The International Energy Agency recognized the collapse of oil prices by 2050 unlikely The price of oil will drop to $ 24 per barrel by 2050 only if the whole world by this moment becomes carbon neutral, says the International Energy Agency (IEA) - and no one believes even in the most daring forecasts. With all other scenarios, oil will remain quite expensive, Analysts of the MAA believes.

The court, which in Russian practice usually satisfies the petitions of the investigation for a measure of restraint, today sent the rector of Shaninka Sergey Zuev not to a pre-trial detention center, but to house arrest. The decision to house arrest Zuev, suspected of embezzlement of 21 million rubles, was taken today by the Tverskoy Court of Moscow. The investigation requested that he be taken into custody until December 7.

There are big changes in the country ranking of the largest bitcoin miners: China has lost its primacy, Russia is third, according to a study by the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance. In August this year, the United States accounted for more than a third of the global hash rate of bitcoin (the total power of computers mining cryptocurrency) - 35.4%. Kazakhstan was in second place (18.1%), Russia was in third (11%).

Weekly inflation in Russia for the week to October 11 slowed to 0.22% from 0.26% a week earlier, but in the calculation year-on-year exceeded 7.5% (7.63%), follows from the data of the Ministry of Economic Development and Federal State Statistics Service . Food products over the year by October 11 rose by almost 10% (9.99%), the ministry writes, non-food products - by 7.41%. Since the beginning of the year, consumer inflation has reached 5.41%, food - 6.4%.

The position of the general director of the S7 group of companies from October 18 will be taken by the shareholder and chairman of the board of directors Tatyana Fileva, the group said. Filev will be replaced by Anton Eremin, who will become the chairman of the board of directors of the parent airline of the group, S7. S7 is the largest private airline in Russia, the second in terms of passenger transportation after Aeroflot.

On October 13 at 17:50 Moscow time Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin suborbital vehicle New Shepard set off on its second commercial flight. He will throw to the edge of space (a little over 100 km) the oldest person so far - 90-year-old actor William Shatner. He has dozens if not hundreds of roles to his credit, but the main one is Captain Kirk in the legendary sci-fi series Star Trek (“Star Trek”). The entire flight of the NS-18 mission lasted 10 minutes and 18 seconds.

The White House managed to convince the largest US logistics operators - Walmart, UPS and FedEx - to strain all efforts before the high pre-Christmas season to clear the blockages in the supply chains, writes the Financial Times. According to a senior source in the Biden administration, the three companies will announce the transition to maximum intensity 24/7 as early as Wednesday, October 13. Two of them, UPS and FedEx, account for 40% of US mailings.

Now it's official: Russia sets a target for the economy to become carbon neutral by 2060. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week international forum, which started today in Moscow. Putin also spoke about Russia's plans to increase the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to 140 million tons by 2035. In 2020, LNG production in Russia increased by 3.5% to 30.5 million tons.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects oil prices to reach $24 per barrel by the middle of the century only if the whole world becomes carbon neutral by that time (which is unlikely). Under all other scenarios, oil will remain quite expensive, analysts believe. This scenario looks more optimistic than the one that the Russian Ministry of Finance described in the draft budget.

Vladimir Putin wants to force the European Union to rewrite some of the rules of the game in the gas market in the face of price swings, found out Bloomberg . But concessions from partners in the Kremlin are not expected.

The government plans, as an experiment, to allow certain medical institutions to diagnose patients without the now obligatory face-to-face consultation. It is reported by RBC with reference to the draft resolution prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development. It is planned that the pilot legal regime (EPR) program in the field of telemedicine will last three years.

The Moscow City Hall will transfer photos of users of the capital's portal of state and municipal services mos.ru to the facial recognition system used by the police. 236 million rubles were allocated for the project. The contract dated October 5 between the State Institution of Information City and the Perm company Bright Soft for the development of mos.ru was discovered by Kommersant.

Ten Moscow schools will test students for coronavirus free of charge, said Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of the Capital for Social Development, . Over the past month, the incidence of COVID-19 among children has increased by 2.5 times in the city. A pilot project for rapid testing of schoolchildren for coronavirus will begin tomorrow. Students will be tested once every two weeks. Tests will be taken by all students from grades 1 to 11, as well as pupils of preschool groups.

The Montenegrin authorities have published a list of 166 approved applications for citizenship by investment. Most of the recipients are from Russia. The document was studied by RBC. Among the applicants were namesakes: former head of Rostourism Oleg Safonov; General Director of Avito Vladimir Pravdivy; member of the Board of Directors of TMK Alexander Shiryaev; partner of billionaire Roman Abramovich Andrey Gorodilov; the former head of the commercial bank "Lada-Credit" Sergey Balagansky.

Contrary to Apple’s assurances, the chips deficit reached the production of iPhone 13 Apple warned partners that, due to the lack of semiconductors, the iPhone 13 this year would be released 10 million less than planned. Earlier, the company claimed that the deficit of the chips, although it would affect its work, will basically affect the old IPAD and IMAC models, and the iPhone would not affect at all.