This week, the US Congress for almost six hours with addiction interrogated the owners and leaders of the largest American technological companies: Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook personally answered questions from congressmen. The interrogation was not sudden: last summer, the US authorities began an antitrust investigation against Bigtech.

Former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory and whistleblower for the World Anti-Doping Agency Grigory Rodchenkov gave an interview to the Financial Times (FT). His book The Rodchenkov Case: How I Ruined Putin's Secret Doping Empire was published the day before. Rodchenkov is included in the witness protection program, so his whereabouts are hidden, and his appearance has been changed. It is only known that Rodchenkov lives in the United States.

The topic of release is the war declared by the US Congress with Facebook, Google and Amazon On Wednesday this week, the US Congress for almost six hours with addiction interrogated the owners and leaders of the largest American technological companies: Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple. Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook personally answered questions from congressmen.

Businessman Sergei Zuev, who in the early 2000s became one of the main characters in the historical Three Whales case , regained control of the shopping center of the same name at the beginning of the Minsk Highway, which was lost in 2006. This follows from the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region of July 15, which drew the attention of Kommersant. The court annulled the appointment of new beneficiaries for the LaMax company, which manages the shopping complex.

Microsoft is in talks to buy a stake in the social network TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, writes The New York Times, citing its own sources. Information about the negotiations was also confirmed by Bloomberg sources, and Fox Business Network journalist Charles Gasparino wrote about this on twitter, citing a source in the banking industry. Microsoft declined to comment.

The Gamaleya Center has completed clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine, told Health Minister Mikhail Murashko RIA Novosti. Now a package of documents for registration of the vaccine is being prepared, and mass vaccination is planned to begin in October, he said.

Rallies in Khabarovsk in support of former regional governor Sergei Furgal continue for the fourth Saturday in a row. On Saturday, the protesters again marched through the central streets of the cities, and around 12:00 (local time) gathered on the square. Lenin. Those who gathered chanted “We are the power here”, “Freedom for political prisoners” and “I/We are Furgal”, then it began to rain heavily, but the rally continued.

Russia may fully open international air traffic from August 11, TASS reports , citing two sources in the aviation industry. The final decision has not yet been made, the specified date was discussed at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, one of the sources of the publication clarifies. The Federal Air Transport Agency declined to comment on this issue. Today, Russia partially resumed international flights with the UK, Turkey and Tanzania.

From August 1, Russia will resume flights to London and Istanbul, but Aeroflot will have much fewer flights to these destinations than before the coronavirus. In addition, the company promises to return the money to everyone who bought tickets for flights after May 1, but could not fly. Aeroflot told RBC that there will be fewer flights to Istanbul and London from August 1 than before the start of the pandemic.

The intrigue of the week is the detention of Russian mercenaries in Minsk on the eve of the presidential election and the Russian-Belarusian scandal followed by it. Whether “Russian threat” in the most difficult elections in his career will help Alexander Lukashenko, we will learn the next Sunday.

What will turn out to the scandal with the detention of Russian mercenaries in Belarus The intrigue of the week is the detention of Russian mercenaries in Minsk on the eve of the presidential election and the Russian-Belarusian scandal followed by it. Whether “Russian threat” in the most difficult elections in his career will help Alexander Lukashenko, we will learn the next Sunday.