The Cypriot authorities will check all "golden passports" issued in exchange for investments in the country's economy, said government spokesman Kyriakos Kousios. The reason for the check was the investigation of Al-Jazeera. The country's authorities promise to check all "golden passports" issued over the past 18 years, starting in 2002.

Unrestrained growth of shares of American IT giants is interrupted-what are the reasons The excavation “bears” and the shortists have a holiday: September 3, the quotes of the IT sector megapompers, the growth of which the whole summer seemed unbridled, experienced a sharp collapse. What happened On Thursday, by 19.00 Moscow time, Apple quotes at the peak fell by 7%, Tesla - 9%, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Microsoft - within 4-5%.

Exchange “bears” and shortists have a holiday: on September 3, quotes of IT-sector mega-companies, whose growth seemed unrestrained for the whole summer, experienced a sharp collapse. What happened On Thursday, by 19.00 Moscow time, Apple's quotes at the peak fell by 7%, Tesla - by 9%, Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Microsoft - within 4-5%. These are the same companies that have set capitalization records almost every day in recent weeks.

In the direction of educational technologies (Edtech), only the lazy one is not looking, and coronavirus and self -isolation have only spurred interest in the market. Most large companies have projects in EdTech - from communication operators to banks. One of the reasons - state education cannot cope: about 48% of children are preparing for the exam with tutors.

Criminal cases have been initiated against the top manager of the Belarusian company PandaDoc Viktor Kuvshinov and several other employees of the company. Yesterday, the company was searched - at the same time, some employees of the company were taken away by the security forces in an unknown direction. According to Viktor Kuvshinov's wife Alexandra Dikan on Instagram, four men in civilian clothes came to their house in the morning and took her husband away.

The unregistered presidential candidate of Belarus, Viktor Babariko, and the head of his headquarters, Maria Kolesnikov, who was under the arrest, announced this week about the creation of the Political Party Together. Protest leaders are going to play for a long time. The Bell journalist Anastasia Stogne met Maria Kolesnikova in Minsk and found out how preparations for this game were going.

For the first half of 2020, the advertising market in Russia fell by 9%, according to the data of the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia (ACAR). Even the Internet advertising market lost from 1% to 2.6%. During the first half of the year, advertisers spent 205–207 billion rubles on promotion in Russian media.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has issued a statement regarding the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. If the use of the "Novichok" substance is confirmed, the organization will consider this the use of chemical weapons. “According to the Chemical Weapons Convention, any poisoning of a person with a nerve agent is considered the use of chemical weapons. This kind of accusation is a matter of serious concern.

The Moscow Arbitration Court suspended consideration of the lawsuit filed by billionaire Oleg Deripaska against oppositionist Alexei Navalny to protect his business reputation. The petition was filed by the defendant's representative, citing Navalny's treatment in Berlin, reports RIA Novosti . The plaintiff's lawyer disagreed. Navalny's representative stated in court that the hospitalization of the oppositionist was grounds for suspending the proceedings.

On Friday, January 8, it became known about the death of one of the brightest Russian entrepreneurs of the creator of brands “Recipes of the Grandmother of Agafia” and Natura Siberica Andrei Trubnikov. According to reports, the businessman died on January 7 in his house in the suburbs. Trubnikov was 61 years old. We express deep condolences to relatives and friends. Below-an interview with Andrei Trubnikov, which in September 2020 was published on the YouTube channel "Russian norms!" .

The current President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, during a meeting today with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin , said that he has evidence that reports of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny were falsified. He promised to hand them over to the Russian FSB. Lukashenka said that he followed the story of the deteriorating health of Russia's main opposition politician.

Writer Mackenzie Scott has become the richest woman in the world, according to Index the Bloomberg Billionaires . The former wife of the world's richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is ranked 12th with a net worth of $68 billion. In July, the ex-wife of Bezos became the richest woman in the United States with a fortune of $ 62.4 billion.

The Kremlin commented for the first time on yesterday's report by the German authorities that opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group. According to Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Navalny's poisoning was unlikely to benefit anyone and is not a reason for sanctions against Russia.

Alexander Lukashenko arranged a personnel reshuffle in the power bloc: the head of the KGB was entrusted with the Security Council, and the head of the state control committee was appointed in his place, reports the Belta news agency . Minsk now also has a new mayor. Valery Vakulchik, head of the Belarusian KGB, has been appointed State Secretary of the Security Council. Ivan Tertel, who previously headed the state control committee, became the chairman of the KGB. And about.

The Ministry of Economic Development has determined the rules for the sale of “beautiful” automobile numbers - they will leave auction at a price of up to 6 million rubles. Revenues from the sale of numbers will share the regional and federal budgets equally, Kommersant learned . The ministry proposed to the government the amendments to the Law "On State Registration of Vehicles" and the Budget Code.