friday to Sunday On the morning of September 26, residents of the Japanese island of Hokkaido felt several strong tremors. The most powerful vibrations reached 8 points on the Richter scale. The epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 42 km under water, a few kilometers from the port of Erimo. In Hokkaido and northern Honshu, tremors caused widespread damage to buildings and roads.

YUKOS is going to become an international company By 2007, YUKOS intends to become an international company. The head of the holding, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, hopes that this will happen before 2007. In the meantime, the company is continuing the merger deal with Sibneft. As YUKOS financial director Bruce Misamore said, by the end of this year, as part of the merger process, Mr. Khodorkovsky's structure intends to borrow another 2-3 billion dollars.

The auction for the sale of 15% of the bank's shares will be held at the end of October The Ural-Siberian Bank (Uralsib) will soon find a new strategic investor in Russia, and the government of Bashkortostan will lose direct control over a blocking stake in its shares. As it became known last week, on October 29, the Republic's Ministry of Property will put up for auction 15% of the bank's shares. Applicants for this package can submit applications for participation in the auction today.