Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk had an accident on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow and was hospitalized, said his spokesman . In total, three people were injured in the accident, writes the 112 telegram channel. According to the channel, the driver in a Russian car drove into the median strip along which the official was driving. The accident happened around 20:30 Moscow time. Two cars collided on the avenue, follows from the preliminary data of the traffic police.

In the US state of Georgia, where the gap between the votes for Donald Trump and Joe Biden is 0.03%, there will be a recount, said Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger . Georgia gives 16 electoral votes, but their loss does not threaten Biden with defeat. “Right now in Georgia (candidates. - The Bell) are too close to talk about the results. We have received about 5 million ballots. The gap is several thousand <…> As we get closer to the final count, we can think about the next steps.

The European Union has expanded personal sanctions against Belarus - now the list includes Alexander Lukashenko himself, as well as his eldest son Viktor, who holds the position of assistant to the president for national security. Apart from Lukashenka and his son, 13 more Belarusian officials fell under the sanctions.

Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a crucial state with 20 electoral votes, effectively winning the US presidency. Biden has an almost 100% chance of holding on in Pennsylvania: all other ballots will come either from counties that support Democrats or from early voting, where Biden has an overwhelming advantage. Pennsylvania gives 20 electoral votes - this state alone is enough for Biden, who has already won at least 253 votes, for an overall election victory.

Russia has signed a bilateral double tax treaty with Luxembourg "in terms of increasing withholding tax to 15% on dividends and interest," the Finance Ministry said . The protocol must be ratified before the end of 2020 for the provisions to come into force as early as January 2021. The tax increase agreement will have exceptions similar to those used in agreements with other countries (Cyprus and Malta).

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk made good on his April Fool's joke and released a tequila branded as Tesla Tequila, which is available on the electric car company's official website. The lightning-shaped, 750 ml bottles, priced at $250, were snapped up from the virtual shelf almost instantly. The story began in 2018, when Musk tweeted that Tesla was completely bankrupt.

The information that Vladimir Putin could step down as president of Russia ahead of schedule due to health problems was called "nonsense" in the Kremlin. Some Western publications again published articles about this. “Well, you know, there’s not much to comment on here. This is complete nonsense. The president is fine. Excellent health," presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Roskosmos has requested 1.5 trillion rubles from the state to create the Sphere satellite system, a response to Elon Musk's Starlink project. The requested amount exceeds the budget deficit for the entire pandemic half of 2020. about the request of the space department Alexander Ivanov, a member of the collegium of the Military-Industrial Commission of Russia, spoke in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The charge against the leaders of Merlion, one of Russia's largest electronics wholesalers, is based on the testimony of a combatant in eastern Ukraine and does not include murder, learned . Kommersant Important update (as of 04/18/2022) Already after the release of this text, the story of the assassination attempt on the former top manager of Merlion Vyacheslav Simonenko acquired an impressive amount of new details.

Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden beat out incumbent President Donald Trump in the vote count in the key state of Georgia. According to Decision Desk, Biden's current lead is 917 votes, with more than 99% of the votes counted. Such results mean that it is almost impossible for Trump to regain leadership in the state: mail-in votes are now being counted in "democratic" districts, among which the proportion of those who voted for Biden is obviously more than half.

This morning, rescuers found the body of a man in the sea near Sochi. By noon , independent confirmations appeared that this was Igor Koropov, co-founder of the Skillbox educational service. A release on the discovery of the body of a 31-year-old man without specifying a name was issued by the Investigative Committee of the ICR in the Krasnodar Territory. All the details match those of Koropov's disappearance.

The new owner (at least official) of one of the leading manufacturers of small arms in Russia, the Kalashnikov concern, turned out to be former Deputy Minister of Transport Alan Lushnikov, Kommersant learned . In his youth, the new owner of Kalashnikov worked as a lawyer for Gennady Timchenko, and for the last 15 years as an official. He left the civil service only two years ago, and Lushnikov’s new company last year received revenue of 28 thousand rubles and a net loss of 27 million.

In Russia, for the day by November 6, for the first time, more than 20 thousand new cases of coronavirus infection were identified for the first time. This is almost twice as much as at the spring peak. According to the opera station, new cases of coronavirus in Russia are 20 582 (of which 6253 in Moscow), deaths - 378. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 1.73 million people fell ill, 13 million people recovered. Thus, the number of active cases exceeds 400 thousand people.

HSE Proposes to Raise Income Tax for the Richest and Punish Businesses for Uninvested Funds The development of the presidential idea of ​​raising the tax burden during the crisis - yet for the rich - was not long in coming. The income tax rate of 20–24% is already included in the HSE's review of the draft three-year federal budget.

Russian officials made several conflicting statements about the Navalny case on the same day. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the incident “supposedly poisoning”, and what followed was “an amateurishly staged performance”, the Ministry of Internal Affairs pointed to a “well-planned provocation”, and the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, spoke about the West developing the poisoning of a prominent opposition leader in order to intensify protests.