Shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, explosions at a military airfield in Crimea and a search of the residence of Donald Trump

Weekly Initiatives

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other in the shelling of the area around the largest nuclear power plant in Europe – Zaporozhye NPP. On this occasion UN Security Council spent emergency meeting.

Russia announced United States to refuse to inspect its facilities for Treaty on Measures for Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.

Saeima of Latvia announced Russia as a sponsor of terrorism.

Gazprom resumed gas supplies to Latvia.

Mintsifry proposes to collect personal data of citizens to the Unified Biometric System without their consent.

“Yandex” maybe transfer the development of unmanned transport technologies abroad and is already transferring the work of these services to the cloud infrastructure of foreign providers.

Marketplaces Ozon, wildberries and “Yandex Market” created an anti-counterfeiting system.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin established Day of Russian animation.

According to the letter of the law

FBI agents without warning visited with a search of the residence of the ex-president of the United States Donald Trump in Florida. How It revealed later, they looked for documents related to nuclear weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decree authorizing banks with frozen currency stop business operations on it.

National Settlement Depository addressed to the court of the European Union in Luxembourg with a claim on the lifting of European sanctions.

CB withdrew license from Krosna-bank.

Moscow City Court left Ilya Yashin in a pre-trial detention center in the case of fakes about the army.

Court in the Ryazan region satisfied petition of the investigation and placed a local resident under house arrest Viktor Mokhov, known as “Skopin maniac”. He is facing jail time for another crime.

Week numbers

The number of victims of explosions at a military airfield in Crimea reached 13.

From February 24 in Ukraine died 5.4 thousand civilians.

59% Russians considerthat the special military operation in Ukraine dragged on.

From the beginning of the special operation deleted or blocked 138 thousand Internet resources.

Volume of the National Wealth Fund of Russia increased With RUB 10.7 trillion in June to RUB 12.15 trillion in July.

Demand for the purchase of various goods through parallel imports has grown in Russia over the past month by 436%. This system of delivery of goods to the country can provoke shortage of electronics in the EAEU countries.

Realme bypassed in sales of Apple and Samsung smartphones combined, reaching 17% market in pieces in July.

Net profit of the Russian agricultural company Rusagro decreased on the 99% in the first half.

Coca Cola HBC lost €190 million after leaving Russia.

The average cost of a “student kit” (school uniform, shoes, sports uniform, backpack and stationery) decreased on the 3–10%.

Index of economic confidence in Russia decreased down to zero.

Quotes of the week

“Visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right” (Prime Minister of Estonia Kaya Callas urged EU countries to stop issuing visas to Russians).

“The crimes committed by the Azov militants can only be compared in their cruelty with the actions of the Nazi invaders” (Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov in interview “b”).

“But although he was seriously ill with a fever, he did not stop thinking about the people for a second.” (Kim Jong Un’s sister) Kim Yo Chen told about my brother’s COVID-19).

“Our country is going through a difficult period. It is possible that directors like me will not be able to continue working. If you are not needed at home, you should be silent. I do not have a second and third citizenship, and I will live in Russia – as long as I live at all ” (producer Alexander Sokurov on the press conferences in Locarno).

Resignations and appointments

Founder of the group of companies Volga-Dnepr Alexey Isaikin coming out from among the beneficiaries of all its structures and transfers control to management.

Trainer “Khimki” Sergei Yuran the third time fired from a football club near Moscow, despite good results at the start of the next Russian championship.

Football club “Ural” fired head coach Igor Shalimov at the start of the season.

Deals of the week

Ukraine received payment from “Transneft” for pumping Russian fuel.

NOVATEK will order floating power plant to supply the first line of the Arctic LNG-2 plant under construction near the Turkish Karpowership.

The fourth coffee producer in the world is German Tchibo GmbH came out from Russian business. The company that has passed to local top management will have to develop a new brand.

Metallurgical holding Evraz, under UK sanctions plans to sell American division, which generates $320 million EBITDA per year.

The already announced deal for the sale of Russian energy assets to the Italian Enel — controlling stake Enel Russia — turned out to be frozen For undefined period.