Alexander Lukashenko promised protesters new elections after a change in the Constitution. But this is unlikely to save him Alexander Lukashenko alternately goes through all the stages of acceptance of the political situation in Belarus. Today he first went to the factory, where he talked with real, and not dummy workers.

On August 24, the Moscow Exchange will launch trading in shares of 19 American companies. Among them are Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), ExxonMobil, Boeing, Intel. Trading in Apple shares will start on September 7 - the delay is due to their split .

Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair plans to launch four weekly flights between St. Petersburg and Italy, having received permission from the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC). This was reported by the portal ch-aviation.com. The opening of flights is planned for the winter season 2020/21. However, the air carrier Ryanair, which has not yet served Russia, has not officially confirmed this intention. In July, the Hungarian airline WizzAir announced plans to launch four flights from St.

Many companies, including large international brands Danone and Nestlé, have stopped advertising on all TV channels in Belarus, including state-owned ones, reports . Marketing.by Most of the clients of VondelHepta, one of the country's largest advertising agencies, have suspended advertising on television, said its head Alexander Vasilevich. “Everyone hopes that the removal of advertising is a temporary measure, that television will become better than it was before.

Long-term protests around the development of relict remains (shihans) by the Bashkir Soda Company in Bashkiria have again entered an acute phase. After a conflict between mountain defenders and security forces and the destruction of their camp last weekend, dozens of those detained during the protests were administratively arrested on Monday.

The US Department of Commerce has decided to further restrict Huawei Technologies' access to commercially available chips: the company will not be able to buy third-party chips created using American technology, CNBC reports . Prior to this, such restrictions applied only to the company's own chips. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the agency has added 38 Huawei affiliates to the US government's economic blacklist, up from 152 affiliates since May 2019.

Alexander Lukashenko, who even today insisted that there would be no other presidential elections in Belarus, nevertheless allowed them, subject to changes in the country's constitution. this Lukashenka stated during a conversation with the MZKT team. “It will be, guys. We need to adopt a new constitution, which is what you wanted, and even the alternatives were not against it.

The parties of the European Parliament called on the Belarusian authorities to hold new presidential elections, as well as to release all political prisoners in the country. “We applaud the Belarusian people for their courage and determination and strongly support their desire for democratic change and freedom. The August 9 presidential election was neither free nor fair, and credible reports point to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's victory.

The meteorological station of the US National Weather Service (NWS) recorded one of the highest temperatures on Earth in California's Death Valley, in the Furnace creek area near the Nevada border. There, the temperature reached 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius). “This figure is considered preliminary, but not yet official. If confirmed, this would be the highest temperature since July 1913 also officially recorded in Death Valley,” said NWS Las Vegas in a statement.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned an employee of the Dutch Embassy in Russia to protest to the country: a tracking device was found in the car of a Russian diplomat in the Netherlands, the agency said. "The Dutch side was strongly protested in connection with the discovery of tracking equipment in the official car of the Russian military attaché in the Netherlands," the statement said.

The Moscow authorities have planned to launch a system for checking the digital profiles of taxi drivers before the end of the year. The technology should reduce the number of accidents on the roads, writes . Kommersant The service called CIS "ART" is a software "gateway" between the taxi driver and the aggregator: now orders will be transmitted only through this system, and not directly.

The number of ship passages through the Panama Canal is recovering for the second month after the June low. This is the physical embodiment of the recovery in world trade, writes Bloomberg. In June, 845 ships passed through the Panama Canal, the lowest since the canal reopened after reconstruction four years ago. In July, the traffic increased to 933 vessels, in August it will be even more. The strongest recovery was noted in the container ship sector.

The UK has not recognized the official results of the presidential elections in Belarus. The position of the British Foreign Office was announced today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the country Dominic Raab. “The whole world watched in horror as the Belarusian authorities tried to violently suppress peaceful protests after these rigged presidential elections. The UK does not recognize their results.

Alexander Lukashenko today flew by helicopter to the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant (MZKT), near which hundreds of strikers from other enterprises gathered, reports Tut.by . Lukashenka spoke to specially selected workers in the workshop, and only at the end did he come out to the bulk of the workers. Mass strikes "do not make a difference" and there will be no new elections while he is alive, he said. “Well, 150 at some enterprise, even 200 [people] don’t make a difference, first of all.

The Russian government will offer Vladimir Putin to extend stimulus payments to doctors for working with coronavirus, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said. “Payments after September to date will continue in a certain way. We are now looking at the pandemic situation as a whole.