New sanctions threats, mobilization of US troops and the export of diplomats from Ukraine could not bring down the Russian market Despite the abundance of anxious news and warlike statements - including Joe Biden, who did not exclude personal sanctions against Vladimir Putin - the Russian stock market today remained calm. Analysts believe that he could develop immunity to verbal pressure from the West.

The investigation asked the Preobrazhensky Court to arrest the lawyer Darejan Kveidze, who represented the interests of ex-Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, who was sentenced to eight years for corruption. The petition will be considered in the near future, the plot is not disclosed. The case was opened under part 4 of Thu. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). The maximum penalty is imprisonment for up to 10 years.

The coronavirus vaccine EpiVacCorona from the Vector center has not been purchased by the Ministry of Health since the beginning of this year, because the remains of this drug are still sufficient to continue the vaccination campaign, Assistant Minister of Health Alexey Kuznetsov explained to RBC. If necessary, the drug will be purchased in addition, he added. Vedomosti previously reported that the Ministry of Health has temporarily suspended purchases and supplies of EpiVacCorona.

Huge fiscal and tax incentives helped reduce the consequences of coronavirus for the global economy and markets, but caused an increase in fears about the overvaluation of assets. And although there are no objective criteria for predicting bubbles on the market, comparison of the current situation with the bubble of bubbles sound increasingly. Is there any reason for this? Getty images @ This material was written specifically for our new newsletter for private investors.

The biggest deal in microelectronics history — the $40 billion purchase by U.S. Nvidia of British microprocessor developer Arm from SoftBank — is quietly unraveling and most likely will not be closed, learned . Bloomberg According to the agency, SoftBank is substantively preparing an alternative - IPO of Arm. The direct cause of the failure of the transaction may be the actions of regulators.

McKinsey has described a hypothetical model of the massive economic and social changes that would occur if the world were carbon neutral by 2050. According to researchers, the global energy transition will cost $275 trillion, or 7.5% of world GDP. Russia turned out to be among those countries for which the energy transition will cost the most.

The Ministry of Finance for the first time commented on the initiative of the Central Bank to ban the use of cryptocurrencies in Russia. The department said it was in favor of regulation, not total ban. Ivan Chebeskov Director of the Financial Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance It seems to me that we cannot afford to just take one of the high-tech industries and somehow ban it in our country and say that it should be developed somewhere in another country.

Against the backdrop of new negative foreign policy news and continued sell-off in the US, the Russian market continues to hit anti-records. The Moscow Exchange Index today fell again by almost 6%, and the dollar took the bar of 79.5 per ruble. The Central Bank, in order to prevent the weakening of the ruble to 80 per dollar, was forced to announce the termination of the purchase of foreign currency for the NWF for an indefinite period.

Politician Alexei Navalny, who is serving a sentence in a colony in the Yves Rocher case, is included in the list of individuals who are considered involved in terrorism and extremist activities. This was reported on the website of Rosfinmonitoring.

In Russia, at the beginning of 2022, the demand for computers and peripherals increased sharply. The largest online retailers attribute this to the prospects for remote employment. According to Wildberries, in January, orders for laptops and computers almost tripled (by 175%), for key peripherals (monitors) - by 337%.

Large-scale power outages were noted in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on Tuesday, January 25. Blackouts in Alma-Ata and the southern regions of Kazakhstan, in Uzbekistan, including Tashkent, as well as throughout Kyrgyzstan, began to be reported by local residents, and then by officials and power engineers. Power failure occurred throughout the energy ring of Central Asia.

The international organization Transparency International (included in the register of NPOs-foreign agents) has published a traditional study "Corruption Perceptions Index" (CPI) for 2021. The assessment of corruption in Russia has not changed much, but due to the dynamics of other countries, Russia has dropped to 136th place out of 180 in the rating - this is worse than in Kenya, Bolivia and Azerbaijan.

The United States put 8,500 troops on high alert to deploy to Eastern Europe in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was stated by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, according to the website of the US Department. Most of those troops will be part of a "NATO response force" that could soon be deployed, he said.

The main US stock indices closed on January 24 in positive territory, although they sank heavily during trading - the Dow Jones Industrial Average, in particular, fell by more than 1,100 points, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). During the trading day on Monday, the Dow was down 3.25% and the Nasdaq Composite was down 4.9%. The decline, as noted by the WSJ, hit technology firms, small companies and cryptocurrencies.

The comprehensive development of transport in Moscow and the region will cost 10 trillion rubles by 2035. Car owners are waiting for restrictions on the use of cars The Directorate of the Moscow Transport Hub has published the transport development strategy for Moscow and the region, which has been under development since 2019, and Kommersant has studied its main innovations. The estimate of the strategy already approved by the Ministry of Transport is 10.1 trillion rubles.