The electric car company of the founder of Yota Denis Sverdlov enters the exchange with an estimate of $ 5.4 billion The most successful startup with Russian roots in recent years-the manufacturer of electric vehicles Arrival ex-head of the YOTA operator and the deputy minister of communications Denis Sverdlov-will become a public company.

The government, as expected, recommended Mikhail Poluboyarinov, chairman of the company's board of directors and head of the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK), for the post of general director of Aeroflot. The directive for representatives of the state (owns 51.17% of the carrier's shares) in the board of directors of the airline was signed by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov.

The Russian discount chain Fix Price is exploring the possibility of an IPO on the London and Moscow stock exchanges and could be valued at $6 billion, writes Bloomberg. The agency interviewed the founder of the network, Sergei Lomakin. He said that at the beginning of 2020, a minority (less than 10%) stake in Fix Price was bought by Goldman Sachs. He did not disclose the amount of the deal.

Today, the Federation Council satisfied the request of the Prosecutor General’s prosecutor’s office for the criminal prosecution of Mikhail me, the ex-governor of the Ivanovo region and the former minister of construction. An unexpected thing for the person involved was connected with the events of nine years ago and poultry farms in the Ivanovo region. What's happened This morning, the Council of Council unanimously allowed the auditor of the Mikhail Accounts Auditor.

The start-up of delivery electric vehicles Arrival, the ex-head of the Yota operator, the former Deputy Minister of Communications Denis Sverdlov, is completing the journey from an idea to a public company. The company goes public in a $5.4 billion takeover scheme, and its founder becomes a billionaire. According to CNBC, Arrival will go public on the Nasdaq in early 2021 under a "fast track" takeover by a Specialty Technology Company (SPAC). SPAC will be CIIG Merger Corp.

The American regulator FAA gave permission to resume flights of Boeing-737 MAX liners, which were stopped in March 2019 after two crashes with 346 victims. This is just the beginning of the type's return to commercial operations. The FAA notes that the updated Boeing was personally tested in flight by the head of the service, Steve Dixon.

Roman Trotsenko, the owner of Russia's largest airport holding company Novaport (unites 16 airports in the country), predicts that the peak of the crisis in the aviation industry has not yet been passed, and it will “storm” until mid-2022. According to Trotsenko, who spoke at the plenary session of the Transport Week 2020 conference, by the end of the year, air travel will be reduced by 42% compared to the record year 2019, to 67–68 million passengers instead of last year’s 128.1 million people.

The course of Bitcoin for the first time since December 2017 exceeded $ 18 thousand, at first glance returning to the megapopularity that made this cryptocurrency well -known. But investors taught by experience are in no hurry to succumb to a new wave of cryptomania. What happened On Wednesday, November 18, Bitcoin increased by 4.8%, to $ 18,480, approaching the historical maximum of $ 19,511. In 2020, bitcoin quotes increased by almost 150%.

Moscow State University is not going to reduce the cost of education due to the transfer of lectures to a distance format. Students promise to go to court. About twenty contract students of Moscow State University prepared a class action lawsuit against the university, putting forward a number of financial requirements, writes Kommersant .

Pfizer and Biontech announced that, as the final results of the third phase of clinical trials, the effectiveness of their RNA vaccine against coronavirus reached 95% (90% were previously announced). Companies will apply for an emergency approval by the regulator in a few days, and if it is received, they will begin serial production. An expanded analysis of data on 44 thousand experimentals showed the effectiveness of a vaccine at a level of 95% without significant side effects.

The hero of the new issue of the project "Russian norms!" - One of the most successful Russian venture investors Leonid Boguslavsky. He told Elizabeth Ossetian how 20 years ago he saw the potential of Yandex, why he left the oldest Russian online retailer Ozon, without waiting for an IPO, during which the company can evaluate $ 5 billion, why now he prefers to invest abroad and what projects are looking for there. We publish an abbreviated version of the interview.

Apple will double the commission in the App Store for small application developers with a sales volume of less than $ 1 million per year. This change will affect most of the developers and is the most revolutionary in the history of the Apple app store from the very moment of its launch in 2008, writes Bloomberg. What's happened Now Apple takes 30% of the commission from sales of paid applications and purchases inside the applications in the App Store.

Banks want to five times increase the term for blocking card transactions if the client suspects a theft attempt - from 5 to 25 days, learned RBC . According to their idea, this will help to return up to a third of the stolen funds. The Association of Banks "Russia" (ADB) has developed amendments to the law on the national payment system and plans to send them to the Central Bank.

The Federation Council today agreed to the detention of the former Minister of Construction, now the auditor of the Accounts Chamber, Mikhail Men. The accusation refers to the times of his governorship in the Ivanovo region. The fact that the Federation Council at today's plenary session is considering giving consent to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov to detain me as an accused, said the speaker of the upper house, Valentina Matvienko.

Contrary to the expectations of experts, the fall in deposit rates and quarantine did not force the Russians to transfer their savings from banks to the stock exchange, Vedomosti writes , citing a joint study by the RGS Bank and the National Financial Information Agency (NAFI). Almost half of the respondents (44%) admitted that they had not changed their savings behavior at all over the past two years.