Xi Jinping, Macron, Scholz, Erdogan: While the United States is waiting for Russia's response, Vladimir Putin meets all the others In the geopolitical crisis around Ukraine, a new large diplomatic round begins. On Monday, Vladimir Putin, who visited Beijing on Friday, met in Moscow with France President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Sholz and the Foreign Minister of the UK Liz Tracers will fly to Russia after him.

Swedish price comparison service PriceRunner has filed a lawsuit against Google in a Stockholm court, reports . Bloomberg As PriceRunner explained, the lawsuit is based on an EU court ruling that Google manipulated search results in favor of its price comparison services. In 2017, the European Commission decided to fine 2.4 billion euros for abusing its dominant position in the search engine market, and in November last year, Google lost an appeal in court.

Just imagine: two -thirds of today's first -graders will work in professions that do not yet exist, Bank of America predicts. And this is not all: after three years, 5 million robots will work in the world - twice as much as in 2019. For comparison: this is approximately equal to the population of St. Petersburg, Melbourne or two Paris. What will the employees of the future be and what leaders do they need? How to prepare yourself for competition with artificial intelligence?

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, has long been allowed to flout Russian law. And the Kremlin this week reaffirmed his untouchable status as security officers loyal to the former warlord continued their high-profile pursuit of the family of an opposition blogger. The blogger’s mother — a woman of retirement age and seriously ill — was last month detained in her apartment in the city of Nizhny Novgorod and taken to Chechnya.

Annual inflation was reported last week to be running at up to 8.5 percent in December, its highest level for three years. It shows no sign of slowing despite the Central Bank raising interest rates seven times last year. Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina said recently that inflation was likely to start falling in early 2022.

The Russian tokenization platform Atomyze, one of whose investors is Vladimir Potanin's Interros, plans to launch a pilot real estate program in Norilsk, said in an interview with Bloomberg. Potanin himself The program involves the creation of tokens for the purchase of apartments and the launch of a mortgage program related to tokens in cooperation with Rosbank.

Modern climate models, which directly affect global climate policy and the pace of energy transition, are not able to predict the rate of global warming with sufficient accuracy - it seems that they have hit a fundamental "wall", writes The Wall Street Journal . This means that decisions on the climate agenda will remain evaluative and political for the foreseeable future.

Quotes of Russian oil Urals in North-Western Europe and the Mediterranean exceeded $95 per barrel last week, reported . Argus Media Geopolitical tensions are being imposed on OPEC+ production, which remains below the quota in some countries. “Last June, the absolute price of Urals in NWE and the Mediterranean exceeded $70/bbl, in October - $80/bbl, and in January of this year - $90/bbl. for the first time since October 2014,” notes Argus.

As The Bell learned, last week First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Belousov held a series of meetings on the readiness of certain sectors of the economy for possible anti-Russian sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine. The meetings were held as a result of stress tests ("exercises") of Russian companies and systemically important banks, three sources close to the government told The Bell.

Sanctions prohibiting the supply of microelectronics with American technology to Russia will cost foreign smartphone manufacturers 760 billion rubles, or $10 billion a year, writes , citing GS Group calculations. Kommersant Half of the losses will fall on Apple, Samsung, which is now the leader in physical deliveries, and the main Chinese suppliers, Xiaomi and Realme, will suffer greatly. The share of key producers will fall from 80% to 15-20%.

Rosatom plans to transfer gas pumping into Europe into atomic energy. This is a way to reduce the noticeably expensive carbon trace of Gazprom and promote the North Stream as an environmentally friendly project Rosatom, who entered into an agreement on cooperation with Gazprom, last autumn proposed to translate the main gas -skating installations of the monopoly to the electric drive, found out Kommersant. The energy for this should give a new nuclear power plant in Western Siberia.

Rosatom plans to transfer gas pumping to Europe to nuclear energy. This is a way to reduce Gazprom's noticeably rising carbon footprint and promote Nord Stream as an environmentally friendly project. What's happening Rosatom, which entered into a cooperation agreement with Gazprom, last fall offered to transfer the monopoly's main gas pumping units to an electric drive, learned Kommersant . Energy for this could be taken from a new nuclear power plant in Western Siberia.