The week ends, and the elections in Russia have just begun. For Runet, foreign IT giants and supporters of Alexei Navalny, they have already become a great test The main thing that these elections will be remembered is not their result, but the frantic activity that Roskomnadzor spread around them. For him, the elections began to test a good reason how locks in RuNet work.

The Dmitrov Pilot Plant for Aluminum and Composite Tape (DOZAKL), at whose facilities Natura Siberica produces more than 50% of all its products, terminated the contract with the company. In response, the cosmetic brand filed a lawsuit against the plant for 500 million rubles, writes Forbes. The plant terminated the lease agreement with the main legal entity Natura Siberica "First Solution" unilaterally on August 30.

Professor of the Department of Economic and Social Geography of Russia Geographical Faculty of Moscow State University Natalya Zubarevich is the author of “Theory of four Russia”, which explains why our country is divided into relatively developed cities and a backward province. Five years ago, Zubarevich predicted “internal emigration” and “postmodern authority” as the most likely ways of Russia's development. How can you influence the current development scenario?

The former owner of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, Dmitry Vasiliev, was arrested in Warsaw - he was placed in a pre-trial detention center back in August 2021, but the Polish newspaper Wyborcza first learned about this just now. The detention took place at the Warsaw airport on August 11, after which Vasiliev was arrested by the court for 40 days, writes Wyborcza. A BBC Russian Service source also confirms Vasiliev's arrest.

The Ministry of Finance thought about increasing the share of profits allocated by state-owned banks for dividends: the department noticed that since banks are building entire ecosystems and buying non-core assets, it means that they have enough financial resources.

In Russia, it is not so easy to pass on a fortune by inheritance. If we are talking about an apartment and a car, there will be no problems, but how to transfer a business or complexly structured assets? This summer, a law on personal funds for property and business management was passed. This is the first major succession planning event for complex and expensive assets in many years.

President Putin signed a decree on the payment of 50,000 rubles to “citizens of the Russian Federation who were awarded the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad” or the badge “Resident of besieged Leningrad.” The payment is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Road of Life. It is believed that the ice crossing to Leningrad, surrounded by Nazi troops, began working on November 22, 1941. in St.

The Navalny app with access to the electoral project of supporters of oppositionist Alexei Navalny was removed from Google Play for users in Russia after threats to open a criminal case against Google employees. This was told by sources close to the company The New York Times and Bloomberg . Members of the Federation Council announced the possibility of criminal prosecution of employees of the Russian offices of Google and Apple the day before, on September 16.

The energy crisis in Europe is taking over new sectors of the economy: the impact of high gas prices on the energy-intensive production of nitrogen fertilizers, for which it serves as both fuel and raw material, has already been noted. Potentially, this threatens to reduce physical supplies and increase food prices, writes Bloomberg.

The Central Bank sold 100% of the shares of the Asia-Pacific Bank (ATB) to the Kazakh company Pioneer Capital Invest LLP, reported . the press service of the regulator Promsvyazbank and Sovcombank took part in the auction, but the winner offered the highest price - 14 billion rubles. Ownership will pass to Pioneer Capital Invest by November. The company must transfer to the Central Bank a part of ATB's net profit for 9 months of 2021.

Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina expects inflation to peak this year "somewhere around 7%" and already in September - that is, it can still grow, she said in a long interview with RBC . after that, the Central Bank expects inflation to return to 4% in the second half of 2022. According to the chairman of the Central Bank, a new economic crisis does not threaten the world yet.

There are “small DDoS attacks” on the online voting portal, said Alexei Venediktov, head of the Public Headquarters for Election Observation in Moscow. Elections to the State Duma and to regional legislative bodies this year are held on September 17–19. “We have DDoS attacks going on at the same time, maybe not very huge, but nonetheless frontal,” Venediktov said ( quoted by RIA Novosti). On Friday, Moscow voters complained about problems with access to the e-voting portal.

Google and Apple have removed the Navalny app. It seems that this is not the main loss for Russian users After meeting with Russian parliamentarians on the first day of the election, Google and Apple removed the Navalny app from their stores, which allows you to find out an alternative candidate. At the same time, Apple probably disabled the powerful built-in anonymization service for its future OS in Russia.

After a meeting of representatives with Russian parliamentarians, Google and Apple removed the Navalny app from their stores, which allows them to recognize an alternative candidate in the State Duma elections that started today. More important for Russian users is that Apple seems to have disabled a powerful built-in anonymization service for its future OS in Russia.

Google and Apple have removed the Navalny app from their stores. This was reported by the Telegram channel "Team Navalny". The day before, on September 16, representatives of Google and Apple came to a meeting of the Federation Council Commission for the Protection of Sovereignty. Issues related to interference by American IT platforms in the elections to the State Duma were brought up for discussion.