State Duma deputy Anton Gorelykin, author of the Law against Apple , proposed to oblige the owners of audiovisual services working in Russia to coordinate the share of foreign possession with the authorities if it exceeds 20%. Its bill is posted on the State Duma website.

The US authorities have approved the use of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine, President Donald Trump announced on his Twitter. “The Moderna vaccine has been overwhelmingly approved. Its distribution will begin immediately,” Trump wrote. Approval for the mass use of the vaccine is given by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Prior to that, she had already allowed the population to be vaccinated using a drug developed by the American Pfizer and the German BioNTech.

The price of copper on the world market has updated a seven-year high and broke through a record high of $8,000 per ton. Analysts from leading Wall Street companies - Goldman Sachs Group and BlackRock - point to the beginning of a commodity cycle and, accordingly, a long-term bullish trend. According to Bloomberg, copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) has risen in price by 1.4%, to $8,028 per ton, the highest value since 2013.

The prosecution requested three years in prison for Yulia Galyamina, reports Kommersant . According to the prosecutor, the oppositionist bears the public danger of "causing harm to the property and health of citizens." Galyamina is charged under the "Dadin" article - Art. 212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picketing, up to 5 years in prison).

Prague-based startup JetBrains, which developed Kotlin, the premier programming language for Android apps, has been valued at $7 billion. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index's valuation has made the company's two founders with Russian roots, Sergey Dmitriev and Valentin Kipyatkov, billionaires. The achievement is all the more remarkable because the project came to such an assessment without external investments.

The Central Bank for the third time retained the key rate unchanged - at a historical minimum of 4.25%. In the justification of the Central Bank, he increased the forecast for inflation according to the results of 2020 - to 4.6–4.9%. “Disinflation risks in 2021 no longer prevail to the extent as it was previously <...>. According to the forecast of the Bank of Russia, in the conditions of the monetary policy, annual inflation will be 3.5–4.0% in 2021 and will be near 4% in the future.

The Scandinavian group Nordea announced the final withdrawal of Nordea Bank from the Russian market. It is not planned to sell the bank, it will conduct voluntary self-liquidation. Nordea Bank will curtail its activities over the next year, Mikhail Polyakov, chairman of the board of the bank, told Kommersant. According to him, the reason for the bank's exit from Russia was the desire of the group to focus on Scandinavia. In 2006, Nordea entered the capital of the Russian Orgresbank.

Businessman Alexander Udodov divorced Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin's sister Natalia Stenina, reports . Interfax An Interfax source said that the application for the dissolution of the marriage of Udodov and Stenina was filed a month ago, on December 18, the registry office of Moscow registered it. The businessman confirmed to reporters the fact of the divorce, which, according to him, occurred by mutual agreement. All property issues were settled by agreement of the parties, Udodov said.

In at least three US states, leading software developer Microsoft and dozens of other IT companies, government agencies and think tanks, traces of a hacker attack have been found, which, according to unconfirmed reports, is associated with Russian intelligence agencies, writes Bloomberg .

Businessman Andrei Trubnikov re-registered some of the trademarks of one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in Russia, including Grandmother Agafya’s Recipes, Natura Siberica and Organic Kitchen, to his Estonian company OU Good Design, RBC learned . Tallinn-based OU Good Design is registered by the Trubnikov family, RBC writes with reference to data from the Estonian register of legal entities.

In Russia, difficulties began with the shipment of wheat under current contracts, three sources on the market told Kommersant. Downtime increases the risk of supply disruption and forced to overpay for freight, the country's reputation in the world grain market was under threat. One interviewee at a large export company said that the customs service suddenly began to detain goods for inspection for up to 10 days.

The Central Bank is accelerating the introduction of testing citizens for knowledge of complex investment products (REPO, investment bonds) - the launch is postponed from April 1, 2022 to the beginning of 2021, told several participants of the meeting at the Central Bank on December 17 Forbes. Under the investor categorization law, which has not yet come into force, clients will be able to buy structured products after being tested by a broker.

The founder of Tinkoff Bank Oleg Tinkov, in a Forbes article , outlined his version of why negotiations with Yandex failed. According to him, the deal failed because the IT company wanted to take control of the bank, but was not ready to pay enough for it. Yandex stated that they did not agree with the version of the entrepreneur. The fact that the parent company of Tinkoff Bank, TCS Group, is negotiating with Yandex on the sale of all shares, became known at the end of September.

The State Corporation for Domestic Tourism will be created on the basis of North Caucasian projects that have shown their ineffectiveness Domestic tourism in Russia will be developed by a state corporation under the supervision of Deputy Prime Minister and former general director of Gazprom Media Holding Dmitry Chernyshenko, writes Kommersant.

Domestic tourism in Russia will be developed by a state corporation, which will be supervised by Deputy Prime Minister and former general director of Gazprom Media Holding Dmitry Chernyshenko, writes Kommersant. The project, with budgetary allocations of more than 600 billion rubles, is being created on the basis of state-owned companies with negative (according to the Accounts Chamber) performance results.