Inflation in Russia will return to 4% no earlier than in a year Inflation in Russia will return to the target indicator of 4% no earlier than a year later, he warned the Central Bank. In May, the increase in prices in Russia exceeded 6%, and in certain regions - reached 8%. The food has risen in price most of all, but the prices for non -food are growing faster than inflation.

Yandex plans to launch loan products within its ecosystem as early as 2022, RBC writes , citing a VTB Capital review following meetings with investors. In the Internet giant, the timing of the launch of financial services has not yet been announced. Yandex intends to start pilot projects in the third quarter of 2021, VTB Capital reported. In particular, we are talking about services within the Yandex.Plus program, as well as low-risk products related to e-commerce.

US National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have found evidence of coronavirus infection in five states earlier than originally reported. The results of a new study support the version that the virus that causes COVID-19 appeared in the United States in December 2019. As part of a large-scale study, scientists analyzed more than 24 thousand blood samples taken between January 2 and March 18, 2020.

Annual inflation, which in May exceeded 6% for the first time in five years, will return to the target 4% only in the second half of next year, the Central Bank believes. The current acceleration of inflation indicates the formation of a steady pressure on prices due to the fact that the increase in demand outstrips the possibility of expanding supply and it is easier for enterprises to transfer the increase in costs to selling prices, the report of the Central Bank says.

After pressuring independent media and supporters of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, the Russian authorities appear to be turning their fire on social media influencers. In the space of a few days last week, Russia’s most popular YouTube star, Yuri Dud, was charged with promoting drug use, while blogger and comedian Yuri Khovansky was arrested for ‘justifying terrorism’.

The ‘Russian Google’ might be turning into the ‘Russian Amazon’. Last week it emerged that IT giant Yandex was in talks to buy premium grocery store chain Azbuka Vkusa, which is a symbol of affluent Moscow living. It was The Bell that first reported Yandex’s flirtation with offline retail, a move that market insiders compared to Amazon’s 2017 purchase of grocery store chain Whole Foods. There is some truth to comparisons between Yandex and Google.

Investigative outlet Bellingcat published a long article Wednesday about the previously unknown activities of a group of Russian intelligence officers who poisoned Navalny last year. This time, their target was not a politician but poet Dmitry Bykov, who is well-known for criticizing the authorities. The most surprising thing was not the attempted poisoning (sadly, that’s no longer a surprise to anyone) but the choice of victim.

UC Rusal has applied to buy back shares of Norilsk Nickel in order to raise funding for its investment program. As a result, Norilsk Nickel shareholders, despite the reduction of the company's dividends for 2020, will be able to receive payments close to dividends for the previous year. Aktivium, through which UC Rusal owns more than 44 million, or about 27.82% of the shares of Norilsk Nickel, presented its entire package for redemption, said UC Rusal in a statement.

The State Duma Commission on Foreign Intervention sent to the "competent authorities" data on foreign funding for the Mediazona publication, reports TASS . A foundation allegedly associated with Yevgeny Prigozhin addressed the deputies with a demand to recognize the publication as a foreign agent.

modern internet as an NFT commodity World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee is selling the source code used to build the . The sale will go through the auction house Sotheby's, and the proceeds will be used for purposes chosen by the programmer and his wife, according to Sotheby's. In total, the files for sale are almost 10,000 lines of code.

The price of the Russian Urals oil brand crossed $70 per barrel at auction for the first time since May 2019, Argus reported. A year ago, at the height of the coronavirus panic and the oil war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, the price of physical Russian oil went into negative territory.

Russian businessmen should be ready to invest in accordance with the priorities of the state, the richest man in the country, the owner of Severstal, Alexei Mordashov, said in an interview with FT . Mordashov thus responded in absentia to Putin’s statement, who advised metallurgists at the SPIEF “not to be offended” by the idea of ​​First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov to withdraw 100 billion rubles from them, and his criticism of the withdrawal of dividends abroad.

Vladimir Putin extended until September 30, 2021, the period of preferential stay of migrants in Russia - in April, the Ministry of Internal Affairs threatened with mass deportation of all those who did not leave before the summer themselves. The period of stay of migrants in the country has been extended until September 30 - before that it ended on June 15.

The number of detected cases of COVID-19 infection in Moscow in recent days has increased by 80%, hospitalizations of severe patients by 70%, said the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin. Last Saturday, it was decided to extend non-working days until June 20. “In recent days, we have seen an explosive growth in the diagnosis of covid - about 80%, and the admission of seriously ill patients to hospitals in Moscow has increased by 70%,” said Sobyanin .

Hello! This week our top story is about the legal troubles facing two major YouTube bloggers — the widely popular Yuri Dud and formerly influential Yuri Khovansky. We also look at how IT giant Yandex is looking to break into the online grocery store business , and why Russian intelligence officers reportedly attempted to poison one of the country’s leading poets and literary critics.