Facebook warned customers that from January 2019, the purchase of advertising in the Russian segment of the social network is subject to a value added tax (VAT) of 20%. Details . The innovation, which Inc. was the first to notice , will affect all advertising accounts for which Russia is indicated as the company’s country. To continue advertising , account holders will have to go to their account settings and verify the company name, address and tax identification number. How it will work .

The National Bank of Ukraine classified the Ukrainian "daughter" of VTB as insolvent. Details. As the Ukrainian regulator explained, the decision was made due to the deterioration in the financial condition of VTB Ukraine. What can investors expect: 97% of the bank's depositors (more than 59,000 people) will receive deposits in full, since their amount does not exceed the amount of UAH 200,000 (about 480,000 rubles) guaranteed by the Deposit Guarantee Fund for individuals. 200,000 hryvnias .

Despite the border conflict with Ukraine and falling oil prices, Russia for the second time in 2018 successfully placed a new issue of Eurobonds - this time for €1 billion. Russian debt securities will be denominated in euros for the first time in five years. Analysts attribute this to the rise in dollar rates, the desire of the Ministry of Finance to test loans in European currency in the event of new US sanctions, and the demand of Russian investors for less risky securities in euros. Why now?

Why did the Ministry of Finance for the first time in five years posted bonds in the European currency Despite the border conflict with Ukraine and a drop in oil prices, Russia successfully posted a new eurobond release for the second time in 2018 - this time, for € 1 billion. Russian debt papers will be nominated in euros for the first time in five years.

President Vladimir Putin signed a bill on a new tax regime for self-employed citizens. In order for nannies, tutors and other self-employed people — and there are between 12 and 14 million of them in Russia, according to officials — to come out of the shadows, the Federal Tax Service will offer them to download a special application by the end of the year and pay 4-6% of their income (in depending on whether the self-employed provides services to individuals or legal entities).

While the Russian authorities talk about a deliberate provocation of Ukraine in the Kerch Strait, Western media and politicians prefer to lay the blame for the conflict on Moscow and Vladimir Putin. Despite this, the US has made it clear that it considers the detention of Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea a European problem.

It became known how much companies will be invested in the Russian economy, which had previously assistant President Andrei Belousov offered to seize more than 500 billion rubles of overheads. We are talking about investments in the amount of 2.95 trillion rubles. What's happened. RBC published a list of proposals from large investors, which was voiced according to the results of the meeting in the Ministry of Finance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a solemn ceremony of presenting state awards in the Kremlin. Among the awarded billionaire Alisher Usmanov, he received the Order for Merit for the Fatherland, III degree. This is Usmanov's fifth award (Open Media was the first to notice this ) . Details. As follows from the March research of RBC, so far the only businessman in Russia with five state awards was billionaire Alexei Mordashov.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is a member of the Chinese Communist Party. This became known after the party's official newspaper, the People's Daily, published a list of 100 people who participated in China's economic reform program. attention to the publication Reuters drew . Jack Ma, considered China's richest man with a net worth of over $35 billion, appears on the list as a member of the Chinese Communist Party. When exactly the businessman joined it is unknown.

The Russian economy has fallen into a "serious stagnant hole," said the head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, writes RBC. According to him, for the last 10 years Russia has been living at a growth rate of 1%. Quote: “For the last ten years we have been living with a growth rate of 1%. In general, I want to say that after the Second World War we have such a long period in the history of Russia that we lived for more than ten years with such a growth rate of 1%, there was not.

Applications of Tinkoff mobile banks and Rocketbank are the best among banks for both iOS and Android, the Markswebb Mobile Banking Rank 2018 (The Bell) said in the annual study.

As expected , due to the increase in VAT on this Black Friday, there was a real stir in Russian stores. The sales turnover of retailers during the campaign has almost doubled this year compared to last year and reached record levels, reported . the Infoline-Analytics agency Growth in numbers. Depending on the type of goods, the total revenue of stores increased by 70-100%.

The Central Bank's new payment system, in which for interbank transfers between individual accounts it will be enough to indicate the recipient's phone number, will be free for banks in the first year of operation, as follows from the tariffs published by the regulator. This does not apply to commissions for clients - banks will set them themselves, Vedomosti points out . Rates. Zero tariffs for working through the Fast Payment System (FPS) of the Central Bank are provided only for 2019.

Mail.Ru Group competes with Yandex in everything - now the company creates its own voice assistant and smart column Office Mail.ru Group. Photo from the Instagram account of the company Mail.Ru Group is trying to keep up with Yandex. The Internet company develops its own voice assistant with the working name "Maroussia" and a smart column. They have not yet become massive, as in the USA in Russia, but sales in this category grow by 70–80%.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said humans must merge with machines to deal with the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Details. Musk believes that with further improvements in algorithms and hardware, digital intelligence will overtake biological intelligence by a wide margin. But, according to the businessman, people still do not understand this. “We are like children on the playground… We don’t attach any importance to it.