Apple was the first American company in history to rise in price to $ 2 trillion Apple is the second in world history and the first of American public companies to reach a market capitalization of $ 2 trillion, having risen in price since the beginning of the year and a half times. Until now, only the Saudi oil state -monopoly Saudi Aramco overcame the mark of $ 2 trillion. The cost of Apple shares at auction on Wednesday increased by 1.2%, to $ 467.97 apiece.

Lithuania has put the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the list of bans, Delfi writes with reference to Foreign Minister Linans Linkevicius. In addition to Lukashenka, there are 31 Belarusian officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the KGB and the CEC of the republic on the list. Linkevicius refused to name other names.

A military coup in Mali threatens to destabilize the most explosive region in Africa. It is possible that Russia is using the crisis to strengthen its influence in the west of the continent. What's happening in Mali in a garrison near the country's capital, Bamako On August 18, a military mutiny took place . The reason for it is called a break with the payment of salaries.

first American public company to reach a market capitalization of $2 trillion . Apple is the second in history and the Previously, only Saudi Aramco crossed the $2 trillion mark. The price of Apple shares at auction on Wednesday rose by 1.2% to $467.97 apiece. In order for the company's capitalization to exceed $2 trillion, it was enough for a share price of $467.77, notes the WSJ. Apple's quotes have more than doubled since their March low and are up 60% since the beginning of the year.

The state company Dom.RF wants to launch a free online rental housing selection platform in 2021, told CEO Vitaly Mutko reporters. Back in January, the Ministry of Construction announced plans to create such an aggregator in order to bring the market out of the shadows and help replenish the budget with taxes. Vitaliy Mutko said that the platform for placing ads for rental housing will be user-friendly and will also contribute to the formation of a civilized market.

Today, was held a remote emergency summit with the participation of the heads of state and government of the European Union on the situation in Belarus. The meeting participants did not recognize the results of the presidential elections in the country and agreed to strengthen sanctions against its authorities. The main results of the emergency summit: The EU did not recognize Alexander Lukashenko's victory in the presidential elections.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" - Founder of the American technological company Mirantis, Alexander Friedland. He told Elizabeth Ossetian how a young mathematician from the USSR created a startup in Silicon Valley and developed it in a billionth business, about competition with technological giants like Amazon and Google, friendship with the Tatu group Boris Rensky and successful experience in reconciling Russian and Ukrainian employees in the midst of a military conflict.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko held a meeting of the country's Security Council, following which he issued instructions to the State Border Committee, ministries and even the media. Today is the first meeting of the Coordinating Council of the opposition. Lukashenka instructed the Ministry of Defense to pay attention to the movement of NATO troops on the territory of Poland and Lithuania. “We have to track their directions and their intentions,” he said.

The WTO international trade index fell to a record low in the second quarter. The organization believes that a sluggish L-shaped recovery of the global economy is still not out of the question. The composite index of world trade in goods according to the WTO in June reached a historic (since the beginning of compilation in 2007) low of 84.5 after 87.6 in May and 95.5 in February. The last time close values ​​were observed during the global crisis of 2008-2009.

Yandex announced the official shift of the Yandex.Taxi application to the Yandex GO super application: now it combines taxi, car sharing, food and food delivery services, as well as courier services and transport schedule. “Yandex GO” after the next update will change the Yandex.Taxi application among users (it can also be downloaded separately). Earlier, Yandex added to the “taxi” of the Yandex.Deus application (delivery from restaurants) and “Yandex. Label” (products delivery).

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko called fake reports of a foreign military presence in the country. “Open lies on the Internet: foreign troops in Belarus, equipment from the Russian Federation in Belarus. You have probably already seen this when these fakes are being hyped, ” reports his words. Belta According to Lukashenka, those who publish such videos on the Internet do not distinguish Russian armored personnel carriers from Belarusian ones.

43-year-old Gennady Shutov died in a military hospital in Minsk, having received a gunshot wound to the head on August 11 near the Moscow administration of Brest, reports TUT.BY . Thus, three people have already died during the protests in Belarus.

The eleventh day of protests in Belarus began with the acceleration of protesters in Minsk. In the morning, OMON employees arrived at the building of the Minsk Tractor Plant (MTZ), where several dozen people gathered, TUT.BY reports . There were no strict clashes of protesters with law enforcement officers: people were pushed from the passage, should be from the record published by the NEXTA channel. After a while, people returned to the MTZ.

The case of blogger Andrei Pyzh, who was arrested on charges of illegally gaining access to state secrets, may be related to the export to Ukraine of classified data on Moscow metro stations and underground transport facilities. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. Another interlocutor of the agency said that Pyzh was detained for transporting flash drives with secret documents to Ukraine, which he allegedly was going to use in his blog.

Russian banks began to actively restructure large business loans: if the peak of insolvency of small and medium -sized businesses came in the spring of 2020, then a large business encountered a problem in July, followed by Fitch, which studied RBC. What's happened In July, 11 systemically significant banks restructured 4.5% of the corporate loan portfolio - this is a third of the total loans to legal entities, which became problematic in the pandemic of coronavirus.