What the investor king owns

Chairman of the Board of Sberbank German Gref declared the retail investor “our tsar”. Ironically, the seller calls the king of the buyer, a classic of retail: “The customer is always right.” I would like to quote a line from the famous composition “Nautilus”: “Your crown from the maple”. I will try to figure out what kind of kingdom this king has.

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Published Oct 12, 2026

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OpinionМасштаб или... зрелость?

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OpinionPlatformization of the economy

The Russian platform economy has come to a point where the experience gained by the market must be turned into clear rules of the game. Platforms have been around for more than 20 years and the platform economy law was passed more than a year ago. This time lag itself says a lot about how regulation of new technologies should be structured.

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Vrubel without demons is the main formula of the new exhibition at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art, dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the artist’s birth. The exhibition reveals this formula in two ways. Among the almost 400 works, the visitor will not find Vrubel’s textbook paintings: the three of his famous “Demons” remained hanging in the halls of the Tretyakovka and the Russian Museum. But instead of Vrubel-melancholic, with his head immersed in his gloomy dreams, the viewer will see an active artist-experimenter who could from time to time pacify his own inner demons.

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