Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev tried to bribe Swiss judges during a divorce from his wife, local publication 24 Heures reported , citing documents from the prosecutor's office (Open Media drew attention to the publication). To do this, the businessman turned for help to the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier, with whom he had collaborated for many years, and subsequently accused him of $1 billion fraud.

The State Duma offers to ban foreign companies to own news aggregators. The largest victim of the prohibition is Yandex.NOSTRISS Yandex has new problems - a bill has been introduced to the State Duma prohibiting foreign shareholders to own news aggregators in Russia. Under its action, Yandex.NOVSISS also fall in effect: the mother's “Yandex” is registered in the Netherlands. The search engine said that he would “consider restructuring options” of his news service.

Facebook, which has endured the data of 30 million people, is going to double the number of his experts in cybersecurity and hire another 10 thousand people. Flickr/Anthony Quintano The social network, according to rumors (paid publication), is even ready to buy a large specialized company, just to avoid billions of fines.

The inter -fractional group of deputies introduced a bill to the State Duma, introducing a restriction of 20% for foreign shareholders in news aggregators. According to one of the authors of the bill of United Russia Anton Gorelkin, the new norm will affect not only Yandex (Yandex.NOSTRIA aggregator), but also Google (Google News aggregator).

People associated with "Putin's chef", businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, organized several attacks and murders, including using poisons, according to Novaya Gazeta in an investigation published today. Opposition bloggers became victims, and Prigozhin’s employees allegedly conducted experiments on Syrian militias, testing unknown drugs, the newspaper writes.

Alisher Usmanov no longer controls Mail.Ru Group - his USM and Megafon announced on Monday that they were transferring control over their shares in the group to management. Experts believe that this step could help the company if Usmanov is included in American sanctions lists. However, the USM press service denies this. What's happened?

The State Duma supported the proposal of the head of the Federal Tax Service to fine self-employed people in the amount of income received if they do not pay taxes. Details Quote : “We propose that if a person is found to have such income, but he has not registered and does not pay [taxes], he pays a fine in the amount of the income that he received,” said the head of the budget committee Andrei Makarov.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree according to which economic measures should be introduced against Ukraine. Thus, Moscow responds to unfriendly measures from Kyiv in relation to Russian legal entities and individuals. Details Specific restrictions are not indicated in the document; the government was instructed to “determine special economic measures”. Sanctions are introduced in accordance with the laws of June 4, 2018 No.

Sberbank, which accounts for more than 60% of the mortgage portfolio in Russia, increased the mortgage rate by 0.4–0.6 percentage points, according to the bank’s website. This is a consequence of an increase in the key rate of the Central Bank and an increase in deposit rates. In the coming months, we can expect mortgage rates to rise by another 1.5–2.2 percentage points, experts say.

Yandex and its co -founder Arkady Volozh for the first time commented on the information that Sberbank was interested in buying a large stake in the company and could increase its control over it. Yandex did not refute the fact of such negotiations, but Volozh announced that he was not going to leave the company or reduce his share in it.

US sanctions jeopardize Russian contracts with other countries. In particular, Aleksey Mordashov's Power Machines faced such a problem - 15 key contractors left their project for the construction of a power plant in Vietnam, and mutual settlements were frozen, Kommersant . learned Now the company is asking the Russian government to negotiate with the Vietnamese to change the terms of the project.

The desire of the Ministry of Transport to force Russian airlines to store passenger data in Russia may lead to the cessation of their work or a long and costly transition to new standards, warns the general director of Siberia Airlines (part of the S7 Group) Vladimir Obyedkov.

The second in Russia Airlines S7 threatens a stop due to the requirement of the government to store passengers in Russia Photo: Fedor Leukhin/Wikimedia Commons/(CC by-SA 2.0) A new attempt by the government to force the Russian airline to store passengers in Russia can lead to the cessation of their work, the general director of the Siberia Airlines Vladimir Poloshdkov warned .