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Turning off electric cars from the “gray market”. Chinese automaker Zeekr will begin hunting for electric cars illegally exported from the country without the permission of the copyright holder. The functionality of such cars will be disabled remotely.
Attack Ministry’s convicts on the loose. Nine recruited prisoners escaped from a training ground in the Belgorod region. Two escapees were imprisoned for murder, three for causing grievous bodily harm, another for illegal deprivation of liberty, and the rest for theft, fraud and drug use, respectively. Six escaped from the training ground on July 26, the rest the next day. Promised bounty for information 100.000 rubles.
The budget has run out of money to support small businesses. The Z-regime will curtail the small business support program from the budget in order to save money for the war with Ukraine. Preferential lending to small and medium-sized companies, under which loans worth 1.5 trillion rubles were issued last year, may be suspended from next year. As the key rate of the Central Bank grows, the program is becoming more expensive for the budget, and its resources are limited, the source explained to state media. The accumulated treasury deficit for 2022-2023 amounted to 6.3 trillion rubles, this year – another 2.1 trillion rubles. At the same time, the reserves of free funds in the National Welfare Fund (NWF) have halved to 4.6 trillion rubles, and the queue for state funding for megaprojects is only growing.
No state money for modernization. The Ministry of Fancy Financials is against state support for the modernization of refineries, as “support for the project will lead to additional budget expenditures, the sources of which are not defined.”
Better French than sorry. Armenia may replace Russia with France in the construction of a new nuclear power unit. France may build a new power unit of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP) instead of Russia. This issue was discussed during the visit of French Ambassador to Armenia Olivier Decotiny and representatives of the French company Framatom, which is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of equipment for nuclear power plants. The ANPP management wants to cooperate with the French and study proposals for reactor technologies.
Losing aircrafts. From the end of October 2023 to June 26, 2024, the number of flightable aircraft in the fleet of the 13 largest air carriers decreased by 3%, to 693 aircraft, according to data of the Federal Air Transport Agency. The main reason for the increase in the number of retired aircraft is associated with difficulties in the maintenance and repair of imported airliners. At the same time, the russian aviation industry will not have time to replace foreign airliners.
No secrets.”Almost everyone’s data was leaked.” Information about 140 million mobile numbers and 46 million e-mail addresses of russians was leaked to the Web. The largest number of data breaches in January-June fell on the e-commerce segment (46% of the total), retail (16%) and infotainment resources (10%). At the same time, the financial sector is the leader in terms of the volume of data leaked to the Web, which in six months allowed more than 80 million records to be made publicly available.
You are out. Putin fired Lavrov’s deputy, who was in charge of relations with Europe. The corresponding decree of the head of state was published on the portal of legal information. The reason for the dismissal of the diplomat is not named in the document.
No ships to parade. The number of ships at Putin’s naval parade collapsed to a historic low after losses from Ukrainian strikes. The most modest ceremony in the history of the event in St. Petersburg on July 28 was attended by 20 ships and boats, one submarine and four sailing vessels. A total of 25 vessels – less than the half of the ships participating in 2021.