Twitter competitor, freelancers will be able to sell third-party products: the main thing on July 4

Russia

• The Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Finance will discuss the indefinite extension of the current 0% income tax rate for IT companies, Vedomosti learned. One of the interlocutors said that both the uncertainty of the benefits and the possibility of their extension until 2030 would be discussed.

• The court fined the Kinopoisk online cinema 1 million rubles for failing to mark “18+” on LGBT films.

Finance

• Rosfinmonitoring, the Central Bank and the banking community agreed to limit the threshold for transferring funds without opening an account to 100,000 rubles, Kommersant reported.
• The bankers are asking the Ministry of Digital Transformation not to take money from them for using collected biometric data for their databases and now transferred to the Unified Biometric System (EBS), Kommersant reports.

Business

• After Marina Krasnova and Alexander Tobol, the marketing director Alexander Volodin left VKontakte. He will develop his own project together with the former CEO of VKontakte Krasnova and the former technical director of the social network Tobol.

• The Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Russian electronics manufacturers are discussing new mechanisms to limit their parallel imports.
• The demand for determining the location of a subscriber for the six months of 2023 increased by 1.5 times, up to 35 thousand. The cost of the “breakthrough” is about 30 thousand rubles.
• In Russia they proposed allowing freelancers to sell third-party products. Innovation will help provide the domestic market with the goods in demand and will help stabilize prices for them, writes TASS.

services and means

• MTS has released the first limited collection of Red Square merchandise after the rebrand. This is a basic capsule with functional wardrobe items. The unisex collection consists of garments and accessories: long sleeves, a vest, a raincoat, a hooded sweatshirt, T-shirts of different styles and designs, a shopper, a baseball cap. The main element is a red square, which refers to the brand’s new logo.

• “Eskayushka” and “mapping”: Konstantin Kanivets, CEO of the Tochka Marketplace service, compiled for RB.RU a list of ten slang words that experienced market sellers use in real life, and which “you will not find on the Internet”.

• Yandex Go has updated the main screen of the application. Now you don’t need to scroll the map to select a service from the list at the bottom of the screen – all available applications are displayed as large icons. This approach should make it easier to work with the app, place orders and navigate through them.

• Yandex.Navigator has learned to optimize a route with several points and to predict the time a trip will take on certain days and times. Also in the new version appeared the possibility of paying for parking and new widgets.

• Meta* will launch an analogue of Twitter’s microblogging service, the Threads app, on July 6. Its advantage is that users do not have to create a community from scratch, the new application will help transfer followers from Instagram*.
• Online cinemas and TV channels opposed the idea of ​​state Duma deputies to use the content of foreign copyright holders without their permission, Kommersant learned.

*The company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is recognized as an extremist in the Russian Federation and is banned.