There are no questions for the effectiveness of the “satellite V” in Europe, but before autumn it will not be registered for sure The delay in the approval of the Russian Sputnik V Russian vaccine by the European EMA regulator is due to numerous gaps in the data provided by the Russian side, Reuters wrote today.

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko met in St. Petersburg. The negotiations went on for more than five hours. The main result for Belarus is the preservation of gas prices and the agreement on the “volume of credit support”. According to Putin 's press secretary Dmitry Peskov, the topic of sanctions pressure on Belarus was first touched upon. Separately, Lukashenka spoke about the opposition's pressure on government officials in the country.

The Moscow Department of Health published data on mortality from COVID-19 for June. In the first month of summer 2021, 16,271 people died in the capital, according to the agency. This is 24% more than in June last year - the increase in mortality amounted to 3145 cases. The authorities believe that the surge is due to two reasons: In June 2021, the peak incidence of COVID-19 was recorded.

Inflation in the US in June reached 5.4% in annual terms. This is noticeably more than forecasts, writes Bloomberg. In June, the consumer price index jumped by 0.9% versus May to 5.4% yoy. The same was the growth of core inflation, which reached 4.5% in annual terms. A third of the increase in consumer prices was provided by the rise in price of used cars. Bloomberg experts predicted growth of 0.5% in monthly terms and 4.9% in annual terms.

Tightening quarantine measures can become a “no alternative” way to fight the pandemic, commented the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov on the decision of the French authorities to strengthen measures for the unvaccinated: to ban entry to restaurants, hospitals and certain modes of transport. “So far, no decisions have been made in this regard,” Peskov said.

Anatoly Chubais, special presidential envoy for sustainable development and ex-head of the state corporation Rosnano, became a shareholder of AFK Sistema for the first time. He received a stake as a member of the company's board of directors. Chubais received 0.0038% of the ordinary shares of AFK Sistema (about 11.3 million rubles), said the report .

The French antitrust regulator fined Google €500 million. The company does not pay the media, but uses their headlines and article snippets in the Google News aggregator, the verdict says. The fine was imposed because Google failed to comply with several court orders issued last year, the regulator said in a statement. By law, the company was required to enter into an agreement with the media to pay for the placement of their content in Google News.

As China's leading taxi service, DiDi, deals with regulatory complaints, hundreds of competitors are trying to take over its customers, according to the FT. Discounts, additional benefits and bonuses for drivers for connection are used. Some of the competitors are indirectly supported by the state. Now cut off from new users, Didi accounts for 90% of all car bookings in China, and about 230 other apps are trying to snatch at least part of that share.

The delay in the approval of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine by the European regulator EMA is due to numerous gaps in the data provided by the Russian side, writes Reuters. Among them there are a number of "serious", but not "critical". Last month, Reuters wrote that another delay was caused by the failure of the Russian side to provide data from clinical trials by the June 10 deadline. In the current article, the agency argues that the problems run deeper.

As early as 2025, combustion-engine cars will be less profitable than electric vehicles, , told Thomas Ulbrich, head of development and electric mobility at Volkswagen the Financial Times. The reason is the stringent Euro-7 emission standards. “To the point where the profitability of electric vehicles equals that of internal combustion engines, then Euro 7 is a huge challenge for the entire automotive world,” Ulbrich said.

Low-cost airline Pobeda will increase ticket prices by at least 2% due to the rules for the medical examination of flight attendants that came into force in January, said Laszlo Szabo, director of service for the airline. By order of the Ministry of Health, from January 28, 2021, Russian flight attendants must undergo a special medical examination, including 30 different conclusions.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade may ask the regional authorities to shift the deadlines for mandatory vaccination or to waive fines for their failure, learned Kommersant . One of the reasons for the insufficiently rapid vaccination of the population is the lack of vaccines. Retail trade, not counting individual companies, does not have time to instill 60% of employees with at least one component in a timely manner, Kommersant writes. In 22 regions, this must be done on July 15-31.

The oil and gas sector gives only the order of the fifth of the Russian GDP. Another thing is budget income and especially exports, where this share exceeds half Rosstat first calculated the full share of the oil and gas sector in the Russian economy, including related industries, writes RBC. In 2020, at low oil prices, it amounted to 15.2%, in 2019 - 19.2%. In real terms, last year it is 16 trillion rubles. The indicator is 15–20% at the average INSTOMENT for large oil and gas countries.

The Central Bank asked banks and MFIs to restructure loans for flood victims in the Krasnodar Territory and Crimea, up to debt forgiveness, and not take this into account in the borrower's credit history, RBC reports citing a letter from the regulator.

The share of the oil and gas sector in Russia's GDP is in line with the world average for comparable countries, a study by Rosstat showed. Another thing is budget revenues and especially exports, where it exceeds half. What happened Rosstat for the first time calculated the total share of the oil and gas sector in the Russian economy, including related industries, writes RBC. In 2020, with low oil prices, it amounted to 15.2%, in 2019 - 19.2%.