The accident and traffic jam in the Suez Canal threaten world trade The global oil market is excited by an accident on the Suez Canal, which on Tuesday was blocked by a huge Ever Given containers. The operation to rescue the vessel will last two days, and now a traffic jam of 150 ships with billions of dollars has formed in the channel, including $ 160 million with Russian oil.

Arrested for two months in the case of a bribe, the head of Biotek, Boris Shpigel, in an interview with Kommersant, called his case purely custom-made. According to him, he was offered protection through the FSB. Spiegel is sure that the essence of the case, in which the ex-governor of the Penza region Ivan Belozertsev was arrested, lies precisely in control over Biotek.

to the State Duma A bill has been submitted giving the Central Bank additional powers. According to the document, the regulator will be able to restrict the issuance of unsecured loans to the population by banks and microfinance organizations. The deputies proposed to allow the Central Bank to establish quotas for issuing loans for credit and microfinance organizations. Also, the regulator will be able to set the maximum share of certain types of loans in their total volume.

Canada imposed sanctions against nine Russians involved in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. According to Canadian Foreign Minister Mark Garneau, the nine sanctioned Russian officials "were involved in the attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny, his persecution and the suppression of civil protests in Russia." The sanctions are in line with those previously imposed by the EU, the UK and the US.

The condition of Alexei Navalny in the colony has worsened, his lawyers suspect that the oppositionist is in the prison hospital, wrote the head of Navalny's headquarters, Leonid Volkov. Lawyers Olga Mikhailova and Vadim Kobzev reported that today, March 24, they were unable to meet with Navalny in IK-2 in Pokrov under far-fetched pretexts, despite the preliminary appointment.

in the Russian Guard will appear A military-political department - it will be engaged in the moral and political education of military personnel and employees, said the head of the department, Viktor Zolotov. By the end of 2021, the units will have deputy commanders for political work - analogues of Soviet political officers. Zolotov announced that on March 23 he had signed an order on the creation of the Main Military-Political Directorate (GVPU).

In 2020, Yandex.Lavka wanted to grow two to three times, and grew by 10-15. The rapid growth forced to change the model and go to a number of compromises - now the service is returning to the roots. About this project "Russian norms!" told the head of Yandex.Lavka Ilya Krasovchik. His interview was included in a special issue dedicated to the anniversary of the beginning of the pandemic. General Director of Yandex.lovka Ilya Krasnikhchik - I suppose you grew up during the pandemic.

Despite sanctions rhetoric and Washington's calls for energy independence, US refineries are buying more oil products from Russia than ever before, writes Bloomberg. To a large extent, this is the fruit of US sanctions against Venezuela. After losing access to heavy Venezuelan oil and facing a shortage of alternative supplies due to OPEC+ production cuts, U.S. refiners turned to Russia in 2020.

The new CEO of Intel Pat Gelsinger radically changes the policy of the corporation, writes WSJ. Along with the development of outsourcing and the production of custom chips, Intel under his leadership will invest $ 20 billion in the construction of new factories to help with the shortage of chips in the world. Gelsinger, who took office in mid-February, announced that from 2023 the company intends to transfer part of the production of its own chips to third-party partners.

The Chinese taxi aggregator DIDI changed his mind to conduct an IPO in Hong Kong-Listing will be held in New York, as was originally planned, reports Reuters with reference to sources. The company counts on an assessment of at least $ 100 billion, which is almost twice as many previous forecasts. We tell you why DIDI changed the solution how the service develops in Russia and how it differs from other taxi aggregators. Why New York?

The global recording giant Warner Music Group announced the purchase of the Russian label Zhara Music of Emin Agalarov and Bakhtiyar Aliyev (famous under the pseudonym Bahh Tee), Forbes learned. As a result of the transaction, Zhara Music will change its name to Atlantic Records Russia and become the Russian division of the American recording company Atlantic Records. That, in turn, is part of Warner Music. Bakhtiyar Aliyev will become the general producer of Atlantic Records Russia.

Vladimir Potanin's Interros, which owns Norilsk Nickel's shares, proposed another major shareholder of UC Rusal to minimize dividends for 2020. Under the current agreement, Norilsk Nickel must pay about $3.5 billion for 2020. According to Interros CEO Sergey Batekhin, the Norilsk Nickel Board of Directors will consider Interros' proposal on March 29.

Automobile factories of the world's largest automakers are forced to stand idle due to an acute shortage of microchips. Those affected include Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen and Honda. The shortage of semiconductors for automotive production, provoked by the cancellation of orders during the pandemic, exacerbated the fire at the Renesas Electronics auto electronics plant over the weekend, writes Bloomberg.

The State Duma passed a law allowing Vladimir Putin to run for president in 2024. According to the norm, now the number of presidential terms that the candidate held before the amendments to the Constitution came into force is not taken into account. The bill introduces amendments to the law "On Elections of the President of the Russian Federation". In particular, the text of Article 5.1, which refers to the limitation of the number of presidential terms, is being changed.

Elon Musk has announced that Tesla cars can now be purchased with bitcoin. On this news, the cryptocurrency exchange rate exceeded $55,000. Musk announced on his Twitter that the option to pay for Tesla with bitcoin is now available in the US, and promised that customers from other countries will get this option later this year. Musk said that Tesla uses internal open source software for sales and will directly manage bitcoin.