Alexey Miller remains in Gazprom for another five years. What will happen to the company's shares? Alexei Miller went on the fifth time-today the Board of Directors of Gazprom elected him the chairman of the company's board for the next five years contrary to rumors about Miller's resignation, especially active in the last two to three years. The shares of a gas monopoly have traditionally responded to good news for Miller by a drop of 1.5%.

The Ministry of Finance announced that it included the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen in the structure of the liquid part of the NWF, reducing the share of the dollar and the euro. The currency structure of the NWF funds includes the yen (5%) and the yuan (15%). “The shares of the US dollar and the euro were reduced from 45% to 35%, while the share of the pound sterling was kept unchanged at 10%,” the report says.

Yandex received an official warning from the Federal Antimonopoly Service about the inadmissibility of using algorithms (the so-called "sorcerers") to lower competing companies in the search results. If the company does not stop the practice within a month, a case will be filed against it, authorities said.

The head of the international consulting company McKinsey, Kevin Snyder, was fired by partners "after several crises," writes the Financial Times. The FT notes that this can be considered not an ordinary resignation, but a dismissal for incomplete compliance: none of his five predecessors served less than two terms, and some - three or four. That the 54-year-old Snider was out before his second term shocked several insiders.

Alexey Miller was re-elected as head of Gazprom for another 5 years - his new term in office will begin on May 31. Thus, Miller will remain the permanent leader of the country's largest energy company since 2001. Gazprom's statement states that the company's board of directors unanimously decided to elect Miller as chairman of the board of the state corporation for another 5 years - from May 31, 2021.

For decades, the small biotech company Novavax has been trying to develop any approved vaccine, but without success. By January 2020, she had six months of working capital left, and the shares were trading at $4 apiece. Today, Novavax is close to registering its COVID-19 vaccine, which could become one of the most effective, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Georgia opens the border for Russians from March 1, 2021 - to enter the country, you will need to present a negative PCR test for coronavirus, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said. It will be possible to get into the country only by plane - the land border remains closed. At the same time, direct flights between Russia and Georgia were closed even before the pandemic - since the summer of 2019. Consequently, Russians will be able to enter the country only through third countries.

In the next round of funding, investors can value Europe's once most valuable fintech startup, Klarna Bank, at $31 billion, nearly three times the valuation the Swedish payment service received in September. Klarna is preparing to raise between $800 million and $1 billion in its March round, sources told Bloomberg. Current investors decided to get involved ahead of a possible public listing scheduled for 2022, they said. A company spokesman declined to comment.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" -Professor of the Economics of the University of California at Los Angeles Oleg Itskhoki. In an interview with Elizabeth Ossetian, he told how he built his career at American universities, and explained what kind of capitalism Russia needs. - You graduated from the Economic Facility of Moscow State University. How did you get to America after that? - The easiest way to get to PhD in America from Europe is to graduate from the Russian Economic School.

Traders remember well the negative oil prices in March 2020, but rumors are beginning to appear on the market that oil will cost more than $100 by the end of 2022, writes Bloomberg. Azerbaijani company Socar Trading SA predicts that Brent crude could rise to triple digits in the next 18-24 months, while Bank of America predicts a jump in oil prices to $100 or more over the next few years.

To enter the 1% of the richest people in Russia, you need to have $ 400 thousand. This is almost 20 times less than the amount needed to become one of the richest citizens of Monaco, and half the threshold for the top 1% of the Chinese, Knight Frank found out. A study by Knight Frank, conducted in two dozen countries, describes Bloomberg.

The Russian Forbes released the traditional rating of the most expensive Runet companies. Its leader, like last year, was Yandex, but the top 3 included new participants — Ozon and Wildberries marketplaces. Yandex takes first place in the ranking of the 30 most expensive Internet companies in Russia according to Forbes for the third year in a row. According to the publication, the cost of "Yandex" amounted to $ 22.98 billion (+ 57%).

Aeroflot has reduced the salaries of pilots and flight personnel due to the drop in air traffic during the pandemic, said the company's CEO Mikhail Poluboyarinov in an interview with RBC. He called it a "global trend". Poluboyarinov said that the alternative would be downsizing. “Aeroflot is a unique team, the preservation of the team is one of the most important tasks.

The Telegram messenger has introduced regular updates. These include converting groups with a large number of members to broadcast groups while keeping voice chats, automatic deletion of messages, and temporary invitation links. Telegram has the ability to convert a group with a large number of participants into a group for broadcasts, according to the official blog of the messenger.

Law enforcement officers detained the director of the Norilsk enrichment plant LLC Medvezhiy Ruchey of Norilsk Nickel, where on the night of February 20, three employees died during the collapse of the gallery of the crushing shop. According to investigators, the director knew about the “emergency and limited working condition” of the building, but did not stop work.