The divorce became known 4 days before the publication of the “Black List” of the US Treasury Photo: Sergey Fadeichev/ TASS Former co -owner of the Sybur petrochemical company Kirill Shamalov divorced his youngest daughter Vladimir Putin Katerina Tikhonova, four Bloomberg sources say at once. During the marriage, the son of a friend Putin Nikolai Shamalov managed to become the youngest billionaire in Russia.

A former major shareholder of the petrochemical company Sibur, Kirill Shamalov, divorced Vladimir Putin’s youngest daughter Katerina Tikhonova, Bloomberg has found out. During the marriage, the son of Putin's friend and co-owner of Rossiya Bank Nikolai Shamalov managed to become the youngest billionaire in Russia. The agency's sources do not say when exactly the divorce was filed. And this is important: in August, Donald Trump signed a law expanding sanctions against Russia.

The Trump administration is considering ending funding for the International Space Station (ISS) by 2025. This will give NASA more opportunities for its own projects, but will most likely lead to the elimination of the ISS. The Verge learned that the Trump administration wants to stop funding the ISS, which NASA spends $ 3-4 billion annually on. If the project passes through Congress, then American astronauts will return to Earth for years. In 2014, NASA promised to fund the ISS until 2024.

Sobchak is going to invest up to 40 million rubles. For advertisers who “choose changes”, she offers a discount of 25-30%. Photo: Vedyashkin Sergey/ City News Agency Moscow According to The Bell Ksenia Sobchak, the sponsors are ready to allocate 140 million rubles for her campaign. So far, the Sobchak fund is less - according to the CEC, as of January 25, 80.5 million rubles were received in Sberbank. Of these, about 19 million rubles, according to Sobchak, are its personal funds.

The income of Russians in 2017 decreased by 1.7% compared to the previous year. The fall in revenues is the fourth year in a row: in 2016 they decreased by 5.8%, in 2015 - by 3.2%, in 2014 - by 0.7%. An increase in income for the entire year was observed only in January (by 8.8%) and for a very specific reason - the government then paid pensioners 5 thousand rubles as compensation for the limited indexation of pensions in 2016.

The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko decided to protect his honor and dignity after the publication of investigations about his well-being. In September 2017, the rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, filed a lawsuit to protect the honor, dignity and business reputation to the Russian branch of Transparency International and the publication of Business Petersburg, follows from the court database.

The largest US software vendors SAP, Symantec and McAfee provide the FSB and the structures of the Russian Ministry of Defense with source codes for software that is widely used in at least a dozen of the most important US government agencies. What is happening "endangers" the security of computer networks in all these structures, analysts are sure. This includes the Pentagon, NASA, the State Department and the FBI.

The Ministry of Finance has published a preliminary version of the draft law on the regulation of cryptocurrencies. It defines the values ​​of mining and cryptocurrencies for the first time and sets out the rules for issuing tokens. Here are the main points: It is proposed to consider cryptocurrencies and tokens as a "digital financial asset" - property in electronic form, created using encryption (cryptographic) means.

The share of state-owned banks in the Russian market has become so high that officials have decided to limit it. Today, the Central Bank supported the initiative of the FAS to ban state-owned banks from buying shares in other banks more than a blocking stake. According to Andrey Kashevarov, deputy head of the FAS, the agency wants to improve competition in the market, since it is “extremely difficult” to compete with state-owned banks now.

for the first time since April 2017 Against the background of high oil prices, the ruble fell below 56 rubles , now the exchange rate is 55.85. But by the end of the first quarter, it may collapse again. The strengthening of the ruble is facilitated by rising oil prices - Brent costs $70.75 per barrel. In total, since the beginning of the year, the dollar exchange rate has fallen by 1.8 rubles, and from the November peaks - by five rubles.

job search portal The most popular employers among students of leading Russian universities are representatives of the technology and resource sector, according to a study by the FutureToday , received by The Bell. The top 5 includes Google (21.6%), Yandex (17.4%), Gazprom (15.4%), Apple and BMW. According to the results of last year, Gazprom was ahead of Yandex, but the leader remained unchanged.

Officially, businessmen are not afraid of the “black list”, in fact, they withdraw assets from abroad and occupy money in the West while they give Photo: kremlin.ru We continue the countdown - before the publication of the “black list” of Russian businessmen, the US Treasury Department of Finance remains 4 days. Vedomosti interviewed large Russian entrepreneurs in Davos.