On the eve of the Friday meeting at the Headquarters, the Central Bank was before a difficult choice On Friday, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank will have a difficult decision at the rate. The fact that it will be increased for the sixth time in a row, no one has doubts: the only question is in the level of increase.

PayPal is discussing the purchase of the Pinterest service, learned Bloomberg . If it takes place, 2021 will surpass the record year 2007 in terms of the amount of M&A transactions. According to the agency, the deal remains potential, but the amount of about $45 billion was discussed. It makes sense, because if successful, one of the largest payment services (PayPal) will get access to a large social platform comparable to Instagram, and most importantly, actively developing e-commerce.

Google said that for two years now it has been preventing phishing attacks on YouTube channel owners that it connects with the audience of Russian-speaking forums. “Those behind this campaign, which we associate with a group of hackers hired on a Russian-speaking forum, lure the victim with fake joint projects (usually previews of antiviruses, VPN services, players, graphic editors or games), seize control of the channel, and then resell it or used for cryptocurrency scams,” the company writes.

Weekly inflation in Russia as of October 18 reached 0.26%, on an annualized basis - 7.8% (7.78%), follows from Rosstat data. This is the highest since the beginning of 2016. Last week annual inflation exceeded 7.5%. The growth in food prices in annual terms exceeded 10% (10.34%), for non-food products it exceeded 7.5% (7.68%). Weekly food inflation remained fruit and vegetable: cucumbers rose in price by 14%, tomatoes - by almost 10%, potatoes - by 3.6%.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who is in prison, was awarded the Prize of the European Parliament "For Freedom of Thought" named after. Sakharov. “He aggressively fought against the corruption of the Vladimir Putin regime and, through his social media and political campaigns, helped expose abuses and mobilize the support of millions of Russians. For this, he was poisoned and thrown into prison, ”said David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament.

Bitcoin quotes on Wednesday, October 20, updated their all-time high - the cryptocurrency crossed the threshold, first at $65, and then at $66,000. According to Investing.com , as of 17.07 Moscow time, Bitcoin was trading at $66,007 per unit of cryptocurrency. Since the beginning of trading, its price has grown by 5.4%, or more than $3,000.

The day before, the FBI agents came to two houses in the United States related to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska - searches were carried out on the basis of two judicial orders "associated with American sanctions." Soon, the FBI operation was overgrown with interesting details: it turned out that the real estate related to the billionaire was located in historical buildings, and in addition to documents, federal agents carried out objects similar to paintings.

President Putin today discussed the epidemiological situation in the country with the government. Due to the difficult situation with the coronavirus, the head of state declared the days from October 30 to November 7 non-working days, traditionally with pay. The meeting with government members was broadcast by Rossiya 24. Putin agreed to introduce non-working days from October 30 to November 7.

First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, who was instructed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin the day before to work out assistance to businesses that expect losses from the non-working week, suggested that for the time being, we limit ourselves to the measures tested last year - subsidies for workers and soft loans. this He reported to President Putin at a meeting on the situation with the coronavirus.

The exchange-traded investment fund (ETF) for bitcoin, launched the day before, showed the second turnover of the debut day in history after the carbon ESG fund BlackRock, writes Bloomberg. billion. The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF rose 4.9% in trading on October 19, with more than 24 million shares changed hands, and the turnover approached $1 billion). The net result of the first bitcoin ETF is unknown, but experts suggest that it will also be among the most successful debuts.

Former manager of supermarkets and hypermarkets of X5 Retail Group Viktor Balashov went to Kazakhstan as a top manager of a large Russian company, but not even a year has passed since he was in a pre-trial detention center. “I am afraid for my life and health, I understand that I am completely powerless. I lived an honest life and do not want to die in places of imprisonment for a crime that I did not commit, ”he wrote from there this summer.

Well-known blogger and interviewer Yuri Dudya was fined 100,000 rubles for promoting drugs on the Internet. The case is related to an interview with Ukrainian blogger Ivangai and rapper Morgenstern. The Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow found Dudya guilty of drug propaganda in two interviews on YouTube and fined him 100,000 rubles. Administrative penalty under Part 1.1 of Art.

Billionaire Oleg Deripaska for the first time personally commented on the searches in American homes associated with his relatives.

Over the past day in Russia, 1028 people died among those infected with coronavirus - this is another daily anti-record. Over the past 24 hours, 34,073 cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Russia in all 85 regions. Moscow became the leader in terms of growth (5847 cases), St. Petersburg was in second place (3274 cases), and the Moscow region was third (2590 cases). Today, the daily death rate from coronavirus again exceeded a thousand people.

The Central Bank at the meeting on October 22 will raise the key rate by 50 basic points, to 7.25%, most of the analysts surveyed by Reuters are sure . This is a maximum of July 2019. We tell you why experts expect a bet and how it can affect the economy. What to expect from the meeting of the Central Bank At the previous meeting, the regulator raised the rate at 25 basic points.