There is a new unicorn with Russian roots on the global IT market: during the first investment round in 14 years, investors led by Goldman Sachs valued Sergey Belousov's Acronis holding at almost $1.5 billion. This is the second billion-dollar deal with an IT company created by people from Russia in 2019. Acronis shares the global nature of its business with the first participant, Anatoly Karachinsky's Luxoft, which has not operated in Russia from the very beginning.

The Acronis IT company Sergei Belousov was estimated at $ 1.5 billion On the global IT market is a new unicorn with Russian roots: during the first in 14 years of investment round, investors led by Goldman Sachs estimated the Acronis holding Sergei Belousov almost $ 1.5 billion. This is the second billionth transaction with an IT company created by immigrants in 2019.

The Normandy summit on the Ukrainian issue is in danger of not taking place in the near future: on Wednesday, the meeting of the contact group and the signing of the “Steinmeier formula” were disrupted. Russia blames Ukraine for this. Earlier, Kommersant wrote that the meeting between Putin and Zelensky depends on the results of today's meeting, which now, most likely, will not take place in the near future.

Hawkeye John Bolton as Donald Trump's national security adviser will be replaced by lawyer and diplomat Robert O'Brien. He worked for the UN, bailed out rapper A$AP Rocky from jail, and was a candidate for Secretary of the Navy. O'Brien is Trump's fourth national security adviser in a partial presidential term, a record. Details Trump, as usual, wrote about his decision on Twitter, noting that he had worked with O'Brien for a long time and a lot.

Ahead of the planned IPO in 2019–2020, analysts estimate the Yandex.Taxi service at $7.7–8.5 billion, Forbes writes . This is two-thirds of the value of the big Yandex, which is currently worth about $12.4 billion. Details Goldman Sachs valued the company at $7.7 billion, taking into account the remaining cash on the balance sheet (this is about $400 million). Sberbank SIB analysts agreed with this assessment. Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts valued Yandex.Taxi at $8.5 billion.

Russia will be able to switch to a four-day working week only with an increase in labor productivity and stabilization of the labor force in Russia, which is impossible in the near future, economists at the RANEPA write in monitoring the socio-economic situation and well-being of the population. Under the current economic conditions, the country is more likely to expect an increase in the length of the working week, experts are sure. Details.

The December searches in the Krasnoe & Beloe network were not the reason for its sale to the holding of billionaire Igor Kesaev and the merger with its Dixy and Bristol networks, Sergei Studennikov, founder of the Krasnoe & Beloe network, said today at a meeting with reporters. According to him, the first negotiations on the deal began seven years ago, and the parties returned to them more than a year ago - a few months before the searches.

The Central Bank is not against blocking the personal accounts of entrepreneurs for tax debts, the regulator wrote in a letter in response to a request from the Ministry of Finance, which got acquainted Kommersant with. The issue arose in the summer of 2019, when the Federal Tax Service began to massively send out requests to banks to block debts on personal IP accounts.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow released 26-year-old programmer Aidar Gubaidullin on bail at the request of the state prosecutor and returned the criminal case to the prosecutor's office "to clarify the plot of the charge," writes Mediazona . He is accused of attempted violence against a policeman at a protest rally on July 27, in which he threw a plastic bottle at the security forces, but missed. The detainee pleaded not guilty. Details.

Actor Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for participating in an unauthorized rally, is supported by not only celebrities, but also United Russia functionaries. Secretary of the General Council of the party Andriy Turchak published a post on his Insragram, where he called the situation in which the actor Ustinov found himself a “flagrant injustice”, which cannot be ignored and which cannot be kept silent.

The Gazprom Neft gas station network, together with BKS Bank, will begin refueling Gett drivers in installments by the end of the month, and by the end of the year, all customers of the gas station network will be able to use the service, Vedomosti writes . In this way, the chain is trying to combat the decline in retail sales, experts say. You can get an installment card with a limit of 15 thousand rubles in the Gett applications for drivers and gas station.GO from Gazprom Neft.

Calvi's case may not resist in court and, most likely, will be closed Photo: Agency "Moscow" / Igor Ivanko After the resonant case against Kirill Serebrennikov actually collapsed in court, in line - a case against Michael Kalvi and his partners in Baring Vostok.

A new financial examination in the Baring Vostok case, carried out at the request of the investigation by the Russian Society of Appraisers, established that the value of the shares of the Luxembourg company International Financial Technology Group (IFTG), which were transferred to Vostochny Bank to repay the loan, is 3.8 billion rubles , and not 600 thousand rubles, as the investigation believed, writes Kommersant, citing a source close to the investigation. RBC has the same data.

The JoM Internet hypermarket is only three years old-this year it will sell goods for $ 1 billion. It burst into the market at the end of 2016, and for some time no one, nor users, nor the media, knew that the Russian did it. And not simple, but with extensive experience. Ilya Shirokov created the first social network “My Circle” in Russia, worked with Yuri Milner and made “Odnoklassniks” the most profitable asset of Mail.ru.