The crisis on the Russian aircraft market was even cut off the Aeroflot PR-budget The scandal of the week is the story of the Tolstoy cat Victor, the owner of which Aeroflot excluded miles from the bonus program for illegal transportation of the animal with excess of permissible weight. Aeroflot, as always, is criticized by bad PR - we decided, as a year ago , during the scandal with Mitya Aleshkovsky, to evaluate how much it costs the airline.

Russia, Lithuania and Norway exchanged convicted spies: the President of Lithuania pardoned Russians Nikolai Filipchenko and Sergei Moiseenko, Russia in exchange pardoned Lithuanians Eugenius Mataitis and Aristidas Tamošaitis, and in addition released Norwegian Frode Berg - the Norwegian authorities helped in the negotiations between the countries.

State Duma deputies have developed a bill that introduces new rules for the division of property, writes RBC. The main goal is to protect spouses from ruin during a divorce. The authors of the document believe that the innovations will make clear and transparent the rules for buying and dividing joint property, repaying debts and dividing business assets in a divorce, as well as in case of bankruptcy of former spouses. What's happened?

The first meeting between Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will take place in Paris as part of the Normandy format summit on December 9, reports Le Figaro . The information was confirmed by the representative of Zelensky. The meeting will also be attended by the heads of France and Germany. The heads of the four states must agree on resolving the situation in the Donbass.

Artem Avetisyan and his company Finvision have already seized control of Vostochny Bank from Baring Vostok, and now they will try to get the money. The bank filed a new lawsuit in the Amur Court, demanding to recover 9 billion rubles from the Baring Vostok structure and the fund’s senior partner Michael Calvey, Vedomosti writes . The bank really needs money: it recently completed another inspection by the Central Bank. What's happened?

The scandal of the week is the story of the fat cat Victor, the owner of which Aeroflot excluded from the bonus program for illegal transportation of the animal with excess of permissible weight. In Russian social networks, the plot is mentioned 63 thousand times, the data of "media" testify. Aeroflot will be difficult to deal with negative consequences-as it became known to The Bell, in 2019, a company that has always had one of the largest in the PR-budget market, halved it. What's happened.

For 13 years, the United States spent almost $ 4 billion on the ISS for delivery to the ISS with Russian Astronauts, followed by the chief inspector of NASA Paul Martin. The main conclusion of the report is that alternative projects for the delivery of people to orbit are not ready, and the United States will either have to reduce the American ISS crew, or buy additional places from Roscosmos.

In November, the Mosbirzhi index struck 3,000 points. This is a historical maximum. In the United States, each S&P 500 record becomes perhaps a national holiday. Perhaps we will cross the tradition. In the Russian market, a boom of private investors. In the near future, the stock market can grow by 15–20% of current levels. The Bell found out how long growth will last and what could stop it.

The side of billionaire Oleg Deripaska during the trial in the United States for the first time told which assets in the country were frozen due to the sanctions imposed against him. It turned out that this is the Basic Element company - the office of the Basic Element group, RBC writes . The company's accounts (how much money was there is not indicated) were blocked immediately after Deripaska was included in the sanctions list.

The Central Bank started talking about the return to circulation of a coin of 50 rubles, Vladimir Demidenko, deputy head of the Central Bank's cash circulation department, said in an interview with Gazeta.ru. Quote. “If it suddenly turns out that yes, there is an objective need to issue a 50-ruble coin and it will be profitable, then, of course, such a decision will be made,” he said.

The Polish energy company PGNiG has officially announced that it is terminating the Yamal contract with Gazprom for the supply of Russian pipeline gas to Poland. The contract provided the country with half of its consumption for a quarter of a century. Details The contract will end on December 31, 2022.

Almost all the hotels of one of the largest Sochi ski resorts, Krasnaya Polyana, will be transferred to the management of the French operator Accor, Vedomosti writes . Details. Last year, the French Accor acquired one hotel in Krasnaya Polyana — Novotel Resort Krasnaya Polyana.

Yandex, together with the developer PIK and the manufacturer of smart home devices Rubetek, presented a jointly created system for the smart home “PIK.smart,” Vedomosti writes . The system will be based on Yandex. Station" with a built-in voice assistant "Alice" - it will control light, climate, energy consumption and even prevent leaks. Read also Yandex showed a smart speaker with gesture control Details.

Banks are discussing with the Central Bank the possibility of supplementing the mechanism for calculating debt burden indicators (PTI) of borrowers with another one - self-declaration of income, found out RBC . It is assumed that in this way banks will be able to take into account the shadow income of borrowers. The idea is discussed at once on several platforms, including the Central Bank, but the regulator treats it with caution. Details.

Instagram has rolled out testing of a feature that hides likes on user posts around the world. People who are "lucky" will not be able to see the number of hearts under someone else's post. Own statistics will remain available. The decision is explained by concern for the psychological health of social network fans who tend to compare their accounts with more popular ones, and an attempt to motivate people to pay more attention to content, not likes.