Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has asked the court to block US President Donald Trump's decision to declare a national emergency over his border wall with Mexico. As BuzzFeed notes , this is the first lawsuit filed due to the state of emergency. The lawyers are calling on the court to find “that Trump exceeded his constitutional authority” and bar him from using Pentagon funds to build the wall.

The Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia explained the need to expand the list of sanctioned products by saying that violators import prohibited products using cover goods, indicating a different country of origin, and by re-labeling the goods. A representative of the department told reporters about this. As an example, he cited jamon from the European Union, which is imported into Russia under the guise of meat products from permitted countries with a deliberately incorrect code.

iPhone and iPad users are statistically more disciplined borrowers than Android device owners / M. Stulov / Vedomosti iPhone and iPad users are more disciplined borrowers than Android device owners. This is the conclusion reached by the online microfinance platform Webbankir. According to its data, the share of loan defaults among iOS device users is 8.2%, while for Android it is 9.2%. iPhone and iPad owners also borrow more — an average of 9,013 rubles, while Android users borrow 8,285 rubles.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the founder of the Baring Vostok investment fund, US citizen Michael Calvey, for two months, a Vedomosti correspondent reported from the courtroom. Calvey is suspected of fraud on a particularly large scale. According to investigators, he and a number of other suspects stole 2.5 billion rubles. at Vostochny Bank.

Technology giant Amazon will participate in investments in startup Rivian Automotive. Amazon will be one of two participants in a $700 million round of investment in the Detroit company that has developed all-wheel drive electric vehicles, the other being Saudi auto distributor Abdul Latif Jameel, which is already a long-term investor in Rivian, a told Automotive News (AN) company spokesperson .

The BlaBlaCar travel companion search service plans to introduce in Russia the ability to make online payments between passengers and drivers in the next two years. this in an interview with RBC said BlaBlaCar Chief Managing Director Nicholas Brusson . According to him, the company is launching such a system in all markets and expects that within a few years most of the payments made by users of the service will move online.

The administration of St. Petersburg did not agree to hold a march in memory of politician Boris Nemtsov in the city center, said deputy of the legislative assembly Boris Vishnevsky. “ The Committee on Legality has just refused to allow a march in memory of Boris Nemtsov along all routes in the center. Polyustrovsky Park and a “procession” next to it have been proposed. A mocking answer. We will sue,” Vishnevsky wrote on Facebook. He noted that the St.

The European Union has decided on new sanctions against Russia in connection with the incident in the Kerch Strait, told Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl RIA Novosti. “The decision has already been made at the appropriate level,” she said. Kneissl did not specify the details . In turn, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, said that new sanctions against Russia should be discussed centrally.

Germany supports the idea of ​​introducing new sanctions against Russia, but they should be discussed centrally, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, speaking at the Munich Security Conference. “I ask that possible sanctions against Russia, which may be expanded, for example, as a result of the current incident in the Kerch Strait, be introduced in a coordinated manner if possible. We do not benefit if everyone imposes their own sanctions,” Merkel said (she was quoted by RIA Novosti).

In the building of the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), the roof and ceilings from the fifth to the second floors collapsed, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported. According to preliminary data, there are no dead or injured. At the time of the collapse, classes were taking place at the university, and 86 people were evacuated from the building, rescuers said.

The idea of ​​uniting Moscow and the Moscow region is positive if we consider it from the perspective of economic integration, but the possibility of unified political governance is a subject for a separate discussion, says former mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov (his words are quoted by RIA Novosti). In his opinion, “integration is a useful thing” when it comes to the economy - industrial sector, agriculture, food supplies, and so on.

Russian and French Presidents Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone on Saturday evening, the Kremlin said . On whose initiative the conversation took place is not specified. The main topic of the conversation was the situation in Syria. Putin and Macron noted the need to quickly create a constitutional committee in the country.

The CEO of the Russian private company S7 Space Transport Systems (S7 Space) Sergei Sopov said that he will leave his post in the coming days. “I confirm the information regarding the departure,” Sopov told TASS. He did not specify the specific date of his departure from the company, but noted that this would happen by the end of next week. Sopov did not give a reason for his dismissal. Who will take the place of CEO of S7 Space instead of Sopov has not yet been officially announced.