Completely without the Olympics. Russians may not even see her on TV

The Russian team runs the risk of missing games in Pyeongchang. If this happens, Russian television channels can refuse to broadcast games.

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Russian athletes have more and more chances not to go next year to the Olympics in Korean Pyeongchang. The first step towards this has already been taken - this week the World Anti -Doping Agency refused to restore the Russian anti -doping agency in rights.

• The decision on the fate of the Russian team of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will accept December 5–7. “Sport-Express” writes in detail about this.
• And “Vedomosti” learned that Russian television channels can also boycott the games - first of all, “First” and “Russia 1”. In addition to them, the Olympics in South Korea is planning to show “Match TV” (part of Gazprom-Media).
• The argument is such - the rights to broadcast are expensive (the transfer of two nearest games in Korea and Japan will cost $ 40 million to the next two games in Korea and in Japan). But if Russian athletes are not allowed to participate in the games, this will sharply reduce the audience of broadcasts, due to low ratings, television channels will not be able to earn on advertising.
• Sponsors have stated that they will maintain financing of the Russian Olympic Committee, no matter what. The main expenses are incurred by Gazprom, Aeroflot, Norkel and the Zasport team of Anastasia Zadorina.

What am I to me?

Russian television channels, making a decision on the broadcast of games, are unlikely to be able to be guided only by their commercial interests - the authorities can make a political decision and force them to ignore games, the sources of “Vedomosti” say. If you like to watch the Olympics, for you this is bad news. But even worse, the sport, as in the early 1980s, again becomes a matter of big policy.

MONEY

How to undergo rehabilitation in a bank?

The Central Bank promises that by the end of the year the rules for the rehabilitation of bank customers who have fallen list of refuseniks will come into force. This list appeared after the entry into force of the standards for laundering. In June, the Central Bank began to send him to the banks. Once in this list, a person or company actually loses access to loans, but they have no mechanism to obscure this decision. From June to October, the number of refuseniks increased from 200 thousand to 460 thousand, and the business began to complain. According to the new rules , if the bank does not want to review its decision by the client, he will be able to go to court and complain to the Central Bank, where a special commission will decide his fate.

What you need to know about Trump's tax reform

Today, the House of Representatives of Congress approved the draft tax reform of Donald Trump. This is the most serious change in tax legislation in the United States for 31 years, the main election promise of the president and one of the main engines of growth in the stock market in 2017.

Reform involves a radical reduction in taxes for companies and individuals. If it is approved, wealthy Americans will receive most benefits, and the US budget deficit will grow four times in the next 10 years, by $ 1.4 trillion. Here are the main provisions of the reform:

• All proposals of the Republicans in comparison with the current laws are clearly given here .
• Now in the USA there is a progressive tax scale with seven rates depending on annual income (10.15, 25, 28, 33, 35 and 39.6%). Republicans propose to leave only four rates (12, 25, 35 and 39.6%). The income threshold from which the tax is paid at the highest rate of 39.6%is proposed to increase from $ 480 thousand to $ 1 million.
• As a result of changes in the scale and new tax deductions system, 61.4% of Americans will pay less taxes, but for 21.4% the amount will increase. As it turns out, it is clearly explained here .
• Corporate income tax is simpler. There is a progressive scale from 15% (companies with net profit to $ 50 thousand) to 35% (from $ 18 million) operates. Republicans offer to replace it with a flat rate of 20% and cancel most corporate tax benefits.

The approval of the project in the House of Representatives is an important, but only the first step. Now he has a statement in the Senate, who has prepared his, a significantly differentreform plan . In the upper house, the Republicans are not such a confident majority, and there the statement of the project can be much more difficult.

The American media Magnates allowed everything

As luck would have it, another historical legislative innovation in the United States. The American Federal Commission for Communications canceled the ban on owning at the same time as a television channel and a newspaper or a television channel and a radio station in the same state. The rule was introduced in 1975 to guarantee the representation of different points of view and political forces in the media, but now it is jealous of the survival of small publications, said the head of the FCC Adit Pai. The solution can open the road to numerous new mergers and acquisitions on the American media market.

Grew up again

Bitcoin came close to $ 8,000 tonight, although now it is cheaper again. If you still do not believe in cryptocurrencies, read about seven trading strategies for 2018 - performed by Goldman Sachs.

Signals

Again the successor

On Thursday, Dmitry Medvedev became the main character of social networks and conspiracyrs from Telegram. On Wednesday evening, during the trip of Putin, Medvedev and Patriarch Kirill, the Life correspondent asked the prime minister if he was going to the polls. Medvedev answered evasively - and immediately gave rise to a wave of rumors that Vladimir Putin could already appoint him a successor in the 2018 elections.

The wave began with the Nezigar telegram channel, and by the evening of Thursday it was already commented on by Dmitry Peskov, who called, “reading Telegram channels, to keep my mind”, but in the issue of Medvedev’s ambitions he retained the intrigue, sending the journalists to comment on the premiere. The final type of conspiracy theological picture was given on time, the excerpt from the new book of Yuri Luzhkov, published by the Moscow Komsomol member, where the former mayor of Moscow claims that he was dismissed in 2010 for refusing to support the second term of Medvedev.

PRACTICE

How to minute cheap

Last week, we wrote about the report of Citigroup analysts, which came to the conclusion that Bitcoin would not destroy the bubble, but the huge costs of electricity for mining. The growth rate of these costs in the world is really amazing: 43% only for the last one and a half months, since the beginning of October. The Austrian startup Hydrominer assures that he has found a solution to the problem - a company that rallies $ 2.8 million on ICO, puts special containers with mining servers on idle Austrian hydroelectric power plants. So far, the cost of Hydrominer is four times below the threshold of the profitability of mining. True, in Russia, where the majority of hydroelectric power stations are in state property, only the state can adopt this experience.

Refraines instead of machine guns

Is it possible to start a business in Izhevsk from scratch, not related to Kalashnikov assault rifles, and bring it to a federal level with a revenue of $ 5 million per year? The owner of the second largest network of hairdressers in Russia, Konstantin Suntsov, managed this in just three years - the “secret of the company” tells his story.

Peter Mironenko, The Bell