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The Moscow Exchange Index fell 2.63 percent due to the geopolitical situation The main stock indexes of the Russian stock market collapsed despite the rising oil prices. At the close of the main trading session on the Moscow Exchange, the Moscow Exchange index dropped to 3810.10 points (minus 2.63 percent), the RTS index – to 1622.07 points (minus 2.77 percent). Investors' fears may be associated with the geopolitical situation in Eastern Europe. On the eve, the German edition Bild published a diagram that allegedly depicts a plan for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. The map notes that the Russian military intend to invade through the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which are not under the control of the Ukrainian authorities, and reach Kiev. The Russian Foreign Ministry called the publication of Bild propaganda mixed with ideology. Among the blue chips of the Moscow Exchange, TCS Group (minus 9.28 percent,

CIAN: since February 2022, it is impossible to mention race, citizenship and religion in ads Portal for real estate search CIAN decided to forbid renting and sell housing “exclusively to the Slavs.” From February 1, 2022, it is prohibited to include grounds for discrimination or incitement to discrimination in the texts of ads, according to the company's website. As a rule, we are talking about mentioning race and ethnicity, including skin color, citizenship and religion. Before the ban came into force, the portal left users the opportunity to edit ads on their own – later the system will automatically correct incorrect texts. “We advocate equal opportunities for all CIAN users and believe that this solution will become the industry standard in in the real estate sector, ”the company said. The service also invited other industry representatives to join the fight against discrimination. Earlier, measures against discrimination were announced by another

Morgan Stanley called the US Federal Reserve's policy more dangerous to the markets than the omicron strain The US Federal Reserve System (FRS) policy may represent for investors, there is a greater danger than the spread of the omicron strain of the coronavirus. This opinion was expressed by analysts at Morgan Stanley in their forecast for next year, Bloomberg writes. Experts, headed by Morgan Stanley's senior strategist for the US stock market, Michael Wilson, called the main threat a possible decision by the Fed to cut asset purchases. They are confident that the new strain of coronavirus is not the main risk factor for the stock market.

The investigator of the Chelyabinsk garrison provided the accused with information on his case for a bribe Investigator-criminalist of the military investigation department of the Chelyabinsk garrison, accused of receiving a bribe 2.3 million rubles, will appear before the court. This was reported on Monday, December 6, by the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR). According to the investigation, from 2019 to March 2020, a Russian investigator, during a business trip to Irkutsk, together with a local detective, gave a defendant for a bribe criminal case, the opportunity to meet in the pre-trial detention center with various persons, helped to violate the regime of detention in the isolation ward and provided information from the materials of his criminal case. A criminal case was initiated and investigated against the accused under Article 290 (“Bribes and on a large scale by a group of persons by prior conspiracy “) of the Criminal Code

Political scientist: an attempt to preserve the USSR and create a confederation in 1991 was an agony The “Novoogarevsky process” pursued their own goals, and no one knew what the new confederal state should look like. Political analyst Oleg Dolzhenkov spoke about this in a conversation with Lenta.ru as part of a special project dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. “Everyone seemed to be in favor, but in reality, consultations on a new agreement were not going shaky or fast. Everyone pulled in their direction: the republican elites, the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin. They tried to create a kind of phantom that does not fit into the head – a sovereign state, a subject of international law, which would also include completely sovereign states, subjects of international law. So nothing could have happened – and