The Ministry of Economy has proposed a plan how to attract 13 trillion rubles of investment in Russia in Russia. One of the ideas is to print money The Ministry of Economy has prepared a plan that should help fulfill one of the most difficult assignments to Vladimir Putin - to increase investments in Russia by 2030 by 70%.

A longtime acquaintance of Vladimir Putin, co-founder of the Ozero dacha cooperative, Nikolai Shamalov, ceased to be a shareholder of AB Rossiya, as follows from the bank’s final report for 2019. What's happened Nikolay Shamalov has been a shareholder of Rossiya Bank since 2004. According to a 2018 report, he held one of the largest shares: 9.643%. In the 2019 report, Shamalov is not listed as a shareholder of the bank. Shamalov's shares could be redistributed among other Rossiya shareholders.

The Ministry of Economy has drawn up a plan for where to get 13 trillion rubles of investment in order to fulfill the task set by the president - increasing investment over ten years (by 2030) by 70%. One of the proposals is to use the Central Bank’s printing press to finance projects important to the state, VTimes found out . The Central Bank itself is categorically against it.

The Russian marketplace Wildberries entered the Israeli market, Reuters writes , citing a company statement. Vyacheslav Ivashchenko, director of business development at Wildberries, said that the company is confident in "high development potential" in Israel, where it plans to present 5 million products from 39,000 brands. 600 partner delivery points will be opened in the country. Earlier, the leader of Russian e-commerce opened sales in Poland, Ukraine and Slovakia.

Apple has finally introduced the full-size headphones that have been rumored for a long time: AirPods Max will cost $549 in the US and 62,990 rubles in Russia. AirPods Max Wireless Over-Ear Headphones with Active Noise Canceling will go on sale December 15th. Apple claims that in the new gadget she managed to achieve the "highest sound quality." The charge will last for 20 hours of listening to music with active noise reduction turned on.

Economists have reproached the Russian government for being too stingy in supporting the economy during the pandemic, which makes the prospects for an accelerated recovery in 2021 look doubtful. The Kremlin and the Finance Ministry believe that the measures are commensurate with the crisis and that Russia will recover faster than some other economies.

The Central Bank is looking for potential investors for the sale of Otkritie Bank, nationalized in 2017. The Central Bank negotiated, including with Yandex, but the deal did not work out, Reuters found out . As the publication reports, citing its sources, the Central Bank plans to sell Otkritie Bank in 2021–2022 in order to return part of the money (more than 450 billion rubles) that the regulator spent on its rehabilitation after it took the bank for reorganization in 2017 .

Sharing ride service BlaBlaCar has introduced a fee for the possibility of booking a passenger seat. At the first stage, the system will work only on long routes, but within a few months it will be implemented on all. about the changes in BlaBlaCar RBC told . The system will require payment to open access to the booking - the amount of the fee will change, decreasing or increasing depending on the direction and length of the route.

For eight years, the average footage in apartments in Moscow new buildings has decreased by almost a third, only the area of ​​elite apartments, which are in the minority, has grown. According to analysts, there is nowhere to reduce the area further, but due to the fall in real incomes, this is the only way to sell housing, writes RBC. The dynamics of footage in Moscow apartments was analyzed by the Metrium company, its conclusions were confirmed by the analytical service bnMAP.pro.

Taxi service Uber has sold its self-driving car division Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) to startup Aurora Innovation, reports Bloomberg . So Uber, without abandoning self-driving developments, will take them out of the main business and focus on profit in 2021 after the painful blow of the pandemic. For the deal, Aurora is valued at $10 billion, sources familiar with the negotiations said. After receiving a 26% stake in the startup, Uber will invest $400 million in it.

Abu Dhabi will begin the third phase of clinical trials of the Russian adenovirus vaccine against COVID-19 - the capital of the UAE is already looking for 500 volunteers for this, writes Bloomberg. Most likely, we are talking about Sputnik V. But the UAE does not rely on one Russian vaccine. The country is also conducting Phase 3 trials of a vaccine developed by China's Sinopharm Group Co, having already issued emergency approval in September for its use by healthcare workers.

The son of a Russian billionaire, ex-shareholder of Northgas, Farkhad Akhmedov, Temur said that he lost $50 million during his student years playing on the stock exchange. According to his lawyer, the size of the amount, no matter how "astronomical" it may seem, "does not matter," writes Bloomberg. Temur Akhmedov has found himself at the center of a legal battle over the UK's largest divorce case between his father and mother, Tatyana Akhmedova.

Petrochemical holding Sibur does not deny that President Putin's former son-in-law Kirill Shamalov paid $100 for a 3.8% stake in the company, but claims that the journalistic investigation that revealed this fact did not take into account other parts of the deal. The response from the head of the company is published by RBC. The notorious $100 per package was a formal part of the deal, Sibur claims.

In Russia, the authorities spend less on overcoming the pandemic and the crisis caused by it than in other countries of the world. Reducing government spending, when they are needed, will take away from the country's GDP from 1 to 2 percentage points. growth next year, economists say. The fact that declining spending on supporting the economy and the population will hit the country's GDP was told to RBC by several economists at once.

Created by Alexei Kudrin, the Dialogue Foundation for the Development of Civic Initiatives, which finances various programs of the Committee for Civic Initiatives (CCI) and the annual All-Russian Civil Forum (OGF), will be closed in early 2021. This was told to RBC by three sources close to the fund. The press service of the Committee for Civic Initiatives (CCI) specified that the Dialog Foundation would soon be reorganized and that it would not be preserved in its current form.