The State Duma at the end of the coming week, July 15, plans to meet for an extraordinary plenary session to consider "urgent issues" and "government initiatives." Which ones, the lower house of parliament did not specify. On July 6, the spring session of the State Duma ended and the deputies went on vacation.

The French government is preparing for a complete halt to Russian gas supplies, said French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Sunday. According to him, the authorities consider a complete cessation of supplies as the most likely scenario. “I think a complete shutdown of Russian gas supplies is a real possibility ... and we need to prepare for this scenario,” he said.

The topic of release is how VK is trying to become a service, which cannot be dispensed with @ rypto-crow/pexels In recent months, most of the Russian IT companies have been in a crisis-but it seems not VK. The group beats the audience records, selects advertising income from blocked competitors and “import substitutions” for the state important IT platforms. And VK also claims to almost all major Internet acts for sale. We tell how VK is trying to turn into the main IT company of Russia.

Oleg Tinkov spoke about his state of health two years after a bone marrow transplant (in 2019, the businessman was diagnosed with leukemia). “The other day I received another molecular test - a complete remission. There is GVHD of the eye, but this is a price for remission. Thank God for everything,” he wrote on social networks. GVHD is graft-versus-host disease. Tinkov talked about this consequence of the disease in a recent interview with Yuri Dud (recognized as a foreign agent).

EU countries are working to tighten control over compliance with sanctions against Russia, writes WSJ. Now problems arise due to different interpretations of the imposed restrictions by the national authorities and due to the lack of a single supervisory body. The most difficult to enforce were sanctions involving the identification and freezing of assets owned by Russian oligarchs and companies, the newspaper notes.

The fight for one of the largest Russian online movie theaters ivi is escalating. In addition to MTS, VK and Rostelecom claim to purchase the asset, The Bell found out. Almost all major players who have their own online movie theaters or interest in this market are interested in buying ivi, The Bell interlocutors say. What's happened? The fact that ivi shareholders are looking for a buyer for their asset was reported in the media in mid-May.

US President Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia next week. He has already stated that he is not going to specifically ask King Salman or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom the US believes were directly involved in the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, to increase oil production.