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on May 11 in the United Statesthe special rules for migrants introduced due to the pandemic are terminated. The rules for entering the country will be tightened, The United States will tighten restrictions on asylum seekers in the country to carry out deportation, The Washington Post (WP) reports, citing US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mallorcas. The newspaper notes that Washington is ...

After a four-year break, Russia has decided to resume flights with Georgia. But not all carriers will be able to resume flights - only those who did not fall under sanctions.When and how can transportation resume - RBC figured it out President Vladimir Putin signed a decree lifting the ban on Russian airlines flying to Georgia from May 15, 2......

Kommersant, citing a letter from the SSJ100 manufacturer, previously reported that due to the impossibility of repairing French engines, the aircraft fleet could be reduced by five times.Rostec called the data a negative scenario for 2022Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft at the factory The data that the Sukhoi Superjet 1......

for direct flights with Georgia and visas for Georgian citizens. Tbilisi has not yet received a corresponding notification from Moscow, Georgia, after Russia's decision to resume direct flights, will allow flights by Russian airlines, but only those carriers that are not under Western sanctions, said Georgia's Deputy Economy Minister Mariam Kvrivishvili. According to her, Tbilisi has not yet issue...

The Ministry of Health proposed to redistribute part of the medical tasks from doctors to nurses. The department considers The Central Research Institute of Organization and Informatization of Healthcare of the Ministry of Health proposed to redistribute some of the medical tasks from doctors to nurses, including transferring to nurses the responsibility for preparing lists of citizens for medical...

The EC proposes "as a deterrent" to create a legal possibility to limit supplies from the EU to third countries. If that's not enough, Brussels could block exportscertain products The European Commission believes that the European Union should be able to restrict the export of goods to third countries as part of the fight against circumvention of sanctions against Russia, DPA reports. According to...

allocated almost 95 billion rubles from the National Welfare Fund. Internet holding VK and a new insurer in the aviation industry (NSK). In April 2023, the National Wealth Fund (NWF), which is controlled by the Ministry of Finance, purchased bonds of NLK-Finance LLC for 34.95 billion rubles. and bonds of VK LLC for 6......

What to expect from housing prices, why there are “no more” cross-border payments in dollars, and how sanctions divided banks into two groups. Key quotes from the conference “Banks. Transformation. Economy. 2.0" About housing prices Head of the Analytical Center, Managing Director of Dom.RF Mikhail Goldberg “After three years of fairly serious growth in housing prices, we see that in the first qua...

The ACRA rating agency has once again disclosed its assessment of the level of financial stress in Russia. The index, the publication of which was stopped at the peak of the crisis, is now in the low-risk zone. The Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA) has restarted the financial stress index, the company said in a statement to RBC. ACRA has been calculating the value of the indicator since 2.......

The Ministry of Digital Development is considering an initiative obliging retailers to sell personal computers (PCs) in Russia only with a domestic operating system (OS) pre-installed on them, and expects a decision to be made in May. This was stated by the head of the department Maksut Shadayev, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, the Kommersant newspaper, citing a source in the government, reported th...

Russian dating apps are ready to invest in development abroad, including opening offices there. They plan to focus on Russian expats, In 2023, the Mamba dating service plans to invest about $6.5 million in development in the markets of foreign countries, Andrey Bronetsky, CEO of the company, told RBC. We are talking about investments in marketing, clarified in Mamba: in a positive scenario, the am...

MegaFon, one of the largest mobile operators in Russia, was included in the US sanctions list. Experts don't expect On Wednesday, April 12, the United States imposed sanctions on MegaFon for being owned by the USM Group, which is 49% owned by businessman Alisher Usmanov, follows from a message from the US Treasury. The billionaire (eighth place in the Forbes ranking with a fortune of $14.5 billion...

Sberbank announced the start of work in the Crimea in January of this year, at the same time its first ATMs appeared on the peninsula. According to Aksenov, The first office of Sberbank on the Crimean peninsula will be opened in the center of Simferopol within a few months, then the bank's offices will appear in other cities of Crimea, the head of the region Sergey Aksenov said on his telegram cha...

Privatization and an increase in public debt can become a source of money for building a new model of the Russian economy, Andrey Kostin believes. Business accumulated investment potential, moneythe country hashe wrote in a column for RBCAndrey KostinAndrey KostinAndrey KostinAndrey KostinAndrey KostinAndrey KostinAndrey Kostin Западные санкции разрушили несущие элементы экономики, сложившейся в Р...

The increase in interest rates should not greatly affect the state of Russian banks, according to the Central Bank. It was he who became the catalyst for the fall of banks in the United States: their bond portfolios depreciated, In the event of a sharp increase in interest rates, the bond portfolio of Russian banks will undergo a negative revaluation, but this "will not have a significant impact [...

