The Avito app has returned to the App Store, prosecco from Brazil will be imported to the Russian Federation: the main thing on July 24

World

• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the creation of eSports Olympic Games. The first will take place in 2025 in Saudi Arabia.

• The educational startup Verbatica, launched by the team of MGIMO graduate Nikita Savilov, raised $700,000 in the UAE. The platform helps you learn Arabic and English using AI. On the service you can not only master the language, but also get acquainted with the customs and culture of its speakers.

• Apple could face a $38 billion fine for violating Spanish antitrust laws. The company is suspected of imposing unfavorable business conditions on app developers. The investigation will last two years.

Russia

• The Central Bank has ordered banks to suspend suspicious transfers for two days. Otherwise, if the transfer was associated with fraud, the bank must return the money to the client within 30 days. A transfer made to accounts of criminals that are in the Central Bank’s database will be considered suspicious.
• The State Duma has approved in the first reading the bill on the regulation of cryptocurrency mining. Miners will be required to register in the state register and declare income, and the law will ban cryptocurrency advertising in Russia.
• The average cost of air tickets to domestic destinations in the Russian Federation in 2024 increased by 17% and exceeded 7.3 thousand rubles. Airlines reported that they have not recorded a sharp increase in ticket prices and that the price dynamics corresponds to the current market situation.

Business

• MKPAO Yandex shares began trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange under the symbol YDEX (formerly YNDX). The company’s securities were included in the first list of quotations on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
• Many employers are not willing to reject promising candidates, despite the lack of skills and competencies required for the vacant position. 59% of companies hire such candidates and assign them mentors.
• Due to high import duties on wine from “hostile” countries and the expectation of their increase, Russian importers have begun to consider alternative purchasing markets. Companies have already begun testing imports of alcoholic beverages from Brazil and India.

• Moscow authorities, through the court, demanded that part of the building of the Lanit IT company at Dobroslobodskaya 5 be recognized as illegal construction and demolished. The building of the Club of the Union of Builders has belonged to Lanit since 1995. It is known as the Club of the Union of Builders, was built in 1929 and is recognized as a cultural heritage asset of the capital.

• Wildberries transferred 27 subsidiaries to the joint venture, in which it holds 65% and Russ Group holds 35%, thus completing the transfer of assets without the direct participation of Tatyana Bakalchuk’s husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, with whom she is in the process of divorcing.

• Tatyana Bakalchuk announced staff changes in the management of Wildberries. Earlier, a joint media department and legal department were created in the joint venture between Wildberries and Russ.

• Startups in the field of AI will be able to apply for grants worth 50 million rubles; this support measure is being discussed within the framework of the federal project “Artificial Intelligence”. The Ministry of Digital Development clarifies that the measure is only under consideration and may not appear in the final document.

• Blogger and author of the “Marathon of Desires” Elena Blinovskaya paid 230 million rubles of debt to the Federal Tax Service, now the amount of debt is 677 million rubles.

• The application book for the IPO of the developer “APRI” was oversubscribed at the upper limit of the price range – 9.7 rubles per share. The company can raise up to 1 billion rubles. The start of trading on the Moscow Exchange is scheduled for July 30.

Services and technologies

• Telegram founder Pavel Durov has registered on the TON Dating service. He indicated his age, zodiac sign and achievements in the field of information technology.
• Telegram removed monetization for Russian channels five days after its launch. The messenger did not comment on either the launch or the loss of the feature.
• The mobile app for Russian classifieds company Avito is available for download again in the AppStore. The reasons for the removal of the app have not been disclosed.

• On the Russian Railways website, it is possible to see a photo of the carriage before buying a ticket. The customer can see in advance what the compartment, carriage corridor, toilets and restaurant car look like. Although the option works on some routes, Russian Railways will soon add photographs of all its trains.

• The Russian banking sector has been the target of a DDOS attack. Clients of Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, T-Bank, Gazprombank and VTB complain about problems with mobile applications. VTB claimed that the DDOS attack was planned from abroad. Alfa-Bank claims that there is no failure.