In the tenth month of the coronacrisis, the government of Mikhail Mishustin took up the regulation of food prices. After yesterday's indignation of Vladimir Putin's rise in prices, the government at an emergency meeting agreed to set marginal prices for sugar and sunflower oil. But there is no talk of strict price regulation, and one of The Bell's interlocutors calls the whole idea a PR before Vladimir Putin's December 17 press conference.

After the indignation of Vladimir Putin, the government will limit retail prices for oil and sugar. What will come of this? In the tenth month of coronacialsis, the government of Mikhail Mishustin took up the regulation of products for products. After yesterday's indignation of Vladimir Putin, the government at an emergency meeting agreed to set maximum sugar and sunflower oil prices.

Airbnb's listing was one of the most highly anticipated deals of the year, and it lived up to expectations. At the IPO, the company's valuation was $47 billion, and at the first auction, the capitalization briefly exceeded $100 billion. At the beginning of the week . , Airbnb was expected to raise $3.1 billion from the IPO and receive a total valuation (including options and special class shares) of $41.8 billion at $31 billion.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today urged the country to prepare to leave the single market with the EU without a trade deal after Brexit, writes Bloomberg. “Today there is a significant likelihood that the solution will be a relationship that is most similar to the EU's relationship with Australia or Canada. We do not stop negotiations. But given what we have achieved so far, I urge everyone to prepare for the Australian option, ”Johnson said in a television interview.

Mortality from coronavirus in October, according to Rosstat , was the highest since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the results of November and December, there will be growth, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said today. Rosstat counted 22,571 deaths with coronavirus in October.

The first high -altitude flight of the new STARSHIP spacecraft created by SpaceX Ilona Mask ended with an impressive explosion, but this is still a wonderful success. In this case, you should not pay attention to the result, but to the process. What happened Compiled by the NASASPACEFLight channel video starting on December 9 (on the night of December 10, Moscow time) can be viewed here .

The government immediately reacted to Vladimir Putin's demand to reduce food prices: according to Forbes and RBC , at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, the introduction of marginal prices for certain products was discussed, for example, 45 rubles per kilogram of sugar and 110 rubles per liter of sunflower oil .

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury added five people and six companies to the Magnitsky sanctions list for human rights violations. All of them are connected with the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who has been on this list for a long time, OFAC claims.

Yandex has been working on an unmanned car for almost five years, Sberbank for about a year. Can he catch up with a competitor? We tell you what Russian developers have already achieved, in which they are inferior to American and Chinese, what tasks to solve and what is in the way.

Brent oil quotes on Thursday at about 17.40 Moscow time for the first time since the beginning of March rose above the important psychological threshold of $50 (+2.7%). The last time Brent oil cost more than $50 per barrel was on March 6. After that, a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia began, culminating in an OPEC + agreement to reduce production by almost 10 million b/d from May.

Hunter Biden has announced that he is under tax investigation, which he only learned about this week. It turned out that the case that could overshadow the beginning of the presidency of his father Joe Biden has been ongoing since 2018. It is precisely the fact that this has become known only now that may indicate the seriousness of the intentions of the side of the accusations, writes Bloomberg. Biden Jr.

Vladimir Putin said that journalist Ivan Safronov was charged with crimes committed while working at Roscosmos. However, he worked there for only a couple of months and had no access to state secrets. Update Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the president made a reservation regarding the possible commission of a crime by Safronov while working at Roskosmos.

Vladimir Putin admitted that he sees risks in blocking foreign resources in Russia that are used by millions of Russian citizens. According to him, this would be a “shot in the foot” of the Runet, and therefore it is necessary to make Russian analogues. The reason was the speech of the ex-head of the HRC Valery Fadeev at the annual meeting of the HRC with the president.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin today reprimanded the ministers for missing out on rising prices for basic products. The day before, President Vladimir Putin drew attention to this. Mikhail Mishustin Prime Minister of Russia “You don’t have to take advantage of people. In the current difficult situation, this is unacceptable.

President Vladimir Putin supported the idea of ​​creating a special Russian court for human rights. such a proposal at a meeting between Putin and HRC members, broadcast by the Rossiya 24 TV channel.