Vladimir Putin on Wednesday performed at the Business Russia forum. The president gave the main promise to the business in the introductory speech - to extend the amnesty of capital announced in 2017. We briefly tell you what to wait for the business after communicating with the president. Photo: kremlin.ru Amnesty of capital.

The capitalization of the main new project Pavel Durov by the end of the year should amount to almost $ 30 billion Photo from the Pavel Durov account in VKontakte By the end of 2019, the total cost of the future cryptocurrency Telegram can be $ 29.5 billion. Such a forecast with many reservations gave a native of Qiwi Hash Crypto Investment Bank. Telegram could provide the same assessment to its investors.

After increasing VAT, prices in January in annual terms accelerated from 4.3% to 5%, Rosstat said. Inflation has reached this significance for the first time since January 2017. Read more. According to Rosstat, in January, consumer prices in monthly terms were 1% (compared with 0.8% in December), and in the annual one - 5%. Food products went up by 5.5%, non -food - by 4.5%. The main reason is to increase the VAT rate from January 1 from 18 to 20%.

Even the Russian government, which until now has been one of his few allies, is beginning to doubt the viability of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime, Bloomberg writes , citing its sources in the Kremlin. In detail.

"A Bright Spot for Vladimir Putin" - Bloomberg reported in detail and unexpectedly positively on the Russian state program for urban improvement, assigned to KB Strelka in 2017. The budget allocated 26 billion rubles for the program, which included 20 cities across Russia. Read more.

Tesla can find Russian investors - only not through direct investment, but through the purchase of the manufacturer of supercapacitors Maxwell Technologies. Its portfolio investors are Rosnano and the Arbat Capital funds of Alexei Golubovich and I2BF of his son Ilya. The deal to buy Maxwell will be paid for with Tesla shares. Sellers can claim about 0.4% of Tesla shares, calculated . Vedomosti More. Maxwell announced the change of ownership on Monday, February 4th.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny found an apartment worth 5 billion rubles at the head of the Rostec state corporation Sergei Chemezov. The total area of ​​the apartment, located on the 12th and 13th floors of the Four Seasons Hotel, is 1434 sq. m. The windows of the apartments overlook Red Square, Alexander Garden and the Kremlin towers. More. Navalny failed to find the 1,434-meter apartment in Chemezov's declaration.

Vladimir Putin extended the capital amnesty announced in 2017. The former deadline expired in February 2019, the new deadline is March 2020. The amnesty will apply to those who decide to transfer capital to Russia or register a business in internal offshore companies - on Russky Island in the Far East or Oktyabrsky Island in Kaliningrad. More.

The topic of release is how much Telegram costs. By the end of 2019, the total cost of the future cryptocurrency Telegram can be $ 29.5 billion. Such a forecast with many reservations gave a native of Qiwi Hash Crypto Investment Bank. Telegram could provide the same assessment to its investors. Read more. Assessment of the initial emission of GRAM tokens on the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform is contained in the Hash Crypto Investment Bank report dated October 2018.

The total cost of the future cryptocurrency Telegram by the end of 2019 may amount to $ 29.5 billion, The Bell found out. Such a forecast with many reservations was given by a native of Qiwi Hash Crypto Investment Bank. Telegram could provide the same assessment to its investors. Illustration from Ton Whitepaper Read more.

Saudi Arabia has decided to reform the oil market. The OPEC leader, having enlisted the support of other allies in the cartel, proposes to create a new union of oil exporters, including a group led by Russia, which participates in OPEC+ meetings, writes WSJ . Thus, the cartel intends to raise oil prices above the current $60 per barrel. This initiative will definitely not please the US - President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused OPEC of manipulating market prices. Detailed.

Yandex as Amazon - the company launches its own content Following the example of Amazon and Netflix, Yandex begins to shoot TV shows - with its budgets, the company may well compete with large television channels. The fact that Yandex decided to follow the path of large American online services, learned Vedomosti. Netflix and Amazon took up their own content in 2011, and a few years later they released their cult series like the “Card House”, “Orange - Hit of the Season”, etc.

Yandex has launched production of its own TV series, Vedomosti has learned . The Internet company's first projects will be available to watch at the beginning of 2020. It decided to follow the example of Netflix and Amazon in order to increase the number of paid subscribers to its online cinema Kinopoisk. The company has already agreed to film at least two projects - a series about corruption and officials and a detective series. In detail.

The US Senate has approved a bill that would impose sanctions on Syria's allies, including Russia and Iran. The restrictions include an asset freeze and a ban on entry into the United States if it is determined that the individual has provided support to the Syrian government. For the bill to enter into force, it must be approved by the lower house of Congress and President Donald Trump.