How Europe will survive the winter of the gas war, the Central Bank reduces the betting rate and how the wartime Tiktok works @ Pixabay Vladimir Putin launched his main economic weapon against Europe - the threat of stopping or reducing gas supplies. The gas war will not be waged by storm, but for exhaustion.

The Bank of Russia lowered the key rate immediately by 1.5 percentage points - from 9.5% to 8% per annum. This is the fifth cut since April, the rate is now even lower than in January (8.5%).

Tiktok is the only large social network that is still not blocked and not banned in Russia. But in fact, she blocked herself within the country. Since March, Russian users see only patriotic content taken in Russia. At the same time, Tiktok-Dom appeared in Russia, in which schoolchildren and adolescents shoot videos in support of the Russian armed forces. We tell you how it works and how much it can cost.

The co-owner and CEO of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC), Andrey Kozitsyn, who was included in the new package of EU sanctions the day before, left the post of CEO of UMMC.

The next package of EU sanctions is officially called the "support and correction" package. There is no big news in it, except for the main one: sanctions will work better and more selectively published the day before The main measures of the new package were the freezing of Sberbank's assets and a ban on the import of Russian gold, including in the form of jewelry, from third countries.