10 non -working, but paid days in May - a generous gift of Vladimir Putin to the Russians. How much will it cost? This year, Vladimir Putin sent the country for long May holidays for the second year in a row, declaring days from May 1 to 10 with non -working ones with saving wages. Like a year ago, this decision is explained by the epidemic environment, although there is no question of the third wave of coronavirus in Russia.

In March 2021, 23,715 people with coronavirus died in Russia, Rosstat reported . This is 12.4% of all deaths this month. The total number of deaths from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the agency, has approached 250,000 people. In total, in March 2021, according to Rosstat, 191,320 people died, which is 25% more than in March last year. Coronavirus infection became the main cause of death in 15,003 patients, that is, in 7.8% of all deaths per month.

Microsoft has announced a reduction in fees for PC game developers. Starting August 1, 2021, they will receive 88% of the sales of their games in the Microsoft Store digital store, up from 70% as before. Thus, Microsoft's commission has decreased from the market standard of 30% to 12%. The company policy update only applies to PC games, not Xbox consoles. Microsoft's decision to lower the commission is in trend with other major companies in the gaming market.

10 non-working days in May is Vladimir Putin's generous gift to the Russians. The business that will have to pay for it is predictably underwhelmed . And how much will the country's economy as a whole pay? The Bell asked economists to answer this question. Russians already have more rest than citizens of developed countries. In 2019, for example, we had 42 non-working days (holidays and holidays), not counting regular weekends. This is four times more than in the US.

Moscow has postponed new truck entry restrictions after business complaints from early May to mid-June. The new decision was officially announced by the Department of Transport of Moscow. The city hall, which has already received 36,000 applications for passes, understands the concerns of small businesses about working on non-working days from May 1 to 10, and therefore postpones the introduction of restrictions from May 5 to June 15, the report says.

The eurozone in the first quarter of 2021 again experienced a recession due to a new wave of lockdowns, writes Bloomberg. Its economy will recover with a year lag compared to the US economy. Eurozone GDP in the first quarter of 2021 decreased by 0.6% compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, when the figure fell by 0.7%. Thus, the economy is back in a technical recession after recovering in the middle of last year.

Rosfinmonitoring has included the headquarters of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the list of organizations involved in terrorism and extremism. Information appeared on the website of the service (incision "Russian legal entities"). The Navalny Headquarters Public Movement organization is number 461 on the list of legal entities that Rosfinmonitoring considers extremist. The Moscow prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit to recognize the FBK (recognized as a foreign agent.

The Ministry of Energy proposed to ban the export of gasoline from Russia for three months, follows from the draft government decree on the portal of regulatory legal acts. Such a measure will help stabilize the domestic fuel market and prevent an acceleration in price growth, the document says. The list of "essential" goods is proposed to include motor gasoline of all brands and light distillates.

On Thursday, April 29, Chinese regulators imposed broad restrictions on 13 of the country's largest IT companies: Tencent Holding (owns the WeChat payment system), ByteDance (owns the popular TikTok app), Meituan food delivery service, Didi Chuxing (owns DiDi taxi aggregator ), the JD.com trading platform, and others. Many of these rules have already been tested on the fintech giant Jack Ma's Ant Group.

from May 12 The US Embassy in Russia will completely stop issuing non-immigrant visas . This is a consequence of Russia's declaration of the United States as an "unfriendly country": the embassy will no longer be able to hire Russians to process documents. The list of services remains only emergency services for US citizens, the issuance of immigrant visas in case of expiration and in the case of documented life and death issues, as well as diplomatic visas.

The Lefortovo court for the fourth time extended the arrest of the ex-correspondent of Kommersant and Vedomosti Ivan Safronov - he will remain in jail for two months, until July 7. By that date, Safronov will have been under arrest for a year if the decision cannot be appealed. The change in the measure of restraint, as in previous times, was again not affected by guarantees - more than 440 people vouched for Ivan Safronov.

American big tech reporting week showed that there are no competitors in terms of growth rates to the Big Five companies in the mass market The week of the quarterly reporting of the American big tech for the first quarter was closed by Amazon and Twitter. In all cases, the reaction of the market showed that investors are justifiably accustomed to expecting only unbridled growth from these companies, but the slightest negative can drop quotes.

Large food producers and retail chains have encountered difficulties in planning deliveries in Moscow due to the entry into force of new rules for the movement of trucks from May 5, writes . Kommersant On May 5, a decree of the Moscow City Hall comes into force, which requires issuing passes for trucks weighing more than 3.5 tons for movement within the Moscow Ring Road, introduces fixed routes, separation of passes into day and night, etc.

The week of the quarterly reporting of the American big tech for the first quarter was closed by Amazon and Twitter. In all cases, the reaction of the market showed that investors are used to expecting only unbridled growth from these companies, and the slightest negative can drop their quotes. Who has reported Amazon not only confirmed its reputation as the main beneficiary of the coronavirus crisis, surpassing Wall Street's forecasts, but also showed that it is not going to stop.

Lawyer and head of the human rights project "Team 29" Ivan Pavlov was detained in Moscow. He is on the side of the defense in cases against supporters of Alexei Navalny, journalist Ivan Safronov, top manager of Inter-RAO Karina Tsurkan. In the morning, Pavlov was searched in a hotel room in Moscow, reported in the Team 29 Telegram channel. At the same time, the security forces broke down the door of the association's IT specialist, Igor Dorfman.