The damage caused by the large fire in the Wildberries warehouse has not yet been assessed, news agencies write that due to the events in the Red Sea large productions are suspended, journalists learned about Roman’s unannounced investments Abramovich and a tacit change in OpenAI policy, and RB is in a hurry to talk about these and other important developments in the field of entrepreneurship.
- In the village of Shushary, Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg, the Wildberries market warehouse catches fire: at this time, the fire area is 50 thousand square meters. m, people were evacuated, about 270 people and 57 units of equipment from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia participated in the liquidation, the company promised to return funds for lost orders to customers and compensate sellers for losses.
- Forbes discovered that Roman Abramovich, through the Target Global investment fund, without announcing the deal, invested $63 million in several European startups between 2015 and 2021.
- Citigroup plans to cut about 20,000 employees by 2026 (Reuters).
- The president of the Norwegian chemical company Yara stated that the EU “has replaced energy dependence on Russia with dependence on fertilizers.”
- The Ministry of Education and Science proposes to modify the Civil Code so that by collecting “serial” compensation from brands for the same violation of the rights of brand owners, the court can reduce the amount of repeated sanctions (to avoid abuses by officials).
- NASA and Lockheed Martin have presented the experimental X-59 supersonic aircraft.
- OpenAI has quietly changed the wording of the rules for the use of its products (including ChatGPT), removing the phrase “in support of military forces and combat operations” (Intercep).
- Reuters has learned that Volvo in Belgium and Tesla in Berlin are suspending production due to a shortage of components transported across the Red Sea.
- In 2023, Russians bought twice as much through SBP (“Russian Standard”).
- Rosatom’s mining division, Atomredmetzoloto, inaugurated the Sovinoe field in Chukotka, the largest in the Russian Federation since 1991 (more than 100 tons).
- The Instagram co-founders’ Artifact news app (owned by Meta, banned in the Russian Federation) is shutting down just a year after its launch.
- Interest in sanatorium holidays in 2023 exceeded the capacity of resorts by 1.5 times, which could lead to a 20-30% increase in prices in 2024 (“Kommersant”).
- The scripts for two episodes of Friends, found in a container about 25 years ago, were auctioned for more than £22,000 (Hansons auction house).
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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