Trying to avoid excessive politicization of life in Moscow, the authorities achieved the exact opposite Promotion July 27. Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" While there was a break in the protest activity in Moscow, and there were few business news in early August, we decided to figure it out ourselves and tell you what real levers of power the Moscow City Duma deputies have and why the authorities could not have the reason not to let independent candidates there.

The founder of the newest "unicorn" Scale AI turned out to be a man unusual even by the standards of the Valley - Alexander Wang created his company at the age of 19, writes Bloomberg. Three years later, she was valued at $1 billion. Who is he. Alexander Wang grew up in New Mexico in a family of physicists. As a teenager, he won programming competitions, while in high school he received several job offers from technology companies.

The State Duma proposes to study the possible interference of foreign states in the election campaign in Russia: the leader of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, proposed creating a special working group for this. The day before, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova complained about the negative international reaction to the dispersal of rallies in Moscow and called it Western interference in internal affairs.

The Moscow City Duma is called the most “powerless parliament” - the authority of Moscow deputies, indeed, is less than many of their colleagues in the regions. But even those that are, they often do not use. The Bell found out what levers would have appeared in the hands of the opposition if independent candidates were allowed to the election and they won.

Car sales in Russia continue to fall: in July they fell by 2.4% compared to last year. Less than 140,000 cars were sold in Russia in a month, according to a report from the Association of European Businesses (AEB). The Association is no longer waiting for improvements until the end of the year. Marks. The most popular car brand in Russia is still the domestic Lada: 29,486 cars sold in July. The volume of its sales for the year has not seriously changed.

Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who is considered the main inspirer of Vladimir Zelensky's victory in the presidential elections in Ukraine, gave a long interview to RBC - this is his first interview with the Russian media after the elections, except for a short story on NTV. We have chosen the most important. We talked in detail about who Kolomoisky is here .

The Moscow prosecutor's office reported that it had filed an application with the court to deprive the spouses of their parental rights in respect of a minor child, whom they took with them to an uncoordinated rally on July 27. Checks are being carried out on other protesters who were with children. What kind of married couple in question is not reported in the press release.

The 500 richest people in the world lost more than 2% of their total fortune in a day after the US market experienced its worst fall in a year, writes Bloomberg. The wealth of 21 of them decreased by an average of $ 1 billion. The founder of Amazon and the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, suffered the most, losing $ 3.4 billion due to the drop in the online retailer's quotes. What's happened.

From the beginning of the winter season, Pobeda low-cost airline will suspend flights from Moscow to Armenian Gyumri, writes . TASS Flights will be suspended due to problems with fuel shortages at the Gyumri airport, TASS and RIA Novosti sources said. The airline complained about the problems with fuel to the airport management, but they did not take sufficient measures to resolve the situation, the source said.

The largest bank in Russia, the state-owned Sberbank, no longer looks so advantageous against the background of analogues from the BRICS countries. According to Moody's experts, it roughly corresponds to the Indian State Bank of India (SBI) and clearly lags behind the Chinese ICBC, writes . Vedomosti How compared The study includes indicators of asset quality, profitability and country factors for 2018.

The fire at the ammunition depot in the Krasnoyarsk Territory has been completely extinguished, and the explosions have stopped, reported Interfax on Tuesday, August 6, citing the Ministry of Defense. The explosions lasted almost a day and led to the evacuation of residents, disruptions in transport and large industrial enterprises. What's happened.

Microsoft's cybersecurity division Threat Intelligence Center spoke about new attacks by "Russian hackers" through the "Internet of Things" (IoT). This network penetration channel is becoming the main one, experts warn. Three attacks on corporate networks in April were carried out by the Strontium group, also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear. The US links her to the Russian GRU and the Democratic Party mail leak ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Sberbank will launch a music streaming service in partnership with one of the market players, Vedomosti found out . The State Bank has already agreed to cooperate with the music service Zvooq according to the white label model, when the service provides technical support and a library, and the company develops it under its own brand, sources say. In addition to Zvooq, Sberbank can negotiate with the music services of Yandex and Mail.ru Group.

The losses of Russia over five years of sanctions do not seem so large. But it was they who made her think about mobilization, not development. The painting "Taming of the guard of Aida" at the thematic exhibition "12 feats of Putin" Over the five years of sanctions, the Russian economy directly lost significantly less from them than from reducing oil prices, RBC writes with reference to the IMF country report .

The National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents of the FSB has become one of the competent organizations of the Coordination Center (CC) of the .ru/.rf domains, which is responsible for combating resource sources of cyberattacks, Kommersant writes with reference .