Roskomnadzor will test the law on the “sovereign Runet” on Twitter. The consequences can be unpredictable On Wednesday, Roskomnadzor announced a slowdown in Twitter in Russia and threatened the service with blocking for refusing to remove prohibited content. This is the first case of applying the law on the “sovereign Runet”, adopted in 2019.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill banning the sale of complex financial products to unqualified investors, which was promoted by the Central Bank. It also includes the requirement for mandatory testing for beginners. The document establishes that inexperienced investors will not be able to buy such products until they pass mandatory testing. It is expected to launch from October 1, 2021.

VTB Capital, one of the agents for the upcoming placement of convertible bonds of the Telegram messenger, assessed the company for investors using different methods and came to results that differed by 50 times. It makes sense to buy bonds because of the high yield, writes the investment bank. Analysts at VTB Capital believe that in 2022 Telegram could be worth between $2.2 billion and $124 billion (the document is available to The Bell).

The slowdown in Twitter due to the failure of the posts that allegedly violate the Russian law caused digital chaos today: instead of the American social network, sites of Russian state bodies fell. The State Duma warns that the slowdown in Twitter is only the beginning, and the authorities took a pencil and Facebook. We asked IT experts whether the authorities will be able to really block access to Western social networks and who first of all threaten the consequences.

The unavailability of Russian official websites is still directly related to the slowdown write by Roskomnadzor of access to the Twitter microblogging service, Mediazona and Meduza . Experts believe that the agency chose the simplest option for selecting Twitter addresses by combining t.co in the domain name, and because of this, completely foreign sites suffered.

Roskomnadzor on Wednesday announced a slowdown in Twitter in Russia and threatened to block the service for refusing to remove prohibited content. This is the first time that the law on “sovereign Runet”, adopted in 2019, has been taken seriously. We talked to experts about how the slowdown works, whether it would be as embarrassing as the Telegram block, and who could be next.

The peak of inflation in Russia will come in mid-March, and in April price growth will slow down, analysts from the Central Bank’s Research and Forecasting Department write in the bulletin “What Trends Say”. The conclusions and recommendations of the document may not coincide with the official position of the regulator. “A local maximum of annual inflation is likely to be reached in mid-March, after which it will decrease by the end of April due to the low base effect,” the document says.

Two years after the start of development, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that allows officials to avoid liability for corruption under "extraordinary circumstances". The document was published on the website of the lower house.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" - Freedom finance founder Timur Tourlov. He figured out how to organize the access of private investors from Russia and Kazakhstan to the American IPO, and then brought his business to Nasdaq and, becoming 30 with a small dollar billionaire. "Shawarma on Timiryazevskaya will seem to me for a long time" - Preparing for the interview, I consulted with friends. An interesting thing got out.

Yandex announced the launch of a service for paying for purchases on third-party sites Yandex Pay. So far, this is an extension of the payment system operating within the Yandex ecosystem, but in the future the service will also go offline. It follows from the Yandex message that using Yandex Pay, you can pay for purchases from a card linked to your Yandex account. Card data will be stored in one place in encrypted form and automatically pulled up during payment.

A year ago, Vladimir Putin instructed the government to deal with offshores to close Russian business to optimize taxes. The government took up the matter with great enthusiasm: the jurisdiction familiar to Russian companies surrender one after another. The main victim of this campaign will be large Russian companies, but whether the budget will benefit from this is a big question.

In September 2020, Russia signed a new version of the double taxation agreement with Cyprus. Tax rates on dividends and interest paid in Cyprus have increased from 0-5% to 15%. Benefits were provided for public companies - but, as The Bell found out, not everyone will be able to count on them.

The largest Russian telecom operator, Rostelecom, has restored its network after a failure. Access to a number of government and other websites has also been restored. Rostelecom resumed full network operation at 14:45 Moscow time. “The websites of government agencies are available,” told the company’s press service TASS.

After the start of trading, the GDR quotes of Fix Price, the largest chain of fixed price stores in Russia, slightly deviated from the IPO price of $9.75 per receipt. In the first minutes after the launch on the London Stock Exchange, the quotes slightly decreased, while in Moscow they showed a slight increase. As of 11:05 Moscow time, the cost of Fix Price securities on the stock exchange in London decreased to $9.73. By 14:45 Moscow time, they had risen in price to $9.75 apiece.

The Central Bank for the first time revealed a coordinated attack on the company's shares through the Telegram messenger and punished its participants. It looks like an attempt to repeat the January couch investors raid on GameStop shares, organized on Reddit.