Contrary to the expectations of the authorities, real disposable income of the population decreased again in 2018. This is the fifth consecutive year of revenue decline. Read more . Real disposable income at the end of 2018 will show growth, albeit insignificant, President Vladimir Putin promised at a large press conference at the end of December. According to the head of state, the increase should have been 0.5%. The Ministry of Economic Development also expected an increase of 3.4%.

A coup in Venezuela threatened Russia with a loss of $ 17 billion investments. But on Friday evening, the rates became higher The event of the week An attempt by a coup in Venezuela can cost Russia not only spent on supporting the Hugo Chavez and Nicholas Maduro regime of about $ 17 billion (accurate figures are unknown), but also a new exacerbation of relations with the United States.

In the past few days, employees of Russian private military companies have flown into Venezuela on secret missions for Russia, has learned Reuters . According to the agency, they must ensure the safety of President Nicolas Maduro, who faced large-scale opposition protests. Read more . According to the Cossack ataman Yevgeny Shabaev (Reuters writes that he is associated with Russian PMCs), up to 400 employees of Russian paramilitary structures may be in Venezuela.

The Russian division of the South African media holding Naspers will buy 13.3% of Avito for $540 million. Avito owns the largest free classifieds site in Russia. The investment fund ​Vostok New Ventures decided to sell its share in the service. This is stated in a published statement by the company. The fund estimates the value of Avito at $4 billion. If the deal goes through, Naspers' share will exceed 80%. Read more.

The FBI on Friday early in the morning detained the former political adviser to US President Donald Trump, Roger Stone. He has been charged with seven counts, including obstruction of justice, perjury and tampering with witnesses in a case of possible Russian interference in US elections.

Dozens of legal entities, about 30 billion rubles of the cache and almost complete lack of debts - The Bell found out how Sergey Studentov created the largest alcohol seller in the country, the Red & Believe network. After the announcement of her merger with Dixie and Bristol, the whole market argues that it is: a classic M&A or a business of Studentov “squeezed out”.

Sberbank is negotiating with the Moscow government and Russian Railways to open metro and Moscow Central Ring (MCC) stations right in the bank's new office near the Moscow City business center, said Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the bank's board . More. Kuznetsov said that they plan to connect Sberbank City with the metro and the Moscow Central Circle and thus create a transport hub inside the building.

Photo from the page of Dmitry Ladessov in VKontakte The Investigative Committee of Bashkiria opened a criminal case against the author of the public “Typical Millionaire” on VKontakte Dmitry Ladesov under articles on illegal entrepreneurship and legalizing illegal income. He faces a fine of up to 1 million rubles or imprisonment for up to seven years. Read more.

Journalist and video blogger Yuri Dud became a co-owner of Sports.ru, where he worked as editor-in-chief for seven years. Last summer, Forbes estimated his annual income at nearly $1 million. More. Changes in the structure of the owners of Sports.ru LLC took place on January 23. Now Dudya owns 0.5% of the shares of the publication. Other owners include the Cypriot company SVV Sports Segodnya Limited (68.75%), Dmitry Navosha (23.75%), Dmitry Stepanov (6.5%) and Elena Zharova (0.5%).

The budget iPhone XR, which Apple introduced in September 2018, has become the best IPhone model in the USA, writes the 9TOMAC technoblog with reference to CIRP (Consumer Intelligence Research Partners). IPhone sales structure in December 2018 and 2017, Cirp In December, the iPhone XR accounted for almost 40% of sales. At least four XR were sold for each XS. Apple introduced a new iPhone in September last year, positioning it as a budget in comparison with other new smartphones model.

On Friday morning, another wave of reports about mining swept across Russia. Letters with bomb threats were received by several government, educational and medical institutions in a number of settlements in Siberia and the Far East. As a result, the threat of an explosion was not confirmed, many evacuated objects have already returned to their work. More. In Irkutsk, on Friday morning 10 hospitals and 11 schools were evacuated due to email reports of mining.

New initiative - from the co -author of the bill on sovereign Runet Smartphone. Photo: Flickr The co -author of the bill on the sovereign Runet has a new initiative to tighten communication in Russia. Senator Lyudmila Bokova prepared a bill that will oblige citizens to register all mobile devices with Internet access on the public services website. Registration will be paid, and within 3-5 years it will have to pass it to all owners of existing mobile devices in Russia.

Almost everyone knows Dmitry Grishin, a graduate of Bauman Moscow State Technical University and co-founder of Mail.Ru Group. But few people know that he invested almost all the money he earned in his own project - investments in startups related to robotics. Grishin turned out to be a successful and talented investor. Some of the companies he invested in have skyrocketed to be worth billions of dollars.

Senator Bob Menendez, one of the authors of the bill on sanctions against Russian state-owned banks, called on the Donald Trump administration to expedite the imposition of sanctions against Russia for the poisoning of the Skripals, according to a press release on the congressman's website. Measures include a trade embargo, a suspension of diplomatic relations, a ban on Aeroflot flights to the United States, and funding.

The co-author of the bill on sovereign RuNet has a new initiative to tighten communications regulation in Russia. Senator Lyudmila Bokova has prepared a bill that will oblige citizens to register all mobile devices with Internet access on the government services website. Registration will be paid, and within 3-5 years all owners of existing mobile devices in Russia will have to complete it.