The coup d'etat in Guinea was shocked by global aluminum markets: prices on the London metals exchange increased by 1.8%, to the maximum since May 2011. The overthrow of the president of Alfa Conde, who promised to become the “Guinean Mandelia,” but chose the path of rewriting the Constitution for the third presidential term, promises serious problems for UC Rusal, which owns the Guinea Boxito-Earth complex Friguia. In case of stopping it, the Russian company may lose a third of production.

The military coup in Guinelane made the world prices for aluminum jumped up and put UC Rusal indefinite position The coup d'etat in Guinea was shocked by global aluminum markets: prices on the London metals exchange increased by 1.8%, to the maximum since May 2011.

The Vulintertrade company, at the suit of which Google and Yandex were banned from displaying the phrase “Smart Voting”, is indirectly connected with the security forces, the found out . BBC As the BBC found out, Vulintertrade was originally recorded in Makhachkala under the name Regul.

The German authorities announced the activity of the hackers of the Ghostwriter group, behind which "the Russian state stands." The German Foreign Ministry demanded that Moscow "immediately put an end to this unacceptable hacker activity." The representative of the German Foreign Ministry, Andrea Sasse, said at a briefing that on the eve of the elections to the Bundestag in Germany, "attempts to gain access to personal data - primarily of deputies of the Bundestag and Landtags" began to be made.

"Yandex" expressed disagreement with the decision of the court, which on the eve banned showing the designation "Smart Voting" as one of the search keywords. The IT company intends to challenge the court decision. “We do not agree with the court’s ruling and will challenge the interim measures taken,” the Yandex press service said.

The theory of games in the economy is great for describing the policy pursued in the field of ecology of the European Union. European politicians managed to calculate how to make not only the state and business in the EU, but also companies and countries around the world follow the path of decarbonization, says Dmitry Stupan, the head of the practice of providing advice to PWC energy companies.

The scammers came up with a new scheme for extortion - they created a deepfake with Oleg Tinkov, where the "banker" offers to follow a link allegedly to the Tinkoff Investments website and leave their personal data. A representative of Tinkoff Bank told RBC that the attackers are spreading a fake video with Oleg Tinkov on social networks. In fact, such a video was not recorded, and it is a deepfake - the creation of an image using neural networks. the fake video .

Petersburg resident Ilya Pershin received three years in a penal colony in the case of the use of violence against a police officer at a rally on January 31. Witnesses said that an riot police officer slipped and fell, and the investigation insisted on inflicting several blows on him. Ilya Pershin, 27, was found guilty of using violence against a government official. The court established that on January 31, while taking part in a rally in the center of St.

The journalists of the Proekt publication (declared in Russia as an "undesirable organization" and banned) launched a new publication called Agency. The new project published the first investigation dedicated to "the second most popular official in the country after Vladimir Putin", Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Car sales in Russia fell by 17% in August, according to the Association of European Businesses (AEB). Analysts of the association expect that by the end of the year the gap between supply and demand in the car market will grow. In total, 114.1 thousand cars were sold on the Russian car market in August (-17% yoy). A month earlier, the market declined by 6.5% to 132.64 thousand cars.

When Russia first started to brand media outlets ‘foreign agents’ and ‘undesirable organizations’, the joke was that we would soon see ‘undesirable’ individuals’. Sadly, it wasn’t long before the joke became reality. The Russian Interior Ministry designated stand-up Belarusian comedian Idrak Mirzalizade ‘undesirable’ Monday and said he was barred from entering Russia for the rest of his life.

Our very own The Bell fell victim to an attack this week: first from hackers, then state propagandists. Russia’s leading cyber-security experts are investigating the cyber-intrusion on our website and we’ll share the results as soon as possible. Subscribers to The Bell’s daily Russian-language newsletter received an email Thursday that we did not write and did not send. The fake text said it was written by The Bell’s editorial board, and urged readers to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections.

Siberian sushi-delivery restaurant chain Yobidoyobi took down an advertisement with a black person this week after racist comments and threats from far-right hate group Male State — another example of Russian companies reversing progressive policies following pressure from activists. Yobidoyobi also issued a public apology. Yobidoyobi began receiving a flurry of messages last weekend that demanded the advertisement, which featured a black man surrounded by three Slavic-looking women, be pulled.

Belarusian opposition leaders Maxim Znak and Maria Kolesnikova were found guilty of conspiracy to seize state power. They received 10 and 11 years in prison, respectively. The Minsk Regional Court found Maria Kolesnikova and Maxim Znak guilty and sentenced them to 11 and 10 years in prison. Kolesnikova will serve her sentence in a general colony, Znak - enhanced regime.

The Agora human rights group launched the Agora.Business project aimed at protecting entrepreneurs in criminal cases.