On Thursday, businesses criticized the bill by deputy Anton Gorelkin on limiting the share of foreigners in major IT companies. But, as The Bell found out, government officials and various departments are being asked to support it directly from the presidential administration. And this is very bad news for Yandex and the entire market. The Bell has learned.

The Bell found out how the presidential administration officers put pressure on the government and specialized officials to support the bill of the deputy Gorelkin Meeting Sergei Kiriyenko with top managers of Internet companies. Photo from the site RAEK The business criticized the bill of the deputy Anton Gorelkin on the limitation of a 20% share of foreigners in significant IT companies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the idea of ​​a single fund where state corporations and private companies could direct funds for the development of sports in Russia, Vedomosti writes . According to him, "such a collective farm would be much fairer" than businesses financing "their" clubs and teams. Quote: "All companies that currently finance their clubs will have to send money to the fund, and from there it will be fairly distributed among all the other teams.

The international rating agency Fitch called Alfa-Bank's strategy for the rapid growth of unsecured retail lending risky. about it . writes Vedomosti In the first half of 2019, the bank's unsecured loans increased by 32% and amounted to 468 billion rubles. This is three times higher than the similar growth on the market average. Unsecured loans to individuals account for almost 90% of Alfa-Bank's retail portfolio, which is RUB 523 billion.

Federal TV channels have heeded the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin not to present Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in an unfavorable light, Vedomosti found out . On October 3, Putin criticized Russian television for its coverage of events in Ukraine. At the request of Vedomosti, the company Medialogiya calculated the total number of mentions of Ukraine, its authorities, and residents on Channel One, NTV, and Russia 1 from October 4-6.

Google has begun testing a 5G-enabled smartphone, it will likely be shown on October 15th. It is reported by the Nikkei. According to Nikkei, the Pixel (Google's own brand) smartphone, which will be equipped with a Snapdragon 855 processor, will work with 5G. If the Pixel 5G doesn't show up on October 15th, it will happen in the spring of 2020. Even so, in the race for the next generation smartphone, Google will overtake Apple, writes Nikkei. iPhone 5G is expected in September 2020.

The scandalous bill on limiting the 20% share of foreigners in significant IT companies, which was considered today by the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, discriminates against Russian companies and limits their access to international financial markets, Yandex CEO Elena Bunina said in the State Duma.

The government is preparing to deprive Sberbank of a significant source of income. True, this money is rather a legacy of the past state bank, which never transferred its regional branches to a single platform. Competitors abandoned them long ago. What happened. At a government meeting, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for ridding Russians of “bank roaming”—commissions for interregional transfers within the same bank.

In the first half of 2019, the Central Bank found 13,000 ads for the sale and purchase of personal data bases of Russians, writes RBC with reference to the report of the Center for Monitoring Computer Attacks (FinCERT) under the regulator. How many people ended up in the merged bases, the Central Bank did not say. Whether the regulator found information on the sale of data on 60 million credit cards of Sberbank customers on the “black market” is unclear. Details.

The Burger King chain complained to the FAS about McDonald's because of the advertisement of six nuggets at a price of 69 rubles , RBC reports citing the press service of Burger King. nuggets for the same 69 rubles As representatives of Burger King explained, the network sells nine . Quote. “The competitor, using almost unlimited advertising opportunities, accustoms the population to the idea that its price is normal,” RBC quotes a message from the press service of Burger King.

The Bank of Russia is considering reducing the key rate by the end of 2019, said the head of the regulator, Elvira Nabiullina, Prime reports . Quote. “We are considering different options. Now I would refrain from talking about exactly how much the rate will be reduced,” said the chairman of the Central Bank.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Poland's Olga Tokarczuk, and in 2019 to Austria's Peter Handke. leaked before the 2018 award The award was presented two years in advance, since information about the applicants was .

The Libra cryptocurrency, which Facebook plans to release, will most likely not be used in Russia, believes German Gref, chairman of the board of Sberbank, Interfax reports. Gref argued his opinion by the fact that many Russian players had plans to issue their own cryptocurrencies, the agency adds. In Libra, as in other stablecoins (cryptocurrencies backed by traditional currencies), Gref does not see a threat, unlike traditional digital currencies, including Bitcoin.

A classmate of Vladimir Putin, a partner in the law office “Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev and Partners” and shareholder of OFK Bank Nikolai Egorov filed an application with the Investigative Committee against the beneficiary of the alcohol company “Kristall-Lefortovo” Pavel Smetana. Egorov accuses Smetana of stealing 2.5 billion rubles from the bank, Vedomosti reports . Details The Investigative Committee opened a case under Part 4 of Art.

PIK group developer Sergey Gordeev's quotes fell 10% today on news of a minority shareholder's sale at a discount. The sale of about 2% of PIK by the shareholder Firlibia Holdings was reported by Bloomberg. Later it became known that the deal went through with a discount of 10.4% to the quotes for closing on Wednesday - at 345 rubles. per share. The deal amounted to 4.9 billion rubles. Firlibia is owned by former E&Y partner Mark Rhodes.