New shareholders and VK leadership began to rebuild it for their goals. Today, VK announced the permutations in the leadership. Some of the top managers from the old Mail.Ru Group team will leave the company, and former employees of Rostelecom will come to their seats, where the new head of VK Vladimir Kiriyenko worked before.

Vladimir Kiriyenko begins to rebuild VK New shareholders and VK leadership began to rebuild it for their goals. Today, VK announced the permutations in the leadership. Some of the top managers from the old Mail.Ru Group team will leave the company, and former employees of Rostelecom will come to their seats, where the new head of VK Vladimir Kiriyenko worked before.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Kyiv's desire to implement the Minsk agreements, French President Emmanuel Macron announced this after negotiations with his Ukrainian counterpart. Zelensky, in turn, after a conversation with Macron, expressed hope that the summit would soon be held in the Normandy format. Macron was on a visit to Moscow on February 7, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. We talked about the results of this meeting here .

It will be possible to receive a QR code based on the results of a test for antibodies to coronavirus from February 21, follows from the order of the Russian Ministry of Health. The document will be available in Russian and English. The certificate is generated on the Gosuslug portal if there is data on positive antibody test results in the state information system no later than three calendar days from the date of application, writes with reference to the relevant order of the department.

According to The Bell source, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko approved the concept and roadmap of the Ministry of Finance for regulating the circulation of cryptocurrencies. The concept, among other things, provides for the use of banking infrastructure for the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies and Rosfinmonitoring's "transparent blockchain" service.

The fitness startup Peloton, which has become an example of coronavirus anti-success, is preparing to replace the CEO, cut costs and carry out a large-scale personnel purge. The day before, the company's quotes soared 22% after reports that Amazon and Nike were interested in buying it, but fell almost 10% in premarket news on the next batch of news. Peloton co-founder John Foley, who led the company throughout its 10-year history, is stepping down as CEO, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The dollar and the euro are falling on the Moscow Exchange on Tuesday afternoon, the dollar fell below 75 rubles for the first time since January 13. The reason was the negotiations between the presidents of Russia and France, which, although they ended without decisive results in the public field, gave a hint of de-escalation. At 14.28 Moscow time, the dollar fell to 74.99 rubles, having fallen by almost half a ruble.

On February 15, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow will begin considering a new case against Alexei Navalny - about fraud and contempt of court. The whole process, according to his lawyers, will be on site, the judge will come to a correctional colony in the Vladimir region.

The leadership of VK (the former Mail.ru Group), control over which has been shared by Yury Kovalchuk's Sogaz and Gazprombank since the end of last year, has undergone a major reshuffle.

The Kremlin denied the Financial Times (FT) reports that Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron agreed on a deal during negotiations to de-escalate the situation around Ukraine, reports , citing Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. RIA Novosti “Moscow and Paris could not do this, the leadership in NATO does not belong to France,” he said. Peskov also noted that Russian troops would return to their permanent locations after the exercises in Belarus.

Law enforcement agencies came with searches at dozens of addresses in St. Petersburg, where housing and communal services and road enterprises are located, Fontanka and RIA Novosti reported , citing sources. According to Fontanka's sources, we are talking about more than 60 addresses, 200 security forces are participating in the operation - police officers, investigators and SOBR officers. The initiative to hold events belongs to the city administration, they say.

Following Shell, British BP reported an excellent fourth quarter and year in the face of rising oil prices. Its quarterly profit exceeded $4 billion, and its annual profit reached an eight-year high. BP's underlying profit in the fourth quarter was $4.1 billion compared to $115 million a year earlier for the same period. For all of 2021, the company earned $12.8 billion, helped by the global gas crisis and rising oil prices.

Securities on the balance sheet of Sberbank depreciated by 104.1 billion rubles in January, RBC reports citing the NKR rating agency. This happened in the context of a collapse in markets due to geopolitics and the risk of new sanctions against Russia. There has not been such a sharp depreciation of securities on the balance sheet of Sberbank since at least the beginning of 2020, the newspaper writes.

SoftBank is planning an IPO for British microprocessor developer Arm after US Nvidia pulled out of buying it, reports . Bloomberg According to a statement from SoftBank, along with Nvidia, they decided to terminate the deal due to "significant regulatory challenges preventing the completion of the transaction despite the good faith efforts of the parties." Arm's IPO is planned for the fiscal year ending March 2023, the holding notes.

Long negotiations between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron in Moscow ended without decisive results in the public arena. But they gave a hint of de-escalation. The symbol of the negotiations, which lasted more than five hours, was a photo of Putin and Macron at the edges of a six-meter table. As a result, a press conference was held, which can be viewed here .