Krasnov Mikhail Petrovich

At the celebration of his 60th birthday on May 17, 2012, Mikhail Krasnov announced that he was leaving the post of president of Verysell Group of Companies. "I've noticed that for the last two years I haven't felt the way I used to want to go to the office. It's time to start something new, "he said. Moving away from managing the system integrator, Krasnov will be engaged in a new business.

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The main problem of the Russian IT industry is the lack of dialogue between the state and business. "For us, the state is a regulator of business rules. Compared to world practice, Russia has its own difficulties. Our IT industry is mainly formed by private capital. Despite the fact that the state is the main consumer of IT services and has a very serious impact on this market, its potential is underutilized. Even in Kazakhstan, at the level of legislation, the need to take into account the opinion of business when making government decisions is fixed, but this is not the case in Russia. Decisions are made by individual officials, very far from the IT industry. We see the only way out in this situation in the formation of the'golden triangle', when decisions are made in a tripartite order: the state, business and the scientific community. "

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In 2000, Mikhail Krasnov began to collect his own collection of books by Russian classics. "I have Krylov's fables - his very first book. It is not in any library. I found it from a collector in the United States, - he said in an interview with Snob. "Another rare book is the first volume of Lermontov's poems of 1840." The cost of books is from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. "There are books whose price goes through the roof for hundreds of thousands of dollars," Krasnov said. The collection of the founder of Verysell is stored in Moscow and Geneva. Some of the books are in the bank.