Developing markets and oil were the first to hit due to a new exacerbation of the US and China trade war Three trade days in the conditions of the currency war of China and the USA erased all the achievements of developing markets since the beginning of the year, and the price of oil collapsed by $ 2 in just two hours. Now this is the main risk factor for the ruble: economists doubt that the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank will support him.

The special forces stormed the residence of the ex-president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambaev, the first attempt to storm was repulsed. President of the country Sooronbai Jeenbekov returns from vacation to the capital of the country Bishkek. Upd. The assault was repulsed, the security forces retreated from Koi-Tash. Read more here .

Three trade days in the conditions of the currency war of China and the USA erased all the achievements of developing markets since the beginning of the year, and the price of oil collapsed by $ 2 in just two hours. Now this is the main risk factor for the ruble: economists doubt that the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank will support him. What's happened.

The British startup OneWeb, which intends to cover the entire planet with satellite Internet, has withdrawn its application for radio frequencies in Russia. The new application will be reworked taking into account "Russia's national security requirements," the company said . At the same time, OneWeb announced the appointment of Mikhail Kaygorodov as Commercial Director for Russia.

The mysterious buyer of more than 2.9% of Gazprom's quasi-treasury shares worth 139 billion rubles turned out to be a small group of Russian investors led by a company associated with billionaire Arkady Rotenberg. At least, this is what Bloomberg claims with reference to its sources. One of The Bell's interlocutors also spoke about the participation of Rotenberg's structures in the deal, but the representative of the billionaire refutes this.

The Central Election Commission refused to satisfy the complaints of candidates Lyubov Sobol, Elena Rusakova, Alexander Rudenko and Dmitry Gudkov, who were not allowed to participate in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. The decision did not come as a surprise: on Tuesday, a working group in the election commission considered the materials of the complaints of these candidates for more than 6 hours, but recommended that they refuse to review their cases.

Mobile operators really turned off cellular Internet in the center of Moscow during the protest action on August 3, the found out BBC Russian Service . The editors got a letter to the employees of the call center of one of the Big Three operators (MTS, Beeline and Megafon) with a direct reference to the demand of the security forces. In March of this year, mobile Internet was turned off during protests in Ingushetia, but this happened for the first time in the capital, the newspaper claims.

The ruble entered the top 10 most volatile currencies in the world, according to data from the Bloomberg terminal, writes RBC . On Friday, August 2, he was in fourth place in this anti-rating, at the beginning of this week - in sixth. Currency rating. The volatility of the ruble for the month is calculated based on the prices of monthly options on the dollar/ruble exchange rate. The volatility of the ruble is now about 10%.

The Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) is conducting "raid activities" in the apartments of citizens who were detained at a protest rally on July 27 in support of independent candidates withdrawn from the elections to the Moscow City Duma, Moskva 24 . reports The detainees were found to have debts totaling 26 million rubles, mainly loan debts, said Yevgenia Klimenko, deputy head of the capital's department of the FSSP.

The Central Bank has questions to the sanitized Moscow Industrial Bank (MINB). Previously, the regulator did not see “anything criminal” in the bank. But now I discovered in it a “single mission control center”: a certain management company “Investments. Finance. Capital (IFK) kept financial statements for 50 unrelated bank borrowers who stopped paying at the same time, Vedomosti writes . How did you find out? The Central Bank took the MinB for reorganization in January.

The main beneficiary of the "Law of Yarovaya" was the Holding "Citadel", which is associated with Alisher Usmanov Photo: Alexey Nikolsky/Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation/TASS The main opponents of the Yarovoy Law were mobile operators who estimated their expenses for its execution of tens of billions of rubles. Now it’s clear who receives them.

More than a quarter (26%) of children under the age of 18 live in families with incomes below the subsistence level, RBC reports with reference to the Rosstat study “Socio-economic indicators of poverty”. This is twice the poverty rate in the country as a whole. The problem of child poverty is especially acute in rural areas, where, according to the results of 2017, 45% of children grow up in low-income families. This situation creates a "poverty trap," economists warn. How they think.

After the "Yarovaya Law" came into force, the Citadel holding company, associated with Alisher Usmanov, took about 80% of the wiretapping market, having absorbed four competitors. Over the past year, the acquired companies have seriously increased their financial indicators - the revenue of just one of them, MFI Soft, has tripled, reaching 10.3 billion rubles, writes RBC. For comparison: Citadel's closest competitor earned almost five times less. What happened.

In Moscow, a system for automatically checking auto insurance using traffic cameras began to be tested: the project was developed by the traffic police, the Moscow Traffic Management Center (TSODD) and the Russian Union of Motor Insurers (RSA). Warnings will soon be received by 5.5 thousand car owners, Kommersant writes . How it works? The TsODD sends to the traffic police data on all journeys on a particular day (this is about 50 million journeys per day).