Hello! This week our top story is on the fallout from Russia’s parliamentary elections , particularly arguments about the impact of online voting. We also look at a fatal shooting at a university in the central Russian city of Perm, why Russia’s ‘informer-in-chief’ is now targeting The Bell , and Belarusian start-up PandaDoc that is now valued over $1 billion. How United Russia won the State Duma elections Online voting turned out to be the biggest issue at last week’s parliamentary elections.

The theme of release is how the business Suex was arranged, a Russian project that fell under the first American cryptosanctions in history It seems that in the near future, Russia will be able to claim a new global brand: “Russian crypto launders” can be added to the “Russian hackers”.

In Germany, the first exit polls have been published, according to which the ruling bloc of the CDU / CSU and the Social Democrats (SPD) are gaining an almost equal number of votes. According to the exit polls of the research institute Mannheimer Forschungsgruppe Wahlen for the ZDF TV channel, the Social Democrats are leading in the elections - the party is gaining 26%. The conservative CDU/CSU bloc comes in second with 24%. Union 90/The Greens gain 14.5%.

Existing credit ratings of countries do not reflect climate risks and risks associated with the upcoming energy transition, analysts fear. This, in their opinion, poses a danger to the government bond market and can lead to a sudden and chaotic collapse of assets. On the other hand, the revision of the ratings threatens with problems in attracting capital to those countries that already have insufficient funds to combat climate change. What is the problem?

The Chinese authorities, consistently fighting cryptocurrency, are moving to decisive measures in this direction, writes Bloomberg. On September 24, the People's Bank of China announced that all cryptocurrency-related transactions are considered illegal financial activities. Almost immediately, China's largest bitcoin exchange, Huobi, stopped registering new users from mainland China.

Novatek vice chairman Mark Gytway said he had settled the issue of tax evasion in the United States, because of which he was arrested last week. “Dear friends and colleagues. On Thursday, I was charged with unsubstantiated tax charges that I had already settled through a voluntary program, and I pleaded not guilty. I will continue to actively fight these accusations and will continue to discuss gas topics as usual,” wrote on his Twitter.

The authorities of Mali said that the withdrawal of the French military contingent from the country made it necessary for it to look for new partners in order to "fill the void" in the north of the state. On the eve of Sergey Lavrov said that the leadership of Mali turned to the Russian PMC.

Pavel Durov said that he was forced to block the Smart Voting bot during the elections in Russia so that the messenger could continue its work in the country. What's happened Telegram during the State Duma elections blocking The founder of the messenger, Pavel Durov, blamed Apple and Google for . In a detailed post , he explained what he was guided by when making such a decision.

The coronavirus crisis will continue to influence the global economy for a long time. By 2030, its trajectory will lag behind the Dopandemic trend by 3%, and the damage to Russia for 2020–2025 will be equivalent to the loss of almost three years of growth. Our colleagues from Econs.online are divided by the last grades on the long -term influence of the current crisis. With their permission, we publish this material.