At another protest in Belarus, a women's march in Minsk, several dozen people were detained . This is the first protest action since the secret inauguration of Alexander Lukashenko. According to the Belarusian human rights center Viasna, 49 protesters were detained at the protest, including at least four journalists.

Apple went to small concessions on the issue of commissions in the App Store and canceled the charge of the payment from online events that the business organizes using Facebook tools. Previously, the company took a commission of 30%for this. In August, Facebook launched a service in several countries with which entrepreneurs can sell users online access to events and lessons.

American senators proposed to compile the so -called second “Magnitsky list”, including people who are allegedly responsible for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, and impose sanctions against his defendants. In addition, senators asked the White House to check the finances of the President of Russia and his family.

The Russian middle class was reduced due to the pandemic of coronavirus: at least 6.1% of working representatives of the middle class went into the category of the poor, the HSE analysts calculated. The real proportion of the poor in the country, according to the results of Lockdown, increased to 19–20%, the researchers say. HSE economists prepared the report “Russia in the new era: the choice of priorities and the purpose of national development” (RBC retells it).

In Moscow, 1792 new cases of coronavirus were detected - this is a record number of infected people since June 8. The headquarters also noted an increase in hospitalizations with COVID-19: 830 people were admitted to hospitals per day. The number of infected in Moscow is growing rapidly.

Hello! This week our top story is about the big changes for Russia’s online services sector as internet giant Yandex and banking giant Sberbank go head-to-head. We also look at the beginnings of a coronavirus second wave , and the architecture of a radical new approach to economic policy that is taking shape in the government. All change! Yandex becomes a bank, Sberbank turns to tech It was a big week for the Russian tech market.

How the Yandex deal with Tinkov became possible and how it will change competition with Sberbank From the past week, the presentation of Sberbank was most expected, and received the main Russian deal of the year - on Tuesday Tinkoff Bank announced that he had previously agreed to sell a 100% shares of Yandex. We figured out why in the fall of 2020 this deal became not only possible, but also almost inevitable and what could come out of it.