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By Anna Rzhevkina, Alexander Marrow GDANSK/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The coronavirus crisis has helped fuel a surge in online shopping in Russia that has put even the remote icy expanse of Chukotka on the e-commerce map. FILE PHOTO: A Yandex.Eats food delivery courier wearing a protective face mask rides a scooter amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Moscow, Russia April 12, 2020. Picture taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo The windswept region in Russia’s far… Source link

When JP Morgan’s EMEA head of oil and gas research said last month that this crisis was fundamentally no different from previous crises, he was right – at least in a way. But in some ways, he was wrong, because it is not just out of a sense for the dramatic that most observers are calling the current crisis unprecedented.  This crisis will change the industry in ways no other crisis has done. Oil sands on the path to diversification Canada’s oil sands have been among the worst affected… Source link

Disney heiress Abigail Disney and Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield are among a growing list of millionaires signing a petition for higher taxes. “Today, we, the undersigned millionaires, ask our governments to raise taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently,” the petition states. “We are not restocking grocery store shelves or delivering food door to door. But we do have money, lots of it. Money that is desperately needed now and will continue to be… Source link