Prices for electricity in Europe beat records, approaching the recession Maksym Shulha/Unsplash @ Electricity prices in Europe continue to set new maximums against the background of rising gas prices. Since June - that is, from the moment Gazprom limited the pumping by Northern Stream - the cost of gas has doubled.

The main topic for Russians in recent weeks is “visa aggravation” with the EU. It was initiated by the Baltic countries, which began to ban Russians from entering and are trying to achieve a pan-European ban on the issuance of Schengen tourist visas to Russian citizens. Let's figure out what will come of it. What's happened The politicians of the Baltic countries and Finland began to actively talk about the ban on entry into the EU for Russian citizens since the end of July.

Central banks in recent months are the main newsmakers in stock markets. And the price of their mistakes is extremely high: the increase in inflation to maximums from the 1980s can hit both in economics and markets. We tell you why the leading central banks abandoned the ideas of monetarism, which allowed to overcome inflation in the 1980s, and how they again become relevant. This material was written specifically for the weekly newsletter of Bell. Investments. Subscribe !

The goal of Russia's actions around the captured Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is its "annexation" and connection to the Russian energy system, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing expert opinions, interviews with Ukrainian nuclear power plant workers and its own analysis.

Wildberries changed its name to the Russian-language "Yagodki". The new name appeared on Monday in the header on the main page of the marketplace website. The company declined to answer The Bell's question about the reasons for the name change. Update Later, the Wildberries press service commented on the name change on the site: “We neither confirm nor deny a possible name change.

Oleg Deripaska filed a defamation suit for 2 billion rubles against Oleg Tinkov and the Meta company (recognized as extremist in Russia and banned). The complaint will be considered on August 16 by the Ust-Labinsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory. Deripaska's lawyer explained that the lawsuit was filed because of Tinkov's offensive statements on Instagram (part of the recognized extremist Meta).

In the US state of Delaware, where most startups are registered due to effective corporate legislation, companies with Russian roots are in great difficulty, The Bell learned. To open a startup in Delaware, the founders do not even need to live in the United States - in this case, companies are simply required to have a registered agent. But since spring, agents have refused to work with startups that have at least one Russian founder.

The Bell continues to conduct online, dedicated to the economic consequences of the "special military operation" in Ukraine, which began on February 24 SUPPORT THE BELL The war completely changed our lives. We have been writing about its consequences for each of us online since February 24. We have never taken money from readers for content, believing that we can earn money ourselves. But now our business model, like so much else in the economy, has collapsed. Help The Bell keep going!