How did President Biden, the son of Mordashov without an inheritance, and how Volkswagen could not overtake the mask

Joe Biden took office as president of the United States and began his term with the abolition of Trump's decrees

Donald Trump’s power was officially over-Joe Biden took the oath and officially took office of the 46th president of the United States. The inauguration ceremony was much more boring than the prologue with the assault on the Capitol. Biden himself devoted his speech at the ceremony to overcome the split between the Americans. We learned about the priorities of the new administration in relation to Russia yesterday, when Congress approved the highest posts of the Biden team.

• On the eve of the ceremony, Washington said goodbye to Donald Trump, leaving the White House with a record -low in the history of the United States with an average rating in four years - 41%. Trump himself said goodbye in a 20-minute handling , where, however, he noted that the movement he founded is just beginning. As WSJ found out , in recent days, Trump discussed with his associates the creation of his own alternative political party called Patriotic.
• Such a precedent in the history of the United States was-in 1912, another famous charismatic, former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt quarreled with one-party members, created his own progressive party and took second place in the presidential election, ahead of the Republicans. Trump can prevent this success from repeating not only a high anti -rating, but also a ban on the occupation of federal posts, which can be imposed on it in case of successful impeachment in the Senate. The trial began an hour after Bayden's entry.
• The inauguration of Bayden, to which the 46th president of the United States went almost 50 years (we talked about this path here ), took place in conditions of record security measures-related to the fears of riots after the “assault on the Capitol” on January 6, and with pandemic precautions from Covid-19. By January 20, 25 thousand troops of the National Guard were pulled into the capital. The national alley before the Capitol, which during the ceremony is usually filled with tens of thousands of people, was closed, and 200 thousand American flags played the role of spectators. Photos of Washington before the inauguration can be viewed here .
• Contrary to fears, the ceremony passed without any incidents (photo reports can be viewed here and here ). Bayden’s 20-minute speech (you can completely read it or watch the video here ) was mainly devoted to unity and overcoming the split in American society. Biden, as during the election campaign, promised to be the president of “all Americans”, invited the country to “start everything from scratch,” and Trump's supporters asked to listen to him and judge his matters. If Trump's speech four years ago was full of nationalist calls, then Catholic Bayden quoted the Bible, St. Augustine and Abraham Lincoln, notes The Mirror. The main thing from Biden’s speech we retold here .
• In his speech, Biden never named Trump’s name, but was actively dissolved from his politics. So the new working hours of the United States will devote his first work hours to the cancellation of Trump’s decrees - 17 relevant decrees are planned for signing. So, Biden will cancel Trump’s decree on the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, a ban on entering the United States for citizens of many Muslim countries and will begin the process of returning the United States to WHO and joining the Paris Climate Agreement.

What am I to me?

The Russian theme today did not sound and could not sound - but the members of Biden’s office said a lot about Russia yesterday during their statement in the congress. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke separately on the persecution of Alexei Navalny (“It is amazing how Vladimir Putin, apparently, is afraid of this person”) and promised that the challenges associated with Russia would become one of the main points of the agenda of the new administration. But the level of priority of Russia for Congress under Bayden demonstrates that the Russian topic surfaced only at the second hour of interrogation of the new Secretary of State. This may not be the worst news from the point of view of sanctions risks.

MONEY

The son of Mordashov was left without an inheritance

Doubles at the Higher School of Economics cost the 19-year-old younger son the owner of Severstal Nikita-after the deduction, his father not only sent him to serve in the army, but also deprived him of a share in the family business. Today, the FAS approved the petition of the eldest son of Mordashov, 20-year-old Cyril (he apparently studies better), about the redemption of 50% of KN-Holding, which belonged to his younger brother, through which the brothers owned 65% of the shares of the NordGold gold mining and the international tour operator TUI. The assets of KN-Holding are estimated at $ 4 billion. However, a source familiar with the sons of Mordashov told RBC that Nikita Mordashov would lose their share in family assets only for the duration of the army.

$ 58 billion for video chat with rural teachers

Tens of millions of Chinese investors who connect their income in the stock market with Jack Ma, sighed with relief last night - for the first time since October, the founder of Alibaba appeared in the public. The case was limited to a minute video recording of the annual online ceremony in support of rural teachers, in which MA, of course, said nothing about their relations with the Chinese authorities-but the investors were enough: Alibaba Group capitalization, after the appearance of the video, grew by $ 58 billion. The confidence was that the video was borne by the video and the official Global Global Times: This means that the appearance of MA was approved by Beijing. Recall that the serious problems of the founder of Alibaba also began after a speech at the conference in the fall of 2020 - far from as innocent as it is now.

Bell.club

Closed meeting with Mikhail Zygarem

February 10 at 19:00 Bell.club will hold a closed online meeting with Mikhail Zygarem. In 2015, having left the post of editor -in -chief of the Rain TV channel, Mikhail did not leave journalism: he began to write books about politics and history of different times, to engage in his own multimedia projects, which can rightfully be considered extremely successful.

During the live broadcast, we will talk about the new book “All Free”, discuss the current formats of interaction with the audience and try to present the new world of DJital after the pandemic. You can ask your questions in the comments, and we will definitely try to discuss them with Mikhail.

To participate in the event, it is necessary to be a member of the Bell.club club. Detailed information - here .

PRACTICE

How Volkswagen could not overtake the mask

In the Tesla car consoles race, the German Volkswagen made the largest bet five years ago - five years ago he allocated $ 50 billion to his engine development unit. In the fall of 2019, VW presented his competitor Tesla, an electric car ID.3, but it turned out to be a real disappointment. The car was quite capable of driving, but most of the promised VW of innovative features - starting with an interactive display on the windshield - did not work, and the buyers immediately began to send hundreds of complaints about buggy software. It was impossible to update this software without visiting the service. The head of the Volkswagen Group Herbert Diss was almost worth the work, and the experts gave the experts a reason to say: for many years we waited for the Germans and the mask will come, "but the Germans came, and the mask is still ahead. Only in December 2020, ID.3, which costs $ 12,000 cheaper than the simplest Tesla, was finally able to get ahead of it for sales in Europe. WSJ tells how even $ 50 billion investments and one of the best engineering schools in the world was not enough to overcome the conservative thinking of an auto giant.

What do workers want from the post -shoe office

After last year’s experience, quarantine 85% of office workers said they would like to return back to the office. A total of 19% said that they were satisfied with their working conditions from the house, and only 5% would have agreed to remain on the remotes forever - these are the results of the study with a survey of 32 thousand clerks conducted (for this to make a discount) at the order of the American manufacturer of SteelCase's office furniture. QUARTZ based on the research data tells about the main fears that people associate with returning to the operating mode and which should be taken into account by employers when re -equipping offices - from air purification to creating the optimal situation for social distance.