The US sanctions are an attempt to turn the loyal Russian business elite against President Vladimir Putin, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. The BBC is investigating whether businessmen have reasons to be unhappy with the Kremlin. With a statement that the United States is trying to set up the Russian elite ...
Co-owner of Mail.ru Group Yuri Milner once again announced participation in a high-profile project - together with British scientist Stephen Hawking, he launched the Breakthrough Starshot program worth $100 million with the goal of delivering mini-robots to the nearest star system Alpha within 20 years...
The owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Brooklyn Nets, Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, realized that not everything in the NBA can be bought with money. He spoke about this in an open letter, the text of which is provided by the Yahoo portal. Prokhorov acquired the Nets in 2009...
The founder of Amazon.com and Blue Origin, American businessman Jeff Bezos, said that he wants to win the prestigious Oscar film award. According to the entrepreneur, Amazon plans to release 16 films a year. Amazon has already received five Emmy awards, a Writers Guild of America award and...
The Swiss court granted the request of the American authorities to transfer the investigation materials of the corruption case in Guinea, in which, according to suspicions, the leading Israeli businessman Beni Steinmetz is directly involved. Steinmetz is suspected of bribing the wife of the former President of Guinea in order to win a tender for the development ...
The former owner of a Georgia peanut company was sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was found guilty of an outbreak of salmonellosis that killed nine people and sickened hundreds. Reported by Reuters. Stewart Parnell, 61, who ...
Moscow police are looking for criminals who robbed a businessman while he was busy repairing his SUV. Four million rubles (66 thousand dollars) in cash, as well as a laptop, mobile phone, personal documents and bank cards of the entrepreneur became the loot of the attackers. The 38-year-old director was injured at the hands of the borset workers ...