Elections to the State Duma - in a week: what results to wait, what the authorities came up with and what does the economy have to do with it A week remains before the elections to the State Duma. We tell the main thing that you need to know about them: what the United Russia is counting on and what they demand from it, how the authorities have cleaned the political field and what innovations do they use to get the desired result.

Vladimir Putin appointed Colonel-General of the Internal Service Alexander Chupriyan as acting head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations - he was the first deputy of the deceased Minister of Emergency Situations Yevgeny Zinichev. The fact that Chupriyan may be appointed to temporarily head the department was previously reported by a RBC source. Chupriyan is 63 years old.

Rosstat slightly adjusted GDP for the second quarter: according to updated estimates of the department, the Russian economy over this period grew not by 10.3%, but by 10.5%. This is a record high since 2000. Rosstat explained the increase in the indicator by “refining the primary statistical reporting submitted by enterprises and obtaining data from the Bank of Russia.” Compared to the first quarter of this year, the Russian economy grew by 8.6% in the second quarter.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs estimated the preliminary damage from the work of the Finiko financial pyramid at 1 billion rubles. Only officially registered more than three thousand applications from victims from Russia and a number of other countries.

The key rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation may rise above 7%, the chairman of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, admitted. To return to the inflation target of 4%, several more key rate increases may be needed, Nabiullina said at a press conference: “We signaled that the situation may develop in such a way that more than one rate increase will be needed. This means that the key rate may be higher than 7%.

The Central Bank decided to raise the key rate by 25 bp to 6.75% per annum – the regulator has raised the rate for the fifth time in a row. The Central Bank continued the cycle of tightening monetary policy and raised the key rate by another 0.25 percentage points. - from 6.5% to 6.75%, the regulator said in a statement. Inflation is above the forecast, and its deviation from the target of 4% may be longer than expected, the Central Bank explains its decision.

Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina has been sentenced to one year in prison on a "sanitary case". This was reported by the human rights association "Apology of Protest" with reference to the lawyer Daniil Berman.

In 2020, the number of attacks of incometus programs to business increased by 150% . Already in the first half of 2021, different studies indicate double growth compared to last year. Schifovalmate viruses-Ransomware-penetrate the network of companies, encrypt all available data, which leads to a complete or partial stop of business, and then require a redemption for decoding. We decided to figure out what is happening.

Gazprom announced the completion of the construction of Nord Stream 2, which began in 2018. For gas supplies, the project has yet to be approved by the intra-European gas market. “At a morning operational meeting at PJSC Gazprom, Chairman of the Board Alexei Miller said that this morning at 8.45 Moscow time, the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has been fully completed,” the corporation’s Telegram channel .

Against the background of a renewed increase in the incidence of COVID-19, US President Joe Biden announced mandatory vaccination for companies with more than 100 employees, medical staff and federal employees. The new measures will affect about 100 million Americans, or two-thirds of the country's entire workforce. Not everyone is happy about this, but for Biden, such a move may be the only winning one. What Biden announced “I want to say to unvaccinated Americans this: what else to expect?

Roskomnadzor has warned state-owned companies that it will test blocking some foreign Internet protocols in September, reports Kommersant . They hide the site name and can make it difficult to block access to resources banned in Russia. We are talking about Google DNS servers, Cloudflare (provides protection for web portals) and the DoH service that Mozilla and Google are implementing, the newspaper writes.

The Tville chain of stores took everything from the pandemic: having launched its own delivery at the end of 2019, the company approached the most online money in the history of online services fully armed. In less than two years, Vastiville became a leader in the growth rate of products in Russia and number three in terms of online sales after x5 and Sbermarket.

Biden announced mandatory vaccination for 100 million Americans Against the backdrop of the resumed incidence of Covid-19, US President Joe Biden announced mandatory vaccination for companies with a state of more than 100 people, medical staff and federal employees. New measures will affect about 100 million Americans, or two -thirds of the entire labor force of the country. Not everything is happy about this, but for Bayden such a move may be the only winning.

Amazon, founded by the world's richest billionaire Jeff Bezos according to Forbes , is ready to pay for undergraduate education for more than 750,000 of its employees in the United States. So the global online trading giant expects to attract tens of thousands of new workers with hourly wages in the face of fierce competition in the US market, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Created by the founder of the cosmetic company Faberlic, Alexei Nechaev, the New People party is the main intrigue of the September elections to the State Duma. Nechaev’s system-liberal party became the only 2020 Kremlin call shot among the “small parties”, and this week, VTsIOM announced that the “new people” were gaining 5% of the votes necessary for getting to the Duma.