The World Bank improved the forecast for the Russian economy, but warned of unpleasant long -term consequences According to the results of 2020, the Russian economy will fall by 4%, according to a new report of the World Bank. This forecast is much more optimistic than the previous one and almost coincides with the expectations of the Ministry of Economic Development. In 2021, economists lay two scenarios.

The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 50-year-old Mackenzie Scott, has given away $4 billion to charity in the past four months - unusually fast even for billionaire philanthropists. In total, she gave away about a tenth of her fortune, which is now estimated at $ 60 billion thanks to the rise in Amazon quotes. Scott has given away about $6 billion in 2020 and $4.2 billion over the past four months to 384 U.S. organizations, Bloomberg estimates.

Arrival startup founder Denis Sverdlov’s fortune from Russia is estimated at $11 billion, which means that the entrepreneur is among the top 15 Russian billionaires in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. According to Bloomberg, the British electric vehicle startup Arrival will go public on the Nasdaq exchange at the beginning of 2021 under a “quick” acquisition scheme.

The bitcoin rate for the first time broke through the psychological bar of $20,000 - over the past three months, the currency quotes have grown by more than 100%. On Wednesday, December 16, the Bitcoin exchange rate on several of the largest crypto exchanges, including Binance, Bitfinex, Bitstamp and Coinbase, rose above $20,000 for the first time in history. Prior to this, Bitcoin hit its all-time high in November, when it rose to $19,857.

Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina warned banks against selling complex investment products to clients - we are talking about combined deposits and transactions with certain bonds, writes .

The Il-114-300 passenger regional turboprop airliner made its first flight from the Moscow airfield in Zhukovsky ( video ). This is one of the longest and most problematic projects in the history of Russian aviation, with its origins in the USSR. The release of "Rostec" says that the developer of the aircraft was the Aviation Complex. S.V. Ilyushin (now part of Rostec) and passed it on Russian engines manufactured by UEC (also included in Rostec).

The Telegram messenger fails - the problems are mainly reported by users of European Russia and Europe. According to Downdetector, 90% of users with problems cannot connect to the application, another 9% entered the application, but messages are not sent. Telegram problems are confirmed by The Bell correspondents. Problems with the entrance to the application began at about 16.00 Moscow time.

A recent study has cast doubt on a core tenet of trickle-down economics, namely that tax cuts on the richest seep down to the bottom. In fact, over the past 50 years, this has only generated rising inequality without much benefit to the economy, writes Bloomberg. The practical conclusion of the study is that governments can more confidently fill the budget deficit at the expense of the rich.

The Russian Foreign Ministry commented on publications about the involvement of the FSB in the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny. about this writes Interfax with reference to a statement by the head of the ministry, Sergei Lavrov, during a press conference in Zagreb. This is essentially the first official reaction to the investigation.

Major investors in US software maker SolarWinds sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock days before Russian hackers attacked the US Treasury and Commerce Department, writes The Washington Post . After the news that SolarWinds software became a channel of attack, its quotes fell by more than 20%, and its capitalization reached $6 billion.

Following the United States, Europe twists nuts in the regulation of technological companies - yesterday the European Commission introduced bills that, if adopted, will allow the authorities to fine Google, Facebook and Amazon for up to 10% of global revenue, and in case of malicious violations, forcibly divide the technology companies.

The Moscow mayor's office will spend 76.8 million rubles to allow citizens to complain about others: with this money, the Moscow Assistant app will be supplemented with the ability to notify the authorities about illegal trade and crowds in public places. The tender for the modernization of the Moscow Assistant hardware and software complex has already been won by Software Product LLC - it will have to complete the project by mid-January, learned .

At the end of the year, the Russian economy will fall by 4%, according to a new World Bank report. This forecast is much more optimistic than the previous one and almost coincides with the expectations of the Ministry of Economic Development. But the level of poverty and unemployment in Russia is growing, while real incomes of the population are falling unprecedentedly, analysts say.

The German prosecutor’s office suspects the son -in -law of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin Alexander Udodov of involvement in the largest VAT PROSSIT in Russian history for 5.2 billion rubles, “Open Media” found out .

The Moscow Department of Health has allowed private clinics to vaccinate against COVID-19. In accordance with the contract, the vaccine will be provided to clinics free of charge and will not be included in the cost of the service for the client. The fact that the proposal to start vaccination against COVID-19 was sent to private clinics in Moscow, learned Vedomosti .