Alexei Navalny was transferred from the Kolchugino pre-trial detention center in the Vladimir region to a colony in Pokrov to serve his sentence, TASS reports , citing a law enforcement source. In the pre-trial detention center, the politician was in quarantine, all newly arrived convicts go through it, the source of the agency explained. Before being sent to the colony, tests are taken, and all distinctive features are recorded - scars, injuries, tattoos.

Simon Hu, CEO of China's Ant Group, has resigned. Last year, the Chinese authorities canceled the company's IPO after its founder, Jack Ma, criticized the Chinese authorities. Simon Hu joined Ant Group in 2018, having previously worked for Alibaba, which controls it. The reason for the resignation of a top manager in the company was called personal reasons. His place will be taken by the chairman of the board of the company, Eric Jing.

As The Bell found out, after the failure of the deal with Oleg Tinkov, Yandex decided to buy its own bank - the company is negotiating the acquisition of the small Bank Acropolis, the owner of which in 2020 was the general director of the Svyaznoy group Yevgeny Davydovich. Yandex is preparing to buy a bank, four sources in the payment and banking market told The Bell.

The authorities warned in advance about the falsity of critical publications about the Russian vaccine: according to Kremlin sources, Western intelligence agencies are preparing a large-scale information campaign against Sputnik V. agencies The TASS , RIA Novosti and Interfax almost simultaneously disseminated information, citing sources in the Kremlin, that information directed against the Russian Sputnik V vaccine would soon appear in the media.

On Wednesday, when Roskomnadzor announced that it was starting to slow down Twitter, many sites in Russia were down. For a while, Google services and YouTube video hosting worked intermittently. According to Roskomnadzor, the cause was a fire in a data center in France. Google says it's not. There really was a fire in the data center owned by the French provider OVH, confirms Google.

The State Duma decided to set in motion the long-standing idea to oblige foreign IT companies to open full-fledged representative offices in Russia. The head of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, on the air of Rossiya 24 , said that the deputies are developing a new bill against foreign IT companies.

Quotes of the Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) on Friday, March 12, soared by almost a third after the announcement of dividends. The capitalization of the company increased by 18 billion rubles. TMK's Board of Directors recommended to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to decide on the payment of dividends for 2020 in the amount of 9.67 rubles per paper, which means that the dividend yield could be 12.2%.

The Netflix video service has begun testing a feature that aims to combat the use of other people's accounts. So far, it has been launched in test mode and will affect only a part of users. To ensure that users are logged into their account, Netflix will send alerts asking them to verify the legitimate use of the account. You will need to enter a password in the notification form, which the video service will send to the phone or email specified during registration.

The next victim of the demonstrative spanking of Chinese fintech, which began with Jack Ma's Ant Group, will be the Tencent conglomerate of his namesake Pony Ma, writes Bloomberg. What's happening The Chinese regulator on Friday fined 12 companies for antitrust violations. Among the affected search engine Baidu, taxi aggregator Didi Chuxing, SoftBank and Tencent Holdings.

The Eastern Economic Forum will be held on September 2-4 and . will be held in person after the St. Petersburg Forum (SPIEF) The return of the EEF to the site of the Far Eastern Federal University in the fall was announced by Roscongress in its Telegram channel. According to Anton Kobyakov, executive secretary of the WEF organizing committee, the event will be organized in accordance with the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor and WHO to prevent the spread of COVID.

Countries are divided over the safety of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine. While Germany and France, together with WHO, call the fears unfounded, at least nine countries have already suspended the use of the vaccine until the circumstances are clarified. AstraZeneca was the first to raise concerns about the safety of AstraZeneca in Austria, which stopped using the company's vaccine over the weekend, reports Bloomberg.

Silicon Valley is the main point of attraction for technological entrepreneurs from around the world. Every year, tens of thousands of startups and developers came here, who believed that the proximity to the place where Steve Jobs created would give them a superpower. Pandemia and Lokdown made the incredible - the valley became empty.

Telegram, at the request of Roskomnadzor, began to remove bots that distribute personal data. The victim was the largest account for “breaking through” the “Eye of God”, noticed . the “Information Leaks” channel To search for data, the Eye of God used both open databases and those that leaked to the network illegally. The channel conducted an audit and updated documents in accordance with changes in the law on personal data, follows from the last message dated March 9.

The Central Bank revoked licenses from two small Russian banks - Forbank and Modern Business Standards. These are the first license recalls for 2021. In the Interfax-100 ranking, according to the results of 2020, Forbank ranks 212th in terms of assets, Sovremennye Business Standards Bank (SSTB) ranks 329th.

More than 6,000 cameras at Russian enterprises and residential buildings turned out to be vulnerable: they have public IP addresses, and anyone, including a scammer, can get access to them, Kommersant . writes This publication was told in the company Avast. It turned out that in 6.3 thousand video surveillance cameras located at power plants, industrial enterprises, gas stations and in smart home systems in Russia, IP addresses were either open or password protected by default.