The head of the State Duma Transport Committee spoke about new bans on the taxi aggregator market. If they are accepted, the market will not be able to work normally. What's happened?

The head of the State Duma Transport Committee spoke about the new prohibitions in the taxi aggregators market. If they are accepted, the market will not be able to work normally The State Duma discusses several new prohibitions on the taxi aggregators market: by the second reading of the profile bill, deputies propose to ban foreign services in Russia (formally, even “Yandex.Taxi” can fall into this category) and work in a taxi of drivers without Russian citizenship.

The head of the presidential administration under Boris Yeltsin, the son-in-law of the first president of Russia, Valentin Yumashev, and the son of the main owner of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Felix, were included in the list of candidates for the board of directors of the mobile operator MTS, Interfax . reported Connections. Yumashev has been an adviser to Vladimir Putin on a voluntary basis for many years - but this was revealed only recently.

The Austrian parliament passed a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his government - 32-year-old Kurz lasted only a year and a half in power. The reason for his imminent resignation was the collapse of the parliamentary coalition after the "Ibiza-gate" with the "Russian trace" and the participation of the former Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, writes Politico.

Russians entering China should be prepared in advance for checking the contents of cell phones at the border: “video and photographic materials, electronic documents, correspondence in instant messaging programs (Wechat, WhatsUp, Viber and others),” the Russian consulate general in Guangzhou said . The control is selective and is carried out at the airports of arrival and transit.

Today, a court in Yekaterinburg sentenced businessman Sergei Kapchuk to two years probation on charges of fraud, but immediately granted him amnesty and canceled his travel ban, TASS writes. This is a landmark verdict: Kapchuk was on the “London list” of Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov and was the first person on the list to return to Russia.

Representatives of the TikTok video sharing service at the Change Your Mind conference in Hong Kong for the first time revealed the monthly Russian audience - there were 8 million users. On average, they watch up to 10 million videos per month and spend up to 40 minutes in the application. According to Mediascope estimates, in December 2018, only 1.5 million people used the app in Russia. This is a small percentage of the total number of users.

Russian companies have begun selling smartphones on shares which came under US attack of Chinese Huawei and its sub-brand Honor, found out , Kommersant . Huawei told partners in Russia that it is consulting with the developer of the Android operating system, Google, on installing it on new smartphones and that deliveries to Russia are going on.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office explained why there are no criminal cases against Russian citizens based on the materials in the Panama Papers: the Panamanian authorities did not provide the documents requested by Moscow, and prosecutors have no grounds for taking response measures “in the absence of information confirming the alleged violations.” RBC reports this with reference to the response of Assistant Prosecutor General Aslan Yusufov to the deputy director of the Anti-Corruption

It will take Russian million-plus cities about a century to catch up with Moscow in terms of gross urban product (GMP) per capita, RBC tells citing a study by the Center for Urban Economics of Strelka Design Bureau. Amid the crisis and lack of investment, Russian millionaires have fallen into the middle income trap: having exhausted their primary growth resources and having reached the level of second-rank cities in China or Turkey in terms of GRP, they do not know how to develop further.

Maria Nurislavamova - co -founder and CEO SCENTBIRD service, platforms for selecting perfume. Her business is the sale of probes to people who want to wear different aromas. Moreover, she receives perfume itself from manufacturers for free, and sells them about $ 15 per bottle. Her service is used by 300 thousand Americans.

The founder of Huawei, Jen Zhenfay, is one of the most mysterious Chinese billionaires. We tell how he built the world's largest telecom company from scratch and what does the Chinese Communist Party have to do with it After inclusion in the black lists of the United States, the Chinese technohigant Huawei became the main character of the largest world economic conflict. Despite the breakdown of relations with key suppliers, Huawei is not going to give up.

Large insurers - Alfastrakhovanie, Ingosstrakh, Rosgosstrakh - sharply increased the rates of compulsory motor liability insurance tariffs for the population in the capital - by 11-14%, up to 4118 rubles, Vedomosti writes . This is the base rate on which the final policy price is calculated. Causes.

After inclusion in the black lists of the United States, the Chinese technohigant Huawei became the main character of the largest world economic conflict. American analysts compare sanctions against the company with the announcement of war to China and warn that they can slow down the world -time connection of 5G for years. Huawei is the world's largest telecom equipment manufacturer, the second smartphone manufacturer and the only Chinese company that earns more abroad than at home.