The Kremlin spent 70 million rubles on a pre -election campaign in social networks. What came of it? Photo: Personal website of Vladimir Putin If you thought that Vladimir Putin beats Alexei Navalny on TV, but loses the Internet, you will be disappointed. After the presidential election (their results were officially summed up today ), we asked the “mediaology” to evaluate the results of the unprecedented election online mobilization of the population.

As expected , the Central Bank lowered the key rate for the fifth time in a row - by 0.25 percentage points. up to 7.25%. This is already the second reduction in 2018: the first time the rate was lowered in February – and also by 0.25 percentage points. The main reason is low inflation (2.2% annualized in February) and expectations that it will not rise. According to the Central Bank's forecast, by the end of the year inflation will be 3-4%.

What's happened 20 million references, almost 100 million likes, 3.5 million supporters and 2 million campaign posts - this is the result of Vladimir Putin in social networks since December 18, 2017, when the presidential campaign has officially started in Russia. During this time, Putin left far behind not only direct rivals in the elections, but also Alexei Navalny, one of the most popular politicians on the Internet.

What's happened As expected , the Central Bank lowered the key rate for the fifth time in a row — by 0.25 percentage points. up to 7.25%. In 2018, this is already the second reduction: the first time the rate was lowered in February - and also by 0.25 p.p. The main reason is low inflation (2.2% in annual terms in February) and expectations that it will not grow. According to the forecast of the Central Bank, inflation will reach 3-4% by the end of the year.

Forbes compiled a ranking of ten Russian billionaires who earned the most from the sale of assets and dividends in 2017. Unlike the traditional ranking of the richest businessmen, where the criterion is the final value of assets, here “real” money was assessed. Who was included in the rating The leader of the list is the alleged former son-in-law of Vladimir Putin, Kirill Shamalov .

What's happened As it became known to The Bell, businessman Alexander Fedotov, who called himself a sponsor of Ksenia Sobchak's election campaign, may lose the rights to publish L'Officiel magazine in Russia. A court in Paris decided that the company controlled by Fedotov should return the rights to use L'Officiel trademarks in Russia to the French copyright holder Les Editions Jalou. Sobchak is the chief editor of this magazine.

The new product labeling system, on which Alisher Usmanov and Rostec will make money, will be expensive for retail - the tobacco company BAT calculated that non-chain stores will have to spend 16.8 billion rubles on the cigarette labeling system alone. For small retail outlets, the 50-80 thousand rubles required for this is a decent expense. The experiment with new electronic labeling of cigarettes began in Russia on January 15, 2018.

What's happened EU leaders will recall "for consultations" representative of the union in Russia, Markus Ederer. This decision was made after discussing the poisoning of former GRU colonel and Mi-6 agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with a nerve agent at a summit in Brussels. Details The day before, Theresa May agreed on joint measures against Russia with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Non -net shops can spend 16.8 billion rubles on the labeling of cigarettes, on which Alisher Usmanov and Rostec will work Photo: AGN "Moscow" A new labeling system on which Alisher Usmanov and Rostec will earn will cost retail expensive - Bat considered that only on a system of marking cigarettes to Nesetv stores would have to spend 16.8 billion rubles. For small outlets, the necessary 50-80 thousand rubles for this are decent costs.

Gazprombank announced that, on behalf of Rosneft, it carried out the first transaction in the Central Bank's financial messaging system (SPFS) - the Russian analogue of the international payment system SWIFT. The operation took place in December 2017 and “became the first precedent” in the market when a financial message in the system was received by a company, not a financial institution.