Chinese antitrust authorities plan to impose a record fine on the Internet retailer Alibaba, whose founder, 56-year-old billionaire Jack Ma, had a conflict with the Chinese authorities. This is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources. The size of the fine is not yet known, but, according to the interlocutors of the publication, familiar with this issue, it may be higher than the fine imposed on processor manufacturer Qualcomm.

Life expectancy at birth in Russia in 2020 fell to 71.1 years, compared to 73.3 years in 2019. This is stated in the government plan to achieve national development goals, which was published by the Telegram channel "Maisky Ukaz"; the figures given in the document were confirmed by RBC sources. Life expectancy in Russia has decreased in annual terms for the first time since 2003, RBC notes, citing Rosstat data.

Municipal deputy of the Timiryazevsky district of Moscow Yulia Galyamina reported on Twitter that representatives of VKontakte gave the Investigative Committee employees the phone numbers of users who visited her page on the social network. "There's nothing to say here. They collect phone numbers of those who visit (not like, not repost, but just visit) my VK page," Galyamina said .

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has rejected Belarus’s 2021 Eurovision Song Contest entry, it announced on Thursday, March 11. The competition’s organizer concluded that the proposed song, “I’ll Teach You” by the band Galasy ZMesta, “puts the non-political nature of the contest in question.” The EBU also underscored that the public backlash over the song could damage the Eurovision Song Contest’s reputation.

Twitter user libneko has created a service that allows you to quickly check if an ISP is slowing down twitter or not. To check, the service downloads an image from the abs.twimg.com domain that Twitter uses, and then calculates how long it took to download. It can take up to one minute to check, it says on the service page. It took 29 seconds to download the image from the Meduza editor's computer in Moscow, downloading the image at a speed of 103.57 kilobits per second.

The Russian State Duma adopted in its first reading two government draft laws that will allow state officials and the employees of state-owned companies to avoid liability for breaking anti-corruption laws under certain circumstances. Who does this apply to?

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has spent at least one billion rubles ($13.7 million) in state funds on security for himself and his family since 2017, according to a new investigation from Open Media. Citing records from the public procurement database Kontur.Focus, Open Media reports that Kadyrov spends approximately 200 million rubles ($2.73 million) a year on employing between 388 and 430 officers from the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) to protect himself and his family.

Denmark suspended the use of AstraZeneca's vaccine for two weeks after reports of several cases of blood clots in vaccinees. One of the cases ended in death. At the same time, the authorities of the country emphasized that a direct link between the formation of blood clots and vaccination has not yet been established. The European Medicines Agency said it would investigate, but stressed that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks anyway.

The auction house Christiegn sold the work of “Evedeys: The First 5000 Days” by the artist Mike Vinkelmann, known as Beeple, for $ 69.3 million in the form of non -deposited token ( NFT ), according to the website of the auction house. This is a record price for NFT. A JPG file was put up at the auction-a collage from all the images that the artist published daily on the Internet for five thousand days since 2007.

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Top Moscow police official maintains that no undue force was used against pro-Navalny protesters Alexander Miridonov / Kommersant During a city council session on Wednesday, one of Moscow’s top police officials insisted that law enforcement officers didn’t use any excessive force against pro-Navalny protesters in January and February. He also rejected reports that a number of journalists were injured by police while covering the demonstrations.

The creator of Faberlic and the New People party Alexey Nechaev bought Sports.ru. What will happen to the publication now? Interview Dmitry Navoshi - one of its founders Evgeny Dudin / Kommersant Sports.ru is one of the few truly independent publications in Russia. On the site there are regularly appeared materials that systematically analyze the problems of Russian sports, and an interview in which famous athletes openly criticize Vladimir Putin.

Since 2017, at least one billion rubles have been spent from the budget on the protection of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and his family — about 200 million rubles a year, according to Open Media, citing public procurement materials and the Kontur.Focus database. For this money, the head of Chechnya and his relatives were guarded by from 388 to 430 fighters of the National Guard.

Spoiler: Skillful work with the press ROB PINNEY / GETTY IMAGES Buckingham Palace is experiencing another scandal. The wife of Prince Harry Meghan Markle told in an interview with the roller of Winfrey that some members of the royal family were worried about the skin color of her unborn child and did not allow specialists during depression (supposedly this would harm the reputation of the courtyard).

The European Broadcasting Union, the organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest, refused to allow the song "I'll Teach You" by the Galasy Zmesta group, which was supposed to represent Belarus, to the contest. The union concluded that the content of the song "calls the non-political nature of the contest into question". The Eurovision organizer also stressed that the public reaction to the song "could undermine the reputation" of the union.