The co-owners of the Fix Price chain of stores, Artem Khachatryan and Sergey Lomakin, became dollar billionaires after the company entered an IPO (initial public offering of shares). This is evidenced by Forbes calculations. The magazine estimated the fortune of each of them at $3.4 billion. Bloomberg wrote about 3.6 billion. Fix Price listed its securities on the London Stock Exchange at a price of $9.75 per share.

Lithuania will not satisfy the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus to extradite Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. This was stated by the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Gabrielius Landsbergis. His comment was published on the agency's website. Lithuania has been and will be a stone wall behind which all democratic forces persecuted by the regimes will find refuge.

Drawing on their own pasts, Russian charity workers at Humanitarian Action are helping thousands overcome drug addiction Artem Leshko / Humanitarian Action Foundation Russia’s Justice Ministry added “Humanitarian Action,” a charity based in St. Petersburg, to its list of “foreign agents” in late 2020.

Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow initiated the process of excluding human rights activist Marina Litvinovich from the commission. She herself announced this in a telegram. According to the human rights activist, one of the members of the PMC of Moscow (his name is not specified) suggested that she be expelled.

From April 5, in Moscow, the evacuation of cars parked in violation of traffic rules and their storage in a special parking lot will rise by 15%. This was reported by the Moscow Department of Transport. The new tariffs are introduced taking into account the recalculation of the economically justified price, which includes the real costs of the city for evacuation: the cost of fuel, salaries for drivers and technicians, funds for the repair and maintenance of tow trucks.

A lecturer at the Kazan National Research Technical University named after Tupolev (KNITU-KAI) warned students against participating in rallies for opposition leader Alexei Navalny, saying that he is a "loser" and that Putin is a "tsar." An audio recording of the speech was posted by the Kazan student online magazine "Veter." The publication reported that the recording was sent by students. It is not specified when it was made.

Starting March 10, Aeroflot will increase the fuel surcharge by 10% on its own domestic flights, as well as on the domestic flights of its subsidiaries Rossiya and Aurora. The Pobeda low-cost airline will not be affected by the increase, reported Forbes . This information was confirmed to the magazine by a representative of Aeroflot. The fuel surcharge for domestic flights of Aeroflot and flights of subsidiaries operated under the SU code will indeed be increased by 10% from March 10, 2021.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will conduct an investigation due to the use of the colors of the Russian flag on the car of the American Haas team in Formula 1. This is reported by the publication Autosport. Russian driver Nikita Mazepin will compete for Haas in the 2021 season.

The platform announced a plan of grandiose reforms. Here are what functions they promise to us - and why are they urgently needed by the leadership of the social network Shutterstock.com Since its launch in March 2006, Twitter has practically not changed. Probably the most revolutionary innovation was the expansion of the maximum size of one tweet from 140 to 280 characters in 2017.

We talked with the prisoner of the "Skopin maniac". Russia has launched the first 5G network to which you can connect. Moscow finally cancels mandatory quarantine for the elderly Good evening, This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important news of the day. Phew, it's Friday night, and three days off ahead - so it's time to dance! Today we offer to repeat the movements of the Canadian of Indian origin Gurdeep Pander.

The EpiVacCorona coronavirus vaccine developed by the Vector Research Center in Novosibirsk will be available for mass vaccination from the second half of March. This was announced on the air of the TV channel "Russia 1" by the director of "Vector" Rinat Maksyutov. “In the second half of March, our citizens will be able to get vaccinated [with EpiVacCorona],” Maksyutov said (quoted by TASS). On March 5, Rospotrebnadzor approved the use of the EpiVacCoron vaccine for people over 60 years of age.

The number of people in Russia who fell ill with COVID-19 and died since the beginning of the pandemic has amounted to 200,432 people. This is evidenced by the data of Rosstat. In 2020, 163,325 people died with COVID-19 (taking into account updated Rosstat data for December). In January 2021, according to the agency, 37,107 people died with COVID-19 (the main cause of death was the disease in 21,511 of them). There are no statistics for February yet.

Two days after designating the Doctors’ Alliance as a “foreign agent,” Russia’s Justice Ministry released information claiming that the organization received money from nationals in Singapore, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Norway, Belarus, and Ukraine.

Dmitry Astakhov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin argued with the director of the mathematical center of Novosibirsk State University (NSU) Evgeny Vdovin because of the word "Vorkshop". Mishustin did not like that the scientist used Englishism instead of the surviving Russian synonym. It was about an impending event at which students are taught research work. “The Russian name of the workshop is a seminar.

The Skopinsky Maniac was released. We talked with Ekaterina Martynova, who spent 1312 days in his captivity At the end of September 2000, in the center of Ryazan, after the disco, two girls disappeared: 14-year-old Ekaterina Martynova and 17-year-old Elena Samokhina. They were stolen by 50-year-old Victor Mokhov. Three years before, he began to build an underground bunker in the city of Skopin (100 kilometers from Ryazan), where he eventually placed his captives.