Putin Lukashenko’s money and compliments, the merger of UBS and Credit Suisse and how to distinguish a kovid from influenza

Vladimir Putin promised Lukashenko support and $ 1.5 billion

At a four -hour meeting in Sochi, Vladimir Putin told Alexander Lukashenko three main words: “A one and a half billion loan”, after which the Kremlin had to certify the journalists that this money would not repeat the fate of $ 3 billion borrowed to Viktor Yanukovych in December 2013, which Russia still has not seen. What in response promised to Putin Lukashenko, we do not know - the meeting passed behind closed doors, but the Kremlin must rush to use Lukashenko’s weakness to press it to the decisions of the “integration” between Russia and Belarus.

• The meeting of Putin and Lukashenko went as it should have passed. Putin congratulated Lukashenko on the election and praised him for the plansof the “constitutional reform” . Lukashenko, taking a pose in an armchair, reminding the negotiations of the Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vucic with Donald Trump, gently reasoned that "a friend was known in trouble."
• The key point was Putin’s statement that Russia would give out a loan of Belorussia $ 1.5 billion. According to coincidence, the government of Alexander Lukashenko had to spend almost exactly as much ($ 1.4 billion) in August to maintain a rapidly falling national currency - this is 15% of the gold and foreign exchange reserves of Belarus. But this made it possible to limit the weakening of the Belarusian ruble to the dollar 8.4%.
• Putin's statement about loan sounded as a real deja vu. In very similar conditions, Russia at the expense of the money of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in December 2013 bought $ 3 billion Eurobonds to support President Viktor Yanukovych - with the difference that at that time his regime seemed much more sustainable than the regime of Alexander Lukashenko now. Russia did not predictly received this money back - after the overthrow of Yanukovych, the new Ukrainian authorities said that the loan was taken to be forced and refused to pay. Russia filed a lawsuit in the British court. Ukraine has little chance of victory, but the hearing that has reached the UK Supreme Court has been going on for the fifth year. In July, a court representative said that the decisions should wait no earlier than September 2020.
• The applicant for the post of President of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya decided to get ahead of the events and hint in advance that if the opposition victory, there would be no debts. “I hope that Putin understands that it is Lukashenko, and not our people, will have to give this loan <...> agony Lukashenko can extend this, but the people will not be able to prevent the victories,” she wrote in her telegram channel.
• To the question about analogies with Ukrainian loan, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov had to answer-in the style of "You do not understand, this is completely different!". “This is absolutely incorrect at the fundamental question <...>. The loan is not provided to President Lukashenko, it is provided to Belarus, our large ally, the fraternal country, ”RIA Novosti quotes Peskov.
• It should be especially disappointing the Russian Ministry of Finance - less than a month ago, he prepared a draft rules for the provision of bilateral loans to foreign states, designed to limit the issuance of hopeless loans. According to these rules, Belarusian could not receive a State Credit according to two criteria at once-the Ministry of Finance proposed not to give out loans to the countries that the OECR refers to the risk categories 6 and lower (in Belarus- category 6 ) and countries in a state of socio-political crises. True, the project left the opportunity, in the form of an exception to provide state editors on an individual basis “taking into account the strategic nature of the political relations of the Russian Federation with the boster state”-according to this criterion, Belarus would surely have passed.
• That Alexander Lukashenko promised Vladimir Putin in four hours of negotiations is still unknown. In the past few years, the main requirements of Moscow for Minsk were the creation of the Russian Air Force base (now there are no Russian military bases in Belarus - only the Navy’s communications unit and the radar station near Baranavichi), as well as the recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea and the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
• In 2019, Russia sharply force negotiations on the unification of the two countries, which since 1999 have been connected by the Treaty on the Union State, with the exception of open borders existing only on paper. In the spring of 2019, Lukashenko, according to Kommersant, promised Putin to “start integration” on the basis of a recall of the ambassador of Mikhail Babich that aggressively insisting on it. Babich was withdrawn, but things did not go beyond words. In December 2019, Lukashenko held unsuccessful negotiations with Vladimir Putin, after that Russia began the next energy war against Belarus, and the Russian threat became the basis of the campaign Lukashenko, who declared that Putin offered him “exchange oil for independence”.

What am I to me?

$ 1.5 billion is not such a large amount for the Russian budget. But to think that this money will pay off even in those categories in which they think in the Kremlin would be naive. For 25 years of cooperation with Alexander Lukashenko, Russia spent $ 120 billion on his support, counted “open media” - and in return did not even receive recognition of the independence of Abkhazia. But to turn against themselves citizens of one of the last friendly countries in the post -Soviet space is a much more real task, and in its solution we are already halfway.

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MONEY

"The last European company of global significance is bought by Americans!"

