The Central Bank published "alternative" crisis scenarios for the global economy. We analyze why they can become real This week, TPB published four scenarios of a macroeconomic forecast for 2022–2024 - basic and three alternatives. Among the latter was the scenario of the global financial crisis in 2023, due to correction in the stock market in the conditions of corporate and state reinstalling and “comparable in scale with the crisis of 2008-2009”.

Chinese taxi aggregator DiDi may come under state control: as Bloomberg learned , the Beijing mayor's office offered state-controlled companies to buy out a large stake in the corporation. According to a preliminary offer sent to DiDi, Shouqi Group and a number of other corporations that are part of the influential Beijing Tourism Group consortium will acquire a stake in DiDi.

Vladimir Putin announced the introduction of an “unprecedented set of benefits and incentives” in the Kuril Islands, which will “completely exempt businesses from paying key taxes” for 10 years. A prerequisite for obtaining preferences will be to actually work on the islands: build buildings, enterprises there, hire employees.

A joint venture between billionaires Viktor Vekselberg and Roman Trotsenko has won an auction for the sale of Orenburg Airport. The deal will amount to 3.2 billion rubles. The joint venture of the holdings "Airports of Regions" Vekselberg and "Novaport" Trotsenko "ABS Orenburg" won the auction for the sale of 100% of JSC "Airport Orenburg". The company owns the airport of the same name, the airport in Orsk (the second largest city in the Orenburg region) and the Orenburg airline.

The Renaissance Insurance company, one of the shareholders of which is billionaire Roman Abramovich, has chosen JPMorgan, Credit Suisse and VTB banks to organize an IPO. sources spoke about the active phase of preparation for the placement Interfax . The information was also confirmed by interlocutors of Bloomberg . According to Interfax, Renaissance Insurance will be able to raise about $250 million through the placement of new shares.

Sberbank still does not exclude the IPO of its subsidiaries, the head of the bank German Gref said at the Eastern Economic Forum. The placement, according to him, will take place no earlier than 2023. “It is quite possible that we will determine our position on this issue over the next year, including those of our subsidiaries that are most ready for a public offering,” German Gref said (quoted by Interfax ) .

Achieving global carbon neutrality by 2050 will cost countries $140 trillion, or 3% of global GDP per year, Sberbank CEO German Gref said during his speech at the WEF-2021. By this time, the potential loss of Russia's energy exports, according to Sberbank's calculations, will amount to $192 billion.

The Kremlin has appreciated the appeal sent to the media with a request to change the legislation on foreign agents and is ready to consider the proposed amendments, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said. “This is no longer a requirement that was previously voiced, but a constructive proposal, therefore, of course, we will consider their feasibility,” Peskov said (quoted by RIA Novosti).

Roskomnadzor blocked six VPN services. Their work, as explained by the regulator, "creates conditions for illegal activities related to the distribution of drugs, child pornography and extremism." Ban decision made against Hola! VPN, ExpressVPN, KeepSolid VPN Unlimited, Nord VPN, Speedify VPN and IPVanish VPN. The department noted that blocking bypass services allow you to maintain access to prohibited information and resources.

In August, Russian financial organizations faced the most powerful DDoS attack in terms of intensity in 2019-2020. It was carried out using the "Internet of Things" and cost a dozen of the largest banks without losses, found out . Kommersant Last week, Sberbank repelled "the world's most powerful attack on the financial sector," Stanislav Kuznetsov, deputy chairman of the company's board, said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.

Russian operators have updated archival tariffs. In general, communication prices will increase by 15% over the year, say . market participants surveyed by Kommersant MTS has notified subscribers of the My Smart line about the increase in the volume of GB and voice minutes included in the package since September 9 - the tariff will now cost 355 rubles per month.

The US regulator launched an investigation into the July flight of Virgin Galactic due to the fact that its ship deviated from the planned trajectory. Until the end of the investigation, Richard Branson's aerospace company will not be able to conduct new flights.

A temporary ban on space flights brought down Virgin Galactic quotes The American regulator began an investigation into the July flight of Virgin Galactic due to the fact that its ship deviated from the planned trajectory. Before the investigation, the aerospace company Richard Branson will not be able to spend new flights.