The dollar in a day went up by 5 rubles, having recently breeding such a distant mark of 80 rubles. The main reason is the drop in oil up to $ 25 per barrel and panic of investors about coronavirus. The market all day was waiting for the intervention of the Central Bank, but did not wait.

Wednesday turned out to be the worst day for the ruble for many years - the markets are waiting for the Central Bank to do The dollar in a day went up by 5 rubles and resolutely struck that seemed like such a high mark of 80 rubles that seemed recently. The main reason is the drop in oil up to $ 25 per barrel and panic of investors about coronavirus. The market all day was waiting for the intervention of the Central Bank, but did not wait.

Raiffeisenbank reported to stop the reception and prolongation of deposits against the background of a decrease in the Federal Security Service. Also, Rosbank stopped opening deposits in dollars, and the Unicredit limited their reception. What's happened? Raiffeisen said on his website that he stops taking new deposits in dollars and does not allow the old ones to prolong. He explained the decision with an emergency decrease in the US Federal Reserve.

In today's series of interviews, TASS Vladimir Putin discovered 70% of the middle class in the country - and made it clear that the Russian middle class in order to meet this definition should not live at the US level or France. The Bell figured out what he had in mind.

Brent oil quotes on Wednesday March 18 after 18.00 Moscow time sank down lower than $ 26 for the first time since 2003. The intraday fall in the quotes, thus, reached 9%. The ruble on Wednesday lost almost five rubles to the dollar and the euro: the exchange rate of the American currency reached 80 rubles, European - 87 rubles. Wednesday trading in the United States opened with a new fall that exceeded 5%.

The Pandemia of Coronavirus will cost the world economy 25 million jobs, the UN International Labor Organization (ILO) calculated. Employees of one of the Apple supplier companies, Apple photo Such an assessment means that the MOT considers the current crisis more serious than the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, when the decline in jobs did not exceed 22 million. This figure will be significantly less if the countries of the world take coordinated actions, the organization is sure.

American markets in the morning of March 18 opened a fall. Economics support measures, adopted by governments and central banks of different countries, do not have time to develop the crisis caused by the Pandemia of the coronavirus, writes Bloomberg. S&P 500 fell by more than 5%, which posed a threat of automatic suspension of bidding for 15 minutes. The Dow Jones industrial index fell by 5.76 % to 20 013.74 points. S&P 500 fell by 5.3%. The NASDAQ 100 technological index fell by 4.43%.

The Moscow City Court released Vsevolod Opanasenko and ex-head of the Communication and Information Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Alexander Alexandrov from the pre-trial arrest of the founder of the T-platform company, the founder of the T-platform company, Kommersant writes . Boris Titov, business ombudsman, petitioned for a change in the preventive measure.

The dollar exchange rate on tenders on Wednesday, March 18, around 18.15 Moscow time exceeded 80 rubles for the first time in four years, follows from the exchange data. For a trading session, the American currency has risen in price by 5 rubles. What's happening The main driver of courses on Wednesday is oil prices.

They say that in Russia there is no institution of reputation. In a sense, this is true. Nevertheless, many are concerned about its purity - especially on the Internet. To clean the issuance of search engines, to remove incriminating information from the media or Wikipedia, to score a positive positive - all this is theoretically possible. We tell you what turns out in practice.

The government ordered the allocation of 11.8 billion rubles from the reserve fund for financial support for medical workers participating in the fight against coronavirus, and persons from the risk of infection with such an infection, the government’s website says . Photo: from the government website The order was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Money will be allocated from the reserve fund of the government.

The number of cases of infection with coronavirus infection in Russia increased from 114 to 147 cases in one day, the Federal Operational Headquarters for Coronavirus said. Such dynamics means that the spread of an epidemic in the country, according to official figures, remains arithmetic: on the eve of the sick, it became 21 more, the day before - by 30. Of the 33 new cases of infection, 31 was recorded in Moscow. The GO of one new occasion is recorded in the Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin called on the metropolitan employers to contribute to the fight against coronavirus infection and transfer some employees to work from the house. “This is especially true for women whose children will not go to school in the coming weeks,” the mayor noted on his personal website.

Russia will limit flights to the UK, the USA and the UAE because of the coronavirus. Previously, flights were limited to European Union countries. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency to introduce restrictions on flights to the UK, the USA and the Arab Emirates from March 20, the government’s website reported . There is no time for the resumption of flights in the assignment.

The Moscow City Court sentenced the general and the former head of the capital's head of the UK Alexander Drymanov to 12 years in a maximum security colony for a bribe of $ 200 thousand. The prosecutor asked for Drymanov the maximum period - 16 years of a maximum security colony.