Twitter has begun labeling media accounts that are directly or indirectly associated with the state, writes Bloomberg. RT, TASS and RIA Novosti have already received such a mark. In addition to the media and journalists, the labels will be placed on accounts belonging to "key government officials." The new rules already apply to accounts from Russia, the US, the UK, China, and France.

The most scandalous deal of the year, if not decades, can seriously “grow”: Microsoft turned out to be easier to buy the whole Tiktok, and not just its American unit. What's happened In the United States, negotiations on the forced sale of the Chinese service Tiktok Microsoft Corporation Corporation personally are in an emergency pace.

A few days before the most intense elections of the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko gave a great interview in Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon for his YouTube channel: about Volodya Putin, arrested mercenaries from Wagner PMCs and thousands of opposition rallies. About Putin's differences from Yeltsin “I remember this. Yeltsin was devoted to the country, the Union. He considered himself senior and was in accordance with the republics, believed that he should help them, support.

Tiktok special operation from the United States may end with the fact that Microsoft will receive a business company business around the world The most scandalous deal of the year, if not decades, can seriously “grow”: Microsoft turned out to be easier to buy the whole Tiktok, and not just its American unit.

Chairman of the Board of Tinkoff Bank Oliver Hughes in a big interview with the project “Russian norms!” Elizabeth Ossetian told how the bank survived the news about Oleg Tinkov’s illness, his problems with American tax and quarantine. The text version of the interview is here .

VTB can close up to a quarter of its branches, found out Kommersant: the number of offices can decrease by 400 immediately due to the attached banks and optimizing classic departments. As Kommersant told sources close to the bank from the current 1,400 offices (taking into account subsidiaries - 1500), only about a thousand departments can remain for VTB.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" - Chairman of the board and shareholder of Tinkoff Bank Oliver Hughes. He told Elizabeth Ossetian as the Tinkoff group survived the coronacrisis and Oleg Tinkov’s disease, goals for the coming years and love for Russia. "We hope for the best, getting ready for the worst" -Do you swear in Russian? - Happens. When it is necessary to strengthen something, to express perplexity, why something was not done on time or quite high quality.

The electronic media of the Rambler holding will receive state subsidies this year, writes RBC. These resources are not on the approved list . According to the resource, Lenta.Ru LLC will receive 40.8 million rubles, Gazeta.Ru JSC - 31.2 million rubles, Rambler Group LLC - 7.5 million rubles (Sekret Firmy website). Subsidies to Gazeta and Lente.ru will be almost the same: 10 million rubles from Lenta's funds will go to the popular science portal Indicator.ru.

The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Ruslan Kostylenkov, Vyacheslav Kryukov and Petr Kramzin, defendants in the New Greatness case, to real terms of 6 to 7 years in prison. The rest - Anna Pavlikova, Maria Dubovik, Maxim Roshchin and Dmitry Poletaev - received suspended sentences. The main defendant Ruslan Kostylenkov was sentenced to 7 years, Pyotr Karamzin - 6.5 years in prison in a penal colony, Vyacheslav Kryukov - 6 years.

The head office of Tinkoff Bank, TCS Group Holding, has reported its results for the second quarter and first half of 2020. Despite the crisis, the company's net profit for the first half of the year grew by a quarter, but the volume of loans issued over the same period fell for the first time in five years. Financial results. The company's revenue in the most difficult second quarter grew by 21% year-on-year, to 49.1 billion rubles, profit increased by 25%, to 10.2 billion rubles.

Opposition candidate for the presidency of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya canceled an election rally in Minsk on the evening of August 6. Prior to this, the security forces detained the head of her headquarters for an "explanatory conversation." Tikhanovskaya's headquarters announced that the authorities were simply not allowed to hold a pre-election rally in her support - the site chosen by the candidate for holding a mass rally turned out to be occupied for the holiday of the railway troops.

The Central Bank agreed to phase out the repatriation of foreign exchange earnings. The new measures will “reduce the administrative burden on businesses and banks” and help small and medium-sized businesses, said in a statement. the regulator A package of proposals has been formed and sent to the government, the Central Bank said.

The Russian car market in July showed signs of recovery, follows from the report of the Association of European Businesses (AEB). Sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles rose 6.8% year-on-year to 141,924 units last month. For the period from January to July, sales decreased by 19.3% to 742,681 vehicles, which is less than the AEB forecast for the year (minus 23.9%).

In 2018, the Kremlin began the campaign against the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, arrested in July, writes Financial Times. According to the sources of the publication, the presidential administration (AP) was given the task of reducing the governor’s rating to 46%, and when this did not work out, the vang was removed by power methods.

Yandex plans to create its own financial ecosystem, writes Vedomosti . The company is going to provide banking services, as well as develop in the investment and insurance sectors. Back in the spring, Yandex applied for the registration of 17 trademarks, including: YaBank, YaKredit, YaBirzha, YaBroker, YaVklad, YaKapital, YaStrakhovka, YaAccount, YaPortfolio ”, “YaSberezheniya”, “YaSafe”, “YaAcquiring”, “YaTransfer”, “YaCurrency”, “YaTrade”, “YActions” and “YaCash”.