Microsoft vice president of security Tom Burt said that hackers from Russia and North Korea were trying to attack pharmaceutical companies and developers of coronavirus vaccines around the world. Bert's statement is posted on the Microsoft blog. It follows that over the past month, seven companies from Canada, France, India, South Korea and the United States have become victims of hacker attacks.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree making mushrooms with agricultural products. This means a decrease in income tax rate to 0% for Russian mushroom manufacturers, one of which belongs to the prime minister's son -in -law. What happened The resolution of November 11 was complemented by a “list of types of products related to the agricultural” position “Mushrooms and Truffles”, assigned to vegetable crops. This change will come into force on January 1, 2021.

Billionaire and friend of Vladimir Putin Arkady Rotenberg again entered into a lawsuit with his ex-wife Natalya - he challenged the decision of the High Court of London to transfer Ribsden Manor to her for $ 36.2 million. The plaintiff's lawyers claim that the mansion did not belong to Rotenberg personally, since it was purchased through an offshore company. about the lawsuit The British The Times was the first to learn .

Bashneft's net profit for the third quarter of 2020 (according to IFRS) fell 10 times year-on-year, to 2.1 billion rubles. The company was hit hardest not by the coronavirus pandemic, but by the decline in oil production under the OPEC+ agreement. The company's revenue for the third quarter decreased by 1.7 times, to 126 billion rubles, since the beginning of the year - by 1.5 times, to 416 billion rubles.

Russia's oil horse "hasn't died yet," but the country will have to make a turn in order not to lose a significant share of GDP and maintain its potential, said Anatoly Chubais, general director of Rosnano. And you need to think about it now, although it seems that this “horse” will never disappear. Chubais was asked at the Horizons forum when the "Stone Age" of hydrocarbons would end. In response, he compared Russia's oil reserves to a horse from a cowboy proverb.

The Ministry of Finance proposed to place part of the funds of the National Welfare Fund (FNB) of Russia in the form of precious metals. This is a protective asset, the ministry explains. The proposal is issued by amendments to the Budget Code of Russia. In the explanatory note to the project, it is noted that precious metals are traditional “protective” assets.

Moscow State University Lomonosov from November 16 switches to distance learning, such an order was signed by the rector of the university Viktor Sadovnichy. Until what date distance learning will last, the document does not determine: it says that "until further notice." From today until February 6, switched universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg, subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science, to distance learning.

The world's largest Kopenhagen Fur fur auction is preparing to close after the Denmark government has authorized the mass extermination of minks due to the coronavirus mutation that has spread in the population, which reduces the immune response in humans. According to Bloomberg, this can be the end of the whole industry in the country. Until the beginning of November, Denmark remained the world's largest mink fur producer.

The placement of the Russian online retailer Ozon on the American Nasdaq will take place before the end of November, learned . Forbes According to the publication, the organizers of the IPO expect that the collection of applications will begin on November 18, and trading in Ozon shares will open on November 25, and the listing will also be on the Moscow Exchange. This is the desired scenario, a source close to the organizing bank of the IPO confirmed.

Roskomnadzor launched its own channel in the Telegram messenger, which it tried to block for more than two years. already has The channel almost five thousand subscribers, the agency publishes its press releases in it. Roskomnadzor announced the decision to start a Telegram channel to its subscribers in other social networks. The department has pages on Twitter, Facebook and VKontakte.

Aliexpress Russia, a joint venture between Alibaba Group, Mail.Ru Group, MegaFon and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), disclosed the results of the sale on November 11, 2020. Sales of goods on the platform amounted to 19.3 billion rubles. In the first hour of the sale, users purchased goods totaling almost 4 billion rubles. Most of the sales came from small and medium businesses. Their turnover increased 12 times compared to last year.

The Ministry of Digital Development has prepared a new package of measures to support the IT industry, reports Kommersant . It includes the zeroing of the “Google tax”, benefits for the gaming industry, social networks and instant messengers, and also allows alcohol advertising in online cinemas. The new package includes 88 measures related to 12 market segments, Kommersant writes, citing a document whose authenticity was confirmed to the publication by a source.

The net inflow of funds into funds investing in Russia for the week from November 5 to 11 amounted to about $250 million, according to a report by BCS Global Markets. This is the best result since February. BCS Global used data from Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR), an organization that tracks the inflow and outflow of funds to investment funds and the distribution of funds. The report states that "cumulative inflows into Russian stock and bond funds <...> (shown.

A supporter of the Belarusian opposition Roman Bondarenko died in a Minsk hospital, where he was taken on the night of November 12. Today, actions of mourning are held all over Minsk. to Tut.by by The death of Bondarenko was reported his relatives. Doctors stated that a 31-year-old resident of the capital had a craniocerebral injury, cerebral edema, and soft tissue injuries of the head. Bondarenko was operated on for several hours - all this time he was in a coma.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has issued an address to employees, publicly acknowledging Joe Biden's election victory for the first time, according to BuzzFeed. Before that, he did not speak on this topic. Zuckerberg, who has a strained relationship with Biden, said he hopes they can find ways to work together. Zuckerberg's statement came against the background of actively published user posts on Facebook that Biden did not win the election, writes BuzzFeed.