LLC "Granat" Arkady Rotenberg won a tender for 46 million rubles to hold events of the Civic Chamber (OP) to develop civil society institutions and combat corruption. The company was admitted to one more - larger purchase of OP for 51 million rubles. We are talking about services for organizing international meetings of the chamber and events aimed at strengthening national harmony and ensuring freedom of conscience. Read more .

Prices, Shatdown in the USA and hope for Runet: how did 2019 begin Photo: Zumatass The first working week lasted only three days, but was able to fit more important news than another full week. All of them can tell us what to expect from the continuation of the year. Rising prices. In the first week of the year, economists always monitor prices, and the first week of 2019 is special due to VAT increase. Rosstat recorded 0.5% inflation on January 1–9 - for the same period of 2018 it was 0.2%.

Rosstat has published data on price changes this year, which allow, among other things, to assess how much Russians have been hit by the increase in VAT from 18 to 20% since January 1. Read more . According to Rosstat , from January 1 to January 9, prices in stores increased by 0.5%, the average daily increase in prices was 0.05% instead of 0.01% in January a year earlier. Fresh vegetables went up the most : cucumbers (8.4%), tomatoes (6.1%) and white cabbage (4.6%).

The head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, posted on his Twitter account a photo of the new Starship spacecraft, which should send up to 100 people or 150 tons of cargo to Mars at a time in the 2020s. The picture was taken at the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1083567087983964160 More. A week earlier, Musk posted a picture of a computer model of the ship. The differences are minimal - the real device has a slightly different skin.

Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons 2.0 license Instead of increasing the reliability of the Russian segment of the Internet, the bill “On Sovereign Runet” will create a critical vulnerability for it - this conclusion was reached by the experts of the ANO “Digital Economy”, the founders of which are the government and the largest Russian companies, including Sberbank and Yandex. Read more.

Aeroflot employees. Photo from Facebook Airlines Aeroflot announced an auction worth $ 76.4 million (more than 5 billion rubles) for the supply of media content for its aircraft in 2020–2021. This is 1.3 times more than the airline was ready to spend on these purposes in 2018-2019. Among the requirements for the content supplier: the absence of a plane crash in the films and a separate coordination with the customer of films with erotic scenes. Read more.

The year begins with a rise in prices not only for smartphones and cars , but also for mortgages. VTB has already raised rates, and Sberbank plans to do so from January 14, learned Vedomosti . Experts interviewed by the publication also expect a rise in prices for other loans in anticipation of a possible increase in the Central Bank rate and tightening requirements for borrowers. More.

The Investigative Committee for the first time published the results of its investigation into the deaths of Russian journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko in the Central African Republic. This happened the day after the results of their investigation were published by the Mikhail Khodorkovsky-funded Dossier project. Read more .

From January 9 to 11, insurance companies must establish new OSAGO rates within the range of 2,746–4,942 rubles extended by 20% in both directions. In most regions, insurers have increased the cost of the policy, some - up to the maximum limit, found out . Vedomosti More. Of the top 10 companies in OSAGO, the company MAKS increased to the upper limit of the rate in most regions, in a number of regions - Renaissance Insurance and Asco Insurance.

The Bell found out how the Russian authorities propose to withdraw from the deepest crisis the economy of their strategic partner - Venezuela. In November, a delegation of Russian officials, led by Deputy Minister of Finance, Sergei Storchak, visited Karakas and left her proposals and recommendations for stabilizing economic policy. If the Venezuela authorities listen to Russian colleagues, the President of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro will have to implement these measures to life.

Netflix bought the rights to the TV series "Better Than People" from the video service Start and Channel One. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, however, according to one of the interlocutors of Kommersant , it amounted to about $1 million. Read more . If the assessment is correct, then this is the largest deal for Russian TV series. In addition, for the first time a Russian TV project will be released under the Netflix Original brand, which implies local dubbing.

A large business is not waiting for anything good from 2019: companies revise the forecasts of revenue and reduce staff The feeling of the upcoming crisis begins to reach the real sector - Bloomberg counted at least the 12 largest world companies, which in the incomplete two weeks from the beginning of the year announced the deterioration of forecasts for 2019 or a mass reduction in staff. Reductions will affect Russia. Reducing forecasts.

Following Apple, more and more large companies around the world are coming to the conclusion that 2019 does not promise anything good for the global economy. In less than two weeks since the beginning of the year, at least a dozen of the world's largest companies have either lowered their operating forecasts or announced massive layoffs, calculated Bloomberg .

The Central Bank brought the leadership of JPMorgan in Russia to administrative responsibility under the article on combating money laundering, the Central Bank said on its website. More. As follows from the message on the regulator's website, part 1 of Article 15.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses was violated.

Cypriot banks began to require the Russians to provide information about their sources of income received in the past, according to Bloomberg. Read more . The Agency became aware of at least two such cases. We are talking about the accounts of businessmen who have kept money on the island for more than 10 years. According to Bloomberg interlocutors, over the past months, banks have contacted them and asked them to provide documents on income received many years ago.