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Russian millennials are most worried about corruption and income inequality, according to the annual global study of millennials performed by Deloitte and cited by RBC business portal. Most notably, the overall satisfaction level among Russian millennials are particularly low, with only 18% estimating it highly as compared to the global average of 29%. The top 5 problems or Russians born between 1983 and 1994 are corruption in business and politics (named by 38% of the respondents), income inequality (36%), political instability and wars (30%), healthcare problems (26%), and terrorism (25%). Their peers globally on average are concerned with natural disasters and climate change (29%), income inequality (22%), unemployment (21%), crime and personal safety (20%), corruption (20%), terrorism (19%), and wars (18%). In the meantime, Russian millennials are more ambitious, with 75% desiring to travel (57% globally), 66% wanting high income (52%), 53% ready to acquire real estate (49%), 48% wanting to start a family and have kids (39%). While the firth priority of Russian millenials is to start their own business, globally it is the desire to change the world for the best.
Russian gas major Gazprom has retained its place as the top Russian company in this year’s Forbes Global 2000, an annual rating of the biggest companies of the world, TASS news agency reported. This year 22 Russian companies found themselves in the list against 25 in the previous year’s ranking, and Gazprom is ranked the biggest among them. This is the fourth consecutive year the company enjoys the leadership in the Forbes’ ranking. The Russian natural gas holding has moved to 40th place in the ranking from last year’s 43rd position. Sberbank (47th), Rosneft (52nd) and Lukoyl (97th) are among the world’s top 100 companies. Surgutneftegaz (330), Transneft (386), VTB bank (471), Novatek (500), Tatneft (524), Norilsk Nickel (574),Rosneft (767), Novolipetsk Mettallurgical Combine (791) and Severstal (925) are included in the top 1000 companies on the list. Inter RAO UES (1189), Magnitogorsk Mettalurgical Combine (1237), Alrosa (1327) and Magnit (1370) are included in the list as well. Chinese bank ICBC tops the Global 2000 ranking for the seventh year in a row. Its market capitalization amounts to $305.1bn, assets to $4.03 trillion, while the bank’s profit last year stood at $45.2bn. American banking conglomerate JPMorgan Chase came second in the ranking, while China’s Construction Bank is in third place.
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