The decision of the Central Bank to raise the key rate at once to 5.5% scared the billionaire Oleg Deripaska. He called him crazy. But the economists interviewed by The Bell are sure that the regulator will not stop there. The reason for increasing the rate is increased inflation High inflation in Russia, which at the beginning of the year seemed a temporary phenomenon, officially became a real problem for the economy.

The median salary of Russians in 2020 was 32,422 rubles, Rosstat said. The indicator calculated according to the new methodology turned out to be one and a half times lower than the average salary, which, according to the department, was equal to 51,352 rubles last year. The median salary means that half of the jobs are paid below this value, and the other 50% are paid above, that is, how much the average worker in Russia receives.

Moscow Department of Transport presented updated rules for electric scooter rental services, which operators must implement within a week. Now large services can have no more than 10 thousand scooters in their fleet. At least 30% of the park must be located inside the Garden Ring, another 30% - between the Garden Ring and the Third Transport Ring, and the remaining 40% - outside the Third Ring Road.

Brent crude topped $73 a barrel for the first time since May 2019 as prices rise on expectations of a further recovery in demand. August futures for Brent on London's ICE exchange traded at prices up to $73.07 per barrel. The last time Brent was above $73 per barrel was on May 20, 2019. Texas WTI is also growing in price, the price of July futures rose by 1.22% to $71.15.

The Moscow police are investigating the fact of fraud against Wildberries. Losses, according to media reports, range from 1 to 350 million rubles. “False sellers” placed non-existent goods on Wildberries, which were allegedly paid for by “dummy buyers,” explains vc.ru. The payment was rejected, but the sale was erroneously recorded at the marketplace, and the money went to the “seller”.

Closing on the Day of Russia, June 12, the project of Vedomosti natives VTimes (according to the decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice included in the register of media that act as a foreign agent) will be partially revived in the new resource. Moreover, the latter directly counts on the audience attracted by VTimes, follows from the farewell mailing of the publication. It was written by Kirill Kharatyan, former deputy editor-in-chief of Vedomosti.

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit the United States and meet with President Joe Biden on July 15, according to the White House. During the visit, the leaders of Germany and the United States will discuss issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, the report said. The meeting between Merkel and Biden was announced amid tensions over Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts a recovery in oil demand to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. Manufacturers can "open the taps", quotes the forecast of the Financial Times. At the peak of the coronavirus, oil demand fell by 8.6 million b/d and should recover by 5.4 million b/d by the end of 2021. In 2022, it will grow by another 3.1 million b/d, the IEA predicts.

Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), two days ago by a court decision recognized as an extremist organization, as well as included in the register of NGOs performing the functions of a foreign agent, was put on the federal wanted list, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and himself Zhdanov on his Instagram . “Wanted under the article of the Criminal Code,” says the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Swedish fintech service Klarna has raised $639 million and reached a valuation of $45.6 billion, making the company the most valuable unicorn in Europe, writes . TechCrunch Klarna's latest investment round is led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2. It was also attended by existing investors Adit Ventures, Honeycomb Asset Management and WestCap Group. The new valuation represents a 47.3% increase from Klarna's previous $31 billion valuation in early March, when it raised $1 billion.

On June 11, the Bank of Russia raised the key rate by 0.5 percentage points. - up to 5.5% per annum - from June 15. The last time the rate was at this level was in April 2020. In justifying the decision, the regulator indicates that: The Russian and global economies are recovering faster than expected, the Russian economy will return to pre-crisis levels as early as the second quarter of 2021. Inflation is above the Central Bank's forecast (as of June 7 it rose to 6.15% in annual terms).

Chinese taxi aggregator DiDi has filed for an IPO in the US — according to the WSJ, the company could be valued at at least $70 billion. DiDi has filed for an initial listing under the official name of Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc., but plans to list its US depositary shares under the recognizable designation DIDI. According to the WSJ, citing sources, the company's valuation could even exceed $70 billion amid a frenetic appetite of investors for new public companies with high growth rates.

A service for calculating the cost of owning a personal car will appear in the Moscow Transport application. One of its functions is to visually convince car owners that sharing, whether it be carsharing or renting scooters and bicycles, can be more profitable. with the tender of the Moscow Department of Transport for finalizing the project got acquainted Kommersant . The initial cost is 33.9 million rubles.

The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the world in the first half of 2021 exceeded the figure for all of 2020, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing aggregated data. The pandemic is far from over, and the gap between rich countries that vaccinate their populations and poor countries where vaccines are unavailable continues to widen.

Cyber ​​mercenaries who have penetrated deep into Russian state institutions may not be connected to the United States, but to China. The disguise of one under the other is also not excluded. US cybersecurity firm Sentinel Labs has published a technical report on last year's attack on Russian federal authorities.