The main victim of the end of the difficult 2020 was the market for bookmakers, and at the same time - financial companies serving it Behind the whole pile of new repressive laws on the Internet, a project that flew through three readings in the State Duma, which would greatly change the gambling market, was barely noticed, and at the same time rules for financial players serving it like QIWI. The most interesting thing is who will become the beneficiary of these changes.

A company with a share of the daughter of President Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov is opening an ethnic catering inside the Dream Island Moscow amusement park Amiran Mutsoev, writes . Open Media Among the planned establishments are the Ukrainian bistro LeBorsch, the Uzbek Dastarhan and two Italian establishments - eKere and Da Giovanni.

Quotes of the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba at the auction in New York on Thursday, December 24 fell by more than 15%, before that in Hong Kong - by 8%. This is the largest intraday drop in the history of the company. The reason is the start of an antitrust investigation in China. The new fall means that since the beginning of the conflict between the founder of the company, Jack Ma, and the leadership of China, Alibaba has lost a quarter of its capitalization, writes WSJ.

The UK will enter 2021 with a trade agreement with the European Union. The parties have been haggling to the last minute and the UK hasn't been able to secure all the preferences, but it's still better than going back to the standard WTO tariff mechanism and the chaos of a no-deal exit.

Several forums on the darknet have published announcements for the sale of data of 16.8 thousand clients of the Freedom Finance broker, including 450 qualified investors. The company has promised to investigate. to the data leakage of Freedom Finance clients drew attention The Leaks of Information Telegram channel, which is administered by Vice President of Acrnois Ashot Hovhannisyan, . He makes such finds regularly .

Which investment strategy to choose? What assets to refuse? How to use turbulence in the markets in your favor? Publisher The Bell and "Russian Norms!" Anfisa Voronina discussed how to save and invest, with the rector of the Russian Economic School (RASH) Ruben Yenikolopov, vice president of the development company Ingrad Artem Bortnevsky, partner of Cushman & Wakefield Denis Sokolov and financial analyst Natalia Smirnova in a special issue of YouTube channel Bell.club Live.

Sber and Merlion, one of Russia's largest IT distributors and wholesalers of electronics, have announced a strategic partnership. The co-owners of the company that owns the Positronics chain of stores, the Citilink online store and the iRU computer manufacturer are now under arrest.

From Monday, December 28, law enforcers, public utilities workers and NGOs will be able to sign up for coronavirus vaccination in Moscow, reported . the website of the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, Starting Monday, people employed in the housing and communal services, catering, sports and law enforcement agencies, including the police, prosecutors, courts and others, will be able to sign up for vaccination.

Most Russians have heard about the poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny, but are not inclined to blame it on the Russian authorities. These are the results of a survey conducted by the Levada Center on December 21-23. 61% of respondents have heard something about the poisoning, 17% are following it closely. A minority (15%) of the respondents consider the incident an attempt by the authorities to eliminate a political opponent.

Qiwi wants to create on its basis a single betting center for betting shops and plans to apply to the Russian government with such a proposal, the company told Interfax. The creation of such a center is envisaged by the draft law adopted by the State Duma on December 23 on the reform of the bookmaker market.

The Chinese authorities are starting a new attack on Jack Ma's Empire After the autumn demarche with the abolition of the largest IPO Ant Group in the history, the Chinese authorities seriously took up Jack Ma. Now an antitrust investigation has begun against Alibaba. The next next in line is Ant Group itself, with which the authorities will have a meeting on the topic of regulating her work.

The Chinese regulator announced an antimonopoly investigation against Alibaba and a separate meeting with representatives of the Fintekh-Gigant Ant Group, which had grown out of it, the record IPO of which was torn in November. The damage to the second largest Chinese company is still difficult to assess, but it certainly does not threaten its founder Jack Ma, experts say this.

Yandex has invested $4 million in Russian genetic research startup Genotek, which this year began doing PCR tests for coronavirus, the company itself announced today. Under the terms of the deal, Artem Elmuratov and Valery Ilyinsky, who founded the company in 2010, will retain control, Yandex will receive a seat on the board of directors.