Today everyone is discussing two topics - either football or pensions. We believe that pension reform is still more important. Why did Vladimir Putin for 18 years have not come to her and what she would give in the end - read the Bell's final newsletter in the final week Photo: Victor Drachev/TASS The essence of the pension reform and the insignificant effect on the size of future pensions that it will give, we described yesterday. But you should look at pension reform at a different angle.

Photo from the site knotel.com During the last round of financing, the stratap Knotel founded in the United States from Russia was able to attract $ 70 million, which made it possible to evaluate the company's business at $ 500 million and on this Eduard Shenderovich ( one of the co -founders of the Living Journal of the company SUP and the Delivery Hero investor ) is not intended to stop: in his plans to turn Knotel, which allows you to turn Knotel, which allows you to turn Knotel, which allows

The trade war between the world's two largest economies has officially begun. The US Trade Office has published a list of Chinese goods, whose shipments are estimated at about $50 billion a year, and on which the US has decided to impose a 25% import duty. The measure is a response to China's "unfair" trade practices that are forcing US companies to transfer their technology and intellectual property, the said agency . China has already vowed to retaliate.

The authorities decided not to allow opposition candidates Ilya Yashin, Dmitry Gudkov and Anton Krasovsky to run in the Moscow mayoral elections, Dozhd writes , citing Sergei Sobyanin, an interlocutor and campaigner close to the Kremlin. Candidates will not be helped to pass the municipal filter - only United Russia has the resources to pass it. Details According to the channel, the authorities decided that Sergei Sobyanin did not need such candidates as opponents.

The Interior Ministry has ordered police officers not to publish negative news during the World Cup. with a copy of the relevant order The Reuters agency got acquainted , its authenticity was confirmed by a representative of the police union. The same order was first reported by Mediazona and Znak .

The Central Bank kept the key rate at 7.25% for the second time in a row after a consistent rate cut from 9% to 7.25% since September 15, 2017. Details The regulator began to reduce the key rate in September 2017 and reduced it for five meetings in a row. In April 2018, the rate was left at the same level for the first time. “The balance of risks by the end of 2019 has shifted towards pro-inflationary risks,” the regulator explains in a statement .

His parents fled the USSR for the United States in 1990, fearing criminal prosecution of their son. However, six years later, Eduard Shenderovich returned to Russia, and in 2006 he became one of the co-founders of the SUP company that bought LiveJournal. Later, he did business with the son-in-law of Boris Berezovsky, and in the early 2010s he became an investor in the Internet startup Delivery Hero, which, with his help, is now worth $7 billion. in $500 million.

Sberbank and Alfa-Bank are going to test several cryptocurrency products for wealthy clients on the regulatory platform of the Central Bank, Kommersant writes. The products will be presented in the form of algorithmic solutions for investment portfolios. The threshold for investing in digital assets as part of the pilot will be about $500,000.

The decision to raise the VAT from 18 to 20% provoked heated debates in the government, but it was nevertheless accepted. There will be no concessions to business in the form of the discussed reduction in the high workload, so it is preparing to raise prices - and this year already. Details VAT will be raised from 2019, but businesses will start raising prices in advance - already from the second half of this year, Vedomosti writes , citing Alexander Isakov, chief analyst at VTB Capital.

The business is preparing to raise prices without waiting for VAT. What will rise in price first - in the morning newsletter The Bell Photo: Pixabay.com / CC0 Creative Commons The decision to increase VAT from 18 to 20% provoked hot disputes in the government, but it was still accepted. There will be no concessions to the business in the form of a decrease in the high load on labor, so it is preparing to increase prices. What will rise in price first?

On June 14, the Central Bank published a draft instruction , which lists the new base rates and coefficients that determine the price of an OSAGO policy. The information presented in the document allows us to conclude that the maximum price of the policy by the end of summer may increase by 20% for most motorists and decrease for motorcyclists and legal entities. Details The project involves changing the base rate range from 3432-4118 rubles.