The whole world with hope was waiting for vaccines from coronavirus, but they are in no hurry to vaccinate not only in Russia The Moscow authorities fight not only with the epidemic, but also with the unwillingness of Muscovites to vaccinate. The long -awaited vaccines, however, do not yet cause excitement not only in Russia. Sergei Sobyanin can become the most popular politician among Moscow schoolchildren: the second time in a year, the mayor extends school holidays for a week.

The Investigative Committee opened a new criminal case against Alexei Navalny - on fraud on an especially large scale. Under this article, the politician faces up to 10 years in prison. The UK website says that Alexei Navalny allegedly spent part of the money collected as donations for the Anti-Corruption Foundation and several other non-profit organizations for personal needs. The agency notes that the case was initiated against “other persons”, but does not specify who it is.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced new quarantine measures: the winter holidays for schoolchildren of all grades have been extended until January 17, and the COVID-19 vaccine will now be available to students.

Retailers asked Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to allow remote sales of alcohol during the New Year holidays, RBC writes. The letter to Sergei Sobyanin was sent by the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT), which includes Wildberries, Ozon, M.Video, Utkonos and X5 Retail Group. They explain the request to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages via the Internet by the fact that otherwise unwanted queues will form in stores and shopping centers during a pandemic.

The legendary fashion designer Pierre Carden died at the 98th year of his life, his family announced today. The revolutionary of the world of high fashion, who made it mass, Carden was waiting for death and wanted to, but he could not sell his business. Life The Italian by birth, Pierre Carden was born in Venice in 1922 in a wealthy family of a wine merchant, but soon his family left fascist Italy to France, where the fashion designer naturalized.

The government submitted to the State Duma a resolution on fines of up to 1 million rubles for operators using foreign satellite communication systems. Such punishment will be due for evading the "duties to form the Russian segment" established by last year's resolution. In fact, the point is that any traffic in Russia must go through the SORM system - including the future Starlink global Internet from Elon Musk.

The court arrested Igor Bartsits, director of the Institute of Civil Service and Administration of the RANEPA, on charges of fraud. On the same day, Svetlana Larina, the dean of the faculty of state administration and economics of the academy, was detained. According to TASS, the investigation considers Bartsits the main defendant in the case of fraud with state funds in the RANEPA.

Sberbank analysts predict that the Russian economy will return to pre-crisis levels by early 2022, with the private sector as its main driver. According to the Sberbank Center for Macroeconomic Research, this year the fall in GDP was about 3.5-4%, and already in the first half of 2021, despite the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic growth will begin to accelerate.

The ex-employee has filed a lawsuit against the British fintech service Revolut, founded by Russian businessman Nikolai Storonsky, demanding that her dismissal be declared illegal, reports FT . The decision to dismiss was made after she spoke about the internal conflict in 2019, when the company was accused of not paying cash bonuses for speaking rare languages ​​and translating from them.

The scale of the spread of COVID-19 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where an outbreak of pneumonia caused by a previously unknown type of coronavirus began, was almost 10 times greater than official statistics show, Bloomberg reports citing a study by Chinese health authorities. However, herd immunity, which can protect against a second wave of diseases, has not been formed.

Fintech giant Jack Ma's Ant Group, which has come under scrutiny from Chinese regulators, plans to consolidate its financial projects into a single holding company that could be regulated like a bank, writes Bloomberg. If this happens, Ant will effectively sacrifice the growth of its most profitable destinations. Ant plans to collect in the holding all divisions that require a license for financial transactions, the newspaper writes, citing sources.

The Moscow City Court sentenced former top manager, member of the board of Inter RAO Karina Turcan to 15 years in a penal colony for espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code) in favor of Moldova. The prosecution asked for 18 years, the defense demanded acquittal. In addition, the court turned more than 656 million rubles seized from Turcan into state revenue. The defense will appeal the verdict.

At the end of 2020, the government did not have time to spend 1 trillion rubles, which is about 4% of the spending plan, told Finance Minister Anton Siluanov reporters. The rest will be carried over to the next year. According to Siluanov, of the unspent trillion, most of the funds (400-450 million) are accumulations that will go to the National Welfare Fund, 300 million are unfulfilled government contracts, another 140 million rubles have not been spent by law enforcement agencies.

The Winter Capital Partners fund, associated with Interros of the richest man in Russia, Vladimir Potanin, has invested €50 million in the British electric car startup Arrival of the ex-head of Yota. This became known from the Arrival prospectus sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The amount of funds raised by RBC was confirmed by a source close to the startup.

The Hadassah Clinic in the Skolkovo Medical Cluster plans to bring Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to Russia when possible. this Forbes reports with reference to the owner of Hadassah Moscow and the Medscan group of companies Evgeny Tugolukov. “There is no information about the results of the negotiations yet, but the Hadassah team is making every effort to provide this opportunity to our patients,” the company’s press service said.