Why investors and economists talked about the risks of stagflation and how terrible and real it is The ghost of stagflation-combinations of low or negative rates of economic growth with high inflation, first marked in the 1970s-returned to world markets.

The “Archive of Pandora” published in early October, a new leak of data on offshores, overshadowed both Panama and Paradise and poured light on the hidden assets of officials and leaders of states around the world. But its main systemic conclusion is that offshore is now not only where it is believed. The Bell talked with two recognized world offshore experts about what has changed in the offshore world over the five years that have passed since the publication of the Panama Dossier.

The Ministry of Justice recognized Moscow Digital Media LLC and RS-Balt JSC as foreign agents, according to the department’s website. The first is the legal entity of the Republic publication, the second is the legal entity of the Rosbalt publication. Republic editor-in-chief Dmitry Kolezev said in his Telegram channel that the publication has no foreign funding - it exists solely at the expense of subscribers’ money.

The blockchain platform of Alexander Skidanov Near Protocol was launched just a year ago, but already attracted $ 33.7 million from investors in the scale of Andreessen Horowitz and won the status of one of the dominant players in the market, “Ethereum killers”.

Billionaire aviator Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic appears to be a private space outsider, with a second commercial flight of its rocket plane still a year away. The fact that a new commercial suborbital launch is scheduled only for the fourth quarter of 2022 was announced by the company itself.

Russian retailer Vkusvill has published a prospectus with IFRS financials, preparing for an IPO in the US on Nasdaq. The Bell gives interesting details from the prospectus. The company in 2020 increased revenue by almost 40% (up to 114 billion rubles) and even received a net profit of 950 million rubles.

The largest Russian retailer in terms of turnover, X5 Group (which manages the Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, Karusel and Chizhik chains), presented its operating results for the third quarter. Revenue of digital businesses accelerated growth (+156.9% year-on-year), and in monetary terms grew to 10.7 billion rubles. Due to the outpacing - almost five times - growth of express delivery in this direction, it grew to 5.6 billion rubles.

In Russia, for the first time during the pandemic, more than 32,000 cases of COVID were detected per day. The death toll has come close to the 1,000 mark. As follows from the data of the operational headquarters, two maximums have been updated in Russia over the past day: in the number of new infections with coronavirus (32,196 people) and deaths (999 patients). Most cases were detected in Moscow (6631), St. Petersburg (2632) and the Moscow region (2110).

First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova said that the share of non-cash payments in Russia has reached a record high. “Now we already have 75% non-cash, only 25% cash. And no one will make a “reverse move”, no one wants to go back to cash,” Skorobogatova said at the Eurasian Women’s Forum ( quoted by TASS). The expert recalled that Russia is in the top 3 countries in the world in terms of non-cash payments - about 70%, according to the Central Bank, in 2020.

IKEA - one of the world's largest retail chains in the sale and production of furniture - gave a gloomy forecast for retail. The Swedish giant expects that the deficit of goods due to the crisis in supplies chains will last another year, until the middle of 2022. The main difficulty is to deliver products from China, where the possibilities are extremely limited, told Bloomberg CEO of the Franchisor of the Inter Ikea brand John Abrahamson Ring.

Rosstat today, October 15, announced the start of the All-Russian population census. It will run until November 14, and for the first time you can participate online. The census was planned for 2020, but it was postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus and it was decided to conduct it not only in the traditional format (with the help of census takers), but also using technology, writes RIA Novosti . Access to the electronic census sheet can be obtained on the portal "Gosuslugi".

Russian retailers are experiencing an acute shortage of staff, including administrators, cashiers and merchandisers, writes Kommersant . There is no complete solution to the problem yet. The shortage of line staff, especially in large cities, was confirmed by Fix Price and Lenta. Staffing is from 65% to 92%. The trend is also visible in job search services.

IT giants Google and Yandex, along with pharmaceutical Pfizer, knocked out raw materials companies and government agencies - Gazprom and the Ministry of Health - from the first place in the rating of the most attractive employers in Russia according to the Universum agency. The results of the survey of more than 18 thousand Russians with specialization in various fields are cited by RBC. The list is divided into several categories.

In Tobolsk, a tourist center in the Tyumen region, this year an airport was opened that can accept Liners like Boeing 737-800 and Airbus A321. Tobolsk is able to compete with recognized tourist centers in Russia, the governor of the Tyumen region Alexander Moor is sure. How is the airport in the city, next to which the largest investment project in petrochemicals has just been implemented in post -Soviet Russia will help the development of the tourism potential of the whole of Siberia?

The State Duma is almost ready to draft a bill on the mandatory option to disable recommender services. It will directly affect the business of most technology companies. The bill on the regulation of recommender algorithms will be one of the first in the State Duma of the eighth convocation, found out Kommersant , having read one of the preliminary versions of the document.