How failures in the economy brought Alexander Lukashenko to a political crisis A month later, Alexander Lukashenko, perhaps the most difficult presidential elections in his 26-year-old career of the “Last Dictator of Europe” are coming to. According to polls, in honest elections, Lukashenko would not have entered the top three winners.

The British financial service Anna Money, created by Boris Dyakonov and Eduard Panteleev, the founders of Tochka and Button services, announced to its clients that their funds were temporarily frozen due to the collapse of the German company Wirecard, whose infrastructure it used. proceedings The beginning of the bankruptcy of the German fintech company Wirecard hit the companies that opened accounts for their clients on its platform, issued payment cards and provided processing.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is checking the applicant for registration as a candidate for the presidency of Belarus, the former head of the High Technology Park (HTP) Valery Tsepkalo, reported. Tut.by According to the resource, a statement on Tsepkalo was written by Sedat Igdeji , the owner of a group of construction companies that participated in the construction of the HTP. He said that he also built Tsepkalo's house, but he did not pay him.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has begun test flights of Boeing-737 MAX aircraft for a new type certification, reported CNBC . This is a key condition for the return to service of the aircraft, which has remained chained to the ground since March 2019 after two crashes. The first test aircraft took off from Seattle today, with further flights expected in a few days. On this news, Boeing quotes rose by 10%.

In recent years, the fashion industry has grown in the minimum pace, individual segments have stagnated. The crisis caused by pandemia accelerated the inevitable processes of change. What they will be, tells in the material of our friends from The BluePrint . The author is Julia Bushueva. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! Write off 2020 and move on This year for the fashion industry will be obviously bad.

The international rating agency Fitch has downgraded its forecast for a decline in Russia's GDP from 5% to 5.8% in 2020. This is due to the worsening situation with the coronavirus and the reduction in oil production, according to the Global Economic Outlook (GEO) report. According to experts' forecasts, the next two years will not compensate for the current recession: in 2021, Russia's GDP will grow by 3.6%, and in 2022 by 2%. In May, analysts estimated economic growth in 2021 at 3%.

Cosmetics maker Coty plans to buy a 20% stake in cosmetics company KKW, owned by fashion model Kim Kardashian, for $200 million, the Financial Times reported , citing sources. The Kardashian company is thus valued at $1 billion. On the news, Coty rose 15.3% to $4.82 at the NYSE open and remained up 10% during trading on Monday.

Coronavirus relief will cost $3,000 per person Gilead today announced the price of commercial supplies of the first specific coronavirus drug: one ampoule of remdesivir will cost $390 for public procurement by developed countries, while for private companies it will cost $520. The course treatment of a patient (6 ampoules) will thus cost $2340 and $3120 respectively.

Experts from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) conducted a study “How many deaths from COVID-19 have Russian society managed to avoid?” According to their estimates, we are talking about the saved lives of 80 thousand people. “The lives saved are the result of regulatory measures by the authorities and responsible behavior of citizens, and it is impossible to reliably separate these effects,” Andrey Zhulin, Vice-Rector of the Higher School of Economics, emphasized in the study.

Elections in Belarus on August 9 threaten to be the most scandalous in the career of Alexander Lukashenko. According to media polls, in free elections, Lukashenko would have gained only a few percent and would not enter the three. Two of its three main competitors are arrested , but it will still be difficult to win.

British oil company BP has agreed to sell its petrochemicals business for $5 billion to INEOS, a large private corporation headquartered in London, according to a BP press release. The parties plan to close the deal by the end of 2020. The agreement will allow BP to reach its $15 billion asset spin-off goal a year early.

Chinese refining giants create the world's largest oil buyer, writes Bloomberg. This will eliminate internal competition and strengthen their negotiating position. A single buyer is created by the state-owned companies Sinopec, PetroChina, CNOOC and Sinochem, their agreement has been approved by the Chinese authorities. The potential volume of agreed purchases could be gigantic - the listed companies provide about 5 million b / d, or about half of China's oil imports.

The authorities have officially announced the opening date of cinemas - regional authorities will be able to allow them to work from July 15, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko. The federal authorization does not automatically reopen theaters. They can open only if the relevant decision is made by the authorities of each individual region. the possible opening of the cinema From mid-July, the Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova announced .

The banking sector will suffer more than others from the return of VAT on software, writes Kommersant . VTB, Otkritie, Qiwi and Tinkoff spoke out against the government's proposal to the publication. What's happening The tax maneuver in the IT industry implies tax cuts for developers, but the return of VAT on software - the tax should bring 42.5 billion rubles to the budget as early as 2021.

Finland's Nokia has announced that it has won Taiwan Mobile's three-year 5G contract worth about 400 million euros, Reuters reported. Most of the 5G contracts on the island, which China considers its own province, have already gone to Nokia and Ericsson, not China's Huawei. While Nokia also won 5G contracts from Taiwan Star and Chunghwa Telecom, Ericsson made a deal with Far Eas Tone and got a part of the Chunghwa contract.