Shares in Hong Kong's four largest property developer families have fallen by more than a third over the past four years amid falling property prices and coronavirus restrictions. This is reported by the Financial Times (FT). These companies are Lis of CK Asset, Kwoks of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Lees of Henderson Land and Chengs of New World Development. According to the FT, their shares have fall...

from heart disease and cancer The EU could miss out on new heart and cancer drugs due to new patent rules, Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks warned in an interview with The Financial Times (FT). It could also affect investment in Alzheimer 's and obesity if generic drug makers are allowed to create cheaper alternatives. In addition, according to Ricks, the planned reform will accelerate the decline in inv...

The last, tenth package of EU sanctions against Russia was agreed on February 25. Then 96 organizations, as well as bitumen and rubber, fell under the restrictions. According to Izvestia, The European Union may introduce the 11th package of anti-Russian sanctions in April. Brussels is expected to focus on mechanisms to prevent circumvention of already imposed restrictions, including at the expense...

Microsoft announced the suspension of activities in Russia in March 2022, however, Xbox consoles are still sold in the country. Izvestia was told by the company American Microsoft has stopped warranty service for all Xbox consoles in Russia. This applies even to those set-top boxes that were officially imported into the country, Izvestia was told in the technical support of the company, when the c...

The concept of technological development of Russia until 2030 includes 18 areas, including the development of AI, quantum communications,hydrogen energy and promising materials and substances The government has formed a list of important areas of Russia's technological development until 2030: it includes ten "end-to-end technologies" and eight areas of industrial development. Kommersant was inform...

In the next 10-15 years, the growth rate of the Russian economy can be fixed at the level of about 1% per year, experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences believe. In their opinion, the possibilities of budgetary policy today are limited, The growth potential of the Russian economy until 2035 will be limited to 1%, since the factors that contributed to the high growth rates earlier have already be...

In the US, two babies were born with brain damage due to the coronavirus their mothers contracted during pregnancy, according to a study from the University of Miami Health System and the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. Both newborns had seizures, microcephaly, and developmental delay. The infants tested negative for COVID, but the antibody count was very high. According to scient...

Russian stores are faced with a shortage of the Monopoly game Suppliers say parallel import won't work as the games require translationThere is a shortage of the popular board game Monopoly in hobby and entertainment stores. So, the classic Monopoly is not available at retail outlets of the Mosigra network and in Hobby Games stores (owned by Hobby World, which positions itself as the largest publi...

, including “hindered the holding of democratic elections” in the country, and also violated the “territorial integrity of states”,commemorates the White House US President Joe Biden extended for a year a number of anti-Russian sanctions imposed under the pretext of Russian interference in the US elections and after the start of the military operation in Ukraine . The White House announced this. T...

The Chinese authorities have imposed sanctions against the American Hudson University, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the leadership of both organizations. It is reported by AP with reference to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. The reason was the issuance of US transit permits for Taiwanese chief of staff Tsai Ing-wen on March 29-31 and April 4-6 to participate in political ev...

Aircraft CP-140 Aurora Canadian authorities sent a CP-140 Aurora reconnaissance aircraft to Japan to monitor the implementation of UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea. This is stated in a press release from the Canadian Ministry of Defense. "As part of Canada's strategy for action in the Indo-Pacific region, the deployment [of the aircraft] demonstrates Canada's unwavering commitment...

Department of the Treasuryannounced the settlement of a dispute about violation of US sanctions by Mircosoft against Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia.The company disclosed violations “voluntarily” and pledged to pay $3 million The US Treasury Department has reached an agreement with Microsoft to settle a dispute over sanctions violations by the IT giant against Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia: the compan...

The loss of Alfa-Bank for 2022 amounted to ₽117.1 billion and became the largest for it in history. Incomes on the main items increased, but the freezing of assets and currency revaluation had a one-time effect, Alfa-Bank ended 2022 with a loss: its size under RAS amounted to 117.1 billion rubles, follows from the published statements of the credit institution. The last time the bank showed a nega...

The IMF warned of a poor "fragmented world" because of the US and China. According to analysts, this trend also threatens the banking system, Tensions between the US and China are leading to a "fragmentation of the world" and the transfer of production to more friendly jurisdictions, this threatens to cause short-term damage to the global economy of 1% of global GDP in five years and 2% in the lon...

Khabek said that during his visit to Ukraine he was asked why the purchase of Russian uranium is still not under sanctions. The Vice Chancellor noted German Vice Chancellor, Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck called for sanctions against countries that continue to receive uranium from Russia. He stated this at the end of his two-day visit to Kyiv. According to Khabe...