What are they looking for in Clubhouse brands and investors The past week has become Clubhouse in Russia. The audience of social networks with audio challenges grew 20 times, after the influensers there were large brands, and the ex-head of the Russian financial regulator is already calling Elvira Nabiullina there. Clubhouse users, looking at the top managers of large companies walk around the virtual rooms, are wondering: when do they manage to work?

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has arrested political scientist Demuri Voronin for two months in a case of high treason, reports , citing the press service of the court. Interfax Voronin is suspected of transferring classified data to one of the NATO countries, Interfax writes, citing an informed source. The details of the case were not disclosed, as it is marked with the heading "top secret", notes .

The Moscow Exchange plans to list 33 shares and depositary receipts of major international companies on March 1. The number of securities of foreign issuers with which transactions can be made on the Moscow Exchange will thus increase by 1.5 times, to 88. Newcomers to the list of shares of foreign companies traded on the Moscow Exchange include Oracle, Lockheed Martin, Moderna, Gap, Toyota, Sony, Ebay, Colgate-Palmolive and others.

The founder of Dodo Brands Fedor Ovchinnikov gave an interview to The Bell in the most fashionable way: in the open chat in the voice social network Clubhouse. In the midst of discussion, 2.5 thousand people entered the “room”. Ovchinnikov spoke in detail about the international expansion of his company, the experience of opening restaurants in the UK, Vietnam, Poland, the USA and other countries and answered the questions of the audience.

At the end of 2020, Renault's losses reached a record 8 billion euros, follows from the report. Recovering the biggest losses in the history of the company will not be easy, as coronavirus restrictions in the transport sector associated with the supply chain still remain. The French automaker recorded a net loss of 8 billion euros ($9.7 billion) due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic against 141 million euros in 2019.

Belarus will still export oil products through Russian seaports - an intergovernmental agreement on this was signed today in Moscow by the Ministers of Transport of Russia Vitaly Savelyev and Belarus Alexei Avramenko. The document provides for the transshipment of 9.8 million tons of oil products by Belarusian enterprises through Russian seaports in the Baltic in 2021-2023. This year, the parties agreed to transship 3.5 million tons, next year - 2.2 million, in 2023 - 3.1 million tons.

In their desperate fight against the pandemic, the richest countries have contracted as much as a billion more doses of COVID-19 vaccines than they need to vaccinate their populations. As a result, the poorest countries will be forced to fight for the remaining parties - and it is possible that they will get them more expensively.

Rising oil prices and a weak ruble could give the Russian budget up to $33 billion in social spending, Bloomberg writes citing analysts at Sova Capital. The possibility of maneuver will be useful to the Kremlin against the backdrop of growing discontent in society, the agency notes. After a 25% increase in oil prices this year, Russia has received more rubles per barrel of Brent than at any time since mid-2019, the agency said.

Norilsk Nickel intends to pay a fine of 146.2 billion rubles for a fuel spill at CHPP-3 in Norilsk in accordance with a court decision, Andrey Bugrov, the company's senior vice president for sustainable development, said. The payment of damages will be due to the reduction of dividends. “There is a court decision, we will make this payment, it goes to the federal budget,” Bugrov said during a direct line, quotes TASS .

In 2020, fraudsters stole an average of 13,900 rubles at a time, according to a study by the Tinkoff group “Fraud in the Russian banking sector in 2020”. Compared to 2019, the average check for a single theft decreased by 8%, but the amount stolen increased by 70% over the year. Last year, scammers stole from Russians an average of 13,900 rubles at a time, which is 8% less than the average theft check in 2019 (15,000 rubles), follows from the report of the Tinkoff group, which RBC read .

In the bidding for tax breaks for Russian business, the victory went to the Ministry of Finance, writes VTimes, citing experts. New conditions for the application of reduced tax rates on dividends in offshore companies remained unavailable to most public companies. After the Ministry of Finance left the possibility of applying a preferential rate of 5% (instead of 15%) for some offshore companies, the scope of its application narrowed.

The Algorithmika International School of Programming and Mathematics for Children has attracted investments from Vladimir Potanin's Winter Capital Partners fund and the Russian-Chinese Technology Investment Fund, according to a message sent to The Bell.

NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover on Mars. After this, it will be very difficult for the United States to abandon the Mars program Launched in July 2020, Perseverance immediately landed on the surface of Mars late in the evening of February 18, Moscow time. Success was not guaranteed: landing on the Red Planet is difficult due to its thin atmosphere, which both requires thermal protection and does not allow effective aerodynamic braking.

New US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in all likelihood, will not affect German companies associated with its construction, Bloomberg reports citing sources. The Joe Biden administration wants to block the project, but in such a way that relations with the main European partner, already strained under Trump, do not suffer. The US Congress is required to submit a report with new restrictions on Nord Stream 2 on Friday, February 19.

On the night of Thursday to Friday, February 19, NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover (rover) on Mars. The significance of this success is that after it it will be very difficult for the United States to abandon the Mars program - first in the form of automatic delivery of collected samples, and then manned missions. What happened Launched in July 2020, Perseverance landed on the surface of Mars on the move late on February 18, Moscow time.