The divorce of Bill and Melinda Gates is becoming more and more scandalous The divorce of the fourth issue of the world list of Gates and his wife Melinda is overgrown with all the new details, exposing the billionaire and the largest philanthropist in the best light. Last week, it became known that one of the reasons for the divorce was Gates's friendship with the financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex trains by minors.

The divorce of the fourth issue of the world list of Gates and his wife Melinda is overgrown with all the new details, exposing the billionaire and the largest philanthropist in the best light. Last week, it became known that one of the reasons for the divorce was Gates's friendship with the financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex trains by minors.

The Central Bank noticed signs of a "bubble" in the consumer lending segment - the debt burden of Russians rose to a historically record level. According to the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Ksenia Yudaeva, the focus of the regulator in 2021 has changed - if last year the Central Bank was worried about the stability of financial markets, now the topic of the growing debt burden of the population is coming to the fore.

The court dismissed the case against ex-Minister of Construction Mikhail Men due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. In a criminal case, he was threatened with up to 10 years in prison.

Roskomnadzor has threatened Facebook and YouTube with a slowdown if the sites do not start removing prohibited content. At the same time, the agency announced that it had decided not to block Twitter. Twitter removed more than 91% of prohibited information, so Roskomnadzor decided not to block the service, the agency said today.

Russian companies will suffer the most from the proposed EU carbon tax, the FT learned . Analysts predict that the country will lose about $60 billion between 2022 and 2030. The European Union is developing a so-called carbon border tax (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, CBAM). It will incentivize energy-exporting countries to reduce their carbon emissions to fight climate change.

Alexander Lukashenko allowed the security forces to use military equipment in the suppression of riots in Belarus - and citizens of the country are now prohibited from filming the actions of law enforcement officers.

The Moscow Physics and Technical Institute (MIPT) has always had a reputation as a supplier of high-class talents: from IT entrepreneurs and programmers to Nobel laureates. But at a Moscow university with a large number of applicants from regions, students are often forced to seek a part -time job to cover household expenses to the detriment of study and self -realization.

The luxury market could return to pre-pandemic levels as early as 2021 and, in an optimistic scenario, even exceed it, according to the Bain & Company Luxury Study 2021 Spring Update report. According to analysts, the volume of the market for premium goods can reach 300 billion euros.

The Federal Agency for Shipping and Hydrography of Germany (BSH) has allowed the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to continue in the exclusive economic zone of Germany. Work was suspended in early May due to a lawsuit filed by environmentalists. BSH refers to its own amendment dated January 14, 2021, which allows construction with an anchor positioning pipelayer, .

Asian company Gojek, which has created an app for everything from food delivery and calling a taxi to ordering an express massage at home, and the popular e-commerce startup Tokopedia have announced a merger . The combined company will be the largest in Indonesia's technology sector and plans to go public. Gojek and Tokopedia have agreed to form a holding company called GoTo, an idea that has been approved by startup shareholders including Google and Alibaba.

The readiness of Muscovites to vote for United Russia in the State Duma elections has dropped to 15%, found out the Levada Center (by decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice, it is included in the register of NGOs that act as foreign agents). In 2019-2020, the rating of the ruling party among metropolitan voters was about 25%. Over the past two years, changes have affected almost all popular parties, analysts write.

Mercifully, school shootings are rare in Russia. But a 19-year-old student went to a high school in the city of Kazan with a gun Tuesday and killed nine people, most of them children. President Vladimir Putin immediately called on officials to come up with proposals to tighten the requirements for gun ownership – but Russia’s rules are already among the strictest in the world. The real problem lies elsewhere.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will soon have been in office for 18 months. His government was preoccupied with the pandemic for much of its first year, but now it can return to its main task – making President Vladimir Putin’s long-term goals a reality. One of these goals is an ambitious target to increase inward investment into the Russian economy 70 percent through 2030.

State pressure on independent media continues to increase. Just three weeks after media outlet Meduza was branded a ‘foreign agent’, business title VTimes received the same designation. VTimes was set up last year by journalists who left top business newspaper Vedomosti when it was bought out by shareholders linked to state-owned oil giant Rosneft.