At a private meeting with chief editors of the Russian media on Wednesday, Vladimir Putin discussed the reasons for the protests and the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, the blocking of Western Internet services and the regulation of food prices. We talked with the participants of the meeting and retell the main thing.

The wife of politician Alexei Navalny, who is in jail, Yulia Navalnaya, flew to Frankfurt am Main airport on the evening of February 10, confirmed . Der Spiegel magazine “While the Russian media accused her of fleeing the country, in Berlin they say that she arrived in Germany on a private visit,” writes the magazine. The fact that Navalnaya flew from Russia to Frankfurt from Domodedovo Airport on Wednesday was the first to be reported by Interfax.

How the protests helped “rain”, “mediazone” and “ATD-info” to attract millions of donations and subscribers The January protests against the sentence to Alexei Navalny became the most media over many years-80% of Russians know about them, the Levada Center calculated today.

The Prosecutor General's Office suggested thinking about large administrative fines for Internet platforms that host "calls for mass actions." This is just one of the repressive initiatives outlined at today's meeting of the State Duma commission to investigate the interference of foreign states in Russia's internal affairs.

Launched in July 2020, the Chinese interplanetary space station Tianwen-1 successfully orbited Mars today, February 10, 2021. If the mission is completely successful, China will become the second country after the United States to land a rover on the planet: even the USSR limited itself to simple descent vehicles. that the space station entered a highly elongated orbit around Mars with a perigee of 400 km reported The Xinhua news agency .

The Federal Customs Service (FTS) has confirmed that it has opened a case against the Russian division of H&M for evading customs duties on an especially large scale, writes RBC. As Bloomberg reported, we are talking about the fact that the company did not pay 3 billion rubles of duties on time. A case has been opened against the company under the article on customs duty evasion on an especially large scale (part 2 of article 194 of the Criminal Code).

The largest management company in the world, BlackRock, has reduced investments in Russian assets, writes Bloomberg. Emerging Europe fund manager (part of the BlackRock Global Funds group) Chris Colunga told the agency that he had reduced investments in Russian shares since December 2020, when they accounted for 57%. According to him, their quotes in the foreseeable future will be pressured by political aggravation with the West. He did not disclose the volume and structure of the reduction.

The richest woman in Russia, Elena Baturina, is going to sell the Morrison boutique hotel in Dublin at a discount of 17 million euros, learned . The Irish Times Before the pandemic, a four-star hotel was estimated at 80-85 million euros, the newspaper writes. Now its price has been reduced to 68 million euros. Although a sale at this level would represent a 15% discount from the figure originally requested, it would still generate significant profit for the hotel owner.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" - Founder of DST GLOBAL Yuri Milner. We publish a reduced version of a large interview, which the most successful venture investor from Russia gave Elizabeth Ossetian. “The 1990s are a unique period. This will not happen again " - I want to start with your past. You are a physicist by education. In principle, theoretical physics is quite far from money and investment.

The spin-off of the US social media business TikTok and its sale to US companies under the Joe Biden administration has been put on hold indefinitely, has learned . The Wall Street Journal The sale of the part of TikTok, owned by the Chinese ByteDance, the American Oracle and Walmart, has been suspended until the end of the audit of possible security threats from the Chinese big tech, and in fact has been postponed without any definite prospects, the newspaper writes.

Blocking Donald Trump's Twitter account against expectations did not deter users from the social network - as the company reported , the audience of Twitter in the fourth quarter of 2020 grew by 27% and continued to grow in January. After growing at the end of 2020, the total daily audience of Twitter was 192 million people. The social network management reported that the number of users in January grew more than the average for this month over the past four years.

The new political season in Russia turned out to be very rich - the return and arrest of Alexei Navalny, an investigation about the palace, mass protests and repression. The Bell found out how the tough reaction of the authorities to the rally of Navalny supporters rally the audience around independent media and activists-on the example of the Rain television channel, the Mediazon website and the OWD-Info platform.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a bill that would quadruple the penalties for disobedience to the security forces. The text of the document is published on the website of the lower chamber. The fine for the first case of disobedience to employees of executive bodies has increased from 500–1,000 rubles to 2,000–4,000 rubles. An alternative to recovery is arrest for 15 days or compulsory work for a period of 40 to 120 hours.

Electric SUV and pickup truck maker Rivian, in which Amazon and Ford Motor have invested, is planning an IPO in September, Bloomberg reported , citing sources. The company's valuation could be $50 billion or even more. According to the interlocutors of the agency, the placement period may still be shifted to the end of the year or to 2022. In addition, the potential value of the company may also change, sources say. A Rivian spokesperson declined to comment.

Apple is setting up production of small high-resolution displays at a secret factory in Taiwan, writes Nikkei Asia. They are designed for promising augmented reality (AR) devices, which have been expected from the company for a long time.