Food to help From July 15 until the end of the year, the UK reduces VAT from 20% to 5% for the most affected industries - tourism, hospitality, cinemas and restaurants. Cafes and restaurants are waiting for an additional incentive - they will receive a compensation of 10 pounds for each client. Those who decide to dine with them will be able to provide discounts at the state expense (but not more than 50%): the program is called “eat out to help out”.

Gold for the first time since 2011 costs more than $ 1800. Mark $ 2000 - just around the corner While Vladimir Putin talks about the exit from the “coronacrisis” with minimal losses for the economy, investors in the global markets are preparing for a different scenario: the exchange price for gold today set a new record, for the first time since 2011, breaking through $ 1800 per ounce. Goldman Sachs believe that in the foreseeable future gold may rise in price to $ 2000.

One of the largest IPOs of the year should be the placement of the fintech service of the Chinese group Alibaba, the company Ant Group, learned . Reuters The company plans to place in Hong Kong from 5% to 10% of its shares. Ant Group, which dominates the Chinese payment market, is considered the most expensive "unicorn" in the world. During the last round of investments in 2018, it was valued at $150 billion, the last deals were estimated at $200 billion.

Over the past two months, the influx of foreign currency deposits and accounts of individuals in Sberbank has approached $650 million, reports Forbes , citing calculations by Frank RG analysts. In June, the amount of funds amounted to $261 million, in May - $381 million. “The dynamics of foreign currency deposits in June was within the standard volatility of balances,” the press service of Sberbank told Forbes.

Air traffic to foreign tourist destinations will resume in September-October, and this is an optimistic scenario. Pessimistic - December, said the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze on the air of the radio station "Moscow speaking". “Everything can change at any moment. Now we understand that by the end of July it is extremely unlikely that they will open flights with some tourist destinations - 99%, which is not, ”she commented.

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LKRTV) has banned the broadcasting of Russian RT channels in the country, said the head of the commission, Mantas Martisius. The decision will come into force on July 9. The ban includes the RT channel, its HD version, as well as RT Spanish, RT Documentary and RT Documentary HD.

The Federal Agency for Tourism (Rostourism), together with the TikTok mobile application, launched an advertising campaign with the hashtag #RussiaTravel, promoting domestic tourism in Russia. This is the agency's first collaboration with social networks, writes Vedomosti . Prior to this, Rostourism supported individual bloggers publishing travel reports. Representatives of Rostourism and TikTok confirmed to the publication that the campaign will take place in July.

On July 9, Arsen Tomsk, the founder of the Indriver taxi service, will become a guest of a closed event - only for owners of Bell.club cards . His company Indriver is a service from Yakutia, who burst into the five most downloaded online taxi applications in the world. On the eve of the meeting of The Bell, together with partners - the Alpina Plisher Publishing House - publishes an excerpt from the book of Tomsk “Indriver: from Yakutsk to Silicon Valley.

The Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) has proposed to cancel the administrative fines imposed for violating self-isolation during the quarantine period, says . its report The main purpose of the fines was to reduce the number of cases of self-isolation, which means that the subsequent amnesty will not have a negative effect, the report says.

Access to video to all Moscow surveillance cameras was put up for sale on the darknet, writes RBC. A source close to the Department of Information Technology (DIT) of Moscow confirmed the authenticity of the database to the publication. The announcement, posted by a person with the nickname Zpoint, was noticed on July 7 by a group of Shadow Intelligence experts. It offered access to video from cameras in the entrances of houses, parks, clinics and schools in Moscow.

The Kremlin today commented on the case of Ivan Safronov, an adviser to the head of Roskosmos, a former journalist for Kommersant and Vedomosti, who was arrested. When asked why the Safronov case should not be made open (this requirement is contained in the media statements on the case), Peskov replied: “For a certain category of charges, there is a certain regime for considering this case in court, associated with secrecy.

Norilsk Nickel intends to challenge the gigantic (148 billion rubles) damage calculated by Rosprirodnadzor from a diesel fuel spill at CHPP-3 in Norilsk. The company does not refuse to eliminate the consequences of the accident at its own expense. Damage to water bodies is calculated with a maximum factor of 5, the company indicates. This is a penalty factor that is applied in case of prolonged failure to take action, and in this case it is unfounded.

During the day by July 8, 6,562 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Russia, and the total number of infected exceeded 700,000 - 700,792 people. Among the new cases, less than 10% were in Moscow (621), 295 in St. Petersburg, 268 in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, 263 in the Sverdlovsk Region. In terms of the number of total cases, Russia ranks fourth after the United States (2.9 million), Brazil (1.6 million) and India (742,000).

The government denies a sharp drop in the income of Russians. The Ministry of Economic Development stated that, according to Rosstat, the nominal wages of the population are growing, consumer demand is recovering. The ministry issued a press release about "refuting media reports about a sharp drop in incomes of the population." It says that in April the average nominal accrued wages amounted to 49.3 thousand rubles.

The Government promises business to give the opportunity to return to the "simplification" Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin yesterday suggested a business that grew a simplified tax regime, to give a chance to "start the next calendar year from the" clean sheet "." We explain what this means.