The negotiations of Russia with NATO have been clarified little.

Sweden will allocate 6 billion crowns ($664 million) for energy subsidies to households. The fact that they were needed in the country is blamed, including Russia, writes Bloomberg. “Shvedsky consumers should not suffer [from the energy crisis] due, among other things, to the behavior of Russia in the European gas market,” the agency quotes Swedish Energy Minister Hoshyar Farmanban.

in 2021 Inflation in the United States - the world's largest economy - reached 7% . This is a rolling 12-month high since mid-1982, when President Reagan's administration was just managing to rein in stagflation. The growth of December inflation against November (0.5%) exceeded forecasts, as well as core inflation (5.5%), which became the highest since 1991.

Rosstat's final assessment of inflation in Russia in 2021 coincided with the preliminary one - 8.39%, follows from new data from the statistical office. Annual inflation was last higher in 2015 at 12.9%. Already in 2016, it decreased to 5.4%. Products over the past year have risen in price by 10.62%, services by almost 5% (4.98%). In the first 10 days of 2022, prices have already increased by 0.56%. This is noticeably more than in the same period of 2021 (0.40%).

The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol , believes that Russia is holding back gas supplies to Europe in a geopolitical context. According to him, Gazprom could increase them by a third instead of emptying underground storage facilities. “We believe that to a large extent the shortage in the European gas market is caused by the actions of Russia,” said Birol.

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee published the text of a new sanctions bill against Russia, supported by the White House.

The outcome of the talks between Russia and NATO representatives in Brussels on January 12 turned out to be approximately the same as the talks with the United States on January 10: the parties fixed their differences and agreed to continue the dialogue. What is known about the results Negotiations with NATO on security assurances lasted about four hours, an hour longer than planned.

US Democratic senators have included in an alternative sanctions bill the possibility of sanctions against Vladimir Putin personally in the event of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, writes the Washington Post. Senators from the Democratic Party are due today to publish a draft of new sanctions that are supposed to be introduced if Russia starts military operations against Ukraine.

The Bell completes the cycle dedicated to the non -obvious schemes of emigration for Russians. In this material, together with Deloitte experts, Svetlana Fedorova and Daria Rusanova, we talk about which countries are attractive from the point of view of tax regimes for entrepreneurs who are going to launch business from scratch abroad or relocate it. We also asked to tell three businessmen who are already developing their projects abroad about personal experience.

The World Bank (WB) has lowered its economic growth forecasts for the US, Eurozone and China as the recovery is threatened by new covid strains, high levels of external debt and rising inequality, according to the organization, writes Reuters.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has warned against revaccinating against coronavirus more than three times a year or every four months - otherwise there is a risk of weakening the immune system of people. The world must begin the transition from a pandemic response to the coronavirus to an endemic one, similar to the long-established one for the influenza virus - with approved seasonal vaccination schedules.

Tinkoff has acquired its first crypto project: as The Bell learned, TCS Group Holding, the bank's parent structure, bought a stake in the Swiss cryptocurrency company Aximetria. How the bank will build its crypto business is not yet known.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to index pensions by 8.6%. He stated this at a meeting with the government, reports . Interfax According to him, the decisions taken earlier will not allow people to cover the costs associated with increased inflation. “I propose <…> to index pensions even slightly above inflation. Now it looks like 8.4%.

The Russians spent more than $1.5 billion in mobile applications at the end of 2021 - the population's spending on services in a smartphone grew by almost a fifth, according to App Annie data (analysts' conclusions are described by RBC ) . At the end of last year, $1.58 billion was spent in applications, which is 19% more than the year before.

There is a “couple of weeks” to prepare for a new round of covid in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the government. The broadcast was conducted by the TV channel "Russia 24". “We see what is happening in the world. <...> This suggests that we have at least a couple of weeks to prepare.