Sberbank may again lose a technological partner - this time Mail.Ru Group In less than six months, after a divorce from Yandex, as Sberbank again has problems with a technological partner in the digital services market. Financial Times claims that Sber and Mail.ru Group, which together develop taxi services, food delivery and others, can also divorce.

Organizers estimate Ozon for listing on Nasdaq on average more expensive than The Wall Street Journal previously estimated, found out . Forbes The publication managed to find out the assessment of three of the seven underwriters - Sberbank CIB ($4-8.5 billion), VTB Capital ($4.7-7.1 billion) and Goldman Sachs ($6-12 billion). According to the WSJ, Ozon was valued at $3-5 billion, the placement volume at $500 million.

The decline in the Russian economy slowed down in the third quarter of 2020, a preliminary estimate from Rosstat showed . According to the statistics agency, Russia's GDP in the third quarter fell by 3.6% in annual terms after a decline of 8% in the second quarter. Agriculture even grew (by 2.7%), retail trade turnover decreased by 2.5%, industrial production - by 5% (mining - by 11.5%), passenger traffic - by 44.7%, catering - by 20%. .1%, paid services to the population - by 17.4%.

After the separation of Sberbank with Yandex, the threat of a similar “divorce” hung over the joint venture of the State Bank with Mail.ru Group after numerous disagreements in the management and clashes of corporate cultures, found the Financial Times. According to the newspaper: Companies have already discussed the division of the joint venture, but negotiations on divorce did not lead to a clear result due to uncertainty with the asset section.

The mayor's office recommended that shops, food courts and fast food chains in Moscow connect to the system of QR codes for check-in of visitors, which nightclubs were previously required to do. While this is only a recommendation, the authorities do not impose sanctions. Aleksey Nemeryuk, Head of the Trade and Services Department, announced the recommendation. “There are no requirements for the mandatory installation of a check-in system in cafes and restaurants.

The Supreme Court released Michael Calvey and other defendants in the Baring Vostok case from house arrest. The measure of restraint for the accused was changed from house arrest to a ban on certain actions. In addition, the arrest was lifted from part of the property arrested in the case, including the apartment bought by the wife of the person involved in the case, Philippe Delpal.

The Supreme Court today sent the case of businessman Michael Calvey to the Meshchansky Court of Moscow for consideration on the merits, RIA Novosti reported. The alternative was a trial in Blagoveshchensk, at the scene of the crime. Both the prosecutor's office and the defense asked for the transfer of the consideration to Moscow, but for different reasons.

The diamond - pink stone weighing 14.83 carats - was sold for $ 26.6 million at the Sothbey's in Geneva, becoming the largest stone of this kind in the history of the auction. The diamond was mined on the Alrosa mine in Yakutia, the selling price of the diamond received from it corresponds to about 3% of the company's net profit for 2019.

Within a week and a half, Hungary will be the first in the EU to receive the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for laboratory and clinical tests, writes FT. This will be a big victory for Russia in the coronavirus vaccine race and another demonstration of Budapest's warm relations with Moscow, the newspaper notes. The fact that Hungary will soon receive Sputnik V was announced by Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.

Ozon settled the conflict with Sberbank and avoided the need to sue over 1 billion rubles, the companies said. In the prospectus published before the IPO in the US, Ozon warned investors that it was preparing for a possible trial with Sberbank due to the breach of an agreement. What exactly happened between the companies is still unknown.

Alexei Navalny could poison in Germany or when transporting there from Omsk, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “We have every reason to believe that everything that happened to him from the point of view of the penetration of combat poisonous substances into his body could occur in Germany or in an airplane where he was plunged and taken to the“ Sharite ”clinic,” the minister said at a press conference. “Questions arise that people, in addition to doctors, were aboard this aircraft.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that there would be no Turkish observers on the line of contact between the conflicting forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. Only Russian peacekeepers will be there, the Foreign Minister assured. Lavrov was asked to comment today on the words of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said : “Whatever the role of Russia in the center of control over the ceasefire, there will be a role for Turkey.

Tax holidays for small and medium -sized businesses from the most affected by the coronavirus were extended before the end of the year. The decision on this was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. Tax delayed another three months for companies working in the field of tourism, culture, catering, hotel business, sports and entertainment areas, as well as for entrepreneurs involved in the organization of exhibitions and conferences.

Former Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich, who was offered the position of acting governor of the Belgorod region, refused this post, writes RBC . Now he is likely to go into business. Sources of the publication said that Dietrich received an offer to head the Belgorod region, but the ex-minister refused. Now the region is de facto headed by Denis Butsaev, appointed by ex-governor Yevgeny Savchenko on the day of his resignation.

The parent structure of Tinkoff Bank TCS Group Holding reported on the results of the third quarter and the first nine months of 2020. The group's IFRS net income grew by almost 30% and 27%, respectively, compared to the previous year. In the third quarter, the net profit of TCS Group amounted to 12.6 billion rubles, which is 29.8% higher than the profit of the same period in 2019 (9.7 billion rubles).