What was important Vladimir Putin at a big press conference The large press conference of Vladimir Putin traditionally did not bring sensational news-but Putin, after the week of the mysterious silence, “Gazprom” explained the sharp reduction in Russian gas supplies to Europe, and also called the time and place of negotiations with the United States about NATO non-expanding to the east.

The U.S. authorities have urgently registered a drug from Merck for the treatment of coronavirus in the form of tablets. The drug is based on molnupiravir and according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimates, its sales worldwide could reach $6 billion next year. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency approval for the use of Merck tablets for the treatment of COVID-19.

Alexander Somov is a cook by education. For 12 years of work in the catering, he went from a simple cook to the director of the restaurant. And then with partner Grigory Volkov decided to open the first of his own cafe in Ryazan. Now partners have five establishments of various formats, the sixth - in the format of the Pan -Asian cafe - is preparing for the opening.

Marina Yatsuk worked for several years in the hotel business at non -browning positions, but then decided to open her own small hotel in her native Novosibirsk. The business started in the spring of 2020 - and immediately went to quarantine. But Yatsuk did not lose time for nothing, but used it to gain the right employees, it is better to build a business plan and learn marketing. Today, both of her hotels are developing confidently.

What tasks can be solved in reality using Big Data, where to take specialists to work with data analytics, who will be responsible for artificial intelligence errors and how Big Data help to keep the team in the Great Migration era? On the Nobel Vision forum. Open Innovations 2.0 Big data and their use in business were the main topic of several sessions at once.

Sandal maker Crocs is buying casual shoe brand Heydude for $2.5 billion. According to Bloomberg , the deal highlights the rapid growth of Crocs' business, which has been ridiculed for years for its ugly shoe designs. The closed Heydude deal is expected to close in the first quarter. The purchase of the Heydude brand will be financed with $2.05 billion in cash and $450 million in company stock, Crocs said Thursday.

During the four hours (5 minutes to a minute) of the big press conference on December 23, Putin answered 55 questions, of which only four came from foreign agencies and none from foreign media agents.

Due to the pandemic from the labor market of developed countries, so many people have gone that economists already call the situation “great dismissal”. According to several investment battles, the framework deficiency will become the main dullflation factor in the second half of 2022 in the USA: the employees remaining on the market will require a higher salary, which will lead to an increase in demand and prices.

For the first time, Vladimir Putin personally commented on the sharp decline in gas supplies to Europe through one of Gazprom's export gas pipelines.

The startup Miro, founded by Perm natives, classmates Andrei Husid and Oleg Shardin, is close to closing the record for himself an investment round, as a result of which he would receive an estimate in the range of $ 17-20 billion. The Bell recalled the story of an online service for teamwork, which fired against a global transition of a business to “Udalenka”.

A third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine significantly increases the body's defense against the omicron strain, research has shown. Earlier, Moderna and Pfizer announced the effectiveness of the booster against a new type of coronavirus. According to AstraZeneca, the level of antibodies to "omicron" after the third dose reaches a level similar to that formed after two injections in relation to the delta strain.

The Ministry of Digital Development is preparing to introduce a “digital residence” model for foreign IT specialists in February 2022 to make it easier to attract scarce specialists from other countries, RBC reports citing a source. The point is that a specialist living abroad could remotely register a legal entity, get the opportunity to use tax maneuver benefits and other preferences, such as simplified currency control, and work for a Russian IT company.

The Google site at the end of 2021 ceased to be the most visited on the Internet - it was overtaken by TikTok, according to Cloudflare statistics . At the end of 2020, the TikTok site was only in seventh place, and it has been steadily rising to the first position since August of this year. Around the same time, he began to gain 1 billion unique visitors per month. It remains the only site in the top 10 whose parent company (ByteDance) is not in the US.

Novatek was the first company in Russia to conclude an agreement on the export of hydrogen to Europe in industrial volumes, reports Kommersant . It is preparing to supply up to 1.2 million tons of "blue" (obtained from methane with the capture of CO2 formed in the process) ammonia to the German Uniper, which will then extract hydrogen from it. German RWE and Japanese Mitsui are considered among other potential buyers.

The government gave regional authorities the right to set electricity tariffs for the population themselves. This will make electricity more expensive for those who consume too much of it. Similar amendments were sought by energy workers who complained about the development of cryptocurrency mining in the residential sector. The FAS and the Ministry of Energy assure that tariffs for ordinary citizens will not increase as a result of the reform.