The price of gas in Europe today rose to almost $ 2000. What happens, how long it will last and whether it is profitable for Russia Spot gas prices in Europe experience crazy jumps and begin to resemble bitcoin quotes. A week ago, everyone was amazed at overcoming (for the first time in history!) Planes $ 1000 per thousand cubic meters - and today the price of gas in the morning almost pierced $ 2000, and in the evening fell by a third.

Inflation in September in annual terms accelerated to 7.4% - this is the maximum since the summer of 2016, according to new data from Rosstat. Monthly inflation in September accelerated to 0.6% compared to 0.17% in August, 0.31% in July, 0.69% in June. In annual terms, it reached 7.4%, since the beginning of the year - 5.32%. Last year, at the end of September, it reached only 2.88%. As of October 4, annual inflation was 7.48%.

Spot gas prices in Europe are experiencing insane jumps: on one Wednesday, October 6, they jumped and then fell by more than a third. We tell you what drives them now and what to expect next. What's happening On Wednesday, the spot price of natural gas at the Dutch hub TTF for the first time came close to $2,000 per thousand cubic meters. The growth of quotations stopped near $1,950 (or 161 euros per MWh), later, within a day, quotations fell by almost $600 per thousand cubic meters.

Journalists from the publication "Agentstvo" (a project of Roman Badanin, who is included in the register of foreign agent media, former editor-in-chief of the publication "Proekt" recognized as undesirable in Russia) discovered expensive foreign real estate belonging to the family of the curator of the foreign agent department in the Ministry of Justice.

The president of Infowatch, Natalya Kasperskaya, recommended that the Russians not submit biometric data: according to her, they are “merged with a guarantee”. In an interview with RIA Novosti, Kasperskaya said that biometric data are “supersensitive”, because, unlike Pin-codes and passwords, they are unchanged and they are enough to steal them once. Natalia Kasperskaya President of Infowatch The number of data leaks in all areas is constantly and steadily growing.

After the publication by the human rights project Gulagu.net of records of torture in Russian colonies, the Investigative Committee opened seven criminal cases, and members of the leadership of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Saratov region were fired.

Car sales in Russia in September 2021 fell by almost a quarter compared to September 2020, according to the AEB Automobile Manufacturers Committee. But over the course of three quarters, they grew. In September, sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles decreased by 22.6%, and in real terms - by 34.9 thousand, to 119.4 thousand vehicles. In August, sales fell by 17%, but according to the results of three quarters, the growth was 15.1%: in total, 1.26 million cars were sold in Russia.

The mother of Ilya Sachkov, the founder of Group-IB, who was arrested on charges of treason, Lyudmila Sachkova wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin. Its text is published by Forbes. In the letter, Sachkova asks to “honestly look into the matter” and release her son. Sachkov's mother asks to clarify what exactly her son is accused of. According to her, Ilya is a real, sincere patriot who could not betray his homeland.

The court exacted 156 thousand rubles from the chief editor of The Insider (included in the register of foreign media agents) Roman Dobrokhotov at the suit of a Dutch journalist. The Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow ordered the founder of The Insider to pay 156,000 rubles at the suit of a blogger from the Netherlands, Max van der Werff.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2021 was awarded to Benjamin List (Germany) and David MacMillan (USA) for the discovery and development of a new type of catalysts that dramatically increased the efficiency - and therefore the environmental friendliness - of synthesis chemistry, and especially biochemical industries and pharmaceuticals. The press release of the Nobel Committee figuratively likens the work of the laureates to the most important step forward from the "Stone Age" of chemistry.

in several years The largest outage of the giant of social networks Facebook and WhatsApp and Instagram controlled by it on Monday, October 4, provoked a surge in user activity on other platforms. The winner of the Internet apocalypse was the chat app with AR masks and Snapchat filters, writes Bloomberg. On the day of Facebook's six-hour outage, Snap recorded a 23% increase in time spent on Snapchat compared to Monday last week, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower.

Google will introduce mandatory two-factor authentication for 150 million of its users, the company said. The same company will require the two million content creators on YouTube to do the same.

The futures price for gas in Europe has again updated the record - at the moment it rose above $1,900 per thousand cubic meters. Moreover, she overcame the last $200 in 20 minutes. Today, at the opening of trading on the London ICE Stock Exchange, the gas price first exceeded $1,550 per thousand cubic meters, and by 09.30 Moscow time it had already reached $1,600. At about 11:25 Moscow time, the price of gas passed the $1,700 mark, and then rapidly jumped to $1,900.

The former deputy head of the Ministry of Education and Vice President of Sberbank Marina Rakova, who was put on the wanted list on suspicion of embezzlement, was found. The Ministry of Internal Affairs officially announced that she was in the Moscow police. The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk , said that Rakova had been detained.

The head of TransContainer, Alexander Isurin, warned of the risk of a shortage of Samsung and LG goods due to congestion in the South Korean port of Busan. Analysts state that the situation in Busan is catastrophic: goods are delayed on average 30 days, and for some shipments - up to two months. Isurin said that "the cargo does not leave Korea," which means that a shortage of Korean equipment may begin in Russia. “They (congestion.