The crisis not only undermined the economy, but also changed the humanitarian sphere of society. The vice -rector of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Svetlana Mironyuk, spoke about these changes with Gail Lord, one of the outstanding designers in the museum sphere, co -founder and president of the international museum consultation and design of the Lord Cultural Resources.

The Ministry of Finance announced mobilization in order to close holes in the budget for the next three years. Chemists and metallurgists fell under it Two years ago, the scandalous idea of ​​Andrei Belousov about the seizure of “superpituals” from metallurgical and chemical companies did not pass, but now she has every chance. The Ministry of Finance, who had previously criticized this initiative, packed it into a crisis in an increase in personal income tax for both industries.

Two years ago, scandalous idea Andrey Belousov's to withdraw "surplus profits" from metallurgical and chemical companies did not work, but now she has every chance. The Ministry of Finance, which had previously criticized this initiative, packaged it during the crisis into an increase in the severance tax for both industries. Business is trying to resist, but the decision has already been made.

The Ministry of Health approved two drugs for the treatment of coronavirus at home, they will be available in pharmacies in the coming days. These are Areplivir produced by the Promomed group (Biochemist plant) and Coronavir from the R-Pharm company of Alexei Repik. Both are based on favipiravir, which was developed in Japan to treat influenza. Both drugs are generics of the same Japanese drug favipiravir.

The governor of the Belgorod region Yevgeny Savchenko resigned. He has held this post since 1993 - Yeltsin's last head of the region. Savchenko's resignation was announced by the press service of the government of the Belgorod region. The release says that he wrote a statement addressed to the president. The resignation of the governor is due to the fact that he is moving to another position.

Alexander Lukashenko announced that Belarus is closing part of the state borders - with Lithuania, Poland - and is strengthening security on the border with Ukraine. In total, Belarus borders on five countries - in addition to those with which Lukashenka is already going to close the borders, only Latvia and Russia remain. “I’ll tell you honestly, we don’t know what they will throw next. We understand that there are few tricks left in their arsenal to unleash a hot war.

The remote work regime should be extended, if possible, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced on the air of the Rossiya 24 channel. According to Sergei Sobyanin, the number of detected cases of COVID-19 infection is growing in Moscow, primarily due to active testing. But you can't "calm down".

The ex-president of Globex Bank, Vitaly Vavilin, was sentenced to three years in a penal colony - the prosecution asked for eight. The court found the banker guilty of abuse of power, writes . Kommersant According to investigators, in February 2015, Vavilin issued deliberately bad loans to Technoserv AS and Technoserv Management, which then belonged to the former co-owner of Promsvyazbank (now PSB) Alexei Ananyev and his wife.

Russia will not participate in the WHO program for the creation and distribution of vaccines against COVID-19, because it hopes to develop its own, writes . Interfax We are talking about the COVAX program, which was created in June 2020. It suggests that 2 billion doses of registered vaccines should be distributed worldwide. High-income countries must purchase vaccines through COVAX. This will allow WHO to fund the purchase of vaccines for countries that cannot afford it.

to the State Duma A draft law on progressive personal income tax has been submitted : the tax on incomes over 5 million rubles a year is increased to 15%. If the law is passed, it will come into force on January 1, 2021.

Former Minister of Communications Konstantin Noskov headed the St. Petersburg Currency Exchange (SPVB), which is called "sanctions": it lists Russian companies that are under international sanctions. Now the main shareholder of SPVB is PSB Bank. The Central Bank owns 8.9% of the authorized capital of the exchange. Alfa-Bank and Bank St. Petersburg (No. 1 and No. 9 among the largest private banks in Russia) exited the capital of the exchange when it targeted companies under sanctions.

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio is at risk of losing his status as the "king of hedge funds" and one of the world's top business gurus, writes Bloomberg. Let's figure out how it happened. Miscalculations and the pandemic Most U.S. hedge funds remain in positive territory for eight months of a difficult 2020 (albeit a modest 2.21%) - thanks to the Fed's money flooding the market. And the flagship fund Bridgewater Pure Alpha II is in the red: by 18.6%.

The European Parliament, in its resolution, did not recognize Alexander Lukashenko as a legitimate president and called the Coordinating Council of the Opposition the interim government of Belarus. The deputies refused to recognize the results of the elections in Belarus on August 9 and called on Alexander Lukashenko for a peaceful transfer of power. The European Parliament condemned the use of violence against peaceful protesters.

The European Parliament proposed to freeze the construction of Nord Stream 2 and tighten sanctions against Russia due to the assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny. The resolution adopted by the European Parliament invites the foreign ministers of European countries (on September 21 they will meet at a meeting of the EU Council) to develop new sanctions against Russia, as well as to strengthen the existing ones.

The Kremlin is not discussing the possibility of introducing a new quarantine, said presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Journalists asked Peskov if “there are discussions” in the presidential administration about returning to the regime of self-isolation or strengthening quarantine measures at least partially.