Relatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned out to be one of the largest, if not the largest, owners of residential real estate in Moscow City. The British FT reported that in recent years, members of the Assad family and their entourage have bought 20 apartments in the City for $ 40 million. The Bell found out the details. Apartments. about the apartments in the "City" of the Assad family FT spoke in a joint investigation with the anti-corruption organization Global Witness.

Relatives of Bashar al-Assad turned out to be the owners of apartments in Moscow City for $40 million Relatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned out to be one of the largest, if not the largest, owners of residential real estate in Moscow City. The British FT reported that in recent years, members of the Assad family and their associates have bought 20 apartments in the City for $40 million. Apartments.

In 2020, the presidential administration decided to cut subscription costs by almost five times: the Kremlin will abandon glossy magazines like Tatler, GQ, Vogue and Esquire, writes with reference to the public procurement portal. Open Media In 2020, the AP will subscribe to 49 newspapers and magazines instead of 161 titles in the current one. The cost of this will decrease from 5.1 million to 1.1 million rubles.

On November 11 (November 11, “bachelor's day”), Chinese Internet giant Alibaba surpassed its last year record by a quarter on sales day, according to the South China Morning Post. Details. Sales in the first hour of the discount day alone ($12 billion) almost equaled the results of last year's Black Friday ($6.2 billion) and Cyber ​​Monday ($7.9 billion) in the US combined. About 500 million people made purchases on the platform.

Moscow may expand the paid parking zone: the Department of Transport is preparing proposals for the streets on Taganka, as well as in Ramenki and Pechatniki, writes . Kommersant On Taganka, "according to the wishes of the residents," 27 streets in the area of ​​Volgogradsky Prospekt, including 1st and 2nd Dubrovskaya, are being converted into "paid" streets.

Auchan Retail Russia announced the appointment of a new CEO. Instead of François Remy, who has led the company since 2017, it will be headed by Johannes Tolay, Vedomosti reported . Since 1987 he has worked for the German Globus network. In 2018, Tollai became commercial director of X5 Retail Group. Under Remy, the transformation of the Russian Auchan business began. The chain wanted to remain a discounter, but at the same time expand its offering of premium goods.

A series of viral tweets about gender discrimination in the scoring of new Apple Card credit card customers has attracted the attention of the regulator in New York, where the corporate partner in the project, Goldman Sachs, is headquartered, writes Bloomberg . It seems that the investment bank's entry into the consumer lending market in "coupling" with a global brand will not be as smooth as it would like.

In the second half of the twentieth century, investments in the markets of some developing regions brought up to 700% per annum. Is it possible to repeat this now: finding a region with high growth prospects, which in the long run is not waiting for default, collapse on the exchange and serious economic difficulties?

The Moscow City Hall, through its company OOO Mezhregionrazvitie, will buy the former building of the Ministry of Economic Development, with an area of ​​almost 30 hectares, for 3.37 billion rubles, Vedomosti reports . In addition to Mezhregionrazvitie and another company also owned by the mayor's office (the 17th taxi park), 4 private firms participated in the competition. The starting bid was 2.7 billion rubles, and no one beat the mayor's offer, which was a billion more.

The majority of Russians (89%) still prefer to pay in cash, but some (2%) have already completely switched to cashless payments and do not carry banknotes at all, follows from a survey by the Levada Center . In addition to cash, the surveyed Russians most often pay with debit cards (58%), credit cards and bonuses (15% each), as well as contactless from a mobile phone (13%). Contactless payments are common among young people under 25, with a third using Apple Pay or Google Pay.

The second richest man in Russia, Vladimir Lisin, became the largest taxpayer in Russia from the profits of a foreign offshore he controls - the Cypriot Fletcher Group Holdings, writes RBC . Because of this, the Lipetsk region, in which the billionaire is formally registered and where he pays tax, has become the second after Moscow in terms of personal income tax receipts from controlled foreign companies (CFCs).

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Relatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have bought about 20 apartments in Moscow City, mostly in the City of Capitals complex, said Global Witness, an anti-corruption organization, . This property is valued at least $40 million. What's happened? The al-Makhlouf family (Assad's mother's side, the country's second most powerful family) bought luxury real estate in Moscow from December 2013 to July 2019, investigators say.

The Nightingale cinema center for art-house and repeat cinema, whose building on Krasnaya Presnya will be demolished for the construction of luxury apartments, will move to the Karo cinema chain, and the Oktyabr cinema on Novy Arbat will become the base for its repertoire, Vedomosti . writes Nightingale on Presnya will stop working on December 2. But his brand and repertoire will be preserved at the Karo venues - Nightingale and Karo have signed a special agreement on this.

Car prices in Russia are rising despite falling sales: in some cases, the price of cars has increased by 10%, Kommersant writes . In order to meet even a basic sales target, some dealers start making special offers and operate at a loss. Details. Most brands raised prices at the beginning of the year up to 5%, for ten months the growth was 9-10%, says Vladimir Miroshnikov, Development Director of the Rolf car dealer.