Day: November 17, 2021

Kommersant: The Supreme Court decided to change the approach to cases of subsidiary liability to refuse a harsh approach to them with a deliberately accusatory bias, writes Kommersant. These are the processes related to the subsidiary liability of bankers. Subsidiary liability of the owners and managers of companies occurs when they cannot pay off their obligations with their assets, and the court concludes that the bankruptcy was the result of deliberate actions of top managers or owners. In Russian law, there is a concept of a controlling debtor a person (KDL), which must answer with its own property, not invested in the business (authorized capital of the enterprise), to creditors. Since 2017, the circle of persons falling under the definition of the CFL has been significantly expanded. Now it includes people indirectly associated with the bankrupt company. The change in the approach to subsidiary liability of the KDL is due

Self-portrait of Frida Kahlo “Diego and Me” was sold at auction for 34.9 million dollars I “sold at an auction in New York for $ 34.9 million. This was announced by the auction house Sotheby's on Twitter. The work was written in 1949. According to the portal News.artnet, the buyer was the collector Eduardo F. Costantini. It is noted that this is a record amount for all Latin American artists ever exhibited at the auction. Prior to that, the record belonged to the painting by Mexican artist Diego Rivera “Rivals”, which sold for $ 9.76 million in 2018. In July, the drawing “Bear's Head”, created by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, left hammer at Christie's in London for a record amount for such works of the author of 12.2 million dollars (just over 917 million rubles).

Tesla electric car users complained about false braking Tesla car users reported more frequent cases of false braking while driving on autopilot. This is reported by Electrek. False operation of the braking system can occur when the driver assistance mode (ADAS) is active on the electric vehicle. Experts believe that this is due to the fact that the autopilot mistakenly detects an obstacle in the way. According to motorists, whose cars began to slow down sharply for no reason, the situation gives them discomfort. In many cases, such behavior of a car can be dangerous, as the car in the back may not have time to avoid a collision. Reporters noted that the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has already begun to study consumer complaints. According to car owners' reports, the car either gradually slows down and stops, or the autopilot hits the brakes sharply. Electrek author Fred

RBC: due to the pandemic, Russian schoolchildren are more pessimistic about the future Teachers assessed the impact of quarantine restrictions on the state and career plans of Russian schoolchildren. In their opinion, students now value live communication more. 23 percent of respondents believe that children have become more pessimistic about the future, RBC reports. The Foundation for Humanitarian Projects and regional operators of the Ticket to the Future project interviewed teachers about the state of schoolchildren after the onset of the pandemic. 11 percent of educators noted that distance learning contributed to the separation of children. 23 percent do not believe that the pandemic is affecting them in any way. The increased pessimism of children about their careers was noticed by 23 percent of teachers. However, 21 percent believe that students, on the contrary, have become more responsible and conscious about their choice of a future profession. Almost half of

A person died at the 77th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road as a result of an accident with six cars six cars were hit, including two trucks and four cars. This was announced by the Department of Transport in its Telegram channel. According to REN TV with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies, as a result of an accident involving six cars, one person died – he was in the cabin of a truck. The Department of Transport added that the operational services of the city are working at the scene of the accident. Traffic is limited to three lanes out of five. The agency recommended the capital's drivers to choose bypass routes. Earlier, a truck caught fire on the Moscow Ring Road. According to Deptrans, the fire made it difficult to move in four lanes.

FAS has developed a number of proposals to stabilize prices for winter diesel The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has developed a number of proposals to regulate the fuel market, which will help stabilize prices for winter diesel. This is reported by TASS. The agency proposes to increase the standard for diesel sales on the stock exchange from 7.5 to 10 percentage points. It is planned that this will create a margin of safety during the period of increased demand. Other FAS plans include reducing the share of surrogate products, optimizing fuel transportation, and adjusting the damping mechanism. On November 16, the price of winter diesel fuel at the St. Petersburg International Commodity Exchange again broke a historic record, reaching 61.528 thousand rubles per ton. Earlier, the Ministry of Energy of Russia explained the rise in exchange prices for winter diesel fuel by the rush demand of traders, as well as

An American wrote the same numbers on lottery tickets for five years and got rich in lottery tickets the same numbers and got rich by hitting the jackpot. This was reported by the UPI news agency. The man said that he bought a ticket in the store and entered into it the same set of numbers that he always used when playing the lottery. After the drawing he checked the results through the mobile app, and the numbers that came up seemed familiar to him. It turned out that he won 98 thousand dollars (about seven million rubles). The American plans to spend the money to close the loans. Earlier it was reported that a resident of the American district of Oakland, Michigan, played the lottery with the same numbers every week for a year and became a millionaire. The American plans to share part of the winnings with her