The bill on the termination of lease agreements for the second reading has become more profitable for owners of trade and business centers The government prepared amendments to the bill, which was supposed to allow tenants to terminate contracts with trade and business centers unilaterally and without sanctions. The new version strengthens the position of the lessors: they are allowed not to return the tenant a deposit, the size of which can reach six monthly payments.

The government prepared amendments to the bill, which was supposed to allow tenants to terminate contracts with trade and business centers unilaterally and without sanctions. The new version strengthens the position of the lessors: they are allowed not to return the tenant a deposit, the size of which can reach six monthly payments. The Duma will consider the bill in the second reading on Thursday.

The valuation of Chinese company ByteDance, owner of the popular short video service TikTok, has risen to $100 million to $140 million in recent rounds of private investment, has learned . Bloomberg This means that its estimated capitalization has grown by a third in two years, and TikTok has retained the title of the world's most valuable startup by a margin. The new valuation puts ByteDance in the league of companies like HSBC and IBM.

It has become more profitable to supply gas to the domestic Russian market than to export it, writes RBC. As a result of trading at European hubs on Wednesday, May 20, gas became cheaper than in Russia, even without taking into account the 30% export duty and transportation costs. Since the beginning of the week on the Dutch stock exchange TTF, gas prices have fallen from $80 to $46-47 per 1,000 cubic meters. m compared to the end of March.

With the help of the Social Monitoring application, which controls the movement of patients with coronavirus and SARS, fines for 216 million rubles were issued, reports Vedomosti . Approximately 30% of system users received them. There are more than 60 thousand registered in the system, and 54 thousand fines. The mayor's office explained that some citizens received two or three fines. The app has been running since April 3rd.

A new cluster of coronavirus infection in northeast China gave an unpleasant surprise - it will be more difficult to fight it, writes Bloomberg. According to the agency, compared to the “Wuhan” coronavirus, the new one gives almost exclusively pulmonary symptoms, but the main thing is that the period from infection from the disease is longer than one to two weeks.

The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world is on May 20. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! In the world We give data from Jones Hopkins, which tracks the situation in real time: Infected: 4.92 million people (May 19 - 4.83 million, May 18 - 4.75 million). Died: 324 thousand (May 19 - 319 thousand, May 18 - 316 thousand).

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who resumed his duties after contracting the coronavirus, said today that the epidemiological situation in Russia gives grounds for calm optimism and the gradual lifting of quarantine measures. The premier carefully suggested that the country had begun to pass the “high point in terms of the burden on the healthcare system,” especially in Moscow.

As the coronavirus crisis rages, Russians are being distracted by events that seem taken straight from the turbulent 1990s. Billionaire Dmitry Bosov, who owned a stake in Russia’s largest aluminium plant, commited suicide Wednesday. The following day, another of the factory’s co-owners and a legendary figure from the bloody ‘aluminum wars’ of the 1990s, Anatoly Bykov, was arrested on 25-year-old murder charges.

Rosneft reported that it filed a lawsuit against RBC for the protection of business reputation in connection with a publication entitled “Ryazan private security company received a share in the former Venezuelan project of Rosneft.” Now this publication dated May 14 has a different title: “Roszarubezhneft received the former Venezuelan asset of Rosneft through a private security company.” The oil company believes that “this statement” “misled the public, market representatives and regulators”,

Rosneft reported that it filed a lawsuit against RBC for the protection of business reputation in connection with a publication entitled “Ryazan private security company received a share in the former Venezuelan project of Rosneft.” Now this publication dated May 14 has a different title: “Roszarubezhneft received the former Venezuelan asset of Rosneft through a private security company.” The oil company believes that “this statement” “misled the public, market representatives and regulators”,

Rosneft reported that she sued RBC to protect the business reputation in connection with the publication, entitled “Ryazan Chop received a share in the former Venezuelan project“ Rosneft ”. Now this publication of May 14 is entitled in a different way: “Rosneft, Rosneft through Chop, received“ Roszarubezhneft ”.

Food retailer Magnit began trading through Yandex.Lavka, a grocery delivery service in 10-15 minutes, Vedomosti found out. Magnit became the main supplier of products for two new Lavka outlets in Moscow. Buyers now have access to about 2,000 of the most popular products, including ready-made food, said a representative of Magnit. So far, the retailer's products are available at two Yandex.Lavka outlets - in the Pechatniki district and the Nagatinsky district.

Sberbank, Visa and the ABC Taste began to test a store without sellers and traditional cash desks - purchases in it are paid through a mobile application, and a computer vision system monitors customers, RBC writes . We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! Such a store will appear in the business center "Moscow City" (Tower "Federation")-the technology is already tested in closed mode.

Only half of the Russians believes that he is under the protection of the law-but this is the highest indicator since 2006, the authors of the Levada Center study “The Supreme Law in Russia: Russian public opinion on legal protection and the ability to defend their rights” (The Bell has). At the same time, the share of those convinced in defense of the law is twice as high among those who have never encountered a violation of their rights: primarily social and only then civilians.