Arkady Dvorkovich fights for the post of President Fide. What will this give a former deputy prime minister? Photo: Sk.ru The man of the week Arkady Dvorkovich - The person is not this, but the next week, when he can become the new head of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). On October 3, delegates from 186 countries in the Georgian Batumi for the first time in 23 years will choose a new president of FIDE.

KB Citibank benefited from the aggravation of sanctions risks for Russia: a wholly-owned subsidiary of the American Citigroup became the leader in August in terms of foreign exchange inflows from individuals, writes Bloomberg. Details The volume of funds on households' foreign currency accounts with Citibank rose by 17% in August to $1.4 billion, according to calculations made by the agency based on Frank RG data.

Social network Facebook announced that it had discovered a vulnerability in 50 million accounts. The company warned that these pages may have been hacked. Details The vulnerability was discovered on Tuesday. The social network has already informed the police about it. According to Facebook, the internal investigation is still at an early stage, but it is already clear that the attackers exploited a vulnerability in the social network code that the View as tool had .

The Federal Tax Service held a series of meetings with major online order aggregators for freelancers and taxi drivers. Based on their results, the service adjusted the initial concept of interaction with the platforms. If in mid-September the head of the Federal Tax Service said that job exchanges would become a tax agent for the self-employed, now we are talking about a softer option for interaction with citizens.

Next week, delegates from 186 countries in Batumi, Georgia, will elect a new president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) for the first time in 23 years - the former head of the organization, ex-president of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, had to leave his post due to US sanctions. The main contender is former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, who lost his post after the last presidential election.

Journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, who was killed on July 31 in the Central African Republic, studied the supply of weapons from Russia to Africa, reports Dozhd , citing a source among the security forces and acquaintances of the journalist. Dzhemal was interested in the logistics of arms supplies to Russian mercenaries in the republic, recalled in a conversation with the TV channel a journalist’s source close to the FSB.

Almost none of those who stood in line for new iPhones on Tverskaya bought them. The first buyer of a new smartphone at the re:Store flagship store in Moscow told the RIA Novosti agency that he stood in line for only 2.5 hours, and did not buy a place in it. According to Dozhd , he was 247th in line. Details None of those at the front of the queue wanted to buy a new gadget, but planned to sell their place, student Alexey (was 24th in line) told The Bell.

Before the start of sales of the new iPhone line in Russia, the number of fraudulent phishing sites offering Russians to “buy” the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max has grown sharply, the Group-IB experts in The Bell said in The Bell. According to them, over the first month of sales of smartphones, 20 largest fraudulent resources can earn about $ 500 thousand. Details Since 2007 (the release of the first iPhone) the number of domains registered allegedly for the sale of Apple smartphones is 12,260.

The ruble is one of the most undervalued world currencies; the Russian currency should strengthen to 60 rubles/$, predicts Deutsche Bank analyst Christian Vetoshka. Details The expert makes calculations using the method of assessing the behavioral equilibrium exchange rate (Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate, BEER). It tracks the discrepancy between the real exchange rate and the country's macroeconomic indicators such as inflation, productivity, etc.

The government intends to change the formula for calculating insurance pensions, Vedomosti write with reference to two federal officials and participating in the discussion of the expert’s issue. It can be about the abolition of a point pension formula. Details The government’s work plan approved by the ministers on Thursday until 2024 (the software document that Vladimir Putin instructed to approve after the “May Decree” ), including the development of the pension system.

American regulator requires Ilon Mask to occupy positions in public companies Elon Musk may lose the CEO Tesla post. The US Securities Commission (SEC) demanded that through the court to ban it to occupy any executive posts in public companies due to August Twitte on the redemption of Tesla shares from the exchange.

A third suspect has appeared in the Skripal case - his identity has become known to the British intelligence services, writes the Daily Telegraph without citing a source of information. The publication calls him a "GRU agent." Details According to the newspaper, the "GRU agent" visited Salisbury even before the arrival of the two main perpetrators of the assassination - he helped draw up a plan of attack, passing data to Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.