Compulsory licensing of medicines has started to work in Russia, when “in the interests of national security” a pharmaceutical company can start producing a medicine without the consent of the patent owner, writes VTimes. Before the New Year, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree that allowed the Pharmasyntez group of companies to produce a drug for covid therapy during 2021 without the consent of the patent owner, American Gilead Sciences.

Wealthy Britons have found a way to bypass the queue and get vaccinated against COVID-19 in private: they book vaccines in the United Arab Emirates, found out . The Telegraph In December, the UK was the first in the world to approve the use of a vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, but it is not yet available for free in the country. First of all, people over 80 years old, wards of nursing homes, employees of medical institutions and social services are vaccinated.

The divergence of economies, sectors and social groups, remotes as a new norm and “work tourism”: our friends from Econs.online talk about the main trends in the 2021 economy. With their permission, we publish this material.

Apple, Google and Amazon block the popular social network Parler among Donald Trump supporters. Alphabet was the first to announce the removal of Parler from Google Play on Friday. Google's parent company explained its decision by the "ongoing and extreme threat to public safety" posed by Parler. Following her, Apple gave the social network 24 hours to moderate dangerous content, but in the end considered that Parler did not cope with the task.

came into force On January 10, the provisions of the law , tightening control over the circulation of cash and non-cash payments, reports . TASS came into force , according to which banks often block business accounts and transactions. On January 10, 2021, amendments to the Law on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (115-FZ) The main innovation is that now data on any financial transactions over 600 thousand rubles will be automatically transferred to Rosfinmonitoring.