Russia is resuming flights with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus from September 21, and with South Korea from September 27, said the operational headquarters . The authorities are also canceling export flights that took Russians from countries with closed borders. Despite the increase in cases of coronavirus in the country, the Russian authorities are consistently opening flights with other states.

During the pandemic in Russia, the number of people living below the poverty line increased sharply - according to Rosstat , in the second quarter there were 1.3 million more people. In the second quarter, 19.9 million people, or 13.5% of the country's population, had incomes below the subsistence level, which is 11,468 million rubles, Rosstat reported. Year on year, their number increased by 1.3 million, and compared to the first quarter - by 1.8 million.

The bank of non-core assets "Trust" filed a claim for 306 billion rubles against the former co-owner of B&N Bank Mikail Shishkhanov, as well as the bank's top management, it follows from the file of arbitration cases. The lawsuit against Shishkhanov was filed at the end of the three-year statute of limitations. The Moscow Arbitration Court accepted the claim of Trust against Mikail Shishkhanov and the top managers of B&N Bank.

Israel was the first to repeatedly introduced national quarantine for three weeks - almost four months after the end of the first. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained this by the fact that Pandemia began to develop in “geometric progression”. The new quarantine will operate in Israel during the autumn Jewish holidays, the first of which, the Jewish New Year (Rosh Ha-Shana), begin to celebrate on the evening of September 18.

On September 22, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov will meet with members of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). They will discuss alternative ways to the planned increase in the MET by 3.5 times for metallurgical and chemical companies, told RBC.

The Department of Transport of the Moscow Government has offered citizens to rent their personal cars for a short-term lease; specifically for this program, the department is launching the People's Car Sharing application.

The US Department of Trade from September 20 will oblige Apple and Android to remove Chinese applications Tiktok and Wechat from their stores on smartphones. The Ministry of Trade removes Tiktok and Wechat from Apps Store and Google Play app stores in the execution of the August Decree of Donald Trump, which forbade American companies to conduct transactions with these Chinese applications since September 20.

TikTok is in talks to work with co-founder and former Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, according to The New York Times, citing sources. He may succeed Kevin Mayer as the company's chief executive officer. Negotiations are preliminary, no agreements yet, the newspaper notes. Systrom did not answer journalists' questions. He left Instagram in 2018 at the same time as fellow app co-founder Mike Krieger.

The American authorities became interested in the companies Epic Games and Riot Games, in which the Chinese Tencent invested. The Donald Trump administration has asked for information about their security protocols, writes Bloomberg. A Bloomberg source told Bloomberg that the US Foreign Investment Committee sent letters to gaming companies, including Epic Games and Riot Games, to find out how they process data from American gamers.

Facebook has again been accused of spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their cell phone cameras . In July, a lawsuit was filed against the company alleging that Instagram accessed the iPhone's cameras even when the device was not actively used. Facebook denied these allegations. According to the service, notifications that Instagram used the mobile camera were false, and this error has already been fixed.

The Central Bank left the key rate at the same level - 4.25%. Analysts expected this, assuming that the regulator will go to a new reduction in the bet no earlier than December. As expected, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank decided to save it at the level of 4.25%. The bet continues to be at the level of the historical minimum. As stated in the release of the Central Bank, in recent months, the rate of price growth has developed above the expectations of the regulator.

Forbes has released a ranking of the 100 richest civil servants and deputies in 2020. Half of them are newcomers, according to the publication. Including the leader of the rating. The total income of the rating participants amounted to 65.8 billion rubles, which is 4.1 billion more than in 2018. When compiling the rating, the journalists used the declarations of more than 400 departments and structures of the authorities.

The government will allocate almost 5.3 billion rubles for the phased reconstruction of the White House, RBC reports citing the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers. For the duration of the repair work, some government employees will move to the historic building of the former People's Commissariat for Nationalities in Trubnikovsky Lane between Novy Arbat and Nikitsky Boulevard.

The Telegram channel NEXTA, covering the protests in Belarus, receives money from advertising and donations, its creator Stepan Putilo said in an interview with Yuri Dud. According to him, donations raised about $47,000 in August - after a single post asking for financial assistance. An advertising post on the main Nexta Telegram channel, which already has more than 2 million subscribers, costs about $6,000, Putilo said.

Analysts do not believe in a new decrease in the Central Bank rate until December Today, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank will hold the next meeting at the key rate - and, most likely, will decide to keep it at the level of 4.25%, analysts say. There are two reasons for this: political uncertainty due to Belarus and Navalny's poisoning and inflation acceleration in August to 3.6%.