Angel Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, after the success of the Geneva meeting, decided to revive the Russia -Es summits The success of the meeting of Vladimir Putin with Joe Biden, it seems, can help Russia in overcoming international isolation - if, of course, she wants it. As FT found out today, now European leaders thought about meeting with Putin - according to the publication, Angel Merkel and Emmanuel Macron want to organize the Russia summit with Putin's participation.

The largest Lego toy company in the world in terms of revenue (almost 6 billion euros) has found a recipe for “green” cubes made from recycled plastic, which are equal in strength with conventional elements, writes the Financial Times. Lego will use polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic from bottles - several 2 by 4 cubes are obtained from a liter bottle.

Moscow restaurateurs, who are expecting a reduction in attendance by an order of magnitude from June 28 due to the anti-pandemic measures of the authorities of the capital, have proposed to weaken them, writes RBC.

EU leaders are changing their approach to relations with Russia after a personal meeting between President Putin and US President Joe Biden in Geneva, writes FT. Inviting the Russian president to a summit with EU leaders no longer looks impossible. According to the newspaper, the proposal to invite Putin to the meeting was made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and she was supported in this by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Following Moscow, a system of QR codes for visiting bars and restaurants was introduced by the authorities of the Moscow region - the rule will also work from June 28. At the same time, regional authorities also intend to prohibit the accommodation of unvaccinated people in hotels. Governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov signed a resolution according to which a system of QR codes for visiting catering establishments will be introduced in the Moscow region from June 28.

Yandex is vaccinating drivers and couriers of its services (Yandex Go, Food, Lavka, Market, and Delivery) in Moscow at special coronavirus vaccination points based at Moscow taxi fleets and courier centers. The points will be mobile in order to cover the entire city as much as possible. Seven vaccination points opened on June 23, the company said (on Dorozhnaya, Aviamotornaya, Melitopolskaya, Bolshaya Tatarskaya streets, in Likhachevsky lane, Ogorodny and Tyumensky passages).

The Moscow City Court ruled that members of the FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation, recognized in Russia as an NPO-foreign agent and an extremist organization) used Nazi symbols. According to the human rights organization "Team 29", which published the reasoning of the decision, the prosecutor's office was unable to prove their involvement in the fund.

The ex-wife of billionaire Oleg Deripaska, Polina Yumasheva, is ready to sell her stake in En + to the Mubadala fund from Abu Dhabi, Bloomberg learned. The deal is valued at $200 million. Yumasheva is negotiating with the sovereign fund Mubadala Investment Co. on the sale of part of its stake in the energy and aluminum company En+ Group.

The British Ministry of Defense has circulated its version of today's incident with the HMS Defender URO destroyer in the Black Sea near Crimea. It is fundamentally at odds with the version of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The press service of the British War Office writes that: no warning shots were fired at the British Navy ship.

When a participant in a sociological survey is asked to evaluate whether the country is moving in the right direction, what factors he takes into account? Student NIU HSE Kira Silvestrovich found an unexpected answer to this question. We publish the text that she prepared on the course "Economics of Natural Resources" in a joint bachelor's Bachelor Rash and NRU HSE.

Legendary financier Warren Buffett has stepped down as a trustee of the world's largest philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMG). The fund's trustees included only three people - Bill and Melinda Gates (who announced their divorce in early May) and Buffett. “For many years I was a trustee (and a non-executive one) of BMG, the only organization to which I donated money.

The first Russian region announced a new lockdown - Buryatia closes all enterprises in the region for two weeks, except for life-supporting services and grocery stores. From June 27 to July 11, a regime of non-working days is introduced in Buryatia.

WHO has checked four Russian enterprises that produce the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. According to preliminary results, violations were found at the Pharmstandard-UfaVITA site in Ufa, says .

In the Black Sea, a Russian warship fired warning shots at a British destroyer that violated the state border near Crimea, and then a Su-24M bomber dropped bombs in its course, the Russian Defense Ministry said on June 23.

Almost every second Russian (49%) has a positive attitude towards the decision of the authorities of Moscow and the region on mandatory vaccination of part of the working population, follows from the data of the VTsIOM survey. 30% of respondents are negative about the decision, 16% of respondents are indifferent to it. Among the residents of Moscow and St.