In October, the outflow of Russian funds from banks amounted to 111 billion rubles, writes RBC with reference to the Central Bank. If it were not for the increase in funds in escrow accounts for the purchase of housing, the outflow would have amounted to almost 296 billion rubles. The outflow of funds from banks in October is comparable to what happened at the beginning of the active phase of the pandemic.

Vladimir Potanin's private equity fund Winter Capital and the Baring Vostok fund have invested in Skyeng, one of Russia's largest online schools, writes Forbes. The fact that Skyeng closed the next investment round in October was announced by the managing partner of the company Alexander Laryanovsky. Potanin's fund Winter Capital invested in the online school for the first time, and Baring Vostok already owned a minority stake.

After a divorce from Yandex and a failed deal with Ozon, Sberbank is looking for a new entry into the e-commerce market - the bank is negotiating with the owner of the M.Video group, Mikhail Gutseriev, on the joint development of the Goods.ru online marketplace owned by it. Sources of The Bell on the market claim that negotiations are also underway on a partnership in M.Video itself, but Gutseriev's Safmar group denies this.

Rospotrebnadzor has temporarily suspended the work of the Chaika private clinic in Moscow City for failing to provide information about the positive results of 19 tests for coronavirus, said Alexandra Normova, Rospotrebnadzor expert in Moscow. Rospotrebnadzor specialists are now preparing materials for submission to the court, according to which the medical institution can be closed for up to 90 days, Normova added.

pilot salaries for two years S7 Airlines will cut to avoid layoffs, the carrier said. At the same time, the government announced that they did not plan to further support the industry. A letter from S7 CEO Vadim Klebanov to trade union organizations states that the company will cut salaries from March 1, 2021 to February 28, 2023. The reduction in salaries will affect the pilots of all aircraft in the S7 fleet.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow upheld the claim of the senator from Dagestan and one of the richest Russians, Suleiman Kerimov, who demanded that Vedomosti, Forbes and Sobesednik refute and remove articles about the “storming” of the office of the construction company SPK Razvitie in Moscow in 2005. The publications must also pay the plaintiff compensation of 10 thousand rubles.

The Swiss prosecutor's office plans to close the case of alleged money laundering as a result of tax fraud, which was investigated by Sergei Magnitsky. Following a nearly 10-year investigation, prosecutors plan to seize up to $4 million in Swiss banks. Hermitage Capital, which initiated the investigation, called the decision "surrender to the Russians." Swiss prosecutors notified Hermitage Capital of the imminent completion of the case in early November, Bloomberg reports .

The state prosecution requested 20 years in a colony and a fine of 50 million rubles for the ex-head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow Region Alexander Shestun-he is accused of illegal acquisition of property for 10 billion rubles. Shestun himself speaks of pressure from the presidential administration, the FSB and the authorities of the Moscow Region.

The coronavirus vaccine, which was developed by the American Pfizer and the German BioNTech, will cost Europe 15.5 euros per dose, found out Reuters . In total, the EU will spend from 3.1 to 4.65 billion euros on the purchase of a vaccine from Pfizer and another 5 million euros for an alternative vaccine, CureVac. According to a Reuters source who was involved in the procurement negotiations, the EU agreed to pay 15.5 euros per dose of the candidate COVID-19 vaccine.

Pavel Durov tried the new iPhone 12 Pro and decided that in 7–10 years, the share of Apple smartphones on the market would be negligible. “Just tried the iPhone 12 Pro - what an incredibly bulky piece of iron. Looks and feels like an oversized version of the iPhone 5 from 2012, but with an ugly array of cameras sticking out at three different heights,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel.

Perm and Voronezh are the most likely to be infected with coronavirus among large Russian cities - the risk of the disease is 15% higher than the national average. It is reported by RBC with reference to a study by SberIndex. Experts predicted the risk of coronavirus infection using the free online service of the state bank Symptom-Checker, which allows the user to recognize dangerous symptoms and find out what form the disease will take.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has not recommended the use of the drug remdesivir in the clinical treatment of coronavirus. The European Union in October ordered 500,000 courses of the drug worth a billion euros, Reuters notes. WHO has included the non-use of remdesivir in hospitals in the operational guidelines for the treatment of coronavirus.

In Russia, the second day in a row, the Covid-19 incidence record-over the past day, coronavirus has been detected in 24,318 people, reports the operative. Records for incidence were also updated in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Less than 30% of new cases of infection were detected in Moscow-6902 sick Covid-19. This is the maximum indicator for the capital from the beginning of the pandemic. The incidence record is also broken in St.

The first vice-governor of the Belgorod region Denis Butsaev will again become the head of the Russian Environmental Operator (REO). today Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin's order to this effect was published on the government's website. Butsaev was already in charge of the state-owned waste company from its founding in early 2019 until his dismissal in November of that year. The fact that Butsaev will return to the REO, RBC wrote today , citing sources.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree abolishing the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications (Rospechat) and the Federal Communications Agency (Rossvyaz). The text of the document was published on Friday on the Kremlin website. The functions of the abolished agencies were transferred to the Ministry of Digital Development.