A single voting day starts in Russia: what to expect from him Tomorrow in 39 regions of Russia, elections will begin, which this year has gained unexpected importance. This is the first vote, which will pass according to the new laws and will last three days. Both power and the opposition consider it as a rehearsal of elections to the State Duma of 2021.

The British pound fell 1.28% against the euro to a five-month low on Thursday. This happened on the resurfaced problems of the trade agreement between the UK and the EU after Brexit, writes Reuters. The British government's new internal market law, linked to Northern Ireland's customs regime, has already raised concerns about the derailment of trade talks.

The management company Fort Ross Ventures, founded by the former IT director of Sberbank Viktor Orlovsky, announced the creation of the third Fort Ross Seed Fund. One of the investors will be Sberbank, which will invest up to 2 billion rubles in it. As stated in a company press release (available from The Bell), it is planned that the fund will support up to 200 startups. The total size of the fund will be 8 billion rubles, a quarter of which will be invested by Russia's largest bank.

Europe has once again surpassed the United States in the number of new cases of coronavirus infection. On Wednesday, 27,233 infections were recorded in 27 EU countries compared to 26,015 in the US, writes Bloomberg. Europe is experiencing a new surge in the pandemic: the virus is likely to be brought by vacationers who have returned from other countries, and the younger generation, more often violating quarantine, the agency reports.

The US Treasury extended sanctions restrictions for attempting to interfere in the elections to three Russians. Andriy Derkach, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, who handed over the scandalous recordings of conversations between Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko to the lawyer of US President Donald Trump, Rudolf Giuliani, was also subjected to sanctions as a Russian agent.

The Central Bank included in the risk scenario of the forecast for 2021-2023 the second wave of the pandemic and other shocks in the global economy, including increased trade contradictions and geopolitical tensions. But even in this case, oil will be at the level of $25 per barrel, follows from the draft “Guidelines for a unified monetary policy for 2021 and the period of 2022 and 2023”. In total, the regulator presented four scenarios of macroeconomic development.

The Board of Governors of the European Central Bank (ECB) has left its key refinancing rate at a record low of zero, and has also kept the coronavirus monetary stimulus unchanged, despite the strengthening of the euro. The deposit rate was left negative at 0.5%, and the rate on margin loans - 0.25%. The regulator has not changed the parameters of the Pandemic emergency purchase program (PEPP), a special asset purchase program valid until the end of June 2021 and with a volume of €1.35 trillion.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow today released businessman Nikolai Mistryukov under house arrest, who testified against the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal. The Investigative Committee asked the Investigative Committee to soften the preventive measure for the defendant Mistryukov. According to TASS, the person involved in the case pleaded guilty to organizing the murders and entered into a pre-trial agreement on cooperation.

The British oil company BP, which has recently embarked on a course to phase out fossil fuels, has taken the first big step in this direction. It bought half of two large US wind farms from Norway's Equinor (formerly Statoil). The deal is very large - $ 1.1 billion, reports Bloomberg. BP will take a 50% stake in Empire Wind and Beacon Wind offshore wind farms on the US East Coast. The Norwegian company will remain the operator of these wind clusters.

The experience of the 2008 crisis shows: it took years to restore financing startups at an advanced stage (sowing investments recovered a little earlier). The consequences of coronavirus will affect the economy for at least a year. So, you need to recruit a business. Time to act “The influence of the [crown] virus can change for years how we make purchases, travel and work,” says Steve Blank, American entrepreneur, author of the Lean Launchpad concept and the term Lean Startup (“Lean Startup”).

"Subsidiaries" of Russian banks in Belarus have significantly increased the rates on deposits in Belarusian rubles against the backdrop of the political crisis in the country, drew the attention of RBC . They offer clients 2–3 p.p. higher than large Belarusian banks. The yield on deposits has been growing in Belarus since August, when mass protests began in the country. This is due to the fact that against the backdrop of the political crisis, Belarusians began to withdraw funds from banks.

Abducted in Minsk, Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the presidium of the Coordinating Council of the Opposition, spoke about the circumstances of her abduction on September 7.

The restructuring of loans against the background of the pandemic is almost complete, said the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Ksenia Yudaeva. According to her, in August the flow of requests for restructuring from the population and large companies decreased almost three times compared to May, from small and medium-sized businesses - 14 times. The situation in the lending market is better than the Central Bank expected at the beginning of the pandemic, Yudaeva noted.

The authoritative scientific journal The Lancet, which published the results of research on the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in early September, invited its creators to respond to the claims of colleagues from other countries. Some scientists, after the publication of the test results, questioned the conclusions of Russian specialists. The Lancet published the results of the first and second phases of clinical trials of the vaccine.

The inflow of the population on the stock market due to low deposit rates is fraught with risks, the chief managing director of Alfa Bank Vladimir Verkhoshinsky warned. According to him, the mass entering the exchange of amateurs will bring the “several shocks” market. Verkhoshinsky told about this in an interview with RBC. According to him, deposits, even at low rates, will not “die” as a form of savings, since the main goal of deposits is not to earn, but to maintain capital.