In August, Vladimir Putin made amendments to the currency legislation. We tell you what you have As it became known to The Bell, Russia signed a bilateral agreement on the automatic exchange of financial information with Switzerland, and this jurisdiction popular with wealthy Russians is preparing for the first time to submit the Federal Tax Service on their accounts, trusts and undeclared income. Already almost 60 countries have been doing.

Oleksiy Honcharuk, deputy head of the presidential office, has become the new prime minister of Ukraine. This was previously predicted by the Ukrainian media. His candidacy was introduced today by President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the Verkhovna Rada approved it (“for” 290 deputies voted out of 450). 35-year-old Honcharuk became the youngest prime minister in the history of Ukraine.

Half of Russian banks have increased the outflow of funds from the population and enterprises this year, according to the study "Expert RA", which retells RBC. Depositors transfer money to large banks. For their competitors, this means an increased risk of license revocation. Details. A shortage of retail funding at once in half of Russian banks occurred for the first time in five years.

In Moscow, the traditional lines in schools, timed to coincide with the day the classes start on September 2, are canceled. It seems that the Moscow authorities have given preference to the citywide line at VDNKh. What happened. on Facebook On the eve of the fact that this year the "mayor's office banned" ceremonial school assemblies on the first school day - Monday, September 2, a mother with many children, an activist, the head of the ABC of Foster Family club, Svetlana Stroganova, wrote .

"Gazprom" will increase the wages of workers by 15% from October this year, said the chairman of the board of the concern Alexei Miller. The changes will affect employees of subsidiaries, organizations and branches. For comparison: the salaries of board members in the first quarter of 2019 increased year-on-year by 35.8%.

UPD. dated January 7, 2020. This article was published in August 2019. Since then, important changes have occurred in the currency legislation: since 2020, any currency operations can be made on accounts opened in the EURSECS countries or in countries that are exchanged in financial information with Russia automatically (the relevant law was adopted on December 27, 2019).

Switzerland will transfer data to Russia for the first time as part of the automatic exchange of financial information. This follows from a report approved at the end of May by the Swiss Federal Council. The conclusion of a bilateral agreement within the framework of an auto-exchange between Russia and Switzerland is also mentioned on the OECD website. Switzerland is one of the most popular foreign jurisdictions among Russians, lawyers interviewed by The Bell say. Details.

Artificial intelligence will enable people to work 12-hour weeks, Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma said at an AI conference in Shanghai. about it Bloomberg writes . Details. People will work an average of four hours a day, three days a week, Ma said. He cited electricity as an example: “The power of electricity is that it gives people more free time to go to karaoke or dance parties in the evenings.

President Donald Trump has taken another step that has been seen as pro-Russian in the U.S. by suspending a $250 million military aid program for Ukraine for additional evaluation, writes Politico. Trump himself authorized the program for the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine in 2017. Of the $250 million allocated this year, $50 million went to armaments, the rest was equipment, training and intelligence.

Tinkoff became the best Internet bank in 2019, according to the annual Markswebb Internet Banking Rank 2019 (available from The Bell). In second place is Levoberezhny Bank, in third place is AK Bars, a newcomer to the rating. Last year, Tinkoff took second place, losing to Binbank. This year, Binbank did not participate in the study due to the merger with Trust Bank. Sberbank, which was in 11-12th place, lost five positions in the rating.

Convicted for preparing a terrorist attack in Crimea, Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov has been transferred from a colony where he is serving a 20-year sentence to Moscow, several agencies reported today. According to a TASS source, the purpose of this is an exchange with the Ukrainian side. Sentsov's lawyer Dmitry Dinze neither confirmed nor denied this information.

Moscow is preparing a regulatory framework for the construction of capital facilities in 60 metropolitan parks, learned Kommersant . Most likely, it will not be possible to build apartment buildings there, but there are already examples of elite complexes in specially protected natural areas. What happened.

The Ministry of Economy predicted the dollar at 70 with falling oil prices If oil prices fall to $42-45 per barrel, the growth of GDP and incomes of Russians will slow down by one and a half times, and the dollar will exceed 70 rubles, according to the conservative scenario of the macroeconomic forecast of the Ministry of Economy, which was studied by RBC . Given the signs of a global recession approaching, this scenario could very easily become a reality. What a forecast.

With the transition of the world economy to a recession and a drop in oil prices to $42-45, the growth of Russian GDP and incomes of Russians will slow down by one and a half times, and the dollar will exceed 70 rubles, according to the conservative scenario of the macroeconomic forecast of the Ministry of Economy, which was studied by RBC . Given the signs of a global recession approaching, this scenario could very easily become a reality. What a forecast.

Russian copyright holders will have the right to remove without trial in a tough time not only pirated content on the Internet, but also search links to it, writes Vedomosti . Google should also be regulated. Read also "Yandex" under the threat of blocking removed links to copies of shows and TV series "Gazprom-Media" What happened.