The Moscow authorities have adopted a program to encourage the vaccination of the capital's businesses. The first 100 enterprises, organizations and individual entrepreneurs that meet the vaccination requirement for 60% of their employees will receive grants in the amount of 100% of the personal income tax paid by the company for employees in the previous 12 months, but not more than 5 million rubles. This is stated on the website of Sergei Sobyanin.

A Russian-linked hacker group has attacked about 200 businesses, Bloomberg writes , citing Huntress Labs data. According to the publication, most of the targets of hackers are companies that provide IT support to small and medium-sized businesses. All attacks were carried out in order to obtain a ransom, writes Bloomberg. In case of non-payment, attackers can gain access to the data of the companies' customers. Among those affected by the hack is Synnex Corp. and Avtex.

The China Cyberspace Administration (CAC) launched an investigation into the largest taxi service, Didi, which led to a sharp drop in the company's shares, which raised more than $ 4 billion in an IPO in New York just a few days ago. The Chinese regulator announced the investigation Friday night, two days after the company's New York Stock Exchange IPO, in which it raised more than $4 billion, the largest US offering by a Chinese company since Alibaba's record $25 billion listing in 2014.

In the draft US defense budget for fiscal year 2022, prepared by the House of Representatives, there were no new sanctions against Russia, writes RBC. The current draft was the first in several years that does not contain restrictive measures against Russia. The document only contains a ban on cooperation with Rosoboronexport, but this company has long been included in the US sanctions list.

Russia bought 160,000 unused doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from Slovakia out of the 200,000 delivered, said . Zuzana Eliashova, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health, According to the minister, the cost of one dose was $9.95 - at the same price Russia sold the drug to Slovakia. Slovakia became the second EU member to approve the use of the Russian vaccine. The scope of the agreement is 2 million doses.