The new idea of ​​Dmitry Medvedev is the vividenia in Russia of an unconditional basic income. Is it possible in practice? Dmitry Medvedev changed the economic program this week: they did not have time to subside disputes about a four -day working week, as a former prime minister made a new, no less fashionable ambitious idea - to pay the Russians a “minimum guaranteed income”.

The world's largest retailer Walmart has entered the “drone wars”: it, like Amazon, which overtakes it in online sales, is launching a test delivery of orders by drones. Walmart has begun trial deliveries of purchases, including groceries, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The range of the unmanned delivery is 10 km, the maximum purchase weight is 3.2 kg. The tests are timed to coincide with the launch of Walmart+ premium delivery on September 15 ($98 per year).

The reason for the “questions” to Russia that arose from German Chancellor Angela Merkel after receiving the results of the analysis of the substance with which Alexei Navalny was allegedly poisoned is clarified. Zeit magazine writes that this is still not a known type of toxic substances of the Novichok type, and it could only be available to special services. Traces of the substance were found on the skin of Navalny's hands and on the bottle of water from which he drank.

Rosstat lowered its estimate of the fall in Russia's GDP from 8.5% to 8% in the second quarter of 2020, during the peak of the pandemic. The indicator was recalculated due to clarifications in statistical reporting and after receiving additional information from the Central Bank, the agency said . Subsequent clarifications of GDP for the second quarter of 2020 may be more significant than with regular revisions of quarterly estimates, Rosstat warned.

Brent oil quotes on Wednesday, September 9, returned to levels above $40 after falling below this mark on Tuesday. By 19.20 Moscow time, a barrel of Brent was worth $41. By this time, the dollar had fallen from 75.9 to 75.4 rubles, the euro - from 89.4 to 89.0 rubles.

The Russian authorities have asked state banks not to restrict interbank transactions with Belarusian banks so that they retain access to ruble liquidity, Reuters reports citing sources. According to them, the Russian government is trying to avoid repeating the Ukrainian scenario in this way.

Despite problems in the US , short video service TikTok topped the ranking of the most downloaded mobile apps in the world in August 2020, according to the Sensor Tower platform. In August, the service was downloaded 63.3 million times, which is 1.6% more than in August 2019, mainly in the App Store and Google Play. TikTok is most popular in Brazil and Indonesia. Second place was taken by the video conferencing service Zoom, it was installed 52.2 million times in August.

Member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council Maria Kolesnikova is a suspect in a criminal case of incitement to seize power, told Tut.by. her lawyer Lyudmila Kazak According to Kazak, Kolesnikova is charged with part 3 of Art. 361 of the Criminal Code of Belarus - "Public calls for the seizure of state power, or a violent change in the constitutional order of the Republic of Belarus using the media." This article assumes imprisonment for a term of 2 to 5 years.

Alexander Lukashenko gave a two -hour interview with the Russian media. The editor -in -chief of RT Margarita Simonyan, the Channel One correspondent Anton Vernitsky, the host of Russia 1, Evgeny Rozhkov, as well as the editor -in -chief of the Roman Babayan, the Independence Palace in Minsk, was invited to Moscow. We give the main thing from their conversation with the Belarusian president.

The LVMH concern of the French multibillionaire, the richest European Bernard Arnault, cancels the purchase of the American jewelry retailer Tiffany for $16 billion. LVMH said the French government has asked the company to delay the deal until January 6, 2021, citing US plans to impose duties on European goods. Meanwhile, by agreement of the parties, the deal was to be closed by the end of November. On this news, Tiffany's quotes in premarket fell by 14%, LVMH - by 1.4%.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) will sell 32 million doses of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Mexico, a source told Reuters and confirmed the RDIF. “RDIF and the pharmaceutical company Landsteiner Scientific announce an agreement to supply Mexico with 32 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine (25% of the Mexican population).

The Kremlin ruled out a "merger and acquisition" of Belarus by Russia as a result of the upcoming visit of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Moscow. The fact that no decisive integration result is expected from Lukashenka's visit to Russia was announced on Wednesday, September 9, by Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “There can be no mergers, acquisitions and so on as a result of the visit. This is absolute nonsense.

Banks aggressively offer paid insurance against theft of funds from cards. Customers of Russia's largest Sberbank complain that they are not told that the insurance is voluntary, and that state bank employees are dragging out the procedure for issuing cards to impose a service. One of Sberbank's clients told Kommersant that in early September, upon receiving a reissued card, a bank employee refused to issue it without activating the Card Protection service.

A joint venture between Mail.Ru Group and Sberbank, O2O Holding, is investing in the ready-to-eat food delivery service Kitchen in the District. The company will receive 84.7% of the shares of the service, the rest will remain with the founders of the project. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2020, its amount was not disclosed. As Mail.Ru reported to VC, O2O Holding will invest part of the funds it has raised from its shareholders for business development.

The Ministry of Finance will sharply reduce budget spending in 2021 and keep them at a low level until 2022, inclusive, follows from the materials of the actually finished three-year budget, which were at the disposal of Kommersant. For the next three years, the main parameters of the Russian budget look like this: In 2021, the budget deficit will amount to 2.755 trillion rubles: this is how much planned expenditures of 21.501 trillion rubles will exceed revenues of 18.745 trillion rubles.