Megacities without car services, the new name of Costa Coffee: the main thing August 24

Russia

• The Embraer commercial plane crashed near the town of Kuzhenkino, in the Tver region. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that all 10 people on board died.

Economy

• Argentina, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates will join the BRICS after the organization’s summit in South Africa, writes the Brazilian online edition OUL.

Finance

• Telegram scammers began disguising themselves as online currency exchange services. The user is informed that they will receive the funds within an hour after the money has been transferred.

Business

• As part of the bankruptcy of T-Platforms JSC, which created the Baikal Electronics Design Center in 2012, rights to developments and patents were auctioned off. All properties are estimated at 484 million rubles, Kommersant reported.
• Rosinter has decided on a new name for the Costa Coffee chain. The holding may change the name of the establishments to Lalibela Coffee

Technologies and services

• Russian banks have tested the operation of domestic hardware security modules (Hardware Security Module, HSM) and found that they are expensive and incompatible with major business processes, Kommersant writes.
• The Russians connected 1 million eSIMs in a year. Basically, subscribers use them to sign up for third-party services, Vedomosti reported.

Transport

• Taxi booking aggregator Yandex.Taxi has acquired a small batch of 12 Iranian Iran Khodro Tara sedans. Cars for Russian taxis were made in a simplified configuration and with an automatic transmission.
• Megacities are at risk of being left without car services. In big cities there may be a shortage of technical centers, car washes and tire shops, reports Izvestia.