While all eyes are chained to the fate of the Tiktok transaction, the United States closed less noticeable, but no less important and more expensive - $ 40 billion against $ 20 billion, which Oracle offered for Tiktok. This is the purchase by the American manufacturer of the NVIDIA graphic processors of the British manufacturer of the semiconductor of ARM Holding from the Japanese SoftBank, living with Arab money. About 90% of smartphones in the world operates on chips made from ARM Holding blanks. The description of the transaction sounds like a real triumph of globalization, but this is precisely what upset one of the founders of ARM Holding Hermann Hauser, who in an interview with Reuters called a disaster for Europe, Britain and specifically Cambridge, where the headquarters of his company is located: “This is the last European company of world significance-and it is bought by the Americans!”

European monster

The heads of the largest Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse are studying the possibility of a merger, the InSide Paradeplatz reported. If the negotiations are successful, the United Bank “Encomisy everything that existed in the European Financial Center” and will become a leading financial giant in continental Europe, competing with the Anglo-Asian HSBC and American banks, the source of the McKinsey consulting company believes. The main initiator of the merger project, called the working name “Signal”, is the chairman of the board of directors of the UBS Axel Weber, who expects to head the board of directors of the United Bank, while the CEO will be a native of Credit Suisse. According to one of the sources of the publication, Weber, with the help of this deal, wants to "erect a monument."

Tiktok will get Oracle

Oracle confirmed that it would become the buyer of the American business Tiktok. The transaction will be framed as a "technological partnership." The agreement with the owner of the Chinese BYTEDANCE is issued as a “partnership”, and not buying the American business Tiktok so that the China government can save a person, agreeing to an obvious pressure under pressure. On weekends, Chinese sources stated that the PRC government would never allow the direct sale of American Tiktok assets. According to WSJ, the transaction suggests that Oracle will process the user data of American Tiktok users.

Navalny poisoning

How Alexei Navalny was reanimated at the airport

Reuters talked with several sources familiar with the history of Alexei Navalny First Aid at Omsk Airport, before he was taken to the ambulance hospital. They in almost everything refute the official Russian version.

• The glucose tested at the airport showed sugar within normal (3-5 mmol/l) and the absence of diabetes, Reuters sources said. The chief toxicologist of the Omsk hospital, Alexander Sabaev, in response to the question Reuters, said that this was not the case and showed 13 mmol/l.
• Four sources said that the doctors who came to Navalny at the airport observed a clinical picture of poisoning, and not a metabolic disorder. Already in the first 12 minutes, doctors at the airport excluded a diabetic who and a stroke.
• Among the symptoms, doctors call a stupor, a state of confused consciousness. “He could not explain anything,” one of them said.
• At the airport, doctors did not make an atropine injected injection, which is an antidot with poisoning with neuro-paralytic substances, because they did not suspect this type of poisoning. Toxicologist Sabaev previously said that he introduced Navalny a small dose of atropine after his arrival at the hospital, suspecting poisoning. This could save his life, say Reuters sources.
• Sabaev last week stated that the doctors of the Omsk ambulance hospital some time after the receipt of Navalny excluded poisoning. But the source observing Navalny’s treatment says that a dozen doctors who were engaged in the patient had no doubt that he was poisoned.
• A source in the Omsk hospital told Reuters that the instruction to release Navalny to Germany came directly from the Kremlin by phone.

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PRACTICE

How to distinguish a kovid from influenza

The heading “The most useful material of the month”: before the start of the influenza season (during which the Russians there will be no chance to get an import vaccine) The Wall Street Journal publishes instructions that answers the question that will ask himself hundreds of millions in the coming months: how to distinguish the seasonal flu from Covid-19? There are several ways. Firstly, the temperature: it is with both diseases, but with Covid-19 it is felt more, and even at a level below 38 degrees it delivers very unpleasant sensations. It is worth recalling where and when you infected with what you are sick: the symptoms of coronavirus begin to appear after 5-7 days, the flu is faster, after 1-4 days. The symptoms themselves also need to pay attention: a runny nose and wet (especially in the absence of other symptoms) suggests that you rather have flu, difficulty breathing, dry cough and loss of taste and smell-the main symptoms of Covid-19.

Billions on Joe Rogan

The capitalization of the Spotify audiostrination service, which has gone to Russia this summer, is growing like yeast - in less than six months the service doubled and costs $ 46 billion. There seems to be no objective reasons for such growth, the QUARTZ argues , as it should be startup, Spotify against the background of the growth of proceeds continues to sit in losses ($ 420 Milln in the first half of 2020), and the main indicator for paid services-the average revenue from one premium user-is reduced. Analyst Pivotal Research Group Jeff Vluchak came to the conclusion that the main reason for the growth of Spotify-the service of the year’s transaction in the podcast market: in the spring of Spotify agreed to pay more than $ 100 million for the rights to broadcast and place the 11-year-old archive of The Joe Rogan Experience. This deal brings Spotify to the status of the Netflix podcast market. To illustrate the influence of the comedian and the former sports commentator Joe Rogan, one news today: today Donald Trump agreed to hold a four -hour debate with Joe Biden, whose leading will be Rogan.