On Thursday evening, a protest action of many thousands began in Tbilisi. The opposition is demanding the resignation of the speaker of parliament and other high-ranking officials. The reason for the anti-Russian unrest was the speech of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergei Gavrilov. The opposition accuses him of participating in the war against Georgia. UPD at 1:00 Moscow time: the protesters refuse to leave the parliament.

The “direct line” of Vladimir Putin, which political scientists have already called “extremely strange”, lasted 4 hours 15 minutes. We listened to it entirely and chose eight places that can be called meaningful. Photo: from the Kremlin website Sanctions, Donbass and China. Question: “Many believe that Russia is harmful to sanctions. If we imagine that we will make sure of everyone, this will help our economy? " Putin: “We did not swear with anyone, but we are not talking about reconciliation.

Slack will debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The valuation of a corporate messenger for communication within teams will be about $15.7 billion, writes The Wall Street Journal . Details. According to the sources of the publication, trading in Slack shares will begin on Thursday. The company's valuation is set at $26 per share, but trading is expected to start above that price. Instead of an IPO, Slack opted for a direct listing .

Vladimir Putin confirmed for the first time the presence of Russian private security companies in Syria, writes the BBC Russian Service, whose correspondent asked the president a question about PMCs after the Direct Line. Quote. “As for private security companies, under the auspices of which the people you mentioned operate, they are really present there,” Putin said. “This is not a Russian state.

The owner of Uralsib Bank, Vladimir Kogan, died at the age of 56, according to the bank’s website. The cause of death was not specified, but in the summer of 2018, Vedomosti reported that Kogan was seriously ill and suffered a stroke. Kogan bought 82% of the shares of Uralsib, which needed additional capitalization, in 2015, when the Central Bank decided to sanitize the bank. After this, the Deposit Insurance Agency allocated loans to the bank for 81 billion rubles.

The head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, is the only “economist from the 90s” who has remained in power in modern Russia, and even he is “drifting towards Glazyev,” Vladimir Putin said during his Direct Line.

With the support 18+ Exchange trade, investments, financial markets - not so long ago access to them for an ordinary Russian was inconceivable. In recent years, the situation has been changing rapidly. And, it seems, in the field of personal finance it is time to introduce the concept of “mobile investor”. The popularity of simple brokerage applications with a low threshold of the entrance is growing, but there is still no real statistics of their “profitability”.

Vladimir Putin's direct line this year began with the most important, without any jokes, question - about the incomes of the population. In response to a question about how a family can survive and raise children for 10,000 rubles, and when salaries will be raised, Putin asked citizens “not to get angry” if their salaries do not match the national average. The biggest decline in household income was recorded in 2016, and now they are starting to grow, the president added.

Today, June 20, President Putin for the seventeenth time on the air will answer several dozen questions from Russians out of a couple of million. As always, there will be many questions from the regions, complaints about low social benefits, problems in healthcare, low wages and pensions. We conduct online in the messenger format and from the topics that are repeated from year to year, we choose only sharp and relevant ones.

The Investigative Committee has charged the day before, with embezzling about $4 million from the funds of Credit Express bank clients. The investigation will ask for the arrest of Boyko and six other defendants in the case.

Today, Vladimir Putin will try to use his favorite “direct line” format to the maximum to support the shaken ratings. The main reason for their collapse is the fall in the incomes of the population, the head of the State VTsIOM VTsIOM VTsIOMov was recognized in an interview with Rain. Over the past five years, the rating of the current president has decreased by about 9 percentage points, and the income of Russians fell by 11.7%.

For the first time since 2014, the Russian Lukoil returned to the top 10 of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) rating in terms of shareholder value growth and dividend flow, Kommersant writes . Rating The company with the highest shareholder return in 2019 was Nvidia, which is the main hope in the development of artificial intelligence. She also topped the list in previous years.

Billionaire and founder of Blackstone investment company Stephen Schwartzman has donated 150 million pounds ($188 million) to the University of Oxford. This is the largest donation in the history of British universities. The money will go to a new research institute that will study the ethical and social issues of artificial intelligence (AI). The facility is due to open by 2024. The gift to Oxford is not the billionaire's first big donation to AI research.

The new draft reform of funded pensions proposes to start payments 30 years after the first payment Photo: Evgeny Feldman for The Bell RBC found out the details of the last project of the new system of individual pension capital. It should replace the program of accumulative pensions frozen in 2014.

The individual pension capital (IPC) system should replace the destroyed funded pension system as early as 2020, but no details about it were known. RBC learned the key provisions of the latest version of the bill, which has not yet been agreed upon. What is known: Individual pension co-investors will be able to count on a lifetime non-state pension 30 years after the first payment or upon reaching retirement age. To receive a social pension in 2019, a work experience of 10 years is required.