This week, at the age of 88, the Canadian economist, Nobel laureate Robert Mandell, who is considered one of the “Fathers of the Euro”, died. Our colleagues from the econs publication tell about his achievements. With their permission, we publish this text. Many ideas and theoretical works of Robert Mandell for decades ahead of his time.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who lives in Dubai, no longer appears on the Forbes list of the richest people as a billionaire from the United Arab Emirates, draws attention. RBC The magazine estimated Durov's fortune at $17.2 billion, five times more than in 2020. However, if at the beginning of the week he was presented as the richest man in the UAE, now he is listed as a Russian businessman.

The topic of release is like Russian AliExpress is trying to get rid of the Chinese past The 2020 was a year of breakthrough for Russian marketplaces: against the background of pandemia, the largest sites increased a turnover of hundreds of percent compared to 2019. Russian Sellers of Aliexpress were no exception - their sales through the platform in the last financial year jumped by 151%.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, the amount of debt written off on microloans was three times higher than the average quarterly figure over the past two years. At the same time, the growth of the portfolio on average for the year slowed down, and the share of “payday loans” even decreased, according to a review of key indicators of microfinance institutions of the Central Bank.

China's largest taxi service, DiDi Chuxing, created by Alibaba Group, has filed a confidential IPO with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It is reported by Bloomberg, citing sources. The company plans to sell shares for several billion dollars, the organizers of the initial public offering will be Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Sources of the publication say that the entire DiDi Chuxing can be valued at $ 70-100 billion.

Petersburg Research Institute of Influenza. A.A. Smorodintseva is developing the fourth Russian coronavirus vaccine. Preliminary results are expected soon. This was announced on Saturday by Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko.

A British investigation into the death of former Aeroflot top manager Nikolai Glushkov, who was close to Boris Berezovsky, who committed suicide in 2013, concluded that Glushkov's death was the result of a murder. The body of a businessman with signs of strangulation was found on March 12, 2018 at his home in London. As reported by The Guardian, a dog leash was wrapped around Glushkov's neck, and a stepladder stood nearby.

Forecasts that the global economy will overcome the coronavirus recession in 2021 did not come true, countries should adapt to a slow recovery. This conclusion is contained in the report “Assessing the impact of the crisis associated with the COVID-19 pandemic on the sectors of the Russian economy and their post-crisis development”, prepared by experts from the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

China's State Administration for Market Control has fined online retailer Alibaba nearly $2.8 billion for violating antitrust laws, according to the official website of the regulator. This is a record corporate fine in the history of the country. The amount of the fine is equivalent to approximately 4% of the company's revenue in 2019. In addition, Alibaba must carry out "comprehensive fixes" in several areas at once.

Roman Anin, editor-in-chief of Important Stories, is in the status of a witness in a case of violation of privacy, reported . the publication The night before, the FSB conducted a search in the journalist's apartment, which lasted about seven hours. According to Anin's lawyer Vasily Grishchak, the investigators were especially interested in documents in English, bank cards and photographs of Roman from his studies at Stanford University.