Singapore startup GrabTaxi has reached more cities in Southeast Asia than Uber and is winning the battle for passengers / GrabTaxi Uber Technologies has long been locked in a fierce battle with local rivals in the Chinese and Indian markets, and now risks losing ground to a local newcomer in another key region of Asia.

In June, China's Lenovo unveiled prototypes of two futuristic devices - the CPlus phone, which features a flexible body, and the Folio tablet / Lenovo Mobile phone designers have become fixated on black rectangular cases, with new models coming out year after year that are almost indistinguishable from one another.

French telecommunications group Iliad said it has signed an agreement with Vimpelcom Ltd. and Hutchison to purchase part of their assets. The agreement must be approved by the European Commission, as well as the deal between Vimpelcom and Hutchison, the company said in a statement. The acquired set of assets will allow Iliad Group to become the fourth cellular network operating throughout Italy.

Irina Tyurina, press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RUTI), stated that charter flights to Turkey will not be resumed in the coming days, since the government has not yet issued a decree lifting the ban on this type of flight, Interfax reports. Earlier, the Turkish aviation authorities officially announced that the first charter flights from Russia would begin on July 7. This concerned Azur Air flights from several Russian cities.

By 8.30 am, September Brent oil futures were trading on the London ICE Futures exchange at $49.07 per barrel. By this time, the price for August futures for WTI in New York was at $47.71 per barrel. Oil prices are rising after the publication of data from the American Petroleum Institute that US oil reserves fell by 6.7 million barrels last week, reports Interfax . Official stock data will be published on Thursday. Market participants expect this figure to decline.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia intends to check the validity of the increase in communications tariffs if operators explain their increase by compliance with the laws of the "Yarovaya package", TASS reports with reference to a statement by the head of the FAS Department for Regulation of Communications and Information Technology Elena Zaeva. "If there is a price increase, we will investigate it.

The first charter flights to Turkey from St. Petersburg and other regions have been cancelled. This was announced in the Anex Tour, Fontanka reports . The company scheduled the first charter flight for July 7. Tickets from St. Petersburg for this day were sold out in a few hours. But the tour operator and air carrier Azur Aur did not receive permission to fly from the Federal Air Transport Agency.

Skolkovo resident VisionLabs develops software and cloud services in the field of computer vision and machine learning. VisionLabs' flagship product is the LUNA face recognition platform, which analyzes photos and videos online and compares them with databases. Based on this solution, there is also a cloud service Face_IS, which is addressed to commercial clients, including banks and retail companies.

The Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the new Soyuz MS manned spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station (ISS) at 4:36 Moscow time. Roscosmos and NASA broadcast the event . On board the ship are the commander, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and NASA astronaut, biologist specializing in cancer biology and molecular biology, Kathleen Rubins.

Ella Pamfilova “I would like <...> that on the last day of submitting documents there would not be hours-long queues and there would not be unnecessary problems for anyone.” The Chairperson of the Central Election Commission reminded party members that the deadline for submitting lists of candidates for the State Duma to the Central Election Commission for certification expires at midnight on July 13.

07 July 2016, 17:40 / Auto AvtoVAZ sales decreased by 15.8% in June Vedomosti Sales of AvtoVAZ OJSC in Russia in June 2016 decreased by 15.8% compared to the same month in 2015, to 22,229 vehicles, according to the company’s statement. Earlier on the topic: AvtoVAZ met without Ghosn and Chemezov In the first half of 2016, 124,353 Lada cars were sold in Russia, which is 11.6% lower than the same period in 2015.

Official statistics characterizing the current state of the Russian economy can hardly be called optimistic. According to Rosstat, in the first quarter the rate of decline of the Russian economy was 1.2% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, real disposable income of the population during the same period fell by 3.7%, real accrued wages - by 0.6% in similar terms . Retail turnover decreased by 5.4%.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow recognized the requirement of employers that applicants have no bad habits and the dissemination of such information on the Internet as discrimination. This was reported to TASS by a court representative. In particular, the magistrate found the owner and moderator of the Avito website to be a violator . The court was considering a case of an administrative offense, which was brought by the department of the State Employment Service of the Rostov Region.

07 July 2016, 20:09 / Business Eight airlines are preparing to launch US-Cuba flights Vedomosti Eight US airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Continental, will receive permission to operate up to 20 daily flights from US territory to Havana this fall, MarketWatch reports, citing a statement by US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The first flights could take place as early as the end of 2016.

07 July 2016, 15:33 / Politics / News Moscow may sue the EBRD for freezing its activities in Russia - Interfax undefined Vedomosti Russia may sue the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which froze work in Russia two years ago, reports Interfax . As a source in the financial and economic bloc of the government told the agency, an appeal has been prepared to the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the EBRD, Minister of Finance of Luxembourg Pierre Gramegna.