Gmail fails, Rostelecom invests 300 million rubles in independent developers: the main thing on October 3

Russia

• Blogger Lerchek, her ex-husband Artem Chekalin and co-founder of the cosmetics company Letique Roman Vishnyak were detained for 48 hours. They are suspects in a criminal case for illegal transfer abroad of more than 251 million rubles.
• The preliminary investigation of the criminal case against the founder of the Like Center, Ayaz Shabutdinov, accused of large-scale fraud, has been concluded. According to the businessman’s lawyers, the first court hearing will take place in January-February 2025.
• The Bank of Russia will study the issue of reducing the maximum daily rate in the microfinance market, which currently stands at 0.8%.
• Yandex Market presented the Ultima project focused on “selective assortment”: more than 250 thousand products from well-known brands and niche brands are placed there.
• The yuan exchange rate on the Moscow Stock Exchange exceeded 13.5 rubles for the first time since October 11, 2023. At the same time, other currencies fell against the ruble.
• Russian banks opposed the legislative initiative to prohibit increasing the credit card limit within the framework of an agreement with the borrower.
• Wildberries, together with Russian Post, opened 250 order pick-up points (POPs) at post offices, the market said in a statement. Collection points are mainly located in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
• The merged company Wildberries & Russ began testing a rate builder for sellers. Sellers will have access to at least 15 new services.
• The Russian government will allocate another billion rubles for the implementation of at least eight innovative projects in the field of mechanical engineering. This was announced by the Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin, at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

• Laboratory service Helix has agreed for Johnson & Johnson to use its brand in Russia for a group of products, RB.RU has learned. The foreign company will withdraw the claim.
  

• The Investigative Committee (IC) seized more than 1.5 billion rubles during searches in the case of the anonymous payment system UAPS and the cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex. Some of those accused have been charged; The investigation is asking the court to impose a preventive measure on them.
• CEO Viktor Abramov has left music label VK Records. He said that he decided to focus on his own projects, RBC sources claim that Abramov was fired due to the dissatisfaction of the VK management with the results of his work.
• The Bolshoi Theater began selling only personalized tickets to combat profiteers. Spectators with a ticket and without identification documents will not be allowed access to the performance, the institution’s press service reported.
• The head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, was elected deputy chairman of the board of directors of Rostelecom, writes TASS. with reference to sources On the eve of October 2, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was appointed chairman of the company’s board of directors.
• The Bank of Russia will increase the volume of foreign exchange sales by 26 times in October, up to 5.3 billion rubles. The Ministry of Finance will allocate 3.1 billion rubles for the purchase of currency and gold, almost twice as much as in September, the department’s press service reported.

World

• The American corporation Tesla, owned by Elon Musk, has withdrawn its cheapest electric car from the market. Now whoever wants to buy a car from Elon Musk will have to pay an extra $3.5 thousand.
• A representative of Pavel Durov said that the founder of the Telegram messenger and the mother of his three children, Irina Bolgar, were never a couple, and the woman “spent the money that the businessman gave her as alimony on luxury items and other excesses.” .
• The Federal Air Transport Agency extended restrictions on flights over Israel, Iran and Iraq until November 3, 2024, and the Russian ambassador asked his fellow citizens to leave Israel.
• The Information and Security Service of Moldova ordered the blocking of the websites of the Russian services rutube.ru, yandex.ru and dzen.ru, as well as the Moldova 24 television channel moldova24.online and pwa.moldova24.online.
• SWIFT announced the launch of cryptocurrency trading. The payment system will begin processing payments in 2025, including with tokenized digital assets, SWIFT said.

Investments

• Rostelecom and educational accelerator Indie Go will launch the Indie Go Start fund to support independent video game developers. At the initial stage it is planned to invest 300 million rubles and support 15 projects until the end of the year.
• The crowdlending platform JetLend will launch the Crowdventure service in 2025, with which Russian startups will be able to attract venture capital investments.

Business

• The LDPR group proposed forcing employers to pay for employees’ travel if they cannot use public transportation. The corresponding bill will be presented to the State Duma on October 3.
• 90% of women are forced to work more than men due to existing stereotypes. And at the same time you will receive 10-30% less, according to a study by CLUB 500 and Zarplata.ru.
• Yandex plans to develop its own insurance business. The holding company is already looking for a small insurance company with a purchasing license.

• Vladislav Bakalchuk filed a lawsuit to declare the Wildberries domain transfer agreement void. According to him, the domain costs at least 3 million dollars.

• Online recruitment company HeadHunter increased its stake in human resources document management service HRlink from 9.09% to 60%. The transaction amount could amount to 1 to 1.5 billion rubles.
• The Federal Antimonopoly Service sent MTS an order demanding that it reduce prices for cellular tariffs for more than 30 million subscribers and transfer illegally obtained revenues to the federal budget.
• The government agreed to extend the income tax benefit for radio electronics companies until the end of 2027. Companies will pay taxes to the federal budget at a preferential rate of 8%, while the rate of contributions to the regional budget will remain at zero.
• On October 8, the Moscow Stock Exchange will begin trading in new copper, aluminum, nickel and zinc futures in the derivatives market.

Services and technologies

• Russian users complained about a failure in the Gmail email service on the iOS operating system. The application does not update mail and freezes when loading.
• The mobile application of the Avito advertising service was removed from Google Play. Users were asked not to delete the app and to disable the “Download Unused Apps” feature.
• Yandex launched the Neuro in Search service. Analyze and combine information from multiple sources into a single response.
• Another failure occurred in the operation of Telegram in Russia, Germany, the United States, Uzbekistan and other countries. Users report problems opening the app, loading the site, and sending messages.