Photo: Andrey Nikerichev/Agency "Moscow" Until October 20, the Ministry of Finance must decide which income should be taxed up to 15% increased personal income tax rate, and if necessary to offer amendments. The Prime Minister gave such an assignment at the end of September-just 10 days after the submitting a bill on a new tax rate to the State Duma. How did it happen that the government, without waiting for the first reading, is forced to urgently finalize its own bill?

Reading time: 4 min Mikhail Mishustin and Vladimir Putin Photo: Kremlin.ru The expert environment discusses the thesis of the political union of Mikhail Mishustin and Herman Gref. I read about this with the economist Vladislav Inozemtsev.

Greenpeace employee conducts an underwater examination in Kamchatka to identify the scale of the environmental disaster in the Pacific Ocean Photo: Irina Kozlovskikh/Greenpeace The Russian branch of Greenpeace published the first results of the study of its samples from Kamchatka, where an environmental disaster occurred in September - the trunk animals were massively killed, and the surfers complained about well -being.

Photo: Agency "Moscow" With the start of the school year, the new state initiative is given - an educational loan with expanded state support. Increasing the availability of higher education reveals unresolved problems: employment of young specialists, increasing prices for training and reducing budget places. For many years, banks offer educational loans, but before it was not particularly in demand due to the high cost of money and difficulties in receipt.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo: Foreign Ministry of Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a very tough statement: Russia can stop the dialogue with the European Union. Perhaps, the minister Lavrov had not yet performed, and what provoked him to these words, I do not know - perhaps a long conversation with Josep Borrere, the head of European diplomacy. Their conversation was apparently unconstructive.

Photo: Terekhova/Flickr This year, the company's energy sector showed the worst dynamics in the US stock market. The aggregate market capitalization of companies from the S&P 500 index included in the industry index of the energy sector has almost doubled to $ 598 billion from the beginning of the year. The cost of the country's two largest oil and gas companies, Exxonmobil and Chevron, has fallen by about 50% and 38%, respectively.

Pavel Chikov and Sergey Guriev (from left to right) VTIMES continue to publish an interview with the economist Sergey Guriev “What () WHAT” - about how to build free and prosperous Russia and what needs to be done first of all when the opportunity to change. Interlocutors Sergey Guriev are leading Russian economists, jurists, political scientists. Video version of the interview can be look On the YouTube channels of Sergey Guriev and the Rain TV channel. Economists often argue with each other.

Photo: Sofya Sandurskaya/Agency "Moscow" The bed fund, deployed in Russia for patients with Covid, is busy almost 90%, Oleg Gridnev, Deputy Minister of Health at the Pandemia 2020 conference in the RANEPA, said on Tuesday. Some of the patients are in hospitals with a mild degree of disease: by sending such patients to be treated home, you can free up to 20% of the bed fund, Gridnev believes.