Day: December 6, 2021

Izvestia: a limit of up to 200-300 thousand rubles will be set on deposits for the poor poor citizens. The bar will be at the level of 200-300 thousand rubles. So they decided to support the idea of ​​the Central Bank (CB) to create a special deposit with an increased interest rate for Russians with low incomes. The newspaper Izvestia writes about this. Some bankers believe that the yield on a new deposit should be tied to the key rate, since the inflation rate is a controversial indicator. At the same time, other experts believe that the rate on the new product should be tied to inflation, which primarily affects the standard of living and the cost of savings. According to them, this opportunity will not help poor citizens to rectify the situation, and the demand for this instrument will be quite low. At the same time, the Association of

More than a third of all satellites in Earth's orbit were under the control of Elon Musk a third of all satellites orbiting the Earth. This is reported by The Independent. The journalists noted that after sending the last batch of Starlink satellites, SpaceX set a personal record for successfully launching rockets in one year. As of December 3, the Musk Corporation has launched 27 rockets. Also, at the moment, the American company controls 37 percent of the total number of active satellites in orbit. The authors refer to data from the CelesTrak tracker, according to which Starlink owns 1,753 satellites out of 4,841 in space. It clarifies that 357 satellites are controlled by another project to provide Internet communications through space equipment OneWeb. Most of the satellites – 1,910 units – belong to other organizations. The material says that by the end of the year SpaceX has planned to

FT: At first, the European Union did not believe in the US intelligence information about Russia's “invasion” of Ukraine Some countries of the European Union (EU) at first did not believe in the US statement about the allegedly possible “invasion” of Russia in Ukraine. The Financial Times writes about this with reference to sources. As one of the interlocutors of the publication said, “many allies were not convinced that serious things were happening” and reacted with distrust to the data of American intelligence. “We were surprised by this intelligence difference – how and why the US saw what we don’t see.” According to the FT, Washington had to go for unusually wide intelligence disclosures in early November in order to convince its allies of Europe, which allowed “to switch the conversation from whether the warning was correct to how best to contain” the possible “aggression” of Russia. In November, The

In Brazil, 2 babies were mistakenly vaccinated against COVID-19 with Pfizer vaccine and were hospitalized In Brazil, two babies were mistakenly vaccinated against COVID -19 with Pfizer instead of a combination vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and hepatitis B. … The nurse has already been suspended from work. Dozens of children in the United States were vaccinated with an expired Pfizer coronavirus vaccine earlier in December. At least 70 children were vaccinated with the drug, which turned out to be expired due to violation of storage conditions. Health services have assured that the health of minors is not in danger. After the incident, personnel were retrained in the region on the storage of vaccines.

The Central Bank will introduce a mandatory refund amount to customers who have become victims of fraudsters became victims of scammers. This is reported by RBC with reference to the Central Bank's materials on plans to amend 161-FZ “On the National Payment System.” “The main prerequisites for amending the law are: the need for a significant modernization of the mechanism for countering the theft of funds and the return of funds debited from clients' accounts, ”said Vadim Uvarov, director of the information security department of the Central Bank. money transfers 3.2 billion rubles, while banks returned only 7.7 percent of the stolen funds to clients. The Central Bank intends to introduce a simplified procedure for returning money to victims of fraudsters in the amount determined by the Bank of Russia. To do this, a Russian must notify the bank of fraud no later than the next day after receiving notification