Companions of the imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny published an investigation into the income and property of the alleged family of the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, who is again running for the State Duma in Saratov. The authors managed to find out that it was these people who received land in Moscow under an enterprise co-owned by Volodin and sold it for billions of rubles.

The largest taxi aggregator DIDI Chuxing for its audacity in relation to the state can be the main victim of this year The insufficient understanding of the DIDI taxi aggregator in conversations with Chinese regulators can cost its shareholders billions of dollars. The Chinese authorities are not going to limit themselves to minor repressions against the company, which disobedient not to conduct an IPO in the United States.

The biotechnological company Moderna is the brightest example of a business that managed to achieve success thanks to the pandemic. Only a year ago it was a loss -making company with ambitious technology, but without a single finished product. During this time, Moderna gained worldwide fame, and this week it was not just a part of the S&P 500 index, but did it at a high peak of quotes as the best company Wall Street with capitalization for $ 100 billion.

The Important Stories publication and its editor-in-chief Roman Anin were asked to be recognized as foreign agents - a former member of the POC, Alexander Ionov, filed a corresponding application with the Prosecutor General's Office. Ionov told TASS that he sent applications to Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Justice, and later to the prosecutor's office.

The government may launch a mechanism to limit the export of gasoline as early as next week - a decision will be made if stock prices for fuel remain at current record highs, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said.

Taxi aggregator Didi's lack of understanding in conversations with Chinese regulators could cost its shareholders billions of dollars. The Chinese authorities are not going to limit themselves to petty reprisals against a company that disobeyed the advice not to conduct an IPO in the United States.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and ARK Invest founder Katherine Wood spoke at The B Word Conference dedicated to the crypto market. After their statements, the bitcoin rate, which fell noticeably during the week, returned to the $32,000 mark, writes Bloomberg. Now bitcoin costs almost $31.9 thousand (+1.17%). The day before, the main cryptocurrency showed confident signs of recovery, recovering from the price drop below the psychological $30,000 mark.

The Russian ruble is the second most undervalued currency in the world with 59.9%, according to the Big Mac Index. Only the Lebanese pound is undervalued stronger than the Russian currency, by 70.2%. The results of the July study were published by The Economist, which has been calculating the Big Mac index since 1986. It compares the price of a burger in different countries and calculates the fair value of the US dollar based on this data.

A court in Moscow again fined Telegram and Facebook for refusing to remove prohibited information - this time the fines amounted to 11 million and 6 million rubles, respectively. The total amount of Facebook fines approached 50 million rubles. The magistrate of court district No. 422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow on Thursday fined Facebook 6 million rubles - the company was found guilty under two protocols of committing an offense under Part 2 of Art.

The Olympic Games starting in Tokyo are overgrown with new scandals: one of the organizers of the Games had to quit after a joke about the Holocaust came up. Dismissed from his post today was a member of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games - the creative director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics Kentaro Kobayashi.

In Moscow, revaccination against COVID-19 has started at all vaccination points, Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova announced. Vaccination is recommended to be done six months after receiving the first component of the vaccine. From July 22, one-component Sputnik Light or two-component Sputnik V can be vaccinated in all existing city vaccination centers. These are 119 clinics, 45 Healthy Moscow pavilions, My Documents public service centers and other popular public places, Rakova lists .

Wages at Russian construction sites are growing at an unprecedented pace, writes Vedomosti . The maximum growth is for tilers in Moscow and St. Petersburg: over five years, their salaries have grown by 82% and 80%, respectively. The publication provides statistics on the growth in income of working specialties: installers of ventilation and air conditioning systems (by 67% over five years), installers of external pipelines (+56%, Moscow), fitters and electricians (+56%, St. Petersburg), etc.

China has refused to cooperate with the World Health Organization on research into the possibility of a laboratory origin of the virus. The Chinese authorities explain that there is no evidence for such a theory and that it defies common sense. The coronavirus most likely originated in an animal that transmitted it to humans through another intermediate animal, a group of senior Chinese scientists insisted at a briefing in Beijing on Thursday.

The dispute between the Central Bank and banks over the regulation of ecosystems continued. If earlier there were pointed statements by representatives of Sberbank and VTB against the proposed measures, now the heads of the largest banks have united and wrote a letter to the chairman of the Central Bank, in which they criticized the restrictions proposed by the regulator.

The heads of the largest banks united against the approach of the Central Bank to ecosystems The Central Bank dispute with banks about the regulation of ecosystems received a continuation. If earlier the point statements of the representatives of Sberbank and VTB against the proposed measures sounded, now the heads of the largest banks united and wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Central Bank, in which the restrictions proposed by the regulator were criticized.