In Russia, there will be no mobile application that completely replaces the passport. This was opposed, as The Bell found out this week, by the FSB, which does not trust the most common mobile platforms - iOS and Android. As a result, most likely, with the help of a virtual passport application, it will be possible, for example, to verify the age when buying alcohol, but not to make legally significant transactions.

In 2019, people became less likely to repay loans ahead of schedule - this was the conclusion reached by the National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBKI), writes RBC. In ten months, 22.7% of loans were closed ahead of schedule, which is 1.7 percentage points lower than in the whole of last year. And the point here is hardly seasonality, according to the NBKI. Most likely, the decline in the indicator was affected by a drop in income and an increase in the debt load of the population.

Russia earns on the OPEC + deal, which limited oil production of the largest exporters, much more than Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg calculated . Thanks to the deal, Russia is selling $670 million worth of oil a day on average in 2019, a quarter more than before the freeze. Details. According to data published by the International Energy Agency, as part of the OPEC + deal, Saudi Arabia had to cut production on average by almost ten times more than Russia.

British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised to bring broadband internet to every home and make internet access completely free in the UK. This project is the focus of the Labor Party's election campaign for the upcoming early parliamentary elections, which will be held on 12 December. To carry out its plans, Corbyn's party is going to nationalize part of the telecommunications company BT Group and start collecting new taxes from multinational companies like Amazon and Facebook.

Bill Gates has overtaken Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index list. But this is not the first time: Gates and Bezos have already changed places in the ranking several times, the last time two years ago. Bloomberg suggests that the Pentagon helped Gates become the richest man in the world: the American department, unexpectedly for everyone, decided to give a $10 billion contract to switch to Microsoft cloud servers, not Amazon.

"The law against Apple" - this is the unofficial name for the bill on mandatory pre-installation of Russian applications on smartphones and other devices - has caused widespread discontent among manufacturers and sellers of electronics. Businesses sent a letter to the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin demanding that parliamentary hearings be held on this topic, Vedomosti writes .