The protest action in Minsk, the participants of which wanted to march along Partizansky Avenue, according to local media, gathered about 30 thousand people. The police set up cordons at the beginning of Partizansky Avenue. Having reached them, the column turned around. Detentions began when the protesters reached the barriers. According to Interfax, about 50 people were detained.

Hello! This week our top story is the tale of how Russia’s $5.5 billion ‘deal of year’ between Yandex and Tinkoff Bank fell apart . We also have an in-depth profile of Sergei Kiriyenko , the Kremlin éminence grise who has found himself on an EU sanctions for the first time this week, and signs of a possible political endgame in Belarus .

American Airlines, the largest U.S. carrier by fleet size and number of flights in 2019, will return the troubled Boeing 737 Max to service by the end of the year if it receives regulatory approval, reports . Bloomberg At first, American Airlines wants to use the Boeing 737 Max only on flights from Miami to New York. They will be performed from December 29 to January 4 once a day. Passengers will be warned that they will have to fly on the Boeing 737 Max.

The second wave of pandemic in Russia and a number of other countries was more powerful than the first. A huge number of drugs are prescribed to the sick. Our friends from Reminder learned from the physician, an assistant professor of Norwegian University of OSLOMET, Yuri Kiselev, which medicines help from Covid-19, in which cases it is worth doing without them and what to hope for: for progress in therapy or the appearance of a vaccine.

Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov in an interview with TASS told how the education system will cope with the increase in the incidence of COVID-19. According to the Ministry of Education, only about 100 schools were closed for quarantine in Russia - 0.31% of the total. “There is no talk of any lockdown in the education system, the educational process continues throughout Russia,” Sergey Kravtsov concluded.

The topic of release is a collapsed Yandex transaction and Tinkoff Bank The deal between Yandex and Tinkoff fell apart without living a month - on Friday the bank announced the breakdown of negotiations, and Oleg Tinkov and the managing director of Yandex Tigran Khudardyan exchanged mutual claims through letters to the employees of their companies.

In 2020, the number of labor migrants in Moscow dropped sharply — “according to some estimates, by 40%,” Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with the Rossiya 1 channel. Residents of other regions have to be involved in the performance of seasonal work. Sergei Sobyanin did not name the source of the data on the decline in the number of migrants and did not give absolute figures. But the problem, according to him, is serious - there are not enough workers in the public utilities sector.

In Russia, over the past day, 15,099 new cases of COVID-19 infection have been detected - more than the day before, less than on Friday, October 16. Even more new cases of COVID-19 infection were detected on October 16 (15,150). On October 17, 14,922 new cases were identified. 26.5% of those infected do not have clinical manifestations of the disease. During the day, 185 deaths were recorded. 5377 people have fully recovered.