Dating company Bumble has filed for an IPO. It is planned to be traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker BMBL. Bumble owns two dating services: Bumble and Badoo. From the documents that the company has filed with the US Securities Commission (SEC), it follows that their revenue in 2019 amounted to $488.9 million, which is 35.8% more than a year ago. According to the company, they have 42 million monthly active users and 2.4 million paid subscriptions.

The total number of victims from coronavirus has exceeded 2 million people, follows from data from Johns Hopkins University, which tracks global statistics on COVID-19. In total, 2,000,905 people have died from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Of these, more than 389 thousand victims are in the United States, 207 thousand - in Brazil, 151 thousand - in India. Russia is in 8th place in terms of the number of victims with 63 thousand deaths.

Vnukovo announced that it would not allow journalists to cover the arrival of Alexei Navalny, and the Moscow prosecutor's office intends to equate the gathering of people meeting the politician with an unsanctioned rally.

Norway is the first European country to officially warn about the risks of vaccination for the elderly and seriously ill people. After receiving the first dose of the vaccine, 23 people in the country have died. Norwegian officials have said COVID-19 vaccines may be too dangerous for very old and terminally ill people. This is the first statement from the European health authority about the possible consequences of the vaccine, according to Bloomberg.

Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin believes that in the near future we need to be very careful in the tax sphere, in his opinion, there should be no new changes in tax legislation. “Today my motto is no changes,” Kudrin explained. On Thursday, Rector of the RANEPA Vladimir Mau said that one of the options to stimulate the economy could be exemption from personal income tax for low-income citizens. Kudrin noted that he is reserved about this proposal.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with Russian ties. He is suspected of illegally promoting the interests of the Russian insurance company RESO-Garantia, writes AFP.

For the first time, the Central Bank counted the money of Russians in brokerage accounts and compiled a portrait of the investor. According to the regulator, by October, private investors had 6.7 trillion rubles in brokerage accounts. This is approximately 20% of what citizens keep in banks. From January to September last year, the accounts of private investors were replenished by 1.2 trillion rubles, or by 22%.

Russia has begun the process of withdrawing from the open skies treaty, said the Foreign Ministry . In November last year, the United States withdrew from it. This upset the balance of interests of the states parties to the treaty, the Foreign Ministry stated. Russia and the United States have for several years accused each other of selectively complying with the terms of the treaty. In 2017, Washington announced restrictions on Russian observation flights over American territory.

The crisis year of 2020 turned out to be very successful for the largest online retailer in Russia, Wildberries. The company almost doubled its turnover and customer base. Wildberries statistics for the past year are quoted by vc.ru: revenue increased by 96%, to 437 billion rubles, the number of buyers also doubled - from 18 million to 40 million people - with a proportional increase in orders, and sellers more than quadrupled, from 19 thousand up to 91 thousand.

The cost of taxi rides in Russia at large aggregators has grown by 50-70% in six months by the end of 2020, Bank of America analysts have calculated. The report of an American bank ( described by Kommersant) says that compared to May-June by December 2020, taxi prices increased in Moscow and the regions by an average of 56% for Yandex.Taxi and 68% for Citymobil ". Compared to December 2019, prices increased by 31% and 39%, respectively.

The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in German waters is allowed until the end of May. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the statement of the regulator - the Federal Office for Shipping and Hydrography (BSH). We are talking about laying pipes in the German exclusive economic zone with a total length of about 30 km. Thus, the regulator extended the time frame of the already issued permit, which the NordStream 2 project company requested in July 2020.

The US Department of Commerce excluded the VSMPO-Avisma corporation from the list of "end military users", drew attention RBC to this. The list was published in December and includes 45 Russian companies that Washington believes are cooperating with the military. Persons on the list cannot purchase a number of goods and technologies from the United States.

Prices for cellular communication during the year may grow by 15-16%, reports Vedomosti with reference to the analytical agency Content Review. Operators have had to increase costs due to the coronavirus pandemic and new legislative initiatives.

In-person classes in all schools in Russia will resume on Monday, January 18. This was reported by TASS with reference to the head of the Russian Ministry of Education, Sergei Kravtsov. “From Monday, January 18, schools in all 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, including Moscow, open their doors, resuming the traditional educational process,” the minister said at a Friday briefing in the government. He clarified that only ten schools in seven regions are the exception.

Rosneft is offering shares in the large Arctic project Vostok Oil, which combines fields in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Taimyr Peninsula, to the largest oil traders, Reuters reports citing sources. Last year, negotiations with other possible partners stalled due to the collapse in oil prices.