The ECHR urged to immediately free Alexei Navalny. Russia is not going to do this. What will this lead to? On the eve of the long holidays, Saturday will become the day of the courts of Alexei Navalny - in the morning the court will consider an appeal to the decision to send the opposition to the colony for 3.5 years, and in the afternoon will pronounce the verdict in the case of slander for the veteran.

An investigator in Spain has reopened a "raider" case closed last year against Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, writes Deutsche Welle. Update The proceedings will not be resumed: the subpoena was sent to the defendants in connection with a "significant error in the wording" of the previous decision, writes RBC.

Tinkoff Bank decided to compensate customers for today's major failure of Internet banking and Tinkoff Investment services. “As compensation, we are announcing February 18th as a free trading day – tomorrow the commissions for all transactions (exchange and over-the-counter), as well as commissions for margin trading when transferring positions from Thursday to Friday, will be zeroed” A large-scale failure began at about 15.30 Moscow time and lasted at least four hours.

The Clubhouse social network may become the first Internet site to fall under the new law on protecting Russians from Internet censorship. Roskomnadzor demanded that she restore the account of Russian journalist and propagandist Vladimir Solovyov under the threat of a large fine. The actions of the Clubhouse administration violate the rights of citizens to access information and its free distribution, according to a letter sent to the social network by the Russian service.

The mobile application of Tinkoff Bank has crashed, according to the data on the Downdetector website. The login issue affected several thousand customers. According to Downdetector, the incorrect operation of Tinkoff Bank services is observed in almost the entire European part of Russia. “We are already repairing it, we will try as soon as possible, said ” Tinkoff in a message on official Twitter. - Sorry". The failure occurred around 15:30 Moscow time.

The Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled to order Russia to immediately release the applicant in the case of Aleksey Navalny v. Russia. The Panel found that the existence and seriousness of the threat to the applicant were sufficient for such a decision, given the circumstances of his detention. A link to the court decision leads the website of the oppositionist.

A criminal case was opened against the founder of the Pyaterochka chain of stores, Andrei Rogachev, for extortion on an especially large scale, learned Kommersant . According to the publication, claims arose from his former business partner Mikhail Goryainov after Rogachev's appeal to a London court two years ago.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced ex-presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District and former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Viktor Ishaev to five years probation, reports TASS . Ishaev, who supported his successor, ex-governor of the region Sergei Furgal, objectionable to Moscow, was found guilty of embezzling 7.5 million rubles belonging to Rosneft. Viktor Ishaev was sentenced to five years of suspended imprisonment and a fine of 800,000 rubles.

Among the likely beneficiaries of Jack Ma's Ant Group, a fintech company IPO, are powerful players opposed to Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal. This was the main reason for such a sudden blocking of the company's entry into the stock exchange.

At the end of 2020, Ozon broke even, follows from the company's preliminary operating results. After a super-successful IPO in November, Ozon's fourth-quarter and full-year turnover is up 140%. Ozon's turnover (GMV, including services to customers and merchants, including advertising) in the fourth quarter of 2020 exceeded 74 billion rubles, which is more than 140% higher than in the same period in 2019.

Clubhouse is the most popular application in the Russian App Store. Every day, thousands of users are recorded in the voice social network, including famous entrepreneurs , managers, artists and show business. The most popular format of the presentation of stellar speakers on the platform was the regular rooms “Who are and why ...” Bloggers Dania Milokhin and Nastya Ivleeva, the head of Yandex Tigran Khudardyan and other bright heroes participated in them.

Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has raised $850 million in a $74 billion funding round, according to CNBC. Six months ago, in August 2020, investors valued it 60% cheaper, investing almost $2 billion at a $46 billion estimate. The placement took place at $419.99 per share. This is a reference to Musk's famous 2018 tweet about a Tesla buyback that cost him big trouble with regulators. $420 At the same time, company insiders and early-stage investors sold their shares for $750 million.

In Moscow, inspections of commercial and non-profit organizations began, whose leaders were among those detained at the protests, reports . Apology of Protest Checks of organizations with detained leaders are carried out by the economic security department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow on the basis of a number of articles of the Federal Law “On operational-search activity” and the Federal Law “On the police”.

The scammers took advantage of the skyrocketing popularity of the Clubhouse social network and the poor understanding among Russians of how it works. A new fraud scheme was discovered by Kommersant. In the services "Avito" and "Yula" appeared announcements for the sale of invitations to the closed social network Clubhouse at a price of 200 to 10 thousand rubles, the newspaper writes.

Roman Abramovich may have a new business in Russia, writes Kommersant . According to sources, the billionaire is interested in creating a luxury hotel asset with a vineyard in Gelendzhik, as well as an upscale recreation center on the shores of Lake Ladoga. Roman Abramovich was actively interested in hotel projects in Gelendzhik and Karelia, three sources in the real estate market told Kommersant.