The American magazine Forbes presented the ranking of the 400 richest Americans. This year, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos topped the list for the first time. The entrepreneur set another record: for the first time in the history of the rating, the fortune of one of its participants exceeded $100 billion. According to Forbes, Bezos' capital doubled in a year and reached $160 billion.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (Hyperloop TT), which develops the Hyperloop high-speed train system, has unveiled a full-size passenger capsule, reports Bloomberg . The capsule, called Quintero One, was built at Airtificial's manufacturing facilities and is on display in the Spanish city of El Puerto de Santa Maria. Now she is preparing to be sent to the Hyperloop TT research center in Toulouse for testing. Details The capsule is 32 meters long and weighs 5 tons.

Putin's meeting with Poltavchenko and Beglov. Photo from the Kremlin website The crisis of the Kremlin’s regional political system appeared the most senior victim-the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko was resigned. Alexander Beglov will take his place in the North-West Secretary of the North-West, in biography and the experience of public policy, almost no different from his predecessor.

The Governor of St. Petersburg became the most senior victim of the Kremlin regional problems The crisis of the Kremlin’s regional political system appeared the most senior victim-the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko was resigned. Alexander Beglov will take his place in the North-West Secretary of the North-West, in biography and the experience of public policy, almost no different from his predecessor.

VTB Bank raised rates on foreign currency deposits, follow from the monitoring of the analytical company Frank RG. Details Now the maximum rate on a dollar deposit is 3.4% per annum. It is valid when opening a "Favorable Privilege" deposit in the amount of $300,000 or more for a period of 3 to 5 years. Previously, the rate on this deposit was 2.95%.

The President signed the pension reform law adopted by the State Duma on September 27, 2018 and approved by the Federation Council on October 3, 2018, according to the Kremlin website.

Putin's meeting with Poltavchenko and Beglov. Photo from the Kremlin website Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to Georgy Poltavchenko to head the united shipbuilding corporation. The proposal to become the Acting of St. Petersburg received the plenipotentiary representative of the president in the NWFO Alexander Beglov. Details The election of the governor of St. Petersburg will be held next year on a single voting day on September 8.

Boris sheets. Photo from the Rosselkhozbank website Little is known about the head of the Rosselkhozbank Boris Listov. When in May the head of the fourth largest bank of the country with a hole of 40 billion rubles was appointed, Vedomosti wrote that he worked as deputy Dmitry Patrushev (previously headed the bank, now he served as the Minister of Agriculture), represented the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Federation Council, and was also the chairman of the board of directors of Rosspirtprom.

“He’s just a bastard, that’s all,” was how Vladimir Putin described former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned in Salisbury in March along with his daughter Yulia. The head of state also clarified that, in his opinion, Skripal is a traitor to the Motherland. Details Quote : “As for the Skripals, this scandal is artificially inflated. Some news outlets are already pushing that Mr Skripal is a human rights activist. He's just a spy, a traitor to the Motherland... He's just a bastard.

The Russian currency may strengthen more than expected by the Ministry of Economy, said the head of the Ministry of Economy Maxim Oreshkin. Details According to his forecast, the dollar may go below 64 rubles. This will happen due to the suspension of currency purchases on the open market. Quote : “Now the monthly volume of purchases made by the government is about $7 billion.

The government approved the proposal of the Ministry of Labor to postpone the days off in 2019. Now the Russians are waiting for a long New Year and May weekend. Details In order to rationally use weekends and non-working holidays by employees, the days off will be moved from Saturday January 5 to Thursday May 2, from Sunday January 6 to Friday May 3 and from Saturday February 23 to Friday May 10, the government decree states .

A meeting with government members on October 2. Photo: kremlin.ru President Vladimir Putin said that the budget would not receive the expected income from pension reform, and called on the government to find money for reform. According to economists, the budget formed the “hole” easily compensates, and it is not necessary to make any changes to the existing tax system.

President Vladimir Putin introduced a bill to reduce punishment under the article of the Criminal Code on extremism, which, among other things, imposes sentences for likes and reposts on social networks. Details The President proposes to prosecute under Article 282 of the Criminal Code only if it is a repeated offense committed within one year, as indicated in the draft published law on the website of the State Duma.

What will happen to the ruble when oil will rise in price to $ 100 per barrel. Details - in the mailing of The Bell Traiders put $ 100 per barrel in the coming months. Good news for the ruble - provided that there are no new sanctions. Investors and hedge funds began to bet on oil growth up to $ 100 per barrel in the coming months, RBC writes with reference to data on Options for oil futures of the New York (NYMEX) and European (ICE) exchanges.

Investors have begun betting on oil rising to $100 per barrel in the coming months, RBC writes , citing data on options for oil futures on the New York (NYMEX) and European (ICE) exchanges. Now Brent oil is trading at around $85 per barrel - good news for the ruble in the absence of new US sanctions.