Dmitry Medvedev appointed the former employee of the press service of Vladimir Putin, and since 2015, the head of the department in the Presidential Department for Public Relations and Communications Zarin Doguzov. The comrade -in -arms of Roman Abramovich and the former head of the Moscow Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov claimed the same place. Photo: from Facebook Doguzova Read more.

The bill on a sovereign internet has not yet been adopted, but Senator Andrei Klishas said on Thursday that there is money for it in the budget – over 20 billion rubles. More details. Amendments to the laws "On Communications" and "On Information", which the media called the "Law on a Sovereign Runet", were introduced to the State Duma in mid-December. The first reading of the bill will take place on February 12.

The bill on the sovereign Internet has not yet been adopted, but Senator Andrei Klishas is sure that there is more than 20 billion rubles for it - in the budget. Amendments to the laws “On Communications” and “On Information”, which in the media called the “Law on Sovereign Runet” were submitted to the State Duma in mid -December. The first reading of the bill will be held on February 12. But one of his initiators - Senator Andrei Klishas, ​​is apparently confident in advance of success.

The State Duma voted in the first reading for a bill on the use of photographic and video materials of citizens to fix traffic violations. It will be possible to fix violations using a special application. As soon as the law works, the traffic police will be able to fine violators without drawing up a protocol. The cost of creating the application and server hardware is estimated at 2.699 billion rubles. More.

Bankers and consultants scare Russian clients with sanctions and actively advise them to leave the exchanges, writes Reuters. Last year, consultants suggested delisting AFK Sistema, but Vladimir Yevtushenkov's company did not dare to do this because of the large debt. Detailed. Bankers are actively working on buyback and delisting programs from international exchanges due to the fact that sanctions against Russia reduce business valuation, market participants told the agency.

The consumer confidence index of Russians, an indicator of the level of optimism regarding the economy, reached its lowest level in the last two years at the end of 2018. People began to save not only on entertainment and new clothes, but also on food. According to the results of the first quarter of 2019, we should expect a new anti-record - price growth accelerated, and official inflation reached 5%. Detailed.

The revenue of the second largest Russian retailer, Magnit, grew in 2018 by 8.2% to 1.2 trillion rubles, follows from its financial statements for last year. But the company has not yet been able to catch up with its main competitor, the X5 Retail chain. At the end of 2017, the X5 outperformed the competitor by a little more than 13%, and last year this gap doubled and amounted to more than 27%. Detailed. Last year, Magnit managed to increase its revenue growth from 6.4% in 2017 to 8.2%.

Other market players began to follow the example of Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, which raised rates on ruble deposits last week. Today VTB increased the yield on its ruble deposits up to 8%. Detailed. On Thursday, VTB launched two new promotional deposits in rubles with higher rates - "Growth Time" and "Growth Time Online", follows from the information on the website of the state bank. The first deposit can be opened at the bank's offices, the second - online.

Sergei Fedotov, the third suspect in the Skripal poisoning and an alleged accomplice of GRU officers Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, could have stayed in the UK after the assassination attempt, has learned . The Telegraph Detailed. The man, hiding under the pseudonym "Sergey Fedotov", at the last moment refused to board the plane in which he, along with his accomplices, was supposed to fly back to Moscow after the operation was completed, sources say. Why Fedotov refused to fly is unknown.

The FBI and the IRS have filed 11 counts of fraud and money laundering charges against Paul Erickson, a Republican Party political consultant who was " romantically involved" with Russian woman Maria Butina, who received a US prison sentence for illegal lobbying in favor of Russia. Accusations. For 12 years, from 1996 to 2018, Paul Erickson swindled investors into investing in his companies Compass Care and Investing with Dignity, as well as in the South Dakota Bakken mine, the indictment says.

Google began to remove from the search sites prohibited by Roskomnadzor - but not all Roskomnadzor wins: after the threat of blocking Google , began to delete links to sites prohibited in Russia. According to Vedomosti, 70% of links from the RKN register fall under the removal, but they are not taken away by the robot connected to the registry, but the company's employees manually.

The online trading platform for foreign goods Bringly, created by Yandex and Sberbank, has entered into an agreement with the British online perfume and cosmetics store Feelunique. For Bringly, this is the first European partner, writes RBC with links to the representative of Yandex and the head of Feelunique, Joel Pali. What is Feelunique.

Russians with high wages will be connected to the system of individual pension capital (IPC) automatically, financial ombudsman Yuri Voronin said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. This means that they will start saving for their future pension by default, but will be able to disconnect from the system if they wish by writing a statement. We can talk about a salary threshold of 85 thousand rubles, RBC writes , citing its own source.

Housing on the secondary market in Russia in 2018 rose in price for the first time in four years - prices rose by 4.9%. A sharp rise in prices began at the end of the year, after the start of rising mortgage rates. More. Rosstat reported a 4.9% increase in prices for secondary housing in Russia, its data is confirmed by an independent study of the Avito Real Estate service. According to Rosstat, the average cost of 1 square.

Meditation app Calm has received $88 million in its second round of funding, writes Crunchbase News . Investors valued the entire company at a billion dollars. Thus, Calm became one of the first "unicorns" whose business depends on the mental health of users. More. Calm is already profitable, and the company's revenue quadrupled in 2018 from $20 million to $80 million. Calm expects sales to reach $150 million by the end of the year.