Former Polish President Lech Walesa has proposed cutting Russia's population in half, writes Le Figaro. In a conversation with journalists from a French newspaper, the Nobel Prize winner suggested that there are only two ways to tame Moscow: the first is a coup d'état with a complete change of power, and the second is a reduction in the population to 50 million people. Currently, 144 million people live in Russia.

Yes, he means genocide. Not waiting for it to happen naturally. Sound like copy of Hitler papers and ideas.

Due to the departure or decrease in activity in the Russian market due to events in Ukraine, well-known foreign electronics manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung, Dell, Chinese brands of phones, tablets, laptops and home appliances began to fill the domestic market.

In the first half of 2022, the Chinese smartphone brands Realme, Vivo, Mi, Tecno, Infinix, iTel and Nokia (Chinese holding HMD Global) became the leaders of the Russian market in terms of sales in physical terms, Marvel Distribution told Kommersant. In particular, Tecno, Infinix, Realme and Xiaomi increased their sales by more than 100%. Poco (a Xiaomi sub-brand) saw unit sales up 16% year-over-year, Nokia up over 40%. At the same time, Apple's market share declined by 14% and Samsung by 15%. In total, a little more than 10 million mobile phones were sold in Russia during the reporting period, which is 23% less than in the first half of 2021.

According to Ozon, unit sales of Tecno smartphones in the first half of the year grew more than 20 times, Doogee - five times, Digma - almost eight times. Yandex Market reported that in the first quarter, the share of sales of Chinese electronics brands doubled compared to last year.

“The Center for Monitoring and Control of the Public Communications Network of Roskomnadzor plans to implement a set of measures to limit the use of VPN services,” the document states. In this regard, the Central Bank asks Russian banks to provide Roskomnadzor with a list of VPN services used by them by July 11 “in order to exclude them from access restriction policies.”

VPN services that may be restricted include: VPN Proxy Master, Browsec VPN, VPN-Super Unlimited Proxy, Melon VPN, Windscribe VPN, VPN RedCat Secure Unlimited and Proton VPN. The limitation of the latter by providers was previously reported.

Since 2021, the work of about two dozen different VPN services has been limited in Russia. These include, for example, Nord VPN, ExpressVPN, IPVanish VPN, Hola!VPN, KeepSolid VPN Unlimited, Speedify VPN.

In the US, a new stage of confrontation between the authorities and TikTok has begun. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote letters to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook. In them, he demanded that TikTok be removed from the Google Play and App Store stores.

According to Carr, the application collects and transfers too much sensitive data, and then the program transfers them to Beijing. Carr noted that the application can save drafts, has access to search history, intercepts button presses, tracks biometrics, and also has access to text, images and videos on the clipboard.

“TikTok is not just an app for sharing funny videos and memes. This is a wolf in sheep's clothing, ”the American official said. He also stated that a recent study showed that TikTok employees in China had access to the personal data of American users.

Stores were given until July 8 to remove the app or justify their refusal to do so.