Investors from Internet forums defeated Wall Street at the Battle of Gamestop. This can change the American stock market Wall Street defeated the Reddit hamsters: a two-month battle of retail investors from Internet forums with hedge funds around the Gamestop chain of stores ended with an unconditional surrender of investment bankers, which recorded losses of $ 5 billion.

News about the possible resumption of Boeing-737 MAX flights in Europe on Wednesday failed to set off the main thing - the company's record-breaking poor results in 2020. Boeing suffered a loss of nearly $12 billion, and revenue for the year fell by a quarter to $58.2 billion, less than that of its main competitor, European Airbus.

Internet forum investors beat Wall Street in the "Battle of GameStop." This could change the US stock market Reddit hamsters beat Wall Street: A two-month battle between retail investors from online forums and hedge funds over GameStop shares ended in an unconditional capitulation of investment bankers who recorded losses of $ 5 billion.

Viktor Khmarin, the son of Vladimir Putin’s classmate at the law department of St. Petersburg State University, was appointed director of RusHydro. Khmarin's appointment was predicted by the media. Several Kommersant sources reported that Khmarin’s candidacy was finally approved by the board of directors. According to the publication, the contract with Khmarin was concluded for five years.

The Russian and British Foreign Ministries exchanged courtesies in connection with the case of Alexei Navalny: in the UK they hinted at possible new sanctions due to the arrest of the oppositionist, and in Russia they announced the impossibility of doing business with the EU. British Foreign Office Minister Wendy Morton said in a statement that the country was "shocked" by Navalny's detention.

The Insider published a joint investigation with Bellingcat on the involvement of the team of "Navalny's poisoners" in other similar cases. The investigators indicate that they were able to quite reliably link three murders to the "group of employees of the FSB Research Institute-2". Nikita Isaev The leader of the patriotic movement "New Russia" Nikita Isaev died on November 16, 2019, on the Tambov-Moscow train.

Founder and General Director of the IVI online cinema Oleg Tumanov-the new hero of the project "Russian norms!" In an interview with Elizabeth Ossetian, he recalled how he left his career in finances for his work, predicted his business for tens of percent every year and compared three oligarchs with whom he worked. "I saw how digital video changes a huge industry" - Oleg, you are a financier. You have a Harvard at Backgrand, the Worton Business School. You're talking about money.

The Boeing-737 MAX airliner will return to service in Europe after a 22-month break, writes Reuters . The Aviation Safety Agency of the European Union (EASA) recognized the use of the aircraft as safe. EASA chief executive Patrick Kay said the agency has full confidence in the aircraft's safety, which "is a precondition for obtaining a permit." Kai noted that regulators will continue to monitor the performance of the 737 MAX as flights resume on the aircraft.

Vladimir Putin spoke at the economic forum in Davos for the first time in 12 years, albeit remotely. As promised by Dmitry Peskov, the speech turned out to be “quite lengthy” (40 minutes) and was very peaceful. Putin several times stated the need to cooperate with other countries, called Russia a part of Europe and a country whose interests are built around the individual and the family. Highlights from the President's speech: The situation in the world is comparable to the 1930s.

Today in Moscow, searches were carried out in the apartments of at least a dozen supporters of Alexei Navalny. In the Moscow apartment of Navalny himself, who is in a pre-trial detention center, they were the first to come with a search - as FBK director Ivan Zhdanov wrote, the brother of the opposition leader Oleg was in the apartment. Zhdanov announced the search on his Twitter. Zhdanov stressed that for what reason the security forces came to break the door to Navalny's apartment is unclear.

The “Palace for Putin” is gradually acquiring names other than those named in the FBK investigation, Alexei Navalny. Open Media found links between Kompleks LLC (according to FBK, it owns a palace near Gelendzhik) with the companies of Sergei Shishkarev, who bought TransContainer in 2019. According to the publication, Shishkarev's companies bought three plots on the territory belonging to the palace from companies that, according to FBK, are controlled by Gennady Timchenko and Vladimir Kolbin.

State Duma deputy from United Russia Sergei Sopchuk was found to have assets worth 38 billion rubles - according to the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, they were seized and turned into state revenue, wrote . Kommersant The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow recognized as legitimate the demand of the prosecutor's office to recover his assets from the deputy.

To work with wealthy Russians, the Federal Tax Service will create a special inspection. She will collect dossiers on wealthy citizens, and this is already scaring business, writes VTimes. According to the publication’s sources, the Federal Tax Service will have an entire department dedicated to VIP clients. It will control tax deductions for Russians whose income exceeds 500 million rubles per year.

The State Duma on Wednesday, January 27, voted for a bill on ratification of the agreement on the extension of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START-3). President Putin introduced the bill only the night before. The agreement between Moscow and Washington, which expires on February 5, 2021, is extended for the maximum possible period of five years, until February 5, 2026.

The FSB said a no-fly zone in the Gelendzhik region was introduced in 2020 to protect against NATO intelligence. The department has no other specially protected zone in this area. Earlier, the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Alexei Navalny spoke about the no-fly zone over the "Putin's Palace" near Gelendzhik in his investigation.