The income of Russians in the second quarter increased by 6.8%. But two-year-old 2020-2021 they will finish at zero The next quarterly reporting of Rosstat showed the rapid growth of real disposable income of Russians by 6.8% in the second quarter of 2021. This event was predictable -it was from the second quarter that the effect of the low base came into effect: after all, the numbers are now compared with the collapsible pandemic second quarter of the 2020s.

Only employees vaccinated against the coronavirus will be able to work in Google offices. This was announced today by the head of the corporation Sundar Pichai. All employees who go to work in the company's offices, first in the US and then around the world, are required to be vaccinated. The exception will affect only people with confirmed contraindications.

Quotes of the service of additional language education Duolingo jumped sharply after the IPO on Nasdaq, writes Bloomberg. On the first day of trading after the placement, the company's stock quotes at their peak grew by 42%. At the same time, the final price of Duolingo's IPO turned out to be higher than the increased upper limit of the interval - $102 instead of $100, the agency writes.

The latest quarterly reports from Rosstat showed a rapid increase in real disposable income of Russians, by 6.8% in the second quarter of 2021. This event was predictable - it was from the second quarter that the low base effect came into play: after all, the numbers are now being compared with the collapse of the pandemic second quarter of 2020. In reality, Rosstat’s figures mean that Russians’ incomes are recovering quickly, but have still not reached the 2019 level.

In London, the process began on the lawsuit of three Russian billionaires at once - Mikhail Fridman, Roman Abramovich and Pyotr Aven - as well as Shalva Chigirinsky and the state company Rosneft, against the publisher of the book "Putin's People" HarperCollins Publishers. The author of the book is Catherine Belton, a former Financial Times journalist in Russia. Today, July 28, a preliminary hearing on the case began, which will last two days.

Global fast food giant McDonald's released a report with financial results for the second quarter that beat Wall Street's expectations. A collaboration with K-pop group BTS and a new chicken sandwich Crispy Chicken ensured success. Comparison of experts' expectations and McDonald's quarterly report results from CNBC. The company's revenue amounted to $5.89 billion instead of the projected $5.6 billion.

The police have completed the interrogation of The Insider editor-in-chief (according to the decision of the Ministry of Justice, included in the register of media outlets acting as a foreign agent) Roman Dobrokhotov, RIA Novosti reported. He remained as a witness. On Wednesday morning, the police came to Dobrokhotov's house with a search, seized media and his passport.

Payments of 10 thousand rubles for schoolchildren, which President Putin announced in his address to the Federal Assembly, will begin two weeks earlier than planned. Putin announced the transfer of payments forward today at a meeting on preparations for the new academic year with the participation of Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov and Minister of Labor Anton Kotyakov.

Second-tier quarterly reports, released on the same day as the tech giants' data , also point to a broad recovery, especially given the low "pandemic" base - but not without features. Biotech Pfizer raised its annual revenue forecast for its coronavirus vaccine from $26 billion to $33 billion. The forecast for total annual revenue increased to $78-80 billion from $70.5-72.5 billion.

The Kremlin fears that the victory of the German chancellor candidate from the Green Party, Annalena Burbock, will deal a powerful blow to Russia's global interests, told Bloomberg. Bloomberg interlocutors "familiar with the opinion of the Russian authorities" The Kremlin expects relations between the two countries to worsen if Burbock ascends to the chancellorship, the sources say. Management fears that this scenario will mean a "major victory" for the US, they said.

The collapse of the WeWork co-working network was one of the highlights of the venture capital boom of the 2010s. The company, pumped up with money from Japanese visionary Masayoshi Son and valuated at $47 billion, tried to go public in 2019, but failed and almost went bankrupt. Its founder, Adam Neumann, has become a symbol of a failed startup, and Son, who survived the dot-com collapse, was almost ruined by WeWork.

Yandex today reported a 70% year-on-year revenue growth in the second quarter of 2021. The turnover of Yandex.Market, on which the company makes a special bet, grew two and a half times, but the rapid growth of costs for this business hit the company's EBITDA as a whole, and adjusted net income in the second quarter was two times lower than in first.

Roskomnadzor sent a notification to Twitter demanding to block the account of a supporter of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol. “Not any single tweet, but the entire account. The notification came late last night. What is this if not the Kremlin’s hysteria before the elections?” Sobol wrote . The lawyer attached screenshots of the notification to the message.

S7 Airlines announced the launch of its own low-cost carrier - a new carrier of this type will be the second in Russia after Pobeda, reports . RIA Novosti The head of the board of directors of S7, Tatyana Fileva, said that the airline expects to start flying the new low-cost airline in July 2022. It will operate flights on A320 neo aircraft (capacity - up to 180 passengers). The first cars have already been contracted.

The largest cigarette manufacturers in Russia may stop production due to restrictions on the import of raw materials. The risks and concerns are outlined in a July 16 letter from the Executive Director of the Council for the Development of the Tobacco Industry, Eduard Vorontsov, to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. with the document got acquainted Kommersant .