In 2016, the profit of "Apple Rus" increased by 28 times Buyers in the store Re: Store. Photo: Sergey Bobylev / TASS Today it became known about the impressive growth of Apple revenue in Russia in 2016: the sales of the subsidiary of the American Corporation of EPL RUS amounted to 123.6 billion rubles, 1.7 times more than a year earlier.

The US Senate with an overwhelming majority vote adopted a bill on new sanctions against Russia, Iran and DPRK, Reuters reports. Now the president of the country Donald Trump must either finally approve the law or impose a veto on it. The new bill was submitted to Congress on July 13. The lower house of the American parliament voted for it on July 26.

Virgin Atlantic Airlines British billionaire Richard Branson will create a joint venture with Air France-KLM and Delta Air Lines. The companies have already signed a preliminary agreement, reports Financial Times. The Air France-KLM, Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic said that in this way they are trying to fight competitors, the cost of the services of which is much lower.

In Moscow, the deputy Moscow prosecutor was detained for the supervision of the enforcement of laws by air and water transport, Pavel Yurkin, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Yurkina was detained while receiving a bribe of 400 thousand rubles from a businessman in order to conceal evidence.

Photo: Tom Kelley Archive / Getty images “The law of successful innovations. Why does the client “hires” your product and how knowledge of this helps new developments ”is the name of the book published by Alpina Plisher, and it is slightly alarming. The point is not only in the unsuccessful translation of the title - extensive and awkward.

The new head of the Center for Information Security (QIB) of the FSB was Sergey Skorokhodov, writes RBC. According to the Spark-Interfax, it holds this position since July 26. According to the publication, Skorokhodov was the deputy of the previous head of the QIB. Before work in this unit, he was engaged in migration policy at the FSB. The previous head of the center Andrei Gerasimov resigned in June, said the interlocutor of RBC.

There are many different ways by eye to determine the state of affairs in the state. One of the most obvious is to look at what is being built in it. That is, you don’t even have to do anything specifically, just think for a minute about what we just know. If nothing is known, so this says a lot. In Paris, only recently they built a Philharmonic on the project of Jean Nouvel and the building of the Louis Franca Frank Frank.

The Central Bank withdrew the license from the Yugra bank. This was reported on the website of the Central Bank. “The activities of PJSC Yugra Bank were focused on attracting money from the population and placing them in assets of unsatisfactory quality. At the same time, the credit institution independently did not create reserves for possible losses adequate to accepted risks.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court sentenced administrative arrest for 10 days and a fine of 11 thousand rubles of the opposition deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly of Maxim Reznik for the action on June 12. It is reported by Fontanka. The Reznik was charged with two episodes of 19.3 Code of Administrative Offenses (resistance to police officers) and 20.2 (violation by the participant in the public event of the established procedure for holding the meeting).

In Uzbekistan, the daughter of ex-president of Islam Karimov Gulnaru was arrested. This was reported on the website of the prosecutor's office of the republic. In 2015, the Tashkent court sentenced Karimova in the form of five years of restriction of freedom. According to investigators, she “directly contributed to the criminal activity of an organized group”, which was engaged in extortion, theft, embezzlement and tax evasion. The sentence was not reported before.

The National Bank of Ukraine refused Said Gutseriev and Grigory Guselnikov in the purchase of Sberbank's “daughter”. It is reported by Interfax . In addition, the regulator refused Maxim Mikitasu and Pavel Fuchs in the purchase of “daughter” “Prominvestbank”. “The basis for making such decisions: failure to submit the necessary and sufficient documents for the implementation of investors to check for compliance with the requirements of the legislation of Ukraine,” the NBU press service said.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance became the largest automaker after the first half of 2017, writes Financial Times. For six months they sold 5.27 million cars in the world. This figure also included sales of Mitsubishi Motors, 34% of the shares of which was acquired by Nissan in 2016. Renault previously announced that in the first half of the year its revenue increased by 17% to € 29.5 billion.

Former Minister of Press of Russia Mikhail Lesin died a violent death. This was written by Buzzfeed with reference to two FBI agents and an American intelligence officer. According to the publication, he was beaten to death with a baseball bat. “I can tell you that not a single person in the FBI believes that he [Lesin] got drunk, fell and died.

News on the First Channel are watched by 53% of young people aged 18 to 24 years. This is stated in the study of the Levada Center, which is at the disposal of the rain. According to the survey, “Channel One” leads among the sources of news of all social groups, 72% of respondents watch it. The second most popular is Russia-1 (46%), the third is NTV (40%).

The negative capital of the Yugra bank after the income of reserves is estimated at 7.04 billion rubles as of July 22, Interfax reports with reference to the Central Bank’s press service. The “hole” in capital, confident in the Central Bank, is associated with “a significant underestimation of credit risk and an inaccurate reflection of operations in the reporting”. The Central Bank also said that the volume of loans to the owners of the bank was almost 90% of the loan portfolio.