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Analyst Shulgin urged Russians to keep their savings in dollars and Swiss francs people think about how to maintain and increase their existing savings. This can be done most effectively with the help of a portfolio of currencies, reports the Prime agency. Shulgin explained to the Russians that, unlike the conservative portfolio, which includes the ruble, dollar and euro, an effective portfolio also involves other currencies, potentially more profitable at some point. Among the currencies of the G10 countries, it included the US dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc. The analyst called dollars and Swiss francs ideal currencies for storing savings and urged to keep funds in them. In addition, he spoke about the growth of the Russian ruble. “Since the beginning of 2021, the Russian ruble has been the growth leader against the dollar (+4 percent) among the EM currencies. He is the beneficiary of the rise

The Russian Embassy in Denmark: the ship “Akademik Ioffe” was detained at the suit of the Canadian company – research vessel “Akademik Ioffe”, was supplied by the Canadian company One Ocean Expeditions Ltd. due to his previous activities. Such details of the incident were disclosed at the Russian embassy in Copenhagen, TASS reports. Attaché of the Russian diplomatic mission Maria Syrovatko noted that she had no information about the trial. Earlier, the embassy reported that at 38 crew members and 23 scientific workers are on board the detained vessel, contact has been established with them. The diplomats noted that, if necessary, the crew and researchers will be provided with consular assistance. It became known about the detention of the vessel on November 4. “Akademik Ioffe” belongs to the Institute of Oceanology. P.P. Shirshov of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The ship is named after the Soviet scientist physicist Abram Fedorovich

New York Times: Danchenko was arrested in the US as part of an investigation into Trump's ties to Russia Russian analyst Igor Danchenko, who took part in the investigation ties of former US President Donald Trump with Russia, was arrested in the United States. This is reported by The New York Times. “Federal authorities on Thursday arrested an analyst who in 2016 collected information about Trump's possible ties with Russia, people familiar with the situation said,” the authors of the published material said./p> It is noted that the indictment has not yet been published. Sources of the publication claim that the analyst was arrested as part of an investigation by Special Prosecutor John Durham. In October 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported that a Russian official was the source of accusations against Trump about collusion with Moscow … The media wrote that we are talking about a native of Perm,

The detention of the Russian ship “Akademik Ioffe” may be related to the transportation of tourists the fact that in the past the scientific ships “Akademik Ioffe” and the “Akademik Sergei Vavilov” built with it according to the same project were used for the transportation and travel of foreign tourists. The possible cause of the incident in an interview with Gazeta.ru was named by a source from the Russian Academy of Sciences, familiar with the situation. The interlocutor of the publication specified that in the past Academician Ioffe was used as a tourist boat. “An agreement was concluded with a tourist company, who was either an intermediary or an organizer of tourist trips. When our legislators suddenly became concerned with the work of scientific courts for tourists, they banned the use of the ships as tourist liners, ”he said and added that after that the contract was terminated, and the

Military Gustav Gustenau was suspected of having ties with Russia and was removed from office Head of the Office of Security Policy in the Austrian Ministry of Defense, which advises the military leadership and the Minister of Defense. It is reported by the Financial Times. His connection with the former manager of the Wirecard company Jan Marsalek was also revealed. The publication notes that Gustenau allocated funds from the budget for projects in which Marsalek participated, they also met several times. No charges were brought against Gustenau, and he himself said that “contacts with Russia were of an exclusively official nature and took place in accordance with orders.” Now Gustenau holds an “undefined research position” at the National Defense Academy, the newspaper notes … Also, the military man insists that he changed his place of work of his own free will. Former board member of the German payment system Wirecard