The Supreme Court, with the support of the Government, proposed to decriminalize minor crimes under 53 economic articles. What does this mean for business? The Supreme Court, this time with the support of the government, introduced the draft in the Criminal Code of the concept of “criminal misconduct” - this will be qualified for the first time committed crimes of small gravity and release the perpetrators from criminal liability.

The Supreme Court of Russia (SC) again submitted to the State Duma a bill proposing to introduce the concept of "criminal misconduct" into criminal law. A similar bill introduced in 2018 was withdrawn by the Supreme Court after a negative response from the government. The draft law of the Supreme Court proposes to classify 112 offenses as criminal offenses, including 53 in the economic sphere.

About 5 million bank customers have joined the System of Fast Payments from the Central Bank, created to compete with Sberbank in the money transfer market. This is almost a third of all SBP users, only 15.6% of daily users of the Sberbank mobile application, or 5% of all state bank customers. For the first time, Kirill Tsarev, deputy chairman of the board of the state bank, spoke about the number of Sberbank Online users who connected to the SBP, RBC reports .

The Norwegian State Pension Fund (NBIM), the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, has recommended that companies around the world in which it invests increase the number of women on their boards of directors. In the event that women or men make up less than 30% of the board of directors, Norway's sovereign wealth fund asks companies to think about setting appropriate goals for achieving gender diversity and subsequently report on progress.

China's ByteDance has changed its mind about selling TikTok's US division to American companies Oracle and Walmart, the South China Morning Post writes , citing a source. According to him, with the departure of Trump from the presidency, the deal lost its meaning. “The deal was made to meet the demands of the Trump administration. But he left, and with him the meaning of this deal,” a source familiar with the situation, who asked to remain anonymous, told the South China Morning Post.

Propagandist Vladimir Solovyov was unable to start broadcasting on the increasingly popular Clubhouse social network, having been banned even before the first broadcast after numerous complaints from users. Solovyov planned to launch a virtual “room” in the Clubhouse called “Why didn’t the queer revolution take off in Russia?” at 17:00 Moscow time on February 15, but he did not succeed.

Republicans who are dissatisfied with Donald Trump create a separate party. As it became possible and what could lead to, The Bell explained by the President of the Russian Economic School (RASH) Shlomo Weber and a professor of international relations of the University of Texas University A&M Juval Weber. America is divided. This fact is no longer in doubt.

In 2020, cameras helped the traffic police issue more than 145.5 million fines, which is 19.2% more than a year earlier, writes , citing data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kommersant With the help of cameras and inspectors, Russians were most often fined for speeding (124 million fines), violation of signs and markings (13.6 million), driving through a red traffic light (5.2 million).

The rally of supporters of Alexei Navalny on February 14 took place without direct violations of the law, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian President, on February 15. Therefore, there were no reasons for police intervention and mass detentions, he said. “Everything was calm yesterday,” Peskov explains.

The founder of Tinkoff Bank, Oleg Tinkov, revealed in his blog on vc.ru the details of the work of the charitable fund to help fight leukemia, which was created by his family.

The Russian electric scooter rental service Whoosh has attracted more than $25 million in investments from Russian investors. With the funds raised - more than 1.9 billion rubles - Whoosh plans to increase the fleet in the cities of presence, launch new territories, and also continue to improve its own sharing platform, IoT module and other IT products, the company's press service told The Bell.

To the two main Russian payment ecosystems - Sberbank and Yandex - a third should be added: Tinkoff has registered trademarks for such a service, writes VTimes. According to the publication, Tinkoff Bank has filed an application to register the trademarks Tinkoff Pay and “Tinkoff Cashier”.

The Russian chain of fixed price stores Fix Price has officially announced plans to conduct an IPO on the London Stock Exchange and a secondary listing on the Moscow Exchange. During the first large initial public offering of the year in the West, the company may be valued at $6 billion, and it must raise $1 billion. Fix Price, one of Russia's largest retailers, is preparing an IPO of global depository receipts (GDRs) on the London Stock Exchange, the company said in a press release.

The government is preparing business support measures for 200 billion rubles The government is preparing a new package of assistance measures to business, which can be estimated at 150-200 billion rubles, Izvestia reported today with reference to the Protocol of the meeting with the First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov. There, in particular, the extension of the program of preferential loans and tax benefits were discussed there.

Ivan Safronov, a former correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti accused of treason, adviser to the head of Roskosmos, told Kommersant about his relationship with Martin Laris, who was called in the press with reference to the investigation an employee of the Czech special services and an alleged recruiter. The journalist emphasized that he helped his friend from the Czech Republic to promote an Internet project, but did not engage in espionage or the transfer of secret data.