Today, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved in principle the unification of compulsory and voluntary car insurance policies. Is this idea feasible? What did the prime minister say? Medvedev considered it a reasonable idea to combine compulsory motor liability insurance (compulsory) and comprehensive motor insurance (voluntary) in one policy.

The garbage problem is one of the main in Russia. We found out who would work on her decision. This year, garbage reform started in Russia. This means - a lot of money came to one of the most closed and criminal Russian markets. We learned who divides him. The garbage riots of 2017-2018, the closure of dangerous training grounds and the rapid growth of waste forced to plunge into the garbage problems of even Vladimir Putin. This year in Russia, “garbage reform” officially started.

American chain Carl's Jr. will be the first in the world to launch cannabis-infused burgers. The new species will be timed to coincide with International Cannabis Consumer Day, which is traditionally celebrated on April 20. The burger will cost $4.20 and will be sold for only one day at a burger joint in Denver, Colorado, where smoking marijuana is legal.

The contribution of the Runet economy to the Russian economy in 2018 amounted to 3.9 trillion rubles, said Sergey Plugotarenko, director of the RAEC, at the Russian Internet Forum. This is 11% more than in 2017. More Most of the revenue came from the e-commerce market, as well as marketing and advertising - 195 billion rubles and 263 billion, respectively.

On Wednesday, April 17, Dmitry Medvedev delivered his annual report to the State Duma. The deputies discussed everything with the prime minister: rural development, school lunches, crab fishing, and the "liposuction" of insurance companies, but not the scandalous pension reform. As Vedomosti wrote , the factions had already agreed before the speech not to focus on raising the retirement age. Here's what the deputies asked instead: Social issues Poverty.

TON Labs, the developer of infrastructure solutions for Pavel Durov's new blockchain platform TON, has found a powerful partner in Europe. It was the German Wirecard AG , the creator of a large online platform for various types of electronic payments and commerce. What's happened. TON Labs and Wirecard announced plans for cooperation, details will appear as the project develops. It is known that companies will develop a common system of digital finance, payments and banking.

The Greenhouse company, whose main owner is Arkady, the son of billionaire Roman Abramovich, will not build greenhouses for growing vegetables in the Far East. Abramovich Jr.’s business idea could not withstand the collision with Far Eastern realities. Unforeseen difficulties Arkady Abramovich planned to build an unprecedentedly large complex for the Far Eastern Federal District with 300 hectares of greenhouses and spend 80 billion rubles over four years.

Bloomberg included two Russians in the list of billionaires - the founders of the Playrix game company Igor and Dmitry Bukhanov. Their combined fortune is $ 2.8 billion, that is, $ 1.4 billion for each of the brothers. They created the first game in 2001 on Pentium-100, and in 2018, Playrix entered the top rating of publishers of mobile games for iOS and Google Play in revenue. Success story The first game - an analogue of Xonix - the brothers were released by students in 2001 in Vologda.

The garbage business in Russia has always been gray and criminal and is still very opaque. Garbage riots of 2017-2018, the closure of dangerous training grounds, the reform of the industry and the rapid growth of waste have already led to the redistribution of this market - the players who were not known to anyone gradually leave the shadows.

The largest construction contractor of Russian Railways, the 1520 group of companies, is being prepared for sale, writes RBC. Valery Markelov, who was arrested on suspicion of giving bribes to Colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, no longer owns a share in the company. Read more. Markelov's share (28.33%) was received by Alexey Krapivin, whose stake reached 56.66%. Krapivin is the general director of 1520 and the son of Andrei Krapivin, an adviser to the ex-president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin.

Russian startup StartRocket and beverage maker PepsiCo will make a big billboard out of the sky for energy drink Adrenaline Rush. If all goes according to plan, companies will start projecting ads into the night sky from low Earth orbit as early as next year. Cubesats, ultra-small artificial satellites that reflect sunlight from space to Earth, should help with this. "Space" advertising has already caused a lot of controversy among both ordinary people and experts.

Apple and Qualcomm settled one of the largest patent disputes in the world - the amount reached $ 30 billion. After the truce, Apple will pay Qualcomm large compensation and begin to purchase its chips, including for fifth-generation communication networks. Thanks to this news, Qualcomm has risen in price by 20% in a day, and the imminent release of the iPhone 5G has become much more likely. Armistice terms.

write with reference to the businessman himself Oleg Deripaska is ready to give up control over the GAZ group in order to lift sanctions on the company, Reuters and the Financial Times . The US Treasury has not yet responded to the businessman's proposal. If the automaker remains under sanctions, it simply won't survive, according to Deripaska - many partners are already refusing to work with the company because of the risk of secondary sanctions. Deripaska's offer.

The Ministry of Finance proposed its own version of the fight against the arbitrariness of banks in relation to clients who were blacklisted under the anti-money laundering law. What's happened. The Ministry of Finance prepared amendments to the legislation on combating money laundering and terrorist financing, the main victims of which were entrepreneurs. The essence of the amendments is described by RBC.

The law on the fight against laundering can correct - and this is good news for business The Ministry of Finance proposed his own version of the fight against the arbitrariness of banks in relation to customers who fell into black lists under the law on the fight against laundering. The Ministry of Finance prepared amendments to the legislation on countering the laundering of income and the financing of terrorists, the main victims of which were entrepreneurs.