The government will allow legal entities with revenue of no more than 20 million rubles per year to delay taxes on the simplified tax system. But fundamentally this will improve little Oleg Kharseev/Kommersant

Since the beginning of the week, shares of Palantir, one of the most popular securities among private investors, have fallen 9.3%. At the same time, the company remains incredibly expensive - its multiples are at a level unseen even among the FAANG during the period of rapid growth. No other company currently in the S&P 500 has reached a $490 billion valuation so quickly and with so little revenue. Let's talk about what makes Palantir so special.

Russian business will face a reduction in the annual revenue threshold possible when working under a simplified taxation system to 10 million rubles not from next year, but from 2028. This follows from today’s statement by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. What's happened?

The European Commission has published a general plan for the modernization of railway communications in the European Union. By 2030, passengers will have to travel from Berlin to Copenhagen in 4 hours instead of 7. By 2035, Sofia will be separated from Athens by only 6 hours instead of 13, modern cross-border highways will appear in the Baltic countries, and the Tallinn-Riga-Vilnius-Warsaw route will take less than 8 hours.

In January 2025, hackers leaked 15,000 VPN passwords of employees of several companies who used VPNs for remote access. The VPN provider of the affected companies did not notice the vulnerability in the code, due to which its clients became victims of the attack. Not only corporations, but also medium-sized enterprises face such threats - in an attempt to protect valuable information, businesses turn to VPN providers, but cannot always understand who to trust.

The Ministry of Finance published statistics on Russian oil and gas revenues for October. They fell by 27% year on year, to 889 billion rubles. In monthly terms, they increased by September, but this is the usual effect of quarterly payment of AIT. The average price for Urals oil in October was 4,349 rubles per barrel, or $53.7. In strengthened rubles, it is a third cheaper than a year ago.

Apple and Google have nearly agreed on a major deal that will see Apple pay about $1 billion annually to use Google's advanced AI model for Siri, Bloomberg reports . The updated voice assistant may appear as early as spring next year. According to sources, Google's model will help Siri better understand context, summarize information and perform complex tasks. Google's technology will be a temporary solution while Apple continues to develop its own.

Deals for foreign companies to leave Russia have almost disappeared. Over the nine months of 2025, only 15 transactions for the sale of assets in Russia by a foreigner were registered in nine months, this is the minimum figure since 2022, RBC writes , citing a report by the AK&M agency on the M&A market. In the third quarter of this year, there were only five such transactions.

TASS The European Union is planning another tightening of visa rules for Russian citizens: Russian citizens, with the exception of certain cases, will no longer be issued Schengen visas with the possibility of multiple entry. Some European countries, despite previous tightening, still issue Schengen multiple visas to Russians for up to a year. What will change?