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...food chain. Only McDonald's, Rostik's-KFC (a joint venture with Kentucky Fried Chicken) and the pizza chain Sbarro are larger. Teremok anticipates $110 million in revenue this year, up from $63 million last year, and the company may soon expand into the U.S. and Western Europe. Mikhail Goncharov, 37, Teremok's founder, has big plans for the humble pancake. "We think blini could be for Russia what pizza is for the Italians," he says...
Teremok began in the wake of the 1998 financial crisis. The name, suggested by Goncharov's mother, who is the company's head chef, translates roughly as "Fairy-Tale Cottage," and the company's rise has been something of a Cinderella story. When the Russian stock market crashed in August 1998, Goncharov lost the electronics-distribution business he had started. "For the first month, I was really sad," said Goncharov, who was born in Kazakhstan and studied mathematics at Moscow State University. "Then I decided I have to start a new company." Earlier that year he had visited London...
...currently has six qualifying building projects, capped at $250,000 each, and two other $80,000 public art endeavors. “It’s been extremely successful and every university should consider implementing such a program,” Kathleen Goncharov, MIT’s public art curator, wrote in an e-mail...
...seem to be worrying more. It turns out Tsibliyev first noticed changes in his heartbeat in late June, right after the collision. Even though he was ordered to take it easy last week, he worked through the night to repair the power break. Reporters at mission control heard Igor Goncharov, the chief physician, speaking sternly to Tsibliyev: "Vasily, I insist that you have some rest. Vasily, you should eat regularly and normally...
...vast majority of them would never want to live abroad. Those who do emigrate often suffer from chronic homesickness. Though keenly embarrassed by their economic and social backwardness, they believe passionately in the inherent superiority of their own soulfulness when compared with the arid materialism of the West. Ivan Goncharov's classic 19th century novel, Oblomov, presents the ethnic German Stolz as a model of energy and industry, but it is the dreamy Russian Oblomov who handily wins the competition of cultures. It may take Oblomov most of the day just to get out of bed, but he wins...