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  • Antonov toujours en crise…

    Antonov CEO clings to job as crisis deepens at aircraft firm
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/antonov-ceo-clings-to-job-as-crisis-deepens-at-aircraft-firm-362444.html

    On Aug. 4, employees of Antonov, a state-run aircraft engineering firm, staged a protest near its headquarters on Kyiv’s Tupoleva Street after the government dismissed company president Dmytro Kiva on May 26.

    Kiva was replaced with Sergiy Merenkov, a former Antonov employee and principal expert on the An-140 cargo and passenger model.The decision came from the Industrial Policy Ministry, a unit within the Cabinet of Ministers that is currently being merged with the Economy Ministry.

    On Aug. 1, Merenkov tried entering the company’s corner office, but security guards didn’t let him in.

    Kiva a bien verrouillé son affaire…

    Kiva has muddled three (executive) positions at Antonov – general director, president and chief constructing engineer – occupying all of them so it would be impossible to dismiss him. He made the management system extremely complicated,” a Cabinet member told the Kyiv Post, requesting anonymity because he is not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

    Kiva, whose son Oleksandr Kiva is his deputy, retained Roman Marchenko, a senior partner at Ilyashev & Partners law firm, to help him stay in office.

    Il a le soutien du collectif de travail.

    Et certaines des critiques des libéraux modernisateurs sont carabinées…

    Ilia Kenigshtein, senior partner at Hybrid Capital, a venture fund, has often criticized the generation of Soviet-era managers who still run companies today, referring to them as “red directors.

    I’m glad that epoch of inarticulate collective farm managers is coming an end in the big-money sector. They’ve never changed their Soviet attitude, they’ve always been wearing rural-style Brioni suits and black patent leather shoes with white socks and clap (their hands) during private concerts of Russian pop-music star Philip Kirkorov,” he says.

    Rendez-vous compte !


    Pierce Brosnan wearing a Brioni suit
    photo © Brioni

    Brioni Suits | Bond Lifestyle
    http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/brioni-suits

    Brioni suits are worn by Pierce Brosnan in all of his Bond movies and by Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. Brioni, a famous Italian bespoke house, was introduced to Bond by costume designer Lindy Hemming in the movie GoldenEye. In the book Dressed to Kill - James Bond The Suited Hero, Lindy Hemming explains that she wanted a company capable of tailoring in the Savile Row manner, and - because of GoldenEye’s tight shooting schedule - could produce a lot of suits very quickly. She also wanted something that that was sheer luxury, unmistakably synonymous with expensiveness. In GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day, Bond wears Brioni suits, often combined with a Turnbull & Asser or Sulka tie and Church’s shoes.

    After the Brosnan Bond era, Daniel Craig continued the new Brioni tradition in Casino Royale. Craig wore a charcoal gray Brioni suit, at the London press conference announcing his role of Bond in Casino Royale, and in the movie he wears Brioni as well.

    Voici donc Kiva (à g.) en costume de directeur de kolkhoze.


    President of Tatarstan Republic is viewing the modern ANTONOV aircraft
    (sur le site d’Antonov)