Vladimir Putin transferred the test projects to 25.7 trillion to 2030. Now we will not remember them for a long time The pandemic and the crisis associated with it gave Vladimir Putin an excellent occasion to solve the problem of national projects, which before coronavirus looked more and more impossible every year.

Maxim Krivosh, who captured and held hostages in Lutsk, Ukraine, was detained by special forces. The hostages have been released. Before that, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Krivosh. He fulfilled one of the terrorist's demands: he recorded a video message. When the video was published, Krivosh released the first hostages: two women and a child. Krivosh seized the bus on the morning of 21 July. The police said he had weapons and explosives.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Russia's national development goals. The national projects, which were calculated until 2024, have now been partially changed and extended until 2030. The coronavirus pandemic has given officials a reason to make national goals more modest in places and more abstract in others, and to postpone their implementation by six years. What's happened The national projects will be changed and partially extended until 2030.

Taxi service Gett, which has been reported in the media for years as seeking a strategic investor, instead raised $100 million in a private offering. Gett has raised $100 million from new and existing investors (who exactly it is — not disclosed), the company announced. To date, Gett has attracted more than $750 million in investments, including Volkswagen, Access and its founder Leonard Blavatnik, Kreos, MCI and others.

In mid -July, the social network in Russia swept a new wave of #Metoo: women and men talked about the sexual and psychological violence experienced. We are preparing for publication material on how large companies learn to fight Harassment, but for now we publish instructions for the leaders that our colleagues from The Blueprint made . We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! What is this harassment?

Residents of Khabarovsk met the appointed Acting Governor of the region Mikhail Degtyarev with a protest rally on Lenin Square near the regional administration, reports . AmurMedia The slogans “We will not give up” and “Hands off Furgal” were added to the slogans already traditional for protests in the capital of the Amur region, “Degtyarev home” and “Shame on the Liberal Democratic Party”.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a law on the introduction of a single electronic visa for the entry of foreigners into Russia. It will take effect on January 1, 2021. The electronic visa will be single-entry, but universal - for visiting for tourism, business and guest purposes. Its validity period is 60 days from the date of registration, the maximum stay in the country is 16 days. The term for issuing such a visa is no more than 4 days.

By the end of 2020, 59% of the restaurant business plans to return to pre-pandemic revenue levels. This was shown by a survey of the Data Insight agency and the Delivery Club food delivery service. From July 6 to July 9, 636 restaurants that cooperate with Delivery Club took part in the study.

Minority Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is introducing a bill to sanction hackers targeting coronavirus vaccine research results. The bill proposes a set of measures traditional for individual sanctions: a ban on entry into the United States and an asset freeze. The reason for these sanctions may be the creation of botnets, which now account for up to a third of the world's traffic, notes .

"Big Brother" descends into the subway - about 1,500 cars in Moscow will be equipped with facial recognition systems by the end of the year, writes BBC Russian Service, citing tender documents announced on July 9. The mayor's office is going to spend 1.4 billion rubles on collecting data on passengers.

International flights can resume from six cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk and Vladivostok. about this , referring to a draft document on the restoration of international air traffic. writes Izvestia He was sent to the government by the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Alexander Neradko. Limiting the airports involved will help reduce the risks of the spread of coronavirus, according to Rospotrebnadzor.

The UK Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) today released a report into its investigation of Russian interference in the Brexit and Scottish independence referendums. This is exactly the document that the current British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of sabotaging the publication of which before the elections.

The incidence of coronavirus in Russia for the second day remains at the levels of the end of April, below 6 thousand cases. According to the Moscow operational headquarters, 5842 new cases were recorded in the country today, the day before - 5940. In total, since the beginning of the pandemic in Russia, there are 783,328 cases of coronavirus, of which 221,000 (28%) are active. In total, 12,580 people died, today - 153.

The Finance Ministry has proposed a 10% reduction in spending on most items in the three-year budget. This should offset the trillions of dollars spent in 2020. The Ministry of Finance proposed to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to significantly cut the three-year budget in order to balance losses due to the pandemic and falling oil prices, writes RBC. Reducing unprotected items by 10% should give 4.7 trillion rubles over three years, and it will also affect the state armaments program.

The Ministry of Finance proposed to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to significantly cut the three-year budget in order to balance losses due to the pandemic and falling oil prices, writes RBC. Reducing unprotected items by 10% should give 4.7 trillion rubles over three years, and it will also affect the state armaments program.