Retail networks are enlarged by an accelerated pace: what do the two largest transactions of the week say about the market In 2020, the largest Russian retailers took away a record share of the market from competitors, and in 2021 they go to new records.

The Board of Directors of the Central Bank decided from August 1 to increase the premiums on risk ratios for mortgage loans. The measure will affect mortgages with a low down payment - less than 20%. Risk premiums for mortgage loans with a loan/collateral ratio will be increased from 80% to 85%. The new mark-ups will range from 50 to 100 percentage points, depending on the value of the borrower's debt burden, the Central Bank said in a statement.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has deleted his Facebook account. to this The RTVI TV channel drew attention . The businessman has repeatedly criticized the social network, including due to security problems. When trying to access Durov's page , a message now appears: "This content is currently unavailable. The owner may have removed the content or restricted access to it." Durov's Instagram account (owned by Facebook) is still available.

On Friday, a group of parliamentarians introduced a bill to the State Duma that would tighten the circulation of weapons in Russia. Amendments to the law on weapons were ordered by President Vladimir Putin after the shooting at a school in Kazan, which killed nine people.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow found the Central Children's Store on Lubyanka guilty of violating sanitary and epidemiological standards and closed it for a week. The reason was a fan meeting with the actors of the film Major Grom: The Plague Doctor. The CDM building was sealed on May 18, two days after the autograph session. Rospotrebnadzor considered that there was insufficient control over the mask-glove regime and a small supply of disinfectants at the event.

The ban on being elected for persons involved in the activities of extremist and terrorist organizations can be extended to elections at all levels. At the same time, even persons who expressed support for them, including on the Internet, will be considered involved in such organizations. Such amendments were introduced for the second reading of the bill on restricting the electoral right of persons involved in the activities of extremist and terrorist organizations, reports TASS .

The fact that the rate of vaccination in Russia is sharply insufficient was officially recognized this week. Are there any grounds for making vaccination mandatory, how could the Russian authorities act in such a case? What's happening about mandatory vaccination this week spoke Former prime minister, deputy chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, .

Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has become the most generous benefactor from the list of the richest people in the UK in the 20 years of The Sunday Times Giving List. In 2020 alone, he and his companies donated £500m ($706m). Over the past year, Usmanov sent £134.2 million ($190 million) to the fight against coronavirus in Russia, Uzbekistan and Italy, The Times calculated. Over the entire existence of the rating, the businessman has donated £4.2 billion ($5.9 billion).

to the State Duma On Friday, a group of parliamentarians submitted a bill obliging large foreign IT companies working with a Russian audience to open full-fledged representative offices in Russia. The co-author of the initiative, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, called this bill "landing". The initiative, if adopted, will affect IT companies whose daily audience in Russia exceeds half a million people.

Aeroflot delays flights from Moscow Sheremetyevo due to a technical failure. reported problems with registration and a change in departure times Interfax and RBC . Passengers complained about the delays of dozens of flights. According to the online scoreboard on the Sheremetyevo website, the departure time is postponed by at least an hour. The service for buying tickets on the Aeroflot website was temporarily not working.

Lukoil has concentrated its energy generating assets in the south of Russia with a high carbon footprint in a new structure - VDK-Energo, RBC writes . The decarbonization trend among Russian companies involved in the extraction of natural resources is associated with tougher environmental requirements for investors.

Ilon Musk announced the official appearance of Tesla in Russia - the billionaire said about this at the New Knowledge forum. Musk said that Tesla will not only soon be sold in Russia, but, possibly, even produced. Ilon Musk I think that we will soon be present in Russia and Tesla will soon be in Russia, I think it will be amazing. <...> We have a plant in Shanghai ... We want we have factories in other parts of the world, we are potentially considering Russia.

The remote opening of bank accounts for new customers, which is in demand during self-isolation, entails risks, including due to the increased availability of deepfake technology, the Central Bank fears. According to experts, they can be overcome by using other methods of identity verification in parallel.

The ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip came into force today at 02:00 Moscow time after 11 days of shelling. In the last hours before the truce, the sides exchanged missile strikes. In the Gaza Strip, they are actively celebrating the "victory of the resistance" in the battle, which the Palestinian factions called "Saif al-Quds" - "Jerusalem Sword", reports Al-Aqsa (TASS quote ) . The truce was reached with the active mediation of Egypt.

The Russian Ministry of Finance again took advantage of the political situation to borrow as cheaply as possible on the foreign market This year's first Russian government borrowing in foreign currency on foreign markets was not only successful, but also precisely at the right moment. A month after the US “vegetarian” sanctions against Russian government debt, investors agreed to a moderate premium amid easing tensions.