At the corporate party of Tinkoff Bank on December 6, its founder Oleg Tinkov announced the upcoming presentation of the voice assistant, and also showed how it works. The service will be officially launched on December 17, the company told The Bell. More. According to Vedomosti , the robot has the same name as the founder of the bank, although his voice is different. However, the name can be changed, the businessman admitted.

Utair airline has updated its tariff line and reduced the minimum ticket price from 1990 to 900 rubles. Read more. Tickets at the new prices will be available from December 10 for flights starting in February. A ticket for 900 rubles includes hand luggage up to 5 kg. Passengers can also pay an additional 999 rubles for additional hand luggage weighing up to 10 kg. The fare will only be available on flights up to 1,500 km.

Due to the position of Russia, the OPEC participants were not able to coordinate the reduction in production The OPEC+ meeting in Vienna did not go according to plan. Cartel participants could not today coordinate the volume of reduction in oil production. While OPEC members continue to confer, Russian Minister of Energy Alexander Novak flew to St. Petersburg for consultations with Vladimir Putin. The cost of oil during trading in London today lost more than 5%, lowering below $ 58.5 per barrel.

Mandatory labeling of perfumes, which will be introduced in Russia from December 1, 2019, may lead to samples disappearing from stores. Andrey Kriventsev, deputy director of logistics at Alcor & Co (L'Etoile chain of stores) , warned about this. Read more. According to Kriventsev, perfume and cosmetic samples are included in the list of ten groups of goods, which the government approved in May, for mandatory labeling.

The restoration of markets after the G20 summit was short -lived. On December 6-7, in the European markets , the worst days since February 2018, the American S&P500 went minus by the beginning of 2018, and the Brent barrel was again cheaper below $ 60. Since the end of November, analysts have been practicing in comparisons: some call 2018, which began so well, the worst for investors since 1993, others since 1972, and others-in general since 1901.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Kirov partially satisfied the claim of Alexei Navalny against the bailiff service, which banned him from traveling abroad in November. about this The politician wrote on his blog. Read more . The decision to temporarily restrict exit from Russia was declared completely illegal. The decision to initiate enforcement proceedings was recognized as partially illegal.

The police of St. Petersburg is checking the fund of director Alexander Sokurov "An Example of Intonation". Law enforcement agencies did not specify what kind of violations in question. According to the RTVI TV channel, which was the first to report , citing its sources, about the audit, the director of the fund, Nikolai Yankin, is suspected of embezzling budget funds using forged financial documents on the costs incurred. Read more .

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, in an interview with five Russian TV channels, said that he ruled out the possibility of a ban on the circulation of the dollar in Russia. Quote. “De-dollarization does not mean abandoning the dollar at all. The dollar, of course, is the most important world currency, the most important reserve currency, and there will be no ban on the circulation of the dollar - of course, within the framework established by law - in our country. Context.

The OPEC meeting is taking place in Vienna on Thursday. The organization is ready to challenge US President Donald Trump and cut production. However, he will be able to name the key parameters of the deal only after the decision is made by Vladimir Putin, who will spend Thursday thousands of kilometers from Vienna, writes Bloomberg. Against this background, oil prices fell by 5%, below $59 per barrel. Read more .

In Russia, there are now more than 250 million plastic cards. Most of them are debit, but it is precisely this large group of cards that they pay less attention and often use simply the one that was designed, for example, when applying for work. Meanwhile, a debit card with good conditions allows not only to save on purchases, but also to actually earn on them. Together with our partner - Rocketbank - we found six advantages of modern debit cards and want to tell how to choose such cards.

Russians are going to spend an average of 16,900 rubles for the upcoming New Year, which is 700 rubles less than in 2017, Vedomosti writes , citing a Deloitte study New Year and Christmas 2019. The plans of consumers are affected by fears due to the economic situation - over the year there have been many more Russians who believe that the country's economy is in recession. Details. In 2017, 51% of Russians saw a recession in the Russian economy, in this year - already 61%.

British MP Damien Collins, who chairs a committee investigating Facebook, released 250 pages of internal company documents containing correspondence from Mark Zuckerberg and other top managers - including selling personal data of users and aggressively fighting competitors. Zuckerberg himself, commenting on the documents, stressed that the information is "misleading" because it was published without context. Where did Collins get this data from?

At the end of the year, banks began offering private clients special seasonal deposits with increased rates of up to 8%. Read more. This year's pre-New Year rates average 6.5–8% (a table with rates in different banks can be found here ). This is by 0.3–1.85 percentage points. higher than standard deposit rates for the same terms. Increased rates on deposits were offered by VTB, Sberbank, Alfa Bank, Moscow Credit Bank (MCB), Russian Standard, Post Bank, Vozrozhdenie, St.

Mikhail Fridman and his partners in Alfa Group continue to buy international assets - their energy company Dea will buy an independent oil company in Mexico for $500 million ( according to Bloomberg) and invest another $2 billion in oil projects in the country. Read more . The company calls the deal the largest in Mexico since 2013, when the country opened its oil market to investment.

From January 2019, property tax for businesses in Moscow will increase by a third - the capital authorities will increase the rate from 1.5% to the maximum possible under federal law of 2%. Read more . We are talking about additional payments in the tens of billions - over the nine months of 2018, Moscow collected 107.4 billion rubles with the help of this tax.