The ongoing strengthening of the ruble is ahead of all conceivable forecasts - on Friday, the dollar fell to 57 rubles - at least since March 2018, and the euro for the first time since June 2015 was approaching 59 rubles. Why is the ruble rising, how long will it continue and what does this mean for the Russian economy? What's happening The ruble has been continuously growing since March 10, when the value of the dollar on the stock exchange peaked at 120 rubles.

The Ministry of Justice recognized chess player Garry Kasparov and businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky as foreign agents. They are included in the register of individuals-foreign agents for political activities, follows from the information on the website of the ministry. Khodorkovsky lists Ukraine as a foreign source. Kasparov has Ukraine, as well as the American human rights organization Human Rights Foundation, with which he cooperates.

Following the economy, Russian trading floors are also turning to the East: the St. Petersburg Exchange is going to give Russian investors direct access to Chinese exchanges in the coming weeks. We talk about the current situation in the Chinese economy and what risks and market features investors should take into account. This article was written specifically for the new Bell.Investment mailing list. You can subscribe to it here .

Until the European Union agrees on an embargo against Russian oil, China has been quietly increasing the volume of its purchases for the second month in a row. What's happened This week alone, there have been several signs that China is gradually increasing its purchases of Russian oil. • Reuters wrote about "quiet" but record growth in purchases of Russian oil by Chinese companies.

Branko Milanovich-professor of the city University of New York and the London School of Economics, one of the main world specialists in global inequality. Russia, Milanovich noted, is one of the five of the most unequal countries in the world. Milanovich connects such a high level of inequality with the post-communist transit of the 1990s, when many middle-class representatives, including from among the employees of the state-owned enterprise, lost in income.

The developers of Russian video games asked the state to help with access to the Chinese market At the Russian Internet Forum ending today, a closed meeting was held between representatives of the Russian video game industry and the presidential administration, learned Kommersant . The Presidential Administration was interested in the situation in the industry under the sanctions, the developers acted as petitioners. The question is what the state will ask of them in return.