Microsoft's strategy implies a wide range of activities to be performed in Russia: from raising computer literacy level to opening new development centres.

The circulation of foreign securities on the Russian market will be the next step to formation of an international financial centre in Moscow.

Mikhail Prokhorov, the president of Onexim Group, is to top the list of Russian richest businessmen published by the Forbes magazine on the 17th of April.

The commercial department of BBC Worldwide plans to buy a stake in Russian Mir Reality Production, reports the Kommersant newspaper.

The plant was halted on the 31st of May, 2009 with some employees sent on forced leave, while the rest were undergoing training on Chevrolet Cruze assembly.

Gazprom and Royal Dutch Shell signed an agreement on gas supplies to California on Wednesday – this is the first time the Russian gas monopolist will operate on the North American market.

The famous five-pointed Red Star on Russian military jets will soon be replaced with a new symbol approved recently by the Russian State Duma.

Jewish billionaire Lev Leviev, the owner of Africa-Israel and 210th among the world's wealthiest people, has purchased a stake in Polimetall, Russia's largest silver producer.

Gazprom has unsurprisingly become the first Russian company to execute the order of the Russian authorities claiming that the Russian ruble should be used in oil and gas transactions.

The German sales volume of Lada cars made by Russian AvtoVaz increased fourfold in March compared to the same period last year – up to 653 vehicles.