There has been no such intensity of the situation around the sanctions, as this week has not been since 2018, but the worst, apparently, is still ahead The week under the sign of sanctions forced the Russian market to recall about 2018 - for the first time in three years on the agenda, sanctions against large businesses and serious restrictions on the purchase of Russian government bonds reappeared on the agenda.

The founder of the Citymobil taxi aggregator, Aram Arakelyan, withdrew from the capital of the company by selling his 1.96% stake to O2O Holding, a joint venture between Mail.Ru Group and Sberbank, reports . Kommersant Arakelyan also plans to leave the post of CEO of Citymobil and start developing his own projects together with partners in Citymobil - Hovhannes Arakelyan and Vladislav Abrahamyan, a company representative said. Vitaly Bedarev will continue to act as CEO of Citymobil.

Aeroflot will increase the fuel surcharge on domestic flights by 10% from March 10, told a company representative Forbes. The source of the publication in one of the largest airlines previously said that in this way the group will be able to attract “at least 8.5 billion rubles” in 2021. The increase will affect domestic flights of Aeroflot and the group's subsidiaries operated under the SU code.

The criminal case of shareholders of the Merlion group, which includes the Retail “Citylink”, shocked the market. Even in the 1990s, this was not the case. The owners of one of the largest IT companies were arrested-the former employee claims that they wanted to burn him alive. The arrested, of course, has their own truth. None of the versions look very slender. Understanding them, we restored the almost 30-year history of Merlion. And this story deserves to be told.

In January 2021, 37,107 people with coronavirus died in Russia, according to new Rosstat data. The total number of deaths with coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the agency, thus exceeded 200 thousand people. According to Rosstat, in just the first month of 2021, 219.8 thousand people died. Nearly 17% of all deaths were related to the coronavirus.

Aeroflot will begin regular flights to the Seychelles from April, the carrier said . A one-way ticket will cost more than 35 thousand rubles. Starting April 2, Aeroflot will start operating flights to Mahe Island (Seychelles). The Russian carrier will fly once a week, on Fridays. As Forbes wrote , at the opening of ticket sales to the Seychelles, its minimum cost from Moscow on April 2 in economy class was 31,577 rubles.

The court fined Mail.Ru Group for 4 million rubles - the reason was that the Odnoklassniki social network did not delete information with a call to go to rallies. Mail.Ru Group was tried in two administrative cases, both related to “failure to delete information by the owner of the information resource” (part 2 of article 13.41 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the lifting of part of the restrictive measures in the city: for the elderly 65+, social transport cards will again work, and their mandatory self-isolation is also canceled. Sobyanin noted that compared to the peak values ​​​​of the end of last year, the number of daily detected cases of coronavirus has decreased by almost 5 times. The number of hospitalizations decreased by 2-3 times.

The Board of Directors of MTS did not extend the contract of the company's president, Alexei Korni. His successor will be Vyacheslav Nikolaev, who served as the first vice president of MTS for customer experience, marketing and ecosystem development, writes RBC with reference to the company's message. Alexei Korni's contract expires on March 12. After that, he will move to the position of First Vice President of AFK Sistema, which is the main owner of the operator.

One of the Russian vaccines was allowed to vaccinate older people over 60 years old - we are talking about the EpiVacCorona drug, developed by the Vector Center in Novosibirsk. permission to use the vaccine for the elderly Rospotrebnadzor announced . The agency said in a statement that the drug has successfully completed a phase III-IV open-label clinical trial in people aged 60 years and older.

The MTS operator announced the launch of Russia's first pilot 5G user network in the 4.9 GHz band. The new generation network will be available in 14 popular locations in Moscow, but only for selected subscribers, the company said in a statement to The Bell. Unlimited 5G Internet with speeds up to 1.5 Gbps will be available to MTS subscribers with 5G-compatible smartphones that support the n79 frequency band in the 4.4-5.0 GHz band.

Home Internet operators will soon have to turn off the network operating at a frequency of 3.4-3.6 GHz. According to RBC , Internet users using WiMAX technology in several regions may face problems. The point is the limitation of the frequency resource of 3.4-3.6 GHz - it was issued in March 2011 for 10 years.

The UK's most famous pub chain may not survive the pandemic, and not just because of three national lockdowns. Wetherspoons founder Tim Martin finally came back to haunt his big image miscalculation - and attitude towards employees, says Bloomberg. What happened Last March, after the unprecedented decision by the British authorities to close all bars, the Wetherspoons founder recorded a video message to 40,000 employees. Martin tried his best to sound reassuring, but he failed.

Belkacar is one of the pioneers of the Russian car sharing market. The founders of the company Elena Muradova, Ekaterina Makarova and Lorian Sardar met at the MBA courses and in 2016 launched a business for $ 350 thousand savings and borrowed funds. Today, Belkacar is the third player after Yandex.Drive and Delimobile: Tinkoff Data analysts at the end of 2020 estimated the share of the service at 11.5% of the market.

Forbes list's richest rapper Jay-Z's net worth is up 40% after two high-profile deals. The contractor has agreed to partially sell the Tidal streaming service to Square, which is headed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and also sold half of the shares of its own champagne brand to Moët Hennessy (a division of the LVMH holding). The fact that Square will become the owner of a "significant majority" of Tidal shares, reported Bloomberg .