Entrepreneurs believe that doing business in Russia in the 2010s is more difficult than in the 90s Doing business in Russia in the 1990s was dangerous, but still easier than in the 2010s, according to Russian entrepreneurs. Among young businessmen, this percentage is even higher than among those who were engaged in real business in the 90s.

Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin. Photo: government.ru/(CC by 4.0) The Ministry of Economic Development revoked the proposal to entrust the management of aggregate demand in the Russian economy of the Government Commission on Economic Development, follows from the published text of the project. The Central Bank sharply opposed the idea. With a slowdown of demand in the economy, Minister Maxim Oreshkin associated low GDP growth rates.

At the ex-head of the representative office of Qatar Airways in Eastern Europe, Nazira Abdavakhidov and the head of the sales department of Rostislav Petrov, a criminal case was opened. The Investigative Committee claims that through a specially created site they sold tickets to Rosneft employees at corporate tariffs, and took the difference, writes RBC.

Nicholas Maduro. Photo from the PDVSA account on Facebook Venezuela authorities and the leadership of the PDVSA oil state company proposed paying suppliers and contractors not in dollars, but in Chinese yuan, reports Reuters. Thus, the country is trying to circumvent US sanctions. Officials made an oral offer for at least four companies that provide services to the state sector of Venezuela, the agency’s sources say. What companies are talking about is still unknown.

The federal operation with Fake University Farmington in the United States ended at the beginning of the year, but now its scope has become clear: the immigration service has detained and sent hundreds of foreign students. Case forces the US authorities to think about tightening the rules for issuing student visas. What happened In 2015, the US authorities created a fake university of Farmington Hills near Detroit for luring foreigners who wanted to get a working visa as students.

Building of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow Tver, Kuzminsky and Meshchansky courts of Moscow today evacuated due to mining reports. In the philistine court there was a hearing in the “Moscow case”, in which a new person involved appeared today, and the process of director Kirill Serebrennikov. The process goes over the three participants in the Moscow Affairs, detained during the "new wave" of operational investigative events.

The remaining stake in the “transcontainer” can be bought by the “Case” group Sergei Shishkarev on credit, writes RBC. On the eve of the case, the auction was won by the auction for the sale of 50% plus two shares of the largest railway container operator of the country. Money for the other half of the company will give Sberbank. According to the sources of the publication, the State Bank will finance the company of Shishkarev for the redemption of the share of the minoritarians.

Robot Avatar "Nika". Photos provided by the Laboratory of Robotics Sberbank Sberbank comes into competition with Yandex in the next region - this time in the development of unmanned cars. The State Bank announced the creation of a joint venture called Cognitive Pilot with the Russian artificial intelligence Cognitive Technologies. The transaction will close in December.

Evgeny Davydovich, who already headed the mobile retailer in 2015–2017, will be appointed the new general director of the Svyaznoy network. This was announced by Forbes with reference to Davydovich himself and a source in his environment.

The change of generations and the development of online trade led to the take-off of the popularity of second-hand: from the niche segment of the market, they turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. In Lithuania, investors' interest in the segment was completely in the life of the first IT-sort of country-Vilnius Vinted. What's happened.

The firmly forgotten tradition of the New Year's “gas war” of Russia with Ukraine is returning: the director of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Yuri Vitrenko, claims that Gazprom promised to “block the valve” from January 1, 2020. It is then that the current agreement on the transit of gas expires. “Naftogaz” promises that if the gas begins without a transit contract, Ukraine will not “overlap valves, stopping the flow of gas,” but will begin to be pumped into underground storage facilities.

Putin and children. Photo: kremlin.ru/ Almost three quarters (72%) Russians believe that the interests of the authorities and society do not coincide in full or partly, follows from the new survey of the Levada Center. The last peak (68%) was in the fall of 2011. The fact that the interests of the authorities and society are “definitely” do not coincide, 30% of respondents said, “rather do not coincide” - 42%.

The fall of banking rates doubled the number of small investors on the Moscow Exchange Moscow Exchange. Photo from the Exchange Account Facebook The falling rates on deposits brought new investors with very small amounts of investments to the Russian stock market - for the year the number of people in the market with an account amount of up to 100 thousand rubles doubled.

Photo: from the site of the Mosbirzhi The falling bets on deposits brought new investors with very small amounts of investments to the Russian stock market - for the year the number of people in the market with an account amount of up to 100 thousand rubles doubled. This is a step for them, but newcomers could make good money - the Russian stock market in 2019 became the most profitable in the world. What's happened.

Experts of the All -Russian Civil Forum (OGF), created on the initiative of Alexei Kudrin, proposed to create a separate department for the investigation of the security forces, writes RBC. This is only one of the measures they proposed, designed to ensure the rule of law in Russia. OGF experts state the “passive role of the courts” and the “excess repressiveness” of law enforcement agencies.