The actress and producer Reese Witherspoon sold Hello Sunshine for $ 900 million: she found two successful growth points at once Contrary to the doubts of the skeptics, the actress and producer Reese Witherspoon really managed to sell his company Hello Sunshine for almost a billion dollars-for $ 900 million. The buyer has become a new company that former top managers of Disney create with the money of one of the world's largest investment funds Blackstone.

The court released the top manager of a major distributor of computer equipment Merlion and former vice-president of Euroset Boris Levin from a pre-trial detention center, changing the preventive measure to house arrest until August 6, his lawyers said. He was the last of the four defendants in the case to be released from custody.

A bus carrying Russian tourists overturned in the Turkish province of Antalya. According to CNN Turk, three people died. The information about the Russians on the bus was confirmed by Intourist. At the D-400 junction near the resort town of Manavgat, a tourist bus with Russian tourists first crashed into a barrier, and then rolled over, moving into the oncoming lane, the newspaper writes. A large number of ambulances and police were sent to the scene.

Contrary to the doubts of skeptics, actress and producer Reese Witherspoon really managed to sell her Hello Sunshine company for almost a billion dollars - for $ 900 million. The buyer was a new company that former Disney top managers create with money from one of the world's largest investment funds Blackstone. It will specialize in the production of content for streaming services, and Witherspoon will receive a stake in it. What's happened?

The current economic model of Russia has exhausted itself, said the head of the Accounts Chamber (CA) Alexei Kudrin in an interview with RBC. According to him, for the development of the country it is necessary to create "breakthrough new products." Kudrin noted that economic growth rates have been rather low in recent years on average - according to Rosstat, the average annual growth of real GDP in 2013-2020 was only about 0.5%.

Despite the agreement concluded with the United States, the German authorities are not going to block Nord Stream 2 if Russia tries to use it as a geopolitical weapon, Bloomberg writes , citing unnamed officials in Berlin. According to the interlocutors of the publication, instead of blocking the gas pipeline, the German government will focus on broader sanctions from the European Union.

The struggle of developed countries with global warming is under threat because of the poor countries of Africa and Asia: their economies are simply not able to abandon coal and gasoline cars, writes Bloomberg. The average global temperature has already risen by 1.2ºC this year, and the effects of extreme weather events are being felt across the globe from Canada to China. According to the nonprofit organization Climate Action Tracker, the world could "warm up" by 2.4°C by 2100.

Investment bank Goldman Sachs is one of the latest, but still will increase the salaries of junior staff, according to the Financial Times. This is a response to employee burnout, which has seen an M&A boom during the pandemic. According to the interlocutors of the newspaper, the minimum wage for analysts who work at Goldman Sachs for less than a year will be $110,000 per year, in the second year of work - $125,000. Colleagues one step up the career ladder will receive $150,000.

Advertising of the Tville store chain, conceived as support for the LGBT community, turned into a large reputation scandal for the brand. The co -founder of the Cooperative Cooperative Cooperative project, Artem Temirov, decided to rehabilitate the idea and launched his own campaign with the same message.

Belarusian track and field athlete Kristina Timanovskaya decided to stay under guard at the Polish Embassy in Tokyo - later she will fly to Warsaw on a humanitarian visa, where the authorities are preparing political asylum for her. A Belarusian Olympic athlete received a humanitarian visa to Poland after Belarusian authorities tried to smuggle her out of Japan without her consent following her criticism of the country's sports officials.

Ethan Brown, founder of the world's largest plant-based meat substitute company Beyond Meat, sees a tax on animal-sourced meat as useful. In this way, consumers can be switched to a product that is less harmful to the planet. the BBC about the meat tax Brown told - according to his idea, the mechanism should be Pigouvian , essentially similar to the carbon tax.

The total fortune of Russian billionaires included in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index grew by almost $40 billion in January-July 2021. Only the five richest Russians decreased their fortune. Calculations based on the index are given by RBC.

Medical institutions will no longer fine for the use of drugs purchased by patients or "other organizations", which is extremely important for people with rare diseases. The order can be found on the portal of regulatory legal acts. According to Kommersant , the Ministry of Health has amended the rules of compulsory medical insurance.

The Bell published an investigation in Russian last week detailing how part of Russia’s financial system profits from the transfer abroad of earnings from illegal online casinos and bookmakers. Below we have a summary of the findings in English. How Russia cracked down on gambling There’s an old saying: ‘What kind of Russian doesn’t like driving fast?’ and, for many Russians, risk appetites are high.

Prominent investigative outlet The Insider appeared this week to be the latest target for officials in an ongoing crackdown on independent media. Editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov was briefly detained Wednesday as part of a defamation case brought by controversial Dutch blogger Max van der Werff .