The government is preparing to shake off the load of pandemia and invents a new strategy As The Bell found out , the government, headed by Mikhail Mishustin, decided to celebrate its first anniversary with a new strategy for socio-economic development, and to achieve the national goals set by the President, it developed a special plan.

Navalny's team will not call for protests over the weekend of February 6 and 7, said Leonid Volkov, an associate of the opposition leader who is abroad, today. The rallies will resume in the spring and summer, and the most important thing will be preparations for the autumn elections to the State Duma. Navalny's team is taking a "small pause" to restore headquarters and withdraw from arrests.

Poland's first post-communist president, Lech Walesa, nominated Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for the Nobel Peace Prize. Walesa's letter, among other Polish media, is quoted by Gazeta Wyborcza.

The conflict with the Chinese authorities has already forced Jack Ma's Ant Group, a fintech company, to accept tough requirements close to banking regulation, but to get a chance at an IPO, it will have to make additional concessions, learned . Reuters The condition for the IPO of Alibaba's subsidiary will be the allocation of a data service on potential borrowers to a separate company, the agency writes.

Mikhail Mishustin recently celebrated a year in the prime minister’s chair. As The Bell found out, about the same time in the government, a plan was invented that should help implement trillion national projects. Now the government is going to achieve the goals on the principle of “only Change and Disrupt”, and invited experts like German Gref and Boris Kovalchuk will help in this.

Jeff Bezos leaves beautifully. He is the richest man in the world, his company is one of the most expensive. Amazon announced the change of CEO simultaneously with the publication of the results for the last quarter: the quarterly revenue for the first time exceeded $ 100 billion. An ideal moment to do other projects. Actually, Jeff Bezos in recent years has become customary to criticize. The American left does not like him especially.

with a real one this week, Politician Alexei Navalny, whose suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case was replaced will be taken to the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow for a hearing on the case of slandering the veteran on Friday, February 5. “Navalny will be personally brought to the court to attend the hearing,” court spokeswoman Alexandra Savelyeva told RIA Novosti. The opposition leader remains in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center for now.

In the list of placements in 2021 via SPAC addition. Human genetic profiling startup 23AndMe, founded by Ann Wojcicki, ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, will go public with the help of Richard Branson's company. 23AndMe to merge with VG Acquisition Corp. and will be listed on the NYSE in the second quarter of this year, said . Branson's company The valuation for the placement will be $3.5 billion.

Only half of people aged 18–21 approves the activities of Putin, showed a survey of the Levada Center, conducted in January 2021 (The Bell has results). Since January 2020, the President’s approval level in this group fell by a quarter, and almost half compared to the postcrymic euphoria. The discrepancy in views with the older generation of 55+ is growing every year.

Global McKinsey launched an audit because of the advice to employees of its Moscow office not to go to unapproved actions in support of Alexei Navalny. This is reported by RBC with reference to a letter that the head of an international consulting company, Kevin Snider, wrote to several employees. Snider called the appeal to McKinsey's Russian employees ahead of the January 23 rally a mistake and a distortion of the company's policy and values.

The eternal blocking of social networks for calls to participate in illegal protests should be provided for in Russian law. This proposal was made by the commission of the Federation Council on information policy chaired by Alexei Pushkov. The Interim Commission has called for more liability for online platforms that are used to call for participation in unsanctioned protests.

Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov today commented on the complaints of detainees at protests against the sentencing of Alexei Navalny about overcrowded detention centers. According to him, the situation “was provoked not by law enforcement officers, but by participation in unauthorized actions,” and he does not see any repressions in what is happening.

Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia in January 2021 decreased by 4.2% year-on-year and by 43% compared to the peak in December 2020, the AEB reported . Automobile Manufacturers Committee According to the association, 95,213 cars were sold in the first month of the year (166,666 in December). “After three months of substantial growth since December 2020, the market is gradually shrinking.

Under the most optimistic “high price” scenario, the cost of Brent oil could rise to $173 per barrel by 2050, follows from the annual forecast of the Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy (EIA). Now Brent, which has risen in price by 15.6% since the beginning of the year, costs almost $59 per barrel. In the base scenario, the cost of a barrel of Brent oil by 2050 will be $95, while the “low prices” scenario assumes $48, experts admitted.

A group of senators from both parties submitted a bill to the US Congress on sanctions against Russian officials after a court decision to replace Alexei Navalny's probation with a real one. This statement was published on the website of Republican Senator Marco Rubio.