The government introduced two bills on mandatory QR codes to the Duma. One of them has not yet changed anything, and the second will change at once and a lot The government introduced to the State Duma, perhaps the most high-profile bills of this year-on the mandatory presentation of QR code from February 1 when visiting public places and buying tickets for aircraft and train.

Organized by Alexander Lukashenko, the migration crisis on Belarus's border with Poland and Lithuania has been going on since July, but this week it became the main topic in world news. Several thousand refugees have accumulated on the Belarusian side, primarily Iraqi Kurds, who are trying to cross the Polish border to get to Germany.

Sberbank is selling to Gazprombank a 36% stake in MF Technologies, through which Sberbank owned about 20% of the voting shares of VK (the former Mail.Ru Group), according to a press release from the bank. The parties signed binding documentation. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. The cost of the transaction is 12.8 billion rubles. Other shareholders of MF Technologies JSC are Megafon (45%), Rostec (10%) and USM Holdings (9%).

Mark Zuckerberg made a large bet on turning the Internet into a metavselnaya. In the future, this futuristic project should completely change the business Facebook and give it new sources of income. But already now he has a serious impact on the results: only this year Facebook, which was renamed META, will spend not less than $ 10 billion on the Facebook, take 15th place in the interest of the retail investor of St. Petersburg Exchange.

The government submitted two bills to the State Duma on the introduction of QR codes in cafes, shops, as well as on railway and air transport. This is stated in the message on the website of the Cabinet. This is “an emergency measure against the background of the difficult situation with the coronavirus,” it emphasizes.

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has sold almost $700 million more shares of the company, Bloomberg reports , citing US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents. In total, Musk sold 639,737 shares worth about $687 million. Prior to that, this week, he sold shares for $5 billion. In particular, on Monday, November 8, for $1.1 billion, immediately paying tax on his options exercised on the same day, and it is known that this sale was planned back in September.

The film by Kira Kovalenko and producer Alexander Rodnyansky “Frightening the Fists” was selected from Russia to the Oscar, and before that he won a “special look” in Cannes. For Rodnyansky, this is not the first success of this scale.

A Moscow court sentenced Dmitry Zotov, ex-general director of Transfin-M, to seven years in prison. The decision of the court was not affected by the fact that the businessman was on Boris Titov's "London list" - the ombudsman compiled it in order to help businessmen who fell into disgrace return to their homeland with a guarantee of personal safety.

Johnson & Johnson Corporation plans to split into two public companies, the WSJ said : one will continue to produce personal care and hygiene products, and the other will focus on the production of medicines and medical equipment. The world's largest health retailer, Johnson & Johnson, will separate its highly profitable but less predictable prescription drug and medical device business from its storied consumer goods division.

Shares of Surgutneftegaz grew by almost 1.5 times in two days - today alone, at the peak of the paper, the companies showed an increase of more than 20%. At the same time, analysts note that they do not see any significant reasons for such growth. Ordinary shares of Surgutneftegaz have risen in price over the past two days at a peak of 45%. Today, at the peak, the shares soared by 21.72%, but by 15.30 Moscow time the growth slowed down to +16.11%.

The traditional singles' day online sale this year set a new record for sales despite the pandemic, with Alibaba's sales exceeding $84.5 billion. Since its debut in 2009, Singles Day (held on November 11) has eclipsed US Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday sales in both intensity and size.

AvtoVAZ has completely suspended production on all three assembly lines in Togliatti due to a shortage of semiconductors, wrote Avtostat . The company is already warning that the chip supply crisis will not end until the middle of next year. The message of the AvtoVAZ trade union organization for workers says that from November 12, work on all three assembly lines of the plant in Togliatti is suspended.

Despite the growth in the physical supply of Russian gas to Europe, the reserves in Gazprom's underground storage facilities continue to decrease, writes Kommersant . The president instructed the corporation to increase supplies, but it seems that by the end of the year it is already physically impossible to make up the backlog.

Following General Electric, another company with a long history, the Japanese Toshiba, announced a division into three businesses, writes The Wall Street Journal. Under pressure from shareholders, Toshiba has committed to completing the split into three companies by March 2024. One will deal with infrastructure, the other with electronics, including the production of power semiconductor devices.

Following General Electric, another company with a long history announced the division into three businesses - the Japanese Toshiba, writes The Wall Street Journal. Under pressure from shareholders, Toshiba pledged to complete the division into three companies by March 2024. One will deal with infrastructure, the other with electronics, including the production of power semiconductor devices.