Electric scooters rental services will have to prove vitality in conditions of hard restrictions Business for renting electric scooters will have to undergo a profitability check in a rather tight regulation. After scandals due to injuries, searches of the IC and a temporary ban on electric scooters, the company signed an agreement with the administration of St. Petersburg that regulates their work.

The media got the agreement of the authorities of St. Petersburg with kicksharing services (rental of electric scooters). The city intends to restrict services geographically and collect route data. But the most important thing is to oblige to reduce the speed of scooters, which can deprive kicksharing of economic sense. Information about the meeting of services with the authorities and the details of the agreement were published Forbes and vc.ru.

On June 2, the United States had to announce new sanctions against Russia for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. This has not yet happened: the upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin probably forced Joe Biden to transfer the deadline established by law. But in one form or another, even if formal, sanctions will be imposed.

The quotes of the main content provider Fastly, whose network error brought down a significant part of the news (and not only) the Internet the day before, jumped 11% after the incident, writes FT. Investors liked the company's quick and correct response - and how representative the list of its clients turned out to be. The growth of quotations of the hitherto little-known Fastly added $600 million to its capitalization. The company's valuation reached $6.5 billion.

Within the framework of the PMEF-2021, Bell.club Live organized the Business Leaders project: a series of video interviews at the Bank of non-core assets “Trust”. One of the guests was the president of Trust Alexander Sokolov. - You are a bank of non -core assets. In 2018, when you were created, you had 2 trillion rubles on the balance sheet. By 2024, your task is to return 480 billion. These figures are difficult to realize with the mind. - Yes. 482 billion, to be precise.

Joe Biden has rescinded former President Donald Trump's executive order to ban Tiktok and Wechat in the US. The document says that the US government's measures against foreign companies need to be reassessed.

The Moscow mayor's office is tightening social distancing measures - the city authorities have already asked Muscovites to limit contacts due to an increase in the incidence, and also threatened to renew fines for the lack of masks and gloves. Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova said that a lockdown in Moscow is not planned, but the authorities are asking Muscovites to strengthen compliance with anti-epidemic standards.

China's Producer Price Index (PPI) - a measure of changes in prices for goods and services at the wholesale level - hit a record high in almost 13 years in May due to a surge in commodity prices. Concerns about declining profitability of the global economy and pressure on Beijing to rein in prices are mounting, writes The Wall Street Journal. China's PPI rose 9.0% year on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

A new Bellingcat investigation alleges that the mysterious poisoning of prominent opposition poet and literary critic Dmitry Bykov in April 2019 correlates with the movements of groups of FSB agents. The latter are similar in terms of the patterns of activity of the intelligence agents who organized the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny with Novichok in 2020.

The ex-head of the Transfin-M leasing company, Dmitry Zotov, was again detained - a year after the first arrest and return to Russia. The businessman is included in the “Titov’s list”, which the Ombudsman compiled in order to help entrepreneurs who fell into disgrace and fled abroad to return to their homeland. The press service of the business ombudsman Boris Titov told RBC that Zotov was detained by investigators of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Samokat, a fast food and home goods delivery service, part of a joint venture between Sberbank and Mail.ru Group, plans to open up to 20 dark kitchens in Moscow and the regions this year. In Moscow, Samokat already has two test dark kitchens (“dark kitchen” is a restaurant where there are no visitors and food is prepared only for delivery).

Oil and gas company Shell will not wait for the outcome of the appeal and will comply with the decision of the Hague court to accelerate the reduction of emissions, writes the Financial Times, citing a statement from the company's management. What eco-activists expect from this decision, it still will not give, chief executive officer of the company Ben van Beurden warned.

Every fifth Russian would like to emigrate from Russia, according to a new study by the Levada Center (according to the decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice, it is included in the register of NGOs that act as foreign agents). The proportion of those expressing a desire to leave the country has grown markedly in recent years - as early as 2017, every sixth person would like to leave Russia forever.

Blogger Yuri Khovansky was detained on suspicion of promoting terrorism, according to the Investigative Committee, under this article he faces up to seven years in prison. A case was initiated against Khovansky under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism, from five to seven years in prison), according to a press release from the UK.

On the morning of June 9, the ruble strengthened against the dollar and the euro against the backdrop of rising oil prices and expectations of a decision by the Bank of Russia on the key rate. Analysts expect a rate hike up to 5.75%. By 10:23 Moscow time, the dollar exchange rate for the first time since July 28, 2020 fell below 72 rubles. The euro exchange rate at that time fell below 87.7 rubles. By 12.00 Moscow time, one dollar cost 72.1 rubles, one euro - 87.9 rubles.