Former Yukos top manager Alexander Temerko, who left for London after the company's collapse, has become an important person in British politics, Reuters writes. In Russia, GIAR man Temerko was friends with Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev, and in Britain, he sponsors the Conservative Party, is friends with future Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and in December 2018, was one of the organizers of the attempt to force Theresa May to resign. In Russia.

Since the early 2010s, the Russian special services have had a number of closed IT projects to develop technologies for spying on users on the Internet. This became clear after in mid-July hackers hacked into the server of one of the alleged major contractors of the FSB - the Moscow IT company Saytek - and handed over the documents that fell into their hands to journalists from several publications.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposes to simplify the regulation of the sale of alcohol in retail - this is stated in the draft of the Ministry for the development of trade for the next six years, which managed to get acquainted RBC with. For example, the document proposes to remove beer from the concept of alcoholic products "including in the field of public catering." If the project is accepted, beer will regain its independent status.

The Central Bank decided that non-professional investors should be protected from the risks of investing in shares of foreign companies, RBC writes with reference to the regulator's amendments to the second reading of the bill on investor categories. If the bill is approved, the restrictions will come into force in 2021. Brokers and banks opposed such amendments. Details.

Opposition member Alexei Navalny at a rally for the opposition's access to elections to the Moscow City Duma on Sakharov Avenue on Saturday proposed a "public compromise" to the Moscow mayor's office. “Either until next Saturday you register everyone, or next Saturday we gather at the Moscow City Hall and don’t leave,” he said. Quote: “A normal compromise, like with [journalist Ivan] Golunov, you released him, we didn’t come out,” the oppositionist continued.

In Moscow, on Academician Sakharov Avenue at 14:00, a rally began for admission to the elections to the Moscow City Duma of independent candidates. This is an agreement agreed with the authorities, organized by an unregistered Libertarian Party. This week it became known that the authorities would not allow opposition candidates, including Ilya Yashin, Dmitry Gudkov, Lyubov Sobol and Ivan Zhdanov and many others. Protests in the capital are daily from last Sunday.

The main theme of the week is “Problem-2024”, and the key figure is the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who performed with the first hint of his decision to solve it. Volodin in the software article proposed to expand the powers of the State Duma - and according to the sources of Bloomberg in the Kremlin and the State Duma, this step may be the first for Vladimir Putin on the way to the premier chair, which will allow him to maintain power in 2024.

This Sunday, July 21, extraordinary parliamentary elections will be held in Ukraine. Given the political system of the country, they are almost more important than the presidential. In the election race with a huge margin (45-50% of the votes), the party of the President of Zelensky “servant of the people” leads, and the main question is how much it will be possible to recruit the pro -Russian party of Kuma Putin Viktor Medvedchuk. Now it is in second place with 10.5%. Why is it important.