The Chairman of the Management Board of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, published on his Facebook page a response to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, who had previously asked him, as “a person who has been a member of the government for decades and a top manager in key areas of the domestic economy and industry,” to explain why “a significant part population lives poorly or very poorly.” Chubais recalled that he left the government more than 20 years ago

WhatsApp messenger has reduced the number of people or groups to whom you can forward the same message (Forward function) to five. This was reported by Reuters with reference to a statement by WhatsApp Vice President of Communications Victoria Grand. “Today we are setting a limit of five messages worldwide,” she announced. On Monday, January 21, WhatsApp will release the necessary update, said WhatsApp Head of Communications Karl Woog.

January 21, 2019, 16:34 / Economy / News Deputies of St. Petersburg asked to write off gas debts following the example of Chechnya undefined Vedomosti Ten opposition deputies of the legislative assembly of St.

January 21, 2019, 10:04 pm / Finance Fitch: VTB's abnormal profit is the result of a deal with Sogaz In November, the State Bank earned approximately 50 billion rubles more than usual Danis Yumabaev Anna Tretyak Last May, VTB Group and Sogaz signed an agreement to merge the insurance business / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti VTB in November received an unusually high net profit of 69 billion rubles, Fitch Ratings reports, noting that “this could be due to profit from the sale of VTB Insurance ,”

On the night of Monday, January 21, the Israel Defense Forces announced on their Twitter that they had launched an attack on Iranian forces in Syria. “We have begun striking targets of the Iranian Quds Force in Syria,” the statement said. The Syrian agency SANA clarified that explosions began to thunder in the sky over Damascus at about 1.15 local time (2.15 Moscow time). The Israeli military warned Syria's armed forces against attempting to harm Israeli forces or Israeli territory.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is in Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, is working to organize another visit to Moscow. To reach agreement on a framework agreement regarding territorial issues and a peace treaty, he intends to return in the spring, the Mainichi newspaper reports , citing informed sources. This possibility will be discussed at Abe’s meeting with Putin on January 22.

January 21, 2019, 06:18 / Economics Expenditures on the development of the Northern Sea Route were estimated at 900 billion rubles undefined Vedomosti To implement the federal project “ Northern Sea Route ” during 2019–2024. 905.6 billion rubles will be required. This follows from the schedule developed by Rosmorrechflot, which will be discussed at a meeting at the agency on January 23 with interested parties, writes Kommersant .

Taxi ordering service Uber will develop unmanned scooters and bicycles - they will be able to get to stations and charge without a person, Chris Anderson, head of the drone manufacturer 3D Robotics, said on Twitter. “Exciting announcement from Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) at today's DIY Robotics event: Micromobility division is autonomous scooters and bicycles that can drive themselves to charge or to optimal locations. Hiring begins now,” Anderson wrote.

Still from the film Since his debut, Japan, director Reygadas has made every effort to ensure that his films are seen by a minimum number of people. In interviews, he has repeatedly admitted that the only viewer important to him is himself. Everything is confusing in his films, the action demonstratively wobbles, the narrative fades into the background, and the speculative and dreamlike take over.

More than 4,000 drivers cooperating with Yandex.Taxi have registered as self-employed. A company representative spoke about this with reference to the My Tax and Yandex.Taxi applications . “To be even more precise, as of 2 p.m. Moscow time on January 21, we see 4,031 self-employed people in the system,” said a Yandex.Taxi representative .

January 21, 2019, 00:22 / Finance The Antimonopoly Service is collecting proposals on how to reduce prices for card payments Retail chains, the Central Bank and banks are lobbying for the idea Anna Eremina Natalya Ishchenko Today is the deadline for the Federal Antimonopoly Service to collect proposals to reduce the cost of card payments, so far only AKORT has responded / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Until January 21, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is waiting for proposals from banks,

January 21, 2019, 14:45 / Auto AvtoVAZ and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi localize key automotive components undefined Vedomosti AvtoVAZ , together with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, plans to localize key automotive components within the framework of the signed investment contract. We are talking about “global automotive platforms,” engines (including gas engines) and continuously variable transmissions. This is stated in the message of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Deputies from United Russia and members of the Federation Council began submitting applications to the Ministry of Labor to waive monthly additional payments to the insurance pension. This was reported by the press service of United Russia.

Members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU, which includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia) from 2024 must begin to set excise tax rates on cigarettes based on an indicative rate of 35 euros per 1000 cigarettes with a deviation of no more than 20% in the greater or smaller side. This follows from the order following the November Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, reports RBC with reference to the document.

The Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) will not vote on January 22 on the issue of awarding the title of honorary professor to Patriarch Kirill and Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. This was announced by Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Balega, reports .