A break in the discussion of US sanctions creates miracles with the Russian market: in January 2019, foreign investors set a record for investments in Russian securities. But the respite will be short -lived: the United States and Europe are close to the coordination of sanctions for the incident in the Kerch Strait, and in Washington today the first hearings of the new composition of the congress on further measures against Russia were to be held.

A break in the news about sanctions provided record foreign investment in Russian securities in January. But today this break is over A break in the discussion of US sanctions creates miracles with the Russian market: in January 2019, foreign investors set a record for investments in Russian securities.

The theme of the release is a technological arms race, the main characters are the USA and China The USA, Western Europe, China and Korea have joined the new race. This time the goal is the development of artificial intelligence technologies, without which large-scale automation and digitalization of the economy is unthinkable.

Foreign investors returned to the Russian market at the beginning of 2019 - in January they broke records for the volume of purchases of federal loan bonds and shares, according to the January review of the Central Bank. Investors' interest was piqued by the lack of progress with new US sanctions, the expected easing of Fed policy, progress in negotiations between the US and China on a truce in the trade war, as well as the recovery in oil prices. Details.

Editor-in-Chief of the TV program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Ilya Ber accused the chairman of the International Association of Clubs “What? Where? When?" Alexandra Druzya in an attempted bribery and fraud. According to Behr, before filming Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with the participation of Friends, he offered to tell him the correct answers, and to share the winnings of 3 million rubles. What's happened.

The application of the largest Avito ads service in Russia has disappeared from the Apple App Store app store. Read more. At the moment, in the search for the Russian store, the App Store at the request of “Avito” is displayed by the competing “Yula” application. The authors of the Russian Marketing telegram channel suggest that the application was removed for using the Appsee service. He records what is happening on the user screen.

The State Duma has adopted in the first reading a bill on a sovereign RuNet, which provides for the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet and its autonomous operation in the event of disconnection from the World Wide Web infrastructure. In this case, the state essentially receives the right to veto communication via any channel, especially cross-border. The law will also facilitate the possibility of targeted blocking. In detail.

Sberbank announced that it plans to create a laboratory of neuroscience and human behavior to form an "emotional connection" with customers. Dr. Andrey Kurpatov will become her supervisor. Detailed. The Laboratory of Neurosciences and Human Behavior will conduct research in the fields of neurophysiology, social psychology and cognitive science and implement their results in the work of the company, according to a press release.

The Central Bank will be able to return no more than 20% of the assets of Trust Bank, on whose balance sheet there are bad assets of the rehabilitated Binbank, Promsvyazbank, FC Otkritie and Rost Bank worth 2 trillion rubles, Reuters found out . Previously, the Central Bank expected a return of 40-60%. The assets could have initially been taken into account by the regulator at an inflated value. In detail.

Business activity in the sector of small and medium-sized businesses in Russia has been declining for half a year, according to a quarterly study by Opora Rossii, Promsvyazbank and the Magram Market Research agency, which was reviewed by RBC. At the beginning of 2019, business expectations were the worst in five years. More. In the fourth quarter of 2018, the small and medium business activity index (RSBI) fell to 47.1 points compared to 48.5 in the third quarter.

Banks decided not to stop the fifth in Russia of the Jutire. Now the airline’s problems will be solved in the government The stop of the Yutair airline is at least postponed - its creditors decided not to demand from the company early repayment of loans for 39.1 billion rubles, for which the company could not pay interest. Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov said that the government is expecting a plan to solve its problems from the company.

Mail.Ru Group co-founder Dmitry Grishin, who became a venture capitalist and invests in robotics, has another exit - and again with the participation of Amazon. Jeff Bezos's company buys startup eero, which Grishin Robotics invested in in 2016. eero makes routers for home Wi-Fi networks. The fact that Amazon is buying this company is stated in their joint press release. The terms of the deal were not disclosed in the message.

The shutdown of UTair airline is at least being postponed - its creditors decided not to require the company to early repay loans worth 39.1 billion rubles, on which the company was unable to pay interest. Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov said that the government is waiting for a plan from the company to solve its problems. He named a change of owners as one of the possible solutions. What's happened.

Rostelecom and Tele2 will receive a good increase in revenue - the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications proposes to give them a project to create a cellular network for “socially significant objects,” including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the National Guard and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, worth 73 billion rubles. Read more.

The chief designer of NPO Energomash, the developer of the RD-180 rocket engines, Petr Lyovochkin, responded to Elon Musk's statement about the superiority of his SpaceX Raptor engine over the RD-180. Lyovochkin called the engines incomparable. His statement was published on the Roscosmos website. More. Elon Musk tweeted .