Hello! This week our top story is the aborted attempt to return a statue of a notorious Soviet spy chief to downtown Moscow. We also look at the discount store chain heading for a record IPO, and have highlights from the first article in our new series on how Russian money finds its way to Europe.

The topic of release is the start of the war of the media and governments against digital platforms Australian media defeated Facebook and Google. Under the pressure of the local government, the largest Internet services agreed to pay publications for articles that they show users. Will this local conflict launch a world war? It may very well be. European publishers achieve similar conditions from Facebook and Google, and they have a strong ally - Microsoft.

At the Moscow railway station in St. Petersburg, a journalist from the Baza edition, Myaila Maciulite, was detained. According to the editors, Maciulite was detained at a meeting with a familiar police officer who promised to pass on some "important information" to her. Those who detained the journalist showed her brother, with whom she came to St. Petersburg for the weekend, the documents of employees of the internal security department (SSB) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Alexei Navalny will serve his sentence in correctional colony No. 2 in Pokrov, Vladimir Region, reported Yarnovosti , citing a source in the Federal Penitentiary Service and confirmed by Mediazona and TASS sources . “Navalny was taken to the Vladimir region on Friday. He will serve his sentence in IK-2 in the city of Pokrov. First, he will go through quarantine, ”said the TASS interlocutor.

McDonald's is considering a partial sale of artificial intelligence developer Dynamic Yield, which helps customers choose an order, The Wall Street Journal writes , citing a message from the corporation. The purchase of the Israeli startup less than two years ago was McDonald's most expensive deal in 20 years. Dynamic Yield helps create personalized offers for customers.

Deputy of the Sakhalin Regional Duma Dmitry Pashov was detained in Khabarovsk on charges in connection with the criminal cases of the "crab king" Oleg Kan, reports the local portal Sakh.com. Sources for TASS , RIA Novosti and Vedomosti confirmed the fact of the detention, but did not specify the reason for it. According to Sakh.com, Pashov flew to Khabarovsk on a business trip and was summoned for interrogation in an old case, the term for which had already expired.

In large cities of Russia on February 27, actions are held in memory of politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow exactly six years ago. In Moscow According to TASS, by 13:00 Moscow time, about a hundred people gathered for the rally in Moscow, including volunteers and journalists. Among those present were the ambassadors of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, the Czech Republic and Latvia.

Robinhood, the favorite app of retail investors, which has become one of the key defendants in the “battle for GameStop” case, plans to file a confidential application for an IPO as early as March, Bloomberg writes , citing sources. Last week, the company was in talks with underwriters about filing a bid for several weeks, sources told the publication. According to them, the final decision has not yet been made and the timing may change. A Robinhood spokesperson declined to comment.

In 2021, Russia's rating prospects may be overshadowed by the tightening of Western sanctions, the imbalance of macropolitics and domestic political volatility, RBC writes , citing the conclusions of analysts from the international rating agency S&P Global Ratings.