Alibaba Group plans to launch the sale of Chinese food products in Russia, and Russian manufacturers may later replenish the range, RBC learned about this . Details Rural Taobao (part of Alibaba Group, responsible for interaction between manufacturers and suppliers of products in China) will hold a presentation in Moscow on Saturday, June 30, where it will present a range of Chinese products (mainly seafood) for Russian consumers.

The Russian service of the BBC published the details of the testimony given in the spring in the Moscow City Court by the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, in the case of ex-Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev.

Pension reform has already dropped the rating of Vladimir Putin more than the “castling” of 2011, which ended with protests on Bolotnaya. 43% of Russians are ready to participate in protests against raising the retirement age. Will the president be able to play in the “good king”, offering the population to mitigate the conditions of reform? Photo: kremlin.ru The presidential administration had no doubt that raising the retirement age would cause the Russians protests.

The authorities have decided not to follow the Finance Ministry's plan to drastically lower the threshold for duty-free e-commerce. According to the deputy head of the department, Ilya Trunin, it was decided to reduce the threshold to €500 for the duty-free import of foreign parcels not from July 1, 2018, but from January 1, 2019. Details “€500 sooner or later will be... ...From July 1 [2018] is gone, but from January 1 [2019] for sure,” said Trunin .

The Internet on YouTube trolls over the past two weeks have massively switched to raising the retirement age-Roman Smolin, one of the founders of the Metabot service created to track the Kremlinbota service, shared such observations with The Bell. Now the service is tracking 580 active accounts on YouTube, each of them per day leaves an average of 75-100 comments. This means that in total pension reform in YouTube is praised a day about 58 thousand times.

Oleg Deripaska, who fell under sanctions, refused loans from Promsvyazbank, which the government offered him as support measures, a federal official, an acquaintance of Deripaska and a source close to the bank told The Bell. Deripaska had the opportunity to attract financing on the same terms as Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova. But the businessman, in a conversation with a senior government official, made it clear that he considered them predatory, one of The Bell’s interlocutors claims.

On the Yandex.Zen platform, whose daily audience, according to the company itself, has reached 13 million people, new features appeared on Friday. Now its users can write not only articles, but also posts, as well as comment on publications. Another innovation is a tool for native advertising. The appearance of the post and comment functions is not accidental: Zen is becoming a competitor to Instagram and VKontakte.

The level of approval of the activities of President Vladimir Putin in the period from June 14 (on this day the authorities announced the pension reform) to June 24 fell by almost 14 percentage points - from 78% to 64.1%, follows from VTsIOM data. Approval of the work of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev over the same period fell by 13.3 percentage points - from 44% to 30.7%.

China-based Xiaomi raised $4.72 billion in an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, half the amount it had expected. However, the IPO was the largest in the tech sector since 2014, according to Reuters and Bloomberg . Details A total of 2.1 billion shares were issued, each priced at HK$17 ($2.1), the lower end of the company's expected range of HK$22. The smartphone maker was going for a $10 billion listing and a $100 billion valuation.

United Russia demanded that regional branches "avoid statements about the party's support or approval of the pension reform in any wording" during public discussions, Kommersant writes . This happened before the closed discussion with the regions of the upcoming reform that took place the day before, which eventually turned into a "squabble" between regional and federal party members, Vedomosti adds .

The Zamoskoretsky Court of Moscow returned $2 million in cash to FSB General and former head of Rosneft security service Oleg Feoktistov, which was used as a bribe for the former head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev, Interfax . reports Details Quotes: “Return the funds seized during the operational experiment from Ulyukaev, according to their ownership,” Judge Larisa Semenova said in the decision.

Trump came up with what you can agree with Putin. Details - in the mailing of The Bell Photo: kremlin.ru The meeting of Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump became the most discussed international event two weeks before the summit. Officials of both countries say that Syria and Ukraine can become the main topics, and it is like the truth - it is not for nothing that Vladimir Putin has made another statement on the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria yesterday.

During a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, Donald Trump will propose a deal on Syria that would speed up the withdrawal of American troops from the country, CNN reports , citing diplomatic sources.

Phil Libin, the son of emigrants from the USSR, moved to the United States back in 1979, and in 2007 founded the Evernote web service. Russian firms also invested in Evernote, such as Troika Dialog. The service is now valued at over a billion dollars. Since 2015, Libin has been financing projects in the field of artificial intelligence.