It is difficult to believe that the growth of tension on the Russian-Ukrainian border will result in real fighting-but this did not prevent the ruble from putting an annual anti-record on this news, breaking through the notes 77 per dollar and 91 per euros. From the moment Joe Biden stated that he recognized Vladimir Putin the killer, the ruble lost 4 rubles to the dollar and 5 to the euro.

The dollar costs more than 77 rubles - this is a maximum of last November. Against the background of escalation with Ukraine, investors are increasingly believed in strict sanctions It is difficult to believe that the growth of tension on the Russian-Ukrainian border will result in real fighting-but this did not prevent the ruble from putting an annual anti-record on this news, breaking through the notes 77 per dollar and 91 per euros.

The rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, who became famous as the person under whose leadership the future Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his Ph.D. thesis in the late 1990s, has become a billionaire, Forbes writes , citing a new rating. Litvinenko took 2035th place in the list of the world's richest people according to Forbes with a fortune of $1.5 billion due to his stake in Phosagro, one of the world's largest fertilizer producers.

The dollar exchange rate for the first time since November 16, 2020 rose above 77 rubles, follows from the data of the Moscow Exchange. The euro exchange rate, meanwhile, exceeded the mark of 91 rubles, for the first time since March 24 this year. The dollar by 16:45 Moscow time was trading at 77 rubles, +0.8% to yesterday's close. Around 16 Moscow time, the dollar exchange rate on the Moscow Exchange reached 77.345 rubles, adding 1.2% to the closing level of trading the day before.

A court in Moscow fined TikTok 2.6 million rubles for failing to remove posts calling for minors to participate in unsanctioned rallies, according to Roskomnadzor, which drew up the protocol. Earlier, Twitter received a similar fine for 8.9 million rubles. The court found TikTok guilty of violating Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for restricting access to prohibited information).

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu today announced that scheduled checks of combat readiness have begun in the troops, part of the personnel, forces and means of the Armed Forces have been withdrawn to training grounds. This is happening in the context of the aggravation of the situation in the south-east of Ukraine.

Detentions began at the actions of doctors near the colony where Alexei Navalny is being held, reports . Dozhd The police were the first to detain the head of the Alliance of Doctors, Anastasia Vasilyeva, and the host of the Navalny Headquarters YouTube channel, Dmitry Nizovtsev. Police also detained CNN host Matthew Chance. According to the publication, paddy wagons are being drawn to the colony.

Pavel Durov entered the top ten Russian billionaires for the first time, as follows from the new ranking of the richest people in the world according to Forbes. The magazine estimated the fortune of the founder of Telegram at $17.2 billion. In the Russian segment as a whole, there were more new faces and interesting changes than usual. The main news in the ranking was the assessment of the fortune of Telegram founder Pavel Durov.

Due to the accident at the substation, almost all of Sakhalin was disconnected from electricity for several hours - about 400 thousand people out of 490 thousand people in the region, which also includes the Kuril Islands, were left without electricity. Now access to electricity has been restored after a power outage.

Car sales in Russia fell by 5.7% in March and by 2.8% yoy in the first quarter, the AEB said today. The association associates the March result with the base effect, but also points to a shortage of individual models and rising prices. According to the AEB, 148,676 vehicles were sold in Russia in March and 387,332 in the quarter. Automobile Manufacturers Committee Chairman Thomas Stärzel pointed out that sales in March 2020 were abnormally high before the April lockdown.

The European regulator has for the first time confirmed the link between AstraZeneca's vaccine and blood clots. Prior to this, both WHO and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended continued use of the drug despite already known cases of thromboembolism. According to the French agency AFP, one of the leaders of the EMA confirmed that there is a link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and the development of blood clots, but the specific mechanism of this link has not yet been elucidated.

The default of the hedge fund Archegos Capital Management, which provoked a collapse in the shares of American and Chinese companies by tens of percent, cost its broker Credit Suisse almost $ 5 billion. The crisis with Archegos forced the Swiss bank to fire top managers and reconsider its approach to risk management. Due to the collapse of the Archegos hedge fund, Credit Suisse lost $4.7 billion, the bank said in a press release.

The founder of the Russian private space company Kosmokurs, Pavel Pushkin, announced the closure of the project and the reduction of its employees. Pushkin called the reason for the closure "insurmountable difficulties" with the coordination of the cosmodrome with the authorities of the Nizhny Novgorod region and the lack of Defense Ministry standards for the design of a reusable suborbital rocket for space tourism. Roskosmos hopes to retain a team of designers of 50 people.

Fans of LG Electronics smartphones around the world posted nostalgic posts after the company said it would go out of business. LG is credited for the innovation it once brought to the industry. manufacturing mobile phones in the summer of 2021 South Korean LG Electronics will stop after the company admitted that it could not compete, and therefore decided to focus on other sectors, such as electric vehicles and the Internet of things.

In March of this year, foreigners dumped Russian public debt almost like in March last year - but not because of oil, but because of the threat of sanctions The share of non-residents in the ruble public debt of Russia for the year decreased from a third to a fifth, and in March of this year, its decline accelerated, writes RBC. The outflow is experienced by most emerging markets, but in Russia, sanctions and geopolitics are added to the general factors.