The government will sell control in the First Channel, but will receive a proven investor and the Golden Promotion The state will abandon the control package in the Channel One. Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the additional ministry of his shares, which will be sold to non -state shareholders. The declared purpose of the additional ministry is the financial recovery of the channel, which has been in a deep loss for at least 8 years, and its debts exceed 20 billion rubles.

Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov ordered prosecutors to exclude individual entrepreneurs and small businesses from scheduled inspections for 2021, the told TASS. press service of the department The moratorium on inspections of small and medium-sized businesses was introduced by the government in April this year and was supposed to be valid until December 31, 2020. On November 30, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced that the government had extended the moratorium until December 31, 2021.

Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the law on the immunity of former presidents in accordance with the previously adopted amendments to the Constitution. Now the former head of state, who so far is only Dmitry Medvedev, can be prosecuted only with the consent of the majority of deputies and senators.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which the state's share in Channel One could drop below 51%, and non-state shareholders could gain control. The largest of them is Yuri Kovalchuk's National Media Group. The text of the decree is posted in the legal system "ConsultantPlus", drew attention the industry magazine "Bulletin of the film distributor" to it.

On December 22, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill according to which social networks should identify and block illegal content on their own, and not upon request. For non-compliance, they face a negotiable fine. Illegal content includes child pornography, information about the production of drugs, and calls to commit suicide.

2020 is a record low key rate of the Central Bank and interest on deposits. And at the same time - an unprecedented influx of private investors in the stock market: 400-500 thousand new customers begin to invest every month, this is the maximum increase in interest in 25 years. By the beginning of December, about 8.5 million brokerage accounts of individuals were registered on the Mosbirzh.

The outgoing year brought the volatility to financial markets, which investors have not seen since 2008. But the greed of investors won fear: stock indices set new records, and a lot of money is looking for those assets that did not have time to recover. Especially for The Bell, the Director of the UFG Wealth Management investment department, Alexei Potapov, talks about the stock markets of which developing countries should take a closer look in 2021.

Sberbank has begun testing cars with its own self-driving equipment in real traffic conditions on the streets of winter Moscow. The press release shows a photo of a Kia station wagon with lidars mounted on the roof, reminiscent of flashing lights. By the end of the year, the number of cars on trials will reach ten, and there will always be a driver behind the wheel for insurance purposes.

The Wall Street Journal received the full text of the 10-state lawsuit against Google and Facebook and found in it an agreement by the companies to cooperate against antitrust lawsuits that they themselves considered likely due to an agreement to limit competition in online advertising. This can greatly worsen the already extremely difficult relationship of companies with regulators and US authorities. The agreement dates back to September 2018.

The Kremlin has commented for the first time on a telephone conversation between Alexei Navalny and his alleged poisoner. Dmitry Peskov called the oppositionist sick and said that he had a vivid "Freudian manifestation" of interest in the "codpiece zone." Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin has enough work to do, and therefore there is no time to "watch such materials." However, the press secretary of the president turned out to be familiar with the essence of yesterday's publication.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it is expanding the list of EU citizens who are banned from entering Russia. This is a response to the “Navalny list”, according to which high-ranking Russian officials fell under EU sanctions . The Russian Foreign Ministry called unacceptable the measures taken by the EU "at the suggestion of its leading member states ...

The founder of the Safmar group, Mikhail Gutseriev, successfully closes the claims of the Central Bank related to the reorganization of B&N Bank: RBC learned that the amount of the settlement agreement with Otkritie, owned by the Central Bank, will amount to a lifting 14 billion rubles. The amount of claims against the former main owner of Binbank, Gutseriev’s nephew Mikail Shishkhanov and top managers is approaching 700 billion rubles.

Anatoly Chubais will create a project office with VEB.RF in his new position as Presidential Special Representative. He will be engaged in the implementation of the environmental Paris Agreement, RBC learned . Chubais has been appointed Special Representative of the President for Relations with International Organizations to Achieve the Goals of Sustainable Development, which involves working on climate agreements.

The ruble falls for the second day immediately after the opening of trading: on December 22, the euro exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange rose above 92 rubles, for the first time since November 9. By 10.10 Moscow time at the peak, the euro was worth 92.12 rubles. The dollar by the same time was worth 75.4 rubles. Against this background, some blue chips are slightly cheaper (by 10.10 Moscow time): shares of Sberbank (-0.91%), Gazprom (-0.78%), Lukoil (-0.45%).

Apple decided to enter into direct competition with Tesla and do in four years what Elon Musk took ten Apple has finally decided on automotive plans: the market may see a finished unmanned product in four years. today about what's going on inside the very closed Project Titan, Apple's 2014-launched car project wrote Reuters . Main: The company expects to bring its own unmanned vehicle to market in 2024. However, experts warn that 2025 should be considered the earliest due to the coronavirus.