Sergey Guriev In the Russian public discussion, there is a desperate lack of talk about the future. The authorities are concentrated on protecting the status quo, the opposition criticizes power for corruption, the destruction of political institutions and non-fulfillment of promises. But the future does not matter whether we want to think about him or not - it will come anyway.

The Moscow City Hall will check Yandex and Delivery Club for possible violations of antimonopoly laws. Restaurateurs complained about them due to the high cost of delivery at the Council for Strategic Development and Implementation of National Projects under the capital government, Interfax reports .

The Gagarinsky Court of Moscow recovered 32.5 billion rubles. from the former Minister of Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. As Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the court, this amount was a record amount recovered for similar claims in Russia.

Photo: Mitchell Luo / Unsplash The US Department of Justice and the prosecutors of 11 states filed an antimonopoly lawsuit against Google. The company illegally cut off competitors from key distribution channels, is indicated in the statement of claim.

Photo: Agency "Moscow" The new outbreak of the Coronavirus SARS-COV-19 again returned to the Russians an interest in thermometers: the most familiar way to measure the temperature, as before, remains a mercury thermometer. At the last peak of pandemia, the need for thermometers has become so great that the Russians dared all thermometers that they were. Mercury thermometers were supplied to Russia mainly from China, but now they will not be.

New York prosecutors have charged ten people with smuggling Apple products and other electronics from the United States to Russia. According to the department's statement, current and former employees of Aeroflot airline helped the defendants transport the goods. Ten people were arrested during the investigation by the FBI, US Customs and Border Protection, the New York Police Department and other agencies. Seven of the defendants were arrested in New York, and one more in Illinois.

Photo: Alexander Avilov/Agency "Moscow" Covid appeared in the global world, and Asian countries were the most prepared: they regularly meet with epidemics and created mechanisms for stopping outbreaks. States that are not accustomed to such threats were not ready for pandemic both from the point of view of epidemiological control and the resources of the healthcare system. All this influenced the everyday habits of people and the approach of governments to provide medical care.

Moscow agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons build-up for a year in order to extend the extension of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START, START III). The Russian Foreign Ministry reports this with the caveat that the arsenal will be frozen if Washington refrains from making additional demands.

Instagram, YouTube and Zoom entered the top 100 most valuable brands in the world for the first time. The rating is compiled annually by the consulting agency Interbrand. The first place was again taken by Apple, the company's brand value is estimated at $323 billion. In second place is Amazon ($200 billion), the brand of this company showed the largest increase in value - +60%. Microsoft ($166 billion) took third place, overtaking Google, which left the top three for the first time since 2012.

Detachment of designer Bora Aksu at the Fashion Week in London in September 2020. Photo: Bora Aksu The fashion industry was one of the most affected by Covid. The market for luxury goods, clothing, shoes, hours and accessories, according to the results of 2020, for the first time in history, can fall by 20–35% to 180–220 billion euros, the Bain & Co consulting company said in the forecast of the consulting company. and the Italian Association of Fondazione Altagamma Luxione Products.

Moscow authorities plan to spend 155 million rubles. on the passenger flow monitoring system, as follows from the data on the government procurement website. Kommersant was the first to draw attention to them. 220 hardware and software systems will be installed at public transport stops and navigation signs, which will allow collecting MAC addresses (device numbers) via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi within a radius of 50 m.

Photo: John Schnobrich / Unsplash The US Department of Justice was charged to six Russians of the distribution of malicious programs and cyber attacks on the infrastructure of other countries and the impact on the elections in the interests of Russia.

Sberbank is working on a service that will analyze banking transactions of Russians and compare them with the location of retail outlets using 2GIS, Stanislav Kartashov, vice president, director of the Corporate Clients 360 division of the Corporate and Investment Business block of Sberbank, told RBC. Sberbank plans to sell the resulting analytics to businesses and authorities. According to Kartashov, it should help in decisions about opening stores, in urban and transport planning.

Photo: Thomas Richter/Unsplash The pandemic of coronavirus not only did not weaken the climatic agenda, but, on the contrary, forced the government and the business to activate efforts to transition to a cleaner economy. Tectonic shifts have already begun in the energy industry. To zero emissions CO2 By 2050, the European Union intends to become a region with zero carbon dioxide emissions.

The United States has expanded sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, according to the State Department website. They can now apply to companies that provided services or financing for equipment or upgrades to vessels involved in the construction of the pipeline. Sanctions will not apply to companies if their services were necessary to ensure the safety of the team or prevent damage to the environment.