The Ministry of Economics and Peskov were outraged by Bloomberg about the threat of unrest in Russia due to growth in food prices. We analyze who is right Last Sunday, on February 28, Bloomberg included Russia in the top-five “hot spots”, where rising prices for products “causes special anxiety” and can provoke dissatisfaction of the population.

The administration of the new US President Joe Biden is preparing to impose sanctions against Russia due to the poisoning and arrest of Alexei Navalny. The European Union will also support anti-Russian measures, writes CNN. Sanctions could be introduced as early as this week, according to the channel's sources in the White House. According to one of the interlocutors of CNN, the sanctions will affect both individuals and legal entities.

The online cinema Ivi is ready to change its corporate structure in order to enter an IPO and comply with the rule on limiting the share of foreigners in the service, which MP Anton Gorelkin proposed to introduce, writes Forbes. Sources told the publication that Ivi has returned to the idea of ​​going public and is considering changing the corporate structure.

A Paris court found former French President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling in the wiretapping case and sentenced him to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, Reuters . reports The prosecutor's office asked to give the ex-president four years in prison and two of them on probation. Sarkozy himself pleaded not guilty, saying he was the victim of a "witch hunt" by prosecutors who, in his opinion, used excessive means for surveillance, reports Reuters.

Arkady Volozh and his family trust will sell up to 29,180 Class A shares of Yandex, the company said in a statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. “In total, Arkady Volozh owns 30.8 million class B shares, the economic share of which is currently 8.7% and provides 45.5% of the vote,” a Yandex representative told Forbes. One class B share is convertible into ten class A shares. At the close of trading on the Nasdaq on February 26, Class A shares of Yandex were worth $63.9.

Forbes for the first time compiled a ranking of the top 20 richest Russian women, including only women who independently earned their fortune. As expected, the condition of the leader of the rating turned out to be greater than that of all other participants combined. The leader of the rating was the founder of the online retailer Wildberries Tatyana Bakalchuk with $ 10.1 billion. The Bell was the first in Russia to tell in detail about the real history of the Wildberries business here .

The Russian chain of fixed price stores Fix Price has set the price range for its IPO on the London Stock Exchange at $8.75 to $9.75 per global depositary receipt (GDR). The plans are to place up to 170 million GDRs and raise up to $1.7 billion. The established price range corresponds to a market capitalization of $7.4-8.3 billion, said Fix Price in a statement.

Russians are less and less afraid of contracting the coronavirus, but two-thirds of their fellow citizens believe that the virus was artificially created as a new form of biological weapon, a showed in February. Levada Center poll 43% of respondents are afraid of contracting the coronavirus, 56% are not afraid, this is the highest figure since February 2020. Then 68% were not afraid, and in October 2020 - only 34% of respondents.

Family history site MyHeritage has launched a service to bring photos to life using a neural network. The result is strongly reminiscent of "living portraits" from the Harry Potter universe - different users describe it as "touching" and as "a nightmare come to life." Users immediately began to upload to the service not only photos of long-dead relatives, but also historical figures from Queen Elizabeth I of England to Charles Dickens.

The Gab social platform popular with right-wing extremists, which became one of their havens after Donald Trump was blocked on Twitter and other persecution by big tech, has been massively hacked. Activists from the Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) project reported that they took possession of 70 gigabytes of information, including passwords, personal publications and user correspondence. Trump's account was also hit.

Project journalists compared the work of Moscow law enforcement officers and courts after the rallies in 2021 (January 23, 31 and February 2) with the consequences of earlier major protests - 2017 (March 26) and 2019 (July 27, August 3 and 10) . The results suggest that the authorities have met the current wave of protests with an unprecedented number of detentions and arrests.

2020, despite the pandemic, crisis and closed boundaries, became almost the best year in the history of the global IT industry . Apple increased in a price by almost $ 1 trillion, Nvidia doubled, and the total capitalization of the seven of the largest technology companies increased to $ 8.5 trillion. Investors are interested in whether the growth of IT companies is exhausted or there is still potential.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg opened a criminal case on abuse of power against a major of the local police, found out Kommersant . He is suspected of selling the data of air passengers on the flight on which oppositionist Alexei Navalny fell ill on August 20. He later blamed the FSB for his poisoning.

In 2017, Coinbase became the world's first crypto united. Now the estimate of the cryptocurrencies exceeds already $ 100 billion, and it itself is going to conduct public placement on NASDAQ. If the deal takes place, Coinbase will become one of the most expensive in the history of IT companies that go to the exchange.

Roskomnadzor accused Twitter of maliciously violating Russian legislation on prohibited content and threatened the company with fines - first large fixed, and then negotiable. “In addition to the information of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation about Twitter’s anti-leadership in the dissemination of prohibited information,” Roskomnadzor reported that since 2017, the social network “has not removed 2,862 materials” with illegal content.