Putin announced the registration of the world's first vaccine from coronavirus in Russia. In the West, she is criticized for the haste of development Russia today was in the first pages of all world newspapers - and not in connection with the next repressions against the disagreements or the disaster of the Malaysian Boeing. The Russian Ministry of Health announced the official registration of the world's first vaccine against the new coronavirus.

Even after the rise in tax rates for Russian capital, some companies will be able to continue to use benefits, the VTIMES publication found out. What's happened The preferential tax rate of 5% instead will act for Cyprus public companies that meet the following criteria: at least 15% of their shares should be in free circulation and they must own the same minimum share in the Russian asset paying dividends.

The Russian economy in the crisis second quarter of 2020 fell by 8.5%, according to preliminary data from Rosstat. This is comparable to the level of decline at the end of 2009, but better than the initial forecasts. What's happened The Russian economy has passed the peak of the coronavirus, having collapsed by 8.5% - this is comparable to the fall in GDP in the crisis third quarter of 2009 (-8.6%), but falls short of the anti-record of the second quarter of the same year (-11.2%).

The missing Meduza journalist, who did not get in touch for more than 40 hours after working on the Belarusian protests, was found: this was reported by the Russian Embassy in Belarus. According to Meduza, the correspondent has already been released from the detention center in Minsk and handed over to employees of the Russian embassy. In the near future he will be taken to the border of Russia. Solopov did not get in touch for more than 40 hours.

Fintech startup Revolut recorded a total loss of 107 million pounds ($140 million) before taxes in 2019, the reported Financial Times . 2019 year. This is three times more than in 2018 - 33 million pounds ($43 million). Revolut attributed the growing losses to investments in international expansion and new products, as well as increased recruitment. During the year, the staff tripled - from 633 to 2261 people.

The net export of capital from Russia by the private sector in the first seven months of 2020 increased by 1.5 times compared to January-July last year, according to a preliminary estimate of the Central Bank. The balance of financial transactions of the private sector in January-July this year, according to preliminary data from the regulator, amounted to $34.9 billion. In 2019, the same figure was at the level of $22.8 billion.

Meduza journalist Maksim Solopov has been located, Alexander Khinshtein, head of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, said. He is still in Belarus. Solopov has not been in contact with the editorial office and the family for more than 40 hours. Khinshtein said that the Russian authorities were able to locate both the missing Solopov and Ilya Pitalev, a photojournalist for Rossiya Segodnya news agency.

Two days after the election, Belarus is covered by protests and is preparing for the third. At the same time, the Internet does not work in the country, protest leaders were arrested before the elections, and his face Svetlana Tikhanovskaya left the country. Journalist Pavlyuk Bykovsky from Minsk specifically for The Bell tells how the country lives and protests without the Internet, how expected the scale of protest was and what provoked it.

The international community is so far to react to what is happening in Belarus restrained and negatively. At the end of August, the Foreign Minister of the European Union will hold a meeting at which they can impose sanctions against the country, TASS reports. According to the sources of the publication, the heads of foreign policy European departments will meet on August 27-28 in Berlin. At the meeting, the question will be raised about imposing sanctions against Minsk.

The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, said today that, together with foreign partners, Russia can produce more than 500 million doses of vaccine per year in five states. The head of the RDIF noted that so many doses can be produced within 12 months. Dmitriev stressed that the countries of Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, with which part of the procurement contracts have been agreed, are showing the greatest interest in the vaccine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Belarus to release Russian journalists, RIA Novosti writes. According to Lavrov, he touched upon the topic of journalists in a conversation with his Belarusian counterpart Vladimir Makei. “We understand that many of those who were detained did not have accreditation, but at the same time we know that it was requested in a timely manner in compliance with all rules and procedures.

The opposition candidate for the presidency of Belarus, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who left for Lithuania, appealed to Belarusians to stop the protests. In a video released prior to this, she stated that she "remained a weak woman" and independently made "the hardest decision of her life." She read out a new appeal from paper in the same clothes as the first one, but at 13.20 Moscow time it was not in the official channel .

McDonald's will file a lawsuit against former CEO Steve Easterbrook: the company is demanding the return of bonuses and a "golden parachute" ($42 million) received when leaving the company in November 2019 due to close relationships with its own employees. The company alleges that during an investigation last fall, Easterbook deceived the board of McDonald's by claiming he had no full-fledged sexual relationships with employees, only text and video messages.

Health Minister Mikhail Murashko reported to Vladimir Putin today that Russia has become the first country in which a coronavirus vaccine has been registered. The President replied that one of his daughters had already received an experimental inoculation. Putin said that he already knew that "this morning, a vaccine against a new coronavirus infection was registered, the first in the world." Murashko confirmed the information, saying that Russia was the first such country.

In the first half of the year, Russia delivered more than 9 million tons of oil products to the United States - this is a record since 2004, RBC writes with reference to the FCS report. It is beneficial for American refineries to replace the heavy Venezuelan oil that has fallen due to sanctions with Russian fuel oil. In the first half of 2019, the physical volume of deliveries was 2.3 times less than this year, and amounted to 4 million tons.