How a quiet retirement of the Army General from the FSB can affect business Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of the first FSB deputy head Sergei Smirnov, recognized RBC. We rarely write about permutations in the ranks of the security forces, but this news is important for business. Kmirnov worked in the state security bodies since 1974, served in the KGB Office in the Leningrad Region, and in the late 1990s he moved to the central apparatus of the FSB.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking today at the Valdai forum, spoke out on various topics, mainly political. The Bell has collected the main thing. About the presidency after 2024 “2024 and later time - you will need to watch when time comes. Now you just need to work hard, like St. Francis, to everyone on his own site ... Once this, of course, should end. I am excellent in this report.

Vladimir Putin, speaking today at the Valdai forum, spoke for the first time in detail on the subject of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Putin said that he personally ordered to release him abroad, although he could not have done this. Consequently, the opposition was not persecuted in Russia. Putin believes that if the Russian authorities wanted to poison Navalny, no one would have sent him abroad.

Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Valdai Forum, for the first time gave an assessment of the victims of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. According to him, the total number of deaths is approaching 5 thousand people, the victims are approximately equal on each side.

Dutch internet security expert and "ethical hacker" Viktor Gevers, known for hacking into US President Donald Trump's account in 2016, has repeated his success in 2020, The Guardian writes , citing Dutch media. Gevers last week was able to guess the password to Trump's Twitter on the fifth attempt, the newspaper writes. It turned out that this is “maga2020!” - the slogan of the election campaign of the incumbent president.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of the first deputy head of the FSB, Sergei Smirnov, who has held office since 2003. His departure may be followed by large-scale reshuffles in the department. According to the publication, Smirnov was dismissed due to his seniority, he turned 70 years old.

Actor Mikhail Efremov, the court reduced the sentence for a fatal accident from 8 to 7.5 years - the Moscow City Court recognized as a mitigating circumstance that Efremov voluntarily paid compensation for non-pecuniary damage to the victims. At the meeting, Efremov said that he was ending any relationship with alcohol and driving, and also that he felt sincere remorse for what he had done. “This tragedy divided my life into two parts.

By 2024, electric cars will cost the manufacturer no more than conventional cars with internal combustion engines (ICE), UBS predicts. This is due to the real prospects for cheaper batteries - the main cost item in the production of electric vehicles. The UBS study described The Guardian.

For the first half of 2020, Russians became poorer by 11% - more than in Ukraine or Turkey, according to the Credit Suisse report on world wealth (described by RBC ). Among the key countries, Russia still has the largest localization of wealth (share in 1% of the richest citizens of the country). Globally, the pandemic has reduced household wealth by $7.2 trillion, the bank estimates.

Two-thirds of Russians (62%) are confident that they remember the images on Russian banknotes, showed an online survey by Raiffeisenbank involving more than 2,500 people. But much fewer respondents were able to remember correctly what exactly is depicted on banknotes of different denominations. Only 39% of respondents remembered that the 50-ruble banknote depicts St. Petersburg. Almost a quarter of the respondents (24%) answered that it was Astrakhan, 21% named Yaroslavl, 16% - Khabarovsk.

Two months ago, the founder of the Anderson cafe network Anastasia Tatulova became a public Ombudsman in the field of small and medium -sized businesses. In a large interview with The Bell, she told what she wants to achieve in this capacity, what reforms awaits the state and what will happen to small and medium -sized businesses, if you leave everything as it is.

Chinese Huawei, which is under US sanctions, was systematically preparing to tighten them, learned Bloomberg . The company has been hoarding a stock of mission-critical 5G chips for months to ensure equipment deliveries to Chinese telcos through at least 2021 — even if Donald Trump sanctions cut it off entirely. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

Before the initial public offering (IPO), Samolet development group of companies set the price at the level of 950-1100 rubles per share. Thus, the company has valued itself at 57-66 billion rubles, according to a statement on the Samolet website. The selling shareholder is Moskovia Legal Agency LLC, controlled by Pavel Golubkov, one of the main shareholders of the company. Moskovia plans to place up to 3.079 million ordinary shares. The proposal is estimated at 2.9-3.4 billion rubles.

The government may extend payments to doctors working with covid patients for the whole of 2021, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at a meeting of the United Russia faction. “Now the government is preparing relevant proposals. And you raised the question: will there be money next year if we extend this decision (payments to doctors. - The Bell)? We have the necessary reserve for the next year in the reserve fund, in expenses.

With Trump GDP grew faster than under Obama. Exchange indices reached record values. The poor and unemployed became smaller. Nevertheless, Trump’s economic policy has serious flaws that may affect the future. And the point is not even the answer of the state to the pandemic. In the next material of our special project “Who America will choose”, the rector of the Russian Economic School (RASH) Ruben Yenikolopov called these flaws.