Russian statistical agencies continue to publish abnormally optimistic figures that are difficult to trust. On Tuesday, we wrote about the incredible growth in Russian income and investment.

Meeting Sergei Kiriyenko with top managers of Internet companies. Photo from the site RAEK Sergei Kiriyenko held a closed meeting with top managers of the largest Internet companies. This is the first meeting of the first deputy head of the presidential administration with the Internet business after he became the curator of the Internet in June. As it became known to The Bell, at this meeting, Kirienko suggested Facebook to open an office in Russia. Details.

The Ministry of Economy announced the growth of Russian GDP by 2.5%. Why shouldn't this figure be trusted? Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin. Photo: government.ru/(CC by 4.0) Russian statistical departments continue to publish abnormally optimistic numbers that are difficult to trust. Yesterday we wrote about the implausible increase in the income of Russians and investments.

The assessment of the fortune of the founder of Magnit, Sergei Galitsky, who left the trading network in February, has collapsed by $10 billion since 2014, calculated Bloomberg . The reason is the loss by the retailer of the first place in the market and a sharp drop in its capitalization - from almost $30 billion in 2014 to $5.4 billion. Story.

Kim Jong-yang, a South Korean police officer, was elected Interpol chief on Wednesday in a vote at the organization’s General Assembly in Dubai. The previous president, Meng Hongwei of China, stepped down early after being indicted and arrested in his home country on corruption charges (Interpol presidency typically lasts four years). The South Korean’s rival in the election was Russian Major General Alexander Prokopchuk, who was widely considered the front-runner by the Western press.

At the end of the summer, an online school for startups, Startup School, was launched by the famous accelerator Y Combinator, which was an early investor in Airbnb, DropBox, WhatsApp, Reddit and others. One of the lectures was given by the president of Y Combinator, investor, programmer, blogger and a person who believes that the era of the singularity has already arrived, Sam Altman.

The US Congress is unlikely to have time to pass laws on new sanctions against Russia before March-April 2019, told Alexis Rodzianko, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, Bloomberg. As the anti-Kremlin rhetoric is declining, the US may also postpone sanctions for the use of chemical weapons, which are due on November 22, he said. Why sanctions are delayed? “Bills on sanctions against Russia are not currently being considered in a special manner.

The Central Bank sent a clarification to the Chinese regulator on sanctions against Russia in order to stop the practice of "expanding" interpretation of sanctions restrictions, said Vladimir Danilov, head of the Central Bank's representative office in China. What's happened? Russian companies and citizens complain about problems when servicing in Chinese banks.

The US market survived a new collapse, and the price of oil went down again. What will happen to the ruble this time? Photo: Kirill Zykov, AGN "Moscow" What began in the United States as a sale of shares of technological companies, at the end of the day, spread to the entire financial market. Everything fell on Tuesday: from shares of American retailers and energy companies to oil. The ruble also began to get cheaper.

On Tax Authorities Day, the head of the Federal Tax Service, Mikhail Mishustin, in a long interview with Vedomosti, explained why the tax for the self-employed is a benefit for Russians, how the agency plans to reduce the burden on business, how data exchange helps fight offshore companies, how long the agency will increase it tax collection and what technologies tax officials will use in a few years. We chose the most important thing.

The Russian Federal News Agency (RIA FAN) has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in a California federal court, reported . Reuters What's happened? The plaintiffs on behalf of RIA FAN and its sole official owner, Yevgeny Zubarev, demand that Facebook management restore the RIA FAN page. The social network removed it in April as being linked to the Internet Research Agency.

What started as a sell-off in tech stocks has spilled over into the entire financial market. Everything fell on Tuesday, from retail and energy stocks to oil and bitcoin. At the same time, oil, which was already experiencing a collapse exactly a week ago, fell again on Tuesday by more than 7%. The ruble, which ignored the last collapse, will find it hard not to notice a new fall. What's happened?