While investors are withdrawing funds from European funds in favor of Americans, according to Bank of America, and the president of Georgia calls for more attention to Russian entrepreneurs, Alef Aeronautics announces the start of pre-orders for a flying electric car . Today, RB follows the news of entrepreneurs from all over the world with a special passion.
- Since the beginning of 2023, investors have withdrawn $27 billion of European funds in favor of US funds (Bloomberg citing Bank of America).
- George Soros’s network of charitable foundations in the context of transferring business to the son of an entrepreneur will reduce at least 40% of staff worldwide (Bloomberg).
- The Georgian president called for greater control “over these Russian business investors, sometimes Russians from Russia, sometimes Russians from Cyprus, sometimes Russians from Israel” and “categorically block” the granting of citizenship.
- In Russia, gasoline exchange prices increased by 50% for six months, for example, AI-92 rose in price to 57,785 thousand rubles per ton (data from the St. Petersburg International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange).
- For the first time since the summer of 2022, the average cost per square meter in new buildings has decreased in the Russian Federation: over the past month it has fallen by 0.5-1%.
- In May-June in Russia, sales of small suitcases, the size of hand luggage, grew by a third compared to last year (RIA Novosti referring to the OFD Platform).
- After hiding posts from unregistered users, Twitter has set viewing limits for account holders. Musk initially limited views to 6,000 posts for verified users, 600 posts for unverified users, and 300 for newbies. The limits were then adjusted to 10k, 1k and 500 respectively.
- Amid the news, Twitter’s rival decentralized social network Bluesky has “temporarily” suspended registrations to address performance issues due to an influx of new users.
- And the Californian company Alef Aeronautics announced the start of pre-orders for the Model A flying electric car.
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Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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