In the next few weeks, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will file a lawsuit against Facebook, learned Bloomberg . The focus is on deals to buy Instagram and WhatsApp, which the FTC has been studying for over a year. US antitrust authorities are close to launching a lawsuit against Facebook, Bloomberg sources say. It remains to be decided in which court the case should be heard.

Moscow is approaching a plateau in the incidence of COVID-19, Sergei Sobyanin believes. The number of hospitalizations, he said, began to decline. “In terms of the dynamics of diseases, the dynamics of hospitalizations, the dynamics of the growth of covid pneumonia and a number of other indicators, we see that this dynamics is declining from week to week,” Sobyanin said in an interview with the Rossiya 1 channel.

Bank "Trust" put up 15 billion rubles of debts of the Utair airline for auction for 30% of the face value, found in the materials of the Russian Auction House. RBC On November 24, the auction should take place in the format of an open English auction, according to the materials of the Russian Auction House. Applications for participation are accepted until 23:30 (Moscow time) on November 18.

In poisoning by Alexei Navalny, the new Signal FSUE Signal and St. Petersburg FSUI of Military Medicine, the investigation and The Insider, said with the participation of Radio Svoboda and Der Spiegel , participated in the Politician Politics of the Delivery of the Novichok, which participated in the Signal and St. Petersburg FSUE. The investigators argue that after Russia in 2017 reported on the complete destruction of chemical weapons, its development continued.

If a miracle does not happen and Donald Trump will not break out before the election for 10 days, Russia will have to build relations with the new US President Joe Bayden in 2021. Once, candidates from the Democratic Party were considered more convenient for Russia, and Biden in 2009 was one of the authors of the Russian-American “reboot”. Now this era is in the past.

The Pyaterochka chain is launching a new format of supermarkets - without cashiers: customers in them will pay on their own using a special application for smartphones. The first Pyaterochka without cashiers (the format is called Pyaterochka #on the fly) opened in pilot mode in New Moscow. To enter the supermarket, you need to scan the QR code using a special mobile application. It is also offered to be used to pay for goods.

Scientists, having studied online tests of more than 80 thousand people who have been infected with coronavirus, have established significant defects in their cognitive abilities. Long-term complications affect even patients with mild symptoms without difficulty breathing.

Compensation payments to four top executives of one of the world's largest financial conglomerates Goldman Sachs, including the CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs International, will be reduced by $31 million in 2020. The announcement follows news of a $3 billion fine by the US authorities for aiding and abetting embezzlement from the Malaysian investment fund 1MDB. According to the US Department of Justice, Goldman received $600 million in partnership fees with 1MDB.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that discounts for metro travel outside peak hours will begin to operate from November 2. They should help unload the most clogged lines. Discounts are introduced on the busiest Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line and the Nekrasovskaya line connected with it. A 50% discount will be valid from the opening of the stations until 7:15 and from 8:45 to 9:15. “This is the first pilot project of its kind in Russia. It will run until July 2, 2021.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin dismissed 56-year-old Alexei Volin from the post of Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media. In this position, Volin oversaw all Russian media and the Internet. “After leaving the ministry, Volin will continue to work on projects in the field of digital development,” the report says. Volin was replaced by 35-year-old Bella Cherkesova.

As analysts expected, the Central Bank left the key rate unchanged - at a historical minimum of 4.25%. There should be a signature for the image “Inflation is formed in accordance with the forecast of the Bank of Russia and is expected in the range of 3.9–4.2%in the range,” the regulator explained in the justification.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) confirmed the natural version of the pollution of the water area and the death of marine animals in the Avacha Bay in Kamchatka. No version of direct anthropogenic impact is confirmed. “No heavy metals were found in the studied samples of water, soil and marine hydrobionts.

Grocery and ready-to-eat food delivery services are facing a shortage of couriers, causing an increase in complaints from customers, writes Kommersant , citing two sources in the market. The problem with recruitment was confirmed in groups of delivery services on social networks, including the head of the Yandex.Lavka service, Ilya Krasilshchik, the newspaper notes.

In Russia, a new record of daily incidence of coronavirus is according to official figures, 17,430 infected were revealed by October 23 per day. About a third of all cases - 5478 - was in Moscow. 1240 patients were hospitalized in the capital. 283 people died in Russia per day, 62 people in Moscow. In total, 1,480,646 people became infected in Russia from the beginning of the pandemic, 25,525 died, recovered 1,119,251 people.

The number of subscribers to Yandex services through a single Yandex.Plus subscription has doubled since the beginning of the year and exceeded 5 million people, the service said. “Yandex.Plus two years ago became the first single subscription service in Russia and now, according to our estimates, remains the largest,” said Tigran Khudaverdyan, managing director of the Yandex group of companies. The service also includes Yandex.Music and Kinopoisk.