In Japan, a whole market for renting “relatives” has been operating for 30 years: single husbands rent wives for an hour (and no sex at the same time), girls introduce fake suitors to their parents, and children proudly introduce fake “mothers” to their classmates. The New Yorker tells where this business came from and how its creators make the best money. Where did strange business come from Such agencies have existed for about 30 years.

The main victims of the second week of Roskomnadzor’s struggle with Telegram were Google services users. As a result of blocking the IP addresses of the Internet giant in Russia, the search for Google.com, YouTube, Gail Mail, Google Drive and others are partially inaccessible. Yandex benefits from this - only for Monday he won Google in Russia several percent of the market at once. The IP address Google has been blocking Roskomnadzor from April 16, when he began the fight against Telegram.

From the fight against Telegram lost Google and won Yandex Photo: Pexels The main victims of the second week of Roskomnadzor’s struggle with Telegram were Google services users. As a result of blocking the IP addresses of the Internet giant in Russia, the search for Google.com, YouTube, Gail Mail, Google Drive and others are partially inaccessible. Yandex benefits from this - only for Monday he won Google in Russia several percent of the market at once.

Western countries want to take advantage of a UN resolution that allows them to bypass Russia's veto power in the Security Council and transfer the decision on the investigation of the alleged chemical attack in Syria to the General Assembly, The Guardian writes . According to the newspaper, the situation in Syria was discussed by UN envoys at a closed meeting in Sweden last weekend and is likely to be discussed at several meetings this week.

Oleg Deripaska began preparing for American sanctions back in December last year - top managers, lawyers and advisers of his UC Rusal and En+ met almost weekly to develop a plan for different sanctions scenarios, Reuters writes , citing sources close to the businessman and his structures.

On Monday, April 23, the share of Google in the Russian Internet segment decreased to 42.4%(April 22 - 44.1%, April 21 - 45.9%), and the share of Yandex, on the contrary, increased to 52.4%(April 22 - 52%, April 21 - 50%), according to Liveinternet.ru. According to the service, Google and so high in Yandex were not observed in the results of the day throughout April, so high. The average monthly share of Yandex in March and April was unchanged - 52.2%, in Google it rose from 44.1 to 44.3%.

Shares of sanctions-affected UC Rusal soared on news of easing, and possibly even a complete lifting of sanctions by the US Treasury. On the Hong Kong stock exchange, UC Rusal papers soared by 43.4%, on the Moscow Exchange the day before - by 15%, today - by another 9%.

The draft law proposed by Vyacheslav Volodin on liability for compliance with US sanctions on the territory of Russia will involve criminal penalties for individuals and "rather high fines" for companies, said the first deputy head of United Russia, Andrey Isaev. According to him, the bill can be adopted as early as the spring session of the State Duma.

G7 promises Russia new sanctions immediately after softening the previous Photo: Wikimedia Commons The G7 accused Russia of “irresponsible and destabilizing behavior” and promised new sanctions if it does not stop. But the last week showed that this warlike rhetoric coexists with the G7 participants with pragmatism - it did not prevent European countries from insistulating sanctions against UC Rusal, and the United States to allow them to cancel.

G7 foreign ministers accused Russia of "irresponsible and destabilizing behavior" in a joint statement following the Toronto summit. If this behavior does not stop, new sanctions could be imposed against Russia, they said. But last week showed that this belligerent rhetoric coexists with pragmatism among G7 participants - it did not in the least prevent European countries from insisting on easing sanctions against UC Rusal, and the United States from allowing them to be lifted.