Biden officially began the war against the techno -giants. How does they threaten this? The main theme of the weekend in the United States was the radical antimonopoly decree of Joe Biden, designed to destroy the oligopolia of the technohigant - Facebook, Google, Amazon and others.

France introduces mandatory vaccination of medical personnel and a number of other categories of workers, and from August only those vaccinated or those with a negative test for coronavirus will be allowed into institutions and certain types of transport, announced . President Emmanuel Macron Verification of compliance with the mandatory vaccination requirement, including administrative penalties, will begin on September 15, Macron said.

The site stopkoronavirus.rf, which publishes daily statistics on the spread of COVID-19 in Russia, has lost data on active cases of the disease. attention to this RBC drew . The developers of the site explained the removal of the column by misinterpreting the data by some media. Data on active patients was last published on stopcoronavirus.rf on July 8, RBC notes. The cached copies of the site stored in the web archive dated July 9, 10 and 11 no longer have this data.

Thousands of Cuban inhabitants reached the largest anti-government protests since the 1990s. The main reason for rallies that have become a rarity for a country with a depressed opposition was an economic crisis aggravated by pandemia. We tell you what is happening. What happened Sunday protests took place in several Cuban cities, including Havana.

President Vladimir Putin wrote an article about the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians, which he promised during the direct line. It was published on the Kremlin website in Russian and Ukrainian. “Recently, answering a question about Russian-Ukrainian relations during a direct line, I said that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, a single whole. These words are not a tribute to some conjuncture, current political circumstances.

Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called space exploration an "expensive" and "capital-intensive" process, which is practically impossible without the leading role of the state. The day before, the general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, called on Russian billionaires to invest in space technology, following the example of foreign businessmen.

Apple has entered into a deal with AR Content production studio Alexander Rodnyansky, the producer of the Oscar-nominated films Leviathan and Loveless. The contract provides for the right of first choice, that is, AR Content must now first of all offer all its projects to the Apple TV + video service. Rodnyansky told Variety that although Apple has signed a contract with the US subsidiary of AR Content, the company is primarily interested in projects created in Russia.

The main topic of the weekend in the US was Joe Biden's radical antitrust executive order , designed to destroy the oligopoly of tech giants - Facebook, Google, Amazon and others. The document does not have the force of law, but if it is actively enforced, it will not only make it more difficult for tech giants to clean up the market from potential competitors, but it could also serve as a pretext for lawsuits to split Amazon and Facebook.

Social media went into a meltdown this week when supermarket chain VkusVill launched — and then suppressed — an ad campaign involving a homosexual couple. Vkusvill suffered significant reputational damage in what was the first major LGBT+ scandal to engulf a top Russian company. VkusVill is a successful Moscow food retailer that is somewhat comparable to U.S. chain Whole Foods.

After a raid on the ‘superprofits’ of metals companies, Russian officials are now looking at new taxes: one on the middle class, and another on high earners. The two levies being considered could bring in as much as 200 billion rubles ($2.7 billion) a year to the state's coffers, according to media reports Thursday.

The withdrawal of U.S. forces appears to have reignited Afghanistan's civil war and could even return the Taliban to power — but the Kremlin has prepared for such an eventuality by cultivating a relationship with the Taliban. The arrival of a Taliban delegation in Moscow for talks Thursday could hardly be more serious, but Russian laws requiring the media to use formal labels like ‘terrorist’ and ‘extremist’ in their reporting turned the visit into something of a joke.

Shell's trading subsidiary, Shell Eastern Trading, has signed a five-year agreement to supply PetroChina with zero CO₂ liquefied natural gas (LNG). This is the world's first fixed-term contract for such supplies. Carbon neutrality will be achieved through "high-quality carbon credits," the company explained. Such loans suggest that companies, by buying them, can thereby conditionally offset part of their harmful emissions.

The level of optimism in Russian business during the pandemic is growing more slowly than in other countries, according to a study by the international audit and consulting network Grant Thornton, RBC reports . In Russia, at the same time, the maximum number of respondents who are neutral about the prospects for the domestic economy was noted. Among those surveyed in May-June 2021, 28% of business leaders positively assessed the near future of the Russian economy.

Chinese ByteDance, which owns video service TikTok, has postponed plans to go public indefinitely, has learned The Wall Street Journal . This comes after local officials urged the company to focus on addressing data security risks. As part of the latest round of financing in December, ByteDance was valued at about $180 billion - the company was considering an initial public offering in the United States or Hong Kong, the newspaper's interlocutors said.

In July, Yandex finally launched a scooter rental service. The first rumors about work on him appeared back in 2019, when the prospects of such an undertaking in Russia were not quite obvious. By 2021, the market managed to take shape, and there are already obvious leaders on it. What can Yandex contrast them with - in addition to the money that not everyone decides in this business?