The last two days of this week on the Russian Internet market will be remembered for a long time-and most often they will remember in Yandex. After a respite at nine months, the largest Russian Internet company was again in the ring of enemies-and this time the situation seems more difficult than last fall. From one flank, a blow to Yandex is preparing to apply Sberbank, who agreed to invest $ 1 billion in competing projects Mail.ru Group.

In just two days, Yandex received a competitor intensified by $ 1 billion, and a threat of prohibition of work in Russia The last two days of the last week on the Russian Internet market will be remembered for a long time-and most often they will remember in Yandex. After a respite at nine months, the largest Russian Internet company was again in the ring of enemies-and this time the situation seems more difficult than last fall.

The Duma proposed to ban foreigners from owning more than 20% in "significant" Russian Internet companies. Shares of "Yandex" in the US collapsed. What's happened? The last two days of this week made Yandex investors nervous. On Thursday, after the announcement of the deal between Sberbank and Mail.Ru Group, the company's shares fell 4% on the NASDAQ.

For the government, Deputy Gorelkin's bill to limit the share of foreigners in Internet companies came as a surprise, if not a shock, a federal official told The Bell. Quote: “Even a superficial acquaintance with the bill shows that the initiative is harmful, and also poorly implemented and will cause great damage to the technological and innovative development of the country,” says The Bell source. Context.

Before Saturday's uncoordinated rally for fair elections in Moscow, law enforcement agencies continue to work actively. What's happened. On Friday evening, on the eve of tomorrow's uncoordinated rally, searches were resumed at the homes of oppositionists in Moscow. And the FSB Service for the Protection of the Constitutional System and Combating Terrorism joined the criminal case on obstructing the work of the capital's election commissions, which was initiated this week.

July 26 from 17:00 "Rain" canceled the fee for live broadcasts on the Internet. Now they can be watched for free on website the Dozhd , YouTube channel and other social networks. The official statement "Rain" published on its website. Quote. "This is required by the events that are happening before our eyes.

United Russia deputy Anton Gorelkin introduced a bill that proposes to limit foreign ownership of information resources that are significant for the information infrastructure of the Russian Federation to 20%. The bill was initiated by the Presidential Administration, two sources familiar with the history of its development and introduction told The Bell. Failure to comply will result in a ban on advertising sales.

The Russian Olympic Committee has received an official invitation from the IOC to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with the opportunity to form a full-fledged Olympic team and compete in the capital of Japan under the Russian flag. The invitation extends to athletes who missed the 2016 Olympic Games due to a doping-related disqualification by the Russian Athletics Association.

Non-core services already give Yandex a third of its revenue, but so far a small share of profit (her company expresses the indicator of adjusted EBITDA), follows from the report published by the company for the second quarter of 2019. Taxi. The Yandex.Taxi service for the first time in history made a profit (423 million rubles) and increased revenue by 116%, to 8.8 billion rubles. The number of Yandex.Taxi trips from April to June 2019 increased by 49% compared to the same period in 2018.

After the Moscow shares for honest elections, the Investigative Committee this week opened a criminal case on the still “sleeping” article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. It was not chosen by chance: in contrast to administrative offenses, the punishment under this article for the “obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights or the work of election commissions” can be up to 5 years in prison.

The entire package of quasi-treasury shares of Gazprom, placed the day before, was purchased in one lot, said the deputy chairman of the company’s board, Famil Sadigov. According to him, “the application was for the entire size of the package being sold on an all-or-nothing basis and amounted to 70% of the total volume of the final demand.” The lot amount was 139.1 billion rubles, and in total there were almost 500 applications for 198.9 billion rubles, as follows from Gazprom materials.

In early July, the London High Court arrested the property of businessman Boris Mints and his three sons around the world for $572 million. These are 140 objects and companies around the world, found out . Open Media The lawsuit about the fraudulent actions of Mints on the eve of the reorganization of Otkritie Bank and Growth Bank was won by Trust Bank , which accumulates bad debts of banks reorganized by the Central Bank, together with Otkritie.

Russia is ready to negotiate only a short-term - one-year - contract for gas transit through Ukraine, and in the meantime complete the construction of alternative lines - Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream, Reuters writes . Ukraine and Europe, on the contrary, are counting on a new ten-year contract. The previous ten-year transit agreement expires in December this year. A new round of EU-mediated talks between Moscow and Kyiv is scheduled for September 16.

The Bank of Russia cut its key rate by 25 bp. - thus from July 29 it will be 7.25%. Prior to this, the regulator also reduced it by 25 bp in June. - up to 7.5%. Economists were sure that the decline would happen a second time, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, spoke about the same. Most analysts had expected a 25bp decline, but some did not rule out a larger decline to 7%.

The UK media regulator Ofcom has fined the Russian TV channel RT £200,000 for serious breaches of broadcasting rules. Representatives of the channel said they disagreed with this , since Ofcom did not even wait for the court's decision. Quote: "We are outraged that the British media regulator Ofcom has imposed a fine on us without waiting for a court decision, which should establish whether Ofcom's claims against RT are legitimate at all.