An investigation into alleged Russian interference in the US elections and the Trump administration's ties to the Kremlin, which has lasted nearly two years, could end as early as next week, CNN reported , citing sources. Details US Attorney General Bill Barr is due to receive an investigation report from Robert Mueller, the special counsel for the case, next week. After that, Barr will prepare his report with the main findings of Muller and will speak with him before Congress.

Vladimir Putin, in a message to the Federal Assembly, did not promise the business of anything realistic - even new taxes From the point of view of signals for business, the message of Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly turned out to be the most empty over many years. Two formally the main statements “for entrepreneurs”, about business checks and restriction of arrests in economic crimes, are repeated from year to year and do not change the real situation.

Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with journalists, said that we must be prepared for the possible disconnection of Russia from the global network, repeated his thesis that the Internet was invented by Western intelligence agencies, and called for not sparing money for the development of a sovereign RuNet. The bill on the creation of the Russian Internet has already passed the first reading in the State Duma on February 12.

The Trump administration tried to sell Saudi Arabia nuclear technology in 2017 that could be used to develop nuclear weapons, according to a Congressional oversight committee report released the day before. Trump is still considering making a deal with the Saudis, despite strong resistance from senior officials, according to congressmen. Detailed.

Formally, the main statements "for business" in Vladimir Putin's address are proposals to cancel regulatory acts on control and supervision from 2021 and limit arrests in economic cases. But only those who are listening to the president's address for the first time can perceive them as real signals - they are repeated from year to year, and the situation does not change.

The Lithuanian authorities are calling for the third time to check the banking license of the fintech startup Revolut, founded by Nikolai Storonsky, a native of Russia, writes the Financial Times. Typically, companies undergo only one check when obtaining permission to conduct banking activities in the country. The concern of the authorities is caused by uncertainty about the ability of the Lithuanian regulator to carefully control the influx of numerous fintech startups.

Aras Agalarov's Crocus Group may become the new contractor of Roskosmos for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. Two federal officials spoke about the negotiations with The Bell and confirmed a source in Roskosmos. In January, Dmitry Medvedev - with the words "stop talking about where we will fly in 2030" - scolded Dmitry Rogozin for the delay in the construction of the cosmodrome. More.

Just Inc., which produces mayonnaise without the addition of eggs, attracted $ 200 million during the new round of funding, writes Bloomberg. Organic mayonnaise and just sauces Read more. The startup of San Francisco specializes in the development of plant products. He attracted special attention of Chinese investors. Clsa Ltd., the international unit of the Chinese investment bank Citic Securities Co. collects current investments. To current investments Just Inc.

The social support measures announced by President Vladimir Putin in his address to the Federal Assembly will cost the budget 100-120 billion rubles a year, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said. This is not much compared to the federal budget surplus in 2019 (almost 2 trillion rubles), but in the future the burden of these measures will increase. More.

Apple intends to provide a single toolkit for developing applications that will work on iPhone, iPad and MacOS by 2021. about it . writes Bloomberg More. The project to unify the development tools is called Marzipan. The first results of Marzipan were shown in the latest version of macOS, where iOS-adapted Stocks, Apple News and Voice Memos appeared. They were written by Apple employees. In 2019, third-party developers will be able to bring iPad apps to the Mac.

Russian hackers who act by order of the state turned out to be the most effective. They need less than 19 minutes in order to begin to solve the tasks after hacking, Crowdstrike calculated . Read more. State hackers are much more efficient in Breakout Time (the time it takes for hackers to transition after hacking to solve problems) than private mercenaries follows from the Crowdstrike research. And Russian pro -government hackers also on the head ahead of foreign competitors.

Vladimir Putin announces another - already the fifteenth - address to the Federal Assembly. The past, still pre-election message was unique - the president's demonstration of new nuclear missiles completely overshadowed the economy, and a big breakthrough, and even national projects. The Bell watches what Putin will say (if he says) about the economy, the Calvey case, new sanctions, money, catches business signals and briefly retells the main thing.

The AliExpress and Mail.ru e-commerce project is starting to really work: sales of goods from the Chinese marketplace site through the VKontakte social network will begin at the end of February, follows from the AliExpress message. More. VKontakte users will be able to make purchases in the AliExpress app on the VKApps platform. It will be possible to pay for purchases through the payment system of the social network VK Pay, as well as from bank cards or electronic wallets.

A new poll by VTsIOM-Sputnik showed that most Russians have a good attitude towards small and medium-sized businesses, but they are sure that it is honestly impossible to conduct it in Russia. It is possible that people see in business, and not in the state, a chance to improve the economic situation in the country. More.

The Central Bank checked Vostochny six months before Michael Kalvi and his colleagues were in prison Photo: Alexander Tarasenko, Interpress/TASS The Central Bank finished checking Vostochny Bank six months before the arrest of the founder of Baring Vostok Michael Kalvi and five more top managers. The check of the regulator showed that the bank could already go for a rehabilitation, and most of the problems of East “moved” to the bank with joining the Uniastrum Bank Artem Avetisyan in 2017.