Customs brought a criminal case on non -payment of duties for 3.1 billion rubles to the H&M clothing network This afternoon, the head of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev proudly reported to Vladimir Putin that foreign investors win almost 90% of judicial disputes in Russia. And just a few hours later it turned out that the chance to prove the validity of this thesis in court appeared in the Swedish clothing network H&M.

The winner of the next industrial revolution will be the country that first deployed 6G networks, and most importantly, included other countries in its ecosystem, writes Bloomberg. The benefits of communication two orders of magnitude faster than 5G are so obvious that the intensity of competition in the field of advanced developments is already reminiscent of the nuclear race of the Cold War, although it is at least 10 years before the first practical implementation of new networks.

Yandex plans to launch the Yandex Pay cashless payment service, a Russian analogue of Apple Pay and Google Pay. The service will be available on Yandex web pages, found out . VTimes When the service is launched, users will be able to enter and save their bank card data in it and make non-cash payments with it.

The IMF has advised the Russian authorities not to return to dokovid levels of unemployment benefits. At the same time, the Monetary Fund said that the Russian economy was more resilient to the pandemic than other countries. The combination of low oil prices, tight policies and sanctions risks has led to sluggish economic growth, insufficient to bring the incomes of Russians closer to those of developed countries, the IMF report says.

The Russian customs service opened a case against the Russian division of H&M for understating the amount of duties. The company has already covered the difference, but this will not save it from persecution, writes Bloomberg. As the publication learned, the criminal case was initiated by the Federal Customs Service (FCS) in December 2020.

The World Health Organization has published the results of a field study of the origin of the new coronavirus: the version of the virus leak from the laboratory in Wuhan is recognized as "unlikely", writes Bloomberg. The study of the virus in China was supposed to help WHO answer the question of where COVID-19 originally came from, which caused a pandemic in 2020.

The imbalance in supply and demand caused by the suspension of chip production during the pandemic has reached many sectors of the industry, from automotive to smartphone assembly, writes Bloomberg. Market cramps will continue for another year. Automotive and electronics makers, the fastest to cut production in the first weeks of the pandemic, are now paying the price.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov officially announced that he was leaving the post of artistic director of Gogol Center. The Department of Culture of the Moscow City Hall did not extend the contract with him. In his Instagram, Serebrennikov published a letter in which Moscow deputy notifies him that on February 25 expires the validity of the employment contract with the director.

French Total, one of the largest oil companies in the world, has announced its decision to change its name to TotalEnergies. The decision is in line with the company's strategy of transition to green technologies. In 2020-2030, the oil giant will undergo a complete transformation based on sustainable development, Patrick Pouyanne, CEO of Total, promised.

The French Total - one of the largest oil companies in the world - announced the decision to change the name to Totlenergies. The solution corresponds to the strategy of the company's transition to green technologies. In 2020–2030, the oil giant awaits a complete transformation, which is based on sustainable development, promised by Patrick Poyanne, CEO of Total.

The French Total, one of the largest oil producing companies in the world, announced the decision to change its name to TotalEnergies. The decision is in line with the company's transition strategy to green technologies. In 2020–2030, the oil giant will undergo a complete transformation, based on sustainable development, Total CEO Patrick Pouyanne promised.

Sales of products via the Internet grew in 2020 by 314% and exceeded 135 billion rubles, INFOLine analysts calculated. The market leaders are Moscow and the region. During the pandemic 2020, Russians have learned and got used to buying products via the Internet and are not ready to return to traditional stores, according to INFOLine data ( described by Forbes). In May 2020, peak indicators were recorded, in summer they decreased, but in autumn they exceeded the spring maximum.

Twitter is thinking about a paid subscription - according to Bloomberg , the social network may have its own system of donations for premium content, a paid subscription to the Tweetdeck integrator and paid cancellation of posts. Right now, most of Twitter's revenue comes from targeted ads.

Bloomberg has prepared a list of political developments that investors are advised to pay attention to among emerging markets in 2021. It included elections to the State Duma, the outcome of which could change the investment climate in Russia. Elections are the main political event for emerging and so-called "frontier" markets, Bloomberg notes. This year, investors will focus on how quickly governments can bring the economy out of recession.

A colleague of Alexei Navalny, who is in jail, Leonid Volkov announced a new protest action - it will take place on February 14 and will have a "completely different format." Volkov later clarified that it was proposed to go out to their yards in the evening and shine the flashlights on the phone into the sky. “Today or tomorrow we will tell about its format. It will just be a completely different format.