Against the background of the scandal with Dmitry Rybolovlev, the auction house Sotheby's has fallen in price by half in a year. That didn't stop him from selling well. Deal of the decade in the art market: French-Israeli media mogul Patrick Drahi will spend half of his fortune - $ 3.7 billion - to buy the auction house Sotheby's.

A new twist in the Baring Vostok case: today it turned out that on June 14, the London International Arbitration Tribunal (LCIA) recognized Artem Avetisyan's Finvision the right to demand the exercise of an option to purchase 9.99% of Vostochny Bank. The option is being blocked by the side of the Baring Vostok fund represented by the Cypriot Evision, which owns 51.6% of the bank, because if it is exercised, the fund loses control over the asset.

Popular blogger Evgeny Bazhenov, known under the pseudonym BadComedian, and the film company Kinodanz have entered into a settlement agreement. Its details are not disclosed, said Sergei Panchenko, Bazhenov's lawyer. Quote. “According to the agreement, the parties consider this incident settled. At the court session on June 24, the settlement agreement must be properly procedurally formalized by the Krasnogorsk court, ”Panchenko said. Kinodanz sued Bazhenov in early June.

“just deleted his account” and changed his name on the social network to “Daddy DotCom” The head of the American company Tesla, Elon Musk , wrote on Twitter that he fathers). Subscribers to Elon Musk's account (27 million people in total) joked that he wrote "incorrectly" because he "just tweeted." Some considered this just another joke, especially since the old tweets are available for viewing. About a year ago, a developer had serious problems due to Twitter posts.

Sotheby's, one of the world's two largest auction houses, sold for $3.7 billion. The buyer, French-Israeli media mogul, founder of Altice telecom holding and art collector Patrick Drai, will take the company private again. This means that both of the world's oldest auctions - Sotheby's and rival Christie's - will be owned by French billionaires.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev allowed to close access to data in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRLE) about companies if they - or only their branches and representative offices - are registered in Crimea or Sevastopol, are under foreign sanctions or are related to a defense order, follows from the resolution government. Restricting access to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities should reduce the risk of secondary sanctions and attract businesses to Crimea.

The Moscow City Court reduced the term of administrative arrest of Alexei Navalny's associate Leonid Volkov from 15 to eight days, said director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov on his Twitter. The oppositionist is due to be released on June 18 at 6:10 am. On June 10, the Tverskoy District Court sentenced Volkov to 15 days of administrative arrest for organizing protests against pension reform in St.

Chinese tech giant Huawei, the second smartphone maker after Samsung, for the first time officially estimated the losses from US sanctions: it is $30 billion over the next two years and 40% of the company's foreign smartphone sales. This was announced by the founder of Huawei Ren Zhengfei. Instead of a target revenue of $125 billion in 2019, the company will receive only about $100 billion, which is less than in 2018 ($107 billion). Quote.

President Putin instructed to introduce unified electronic visas for the entry of foreigners into Russia from January 1, 2021, found out Kommersant . They will be single and short-term (16 days), but universal - for visiting for tourism, business and guest purposes. In order not to be asked for entertainment, they will have a moderate price - about $50. Visas will be available to citizens of China, South Korea, Japan, the Schengen countries and New Zealand.

The new methodology was of little help to VTsIOM: a survey on confidence in Vladimir Putin for June 3-9 showed its decline by almost 1 percentage point: from 72.4% to 71.7% . The poll has been conducted since May. The novelty lies in the fact that the respondents are asked whether or not they specifically trust Vladimir Putin. According to the old methodology with an open question, the rating also fell - from 31.5% to 31.1% , but did not reach the anti-record set in May 20 (30.5%). Quote.

Former Russian Ambassador to Belarus Mikhail Babich has been appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, according to an order from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Babich served as ambassador for less than a year; he was fired on April 30 following requests from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kommersant wrote .

IKEA couldn't get past the jokes about Apple's new Mac Pro, almost $6,000, with a grater-like front panel - even with a handle. The company released the iDEALISK grater, with a promotional poster saying it was "made specifically for apples." By using a lowercase "i" in the name of the product, the company emphasizes that the price for it is very moderate, which cannot be said about the new Mac.

The national project for the development of entrepreneurship requires an increase in the number of small and medium-sized businesses to 25 million people by 2024. Now there are only 19.2 million of them. But the government has already thought about how it will fulfill KPI. What's happened.

By the end of 2019, Russia's National Welfare Fund will reach a level beyond which the surplus is allowed to be spent. As long as oil is above $40, we are talking about trillions of rubles a year, and the government has already begun to fight over how to spend them, writes Vedomosti . The Central Bank fears that this could drive up inflation and return the Russian economy to dependence on fluctuations in oil prices.

Trillions from the National Welfare Fund can soon be spent. The Central Bank fears a surge in inflation and a sharp strengthening of the ruble By the end of 2019, accumulations in the Russian National Welfare Fund have reached a level after which excess is allowed to spend.