Against the background of new mortality records from Covid-19 in Russia, new restrictions are introduced-they can also affect Moscow A new wave of pandemic, rapidly covering Russia, can lead to new restrictive measures. In Moscow, they made a return to QR codes to visit cafes and restaurants, in two dozen regions similar prohibitions have already been introduced. The number of dead from Covid-19 in Russia today has been updated by another record for the entire time of the pandemic.

The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB will be able to extrajudicially block money transfers from cards and electronic wallets if transactions are carried out to pay for drugs or finance terrorism and extremism. Such a bill was developed by Rosfinmonitoring, it is published on the portal of draft legal acts.

Russia has offered the United States to lift all restrictions imposed on the work of diplomatic missions over the past few years, according to the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry following a meeting between Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, which took place earlier on October 12. “The state and prospects for the development of relations between the two countries were discussed.

The Moscow mayor's office is discussing the possibility of returning QR codes for visiting restaurants, told RBC. a source close to the mayor's office According to him, the codes can be returned if the incidence reaches 6,000-7,000 people a day. But "there are no specific dates yet," he said. Another RBC source in the mayor's office called the rate of 7,000-9,000 cases a day sufficient reason for introducing restrictions.

The rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergey Zuev was detained on suspicion of embezzlement of 21 million rubles, reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. RIA Novosti We are talking about money belonging to the FGAU "Fund for New Forms of Education Development" (FNFRO), the department notes. Zuev was taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow on October 12 and interrogated.

President Putin, at a meeting with deputies of the new convocation of the State Duma , proposed starting from 2022 to index maternity capital by the amount of not forecasted, but actual inflation. The President stated that inflation this year will exceed the forecasted 5.8%. “Let me remind you in this regard that federal payments, which are financed from the federal budget, should be indexed to actual inflation in 2022.

Yandex has agreed to buy the Israeli service for renting electric scooters Wind, a company representative told Vedomosti. The Russian company will receive Wind assets in Israel: scooters, software, its own production, as well as a research center in China. We are talking about about 4,500 scooters, which make 660,000 trips per month. The deal is expected to close before the end of this year. Yandex does not name its cost.

For the first time, human rights activist Lev Ponomarev (recognized as a foreign agent) was issued a report on non-fulfillment of duties related to the status of a foreign agent (19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), reports SOTA . He faces up to 10,000 rubles in fines. According to him, Roskomnadzor recorded the absence of a foreign agent marking in 25 posts by the human rights activist on Facebook, 13 tweets and two posts on Instagram.

The Ministry of Economic Development has adjusted the inflation forecast in Russia for 2021 by 1.6 p.p. - from 5.8% to 7.4%, Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said. Exactly this - 7.4% - inflation has developed since September. The main contribution to the increase was made by food inflation, which included more expensive vegetables and meat (the ministry wrote about this in a report on accelerated weekly inflation).

Mail.Ru Group announced a name change - the entire group will now use the VK brand, and a slightly modified logo of its VKontakte social network will form the basis of a single logo. “VK is a single brand for the entire company. Unlike Mail.Ru Group, it will be presented not only at the corporate level, but also in our products, whose users were not always aware of their connection with each other, ”the company quotes its CEO Boris Dobrodeev in a release.

Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin instructed the departments to submit "agreed proposals" to introduce criminal liability for drunk drivers by November 1. It will be applied at a certain level of intoxication, but what exactly is not yet clear.

The rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergei Zuev was detained as part of the case of former Deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova, two Meduza interlocutors said (by decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice, the publication was included in the register of media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent).

The Investigative Committee of Russia announced the death of its first official representative, the former head of the department for interaction with the media, Vladimir Markin. He was 64 years old. “A man with a clear civic position, he always promptly responded to challenges and attempts to discredit the investigation, including those coming from abroad.

The Russian budget in 2021 will receive an additional $50 billion from oil and gas prices that have risen, has calculated . Fitch According to the agency’s calculations, this year the budget will receive 9 trillion rubles, or $125 billion in oil and gas revenues, which is $50 billion more than in 2020. Almost the entire increase is due to the price environment, the weakening of which is not expected until the end of the year.

The "Russian miracle" - the outstripping growth of card payments in Russia - will continue for another 10 years, BCG analysts say. Russians may not have enough money, market participants object Due to the explosive growth of the past decade, Russia has not only moved closer to the group of "cashless" countries - in the next decade, the Russian card payments sector will continue to develop at rates above the global average, follows from a new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).