On Sunday, Richard Branson will be the first billionaire in space. After 10 days, Jeff Bezos will follow him. Does space tourism have a prospect? The British businessman Richard Branson this Sunday will be serious competition for the final of the European Football Championship - the founder of Virgin Galactic will be the first billionaire in space, rising to an altitude of 80 km on board the VSS Unity's own missile system.

Mortality in Russia in June increased by 13.9% compared to June last year, said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova . According to her, this is due to the increase in the incidence of coronavirus, which has accelerated due to the Indian strain. In June 2020, according to Rosstat, almost 162.8 thousand people died in the country. This means that in June 2021, about 185 thousand died.

US President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin today, said the White House . One of the topics of conversation was the ongoing attacks by hacker groups that Washington associates with Russia. Biden spoke with Putin "about the ongoing ransomware attacks that are based in Russia," the report said. The President emphasized that Russia needs to take measures to curb the activities of these hacker groups, the White House added.

Yandex has announced that it is pulling out of a deal to buy an online clothing and footwear store KupiVIP. The reasons are not named. It is only noted that "the company is considering alternative exits to the fashion segment." The deal was announced back in May, its parameters were not disclosed. It was expected to close before the end of the second quarter after FAS approval, but the service never received a solicitation for a deal.

US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Friday restricting large tech companies from using non-competitive practices, reports The New York Times. According to the publication, the document is aimed at companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. IT giants are dominating by taking over smaller companies before they become serious competitors, as well as using accumulated consumer data, the decree says.

The volume of unauthorized transactions with the accounts of Russians in January-March 2021 increased to 2.87 billion rubles, which is 57% more than in the same period last year. These data are provided by the Central Bank. The number of thefts in the first quarter reached 237,000, an increase of 40%. The most massive channel for theft of money was remote banking systems: from January to March, 1.1 billion rubles were stolen using them (twice as much as a year earlier).

The European Commission found that automakers Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen colluded in the field of cleaning emissions from diesel engines of their cars. But only two of the three participants will be fined. BMW and Volkswagen will pay a fine of 875 million euros - 373 million and 502 million euros, respectively. Both amounts are relatively small compared to their 2020 earnings (5.2 billion euros and 10 billion euros).

Yandex has agreed with the administration of the Moscow region to open vaccination points for migrants, the company said. Foreign taxi drivers and couriers working in Yandex services, as well as Gett taxi drivers, will be able to take root. Vaccination points will work on the basis of several dozen polyclinics near Moscow. Taxi drivers and couriers will be vaccinated free of charge by Sputnik Light. The costs will be covered by Yandex.

If everything goes according to plan, on Sunday, July 11, a billionaire, businessman and aviation enthusiast Richard Branson will rise into space and land at the Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic travel airfield. The risk of the mission from a technical point of view is small, but there are questions to the business passes of the entire project (and wider-space suborbital tourism).

Tourists without a coronavirus vaccination will be able to check into hotels in the Krasnodar Territory with a negative PCR test, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev announced. However, they are then vaccinated on the spot within three days. The decision was made jointly with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.

The risk of illness and death from coronavirus for children and adolescents is indeed "extremely low", and new strains have not changed the situation, a large study in the UK has shown. The results of the study are provided by Bloomberg. Of the 469,982 people under 18 who fell ill in a year, 99.995% survived.

The State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) in August will extend the permission to use frequencies of 700 MHz, 800 MHz and 2.5-2.7 GHz for fourth-generation cellular networks (LTE) for another 10 years, Vedomosti reported with reference . to the commission's draft But for this, cellular companies will have to meet new requirements. The permit was issued in 2011 and expires on 8 September.

The new forecast for the Russian economy assumes that the effects of the pandemic have been overcome. He threatens to tighten the budget division The Russian economy has already reached pre-pandemic indicators, and by the end of 2021, it will more than compensate for the fall in 2020, despite new waves of morbidity, the Ministry of Economic Development expects. This follows from the tentative version of the new macro forecast until 2024 sent to the regions.

World food prices in June fell for the first time in 12 months, according to a review by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). The average value of the food price index (FAO Food Price Index, FFPI) was 124.6 points last month. This is 2.5% less than in May, but still almost 34% higher than the June 2020 figure, follows from the report.

The Russian economy has already reached pre-pandemic levels, and by the end of 2021, it will more than compensate for the fall in 2020, despite new waves of morbidity, the Ministry of Economic Development now expects. What happened The Ministry of Economic Development sent to the regions indicative figures from the new macro forecast until 2024 for budget planning, and Kommersant and RBC got acquainted with them .