Results of the week: COVID restrictions, Finiko's Tiffany's accusation and debts

covid restrictions 

On July 29, Lyubov Avdonina, deputy HEAD of Rospotrebnadzor for the Republic of Tatarstan, said that today there is no need to introduce new COVID restrictions in the republic. The morbidity situation is assessed as stable, although the number of cases is increasing. 

According to Avdonina, no people infected with the centaur strain have yet been identified in Tatarstan. But 1309 cases of "omicron" have been registered.

Chief epidemiologist, specialist in immunoprophylaxis of the Ministry of HEALTH of the Republic of Tatarstan Dmitry Lopushov said that collective immunity to covid-19 in the republic is 6.9%, falling over the past 3 weeks.

Masks on "Kamaz"

On the same day, a message was published in the Kamaz PJSC group on the VKontakte social network stating that from August 1, the company will introduce a mask regime in offices and crowded places in production (checkpoints, canteens, and so on).

The decision was made due to the increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in the country, the region and at Kamaz in particular. Employees were also urged to revaccinate.

Tiffany's charge

On July 27, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Irina Volk, reported that Anna Serikova, known as Tiffany, was charged with fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). She will also be attracted under Part 1 of Art. 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for the management of a structural unit that is part of a criminal community. 

According to preliminary data, Serikova was the head of the structural unit of the Finiko criminal community, which operated in the Rostov Region and the Krasnodar Territory. For attracting more than $ 5 million to the pyramid, she received the status of "director of the network" and led several top managers.

tax debts 

The debt to the consolidated budget of Tatarstan, according to the results of the first half of 2022, amounted to 10.7 billion rubles, which is 23% higher than a year earlier. This was announced on July 26 by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov. According to him, the debts of enterprises in industries that are supervised by the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Transport of the Republic have grown significantly.  

South wind in Kazan

On July 26, the press service of Kazan Airport reported that the new Turkish airline Southwind is starting flights from Kazan to Antalya. They start on July 4th. The head of the Association of Travel Agencies of the Republic of Tatarstan, Ramil Miftakhov, told RBC Tatarstan that the emergence of a new airline that operates flights to Turkey will not affect the cost of tours.

Trap for wheels

On July 25, the head of the transport committee of the executive committee of Kazan, Amir Safin, said that in the first half of the year, 269 blockers were installed on the wheels of cars left in city paid parking lots with removed numbers. Their use, according to the executive committee, increased the amount of payment by 27%, the number of empty spaces increased by an average of 30%, the number of parking sessions - by more than 70%, and the amount of parking fees increased by 27%. 

In the first half of 2021, due to cars with removed license plates in city parking lots, the budget lost revenue by 9 million rubles. According to the results of the same period of the current year, the amount of lost income decreased to 100 thousand rubles.

Billions on Gorkovskoye Highway

On the second stage, the reconstruction of the Gorky highway in the area from the street. Musical to the M-7 Volga highway will spend over 5.5 billion rubles. “From Muzykalnaya Street to the M-7 highway, on a section of 11.5 km, it is planned to reconstruct the Gorky Highway with the organization of continuous traffic by eliminating existing traffic lights that cause traffic jams. Currently, design and survey work is underway. In August, we plan to receive an expert opinion,” said Igor Kulyazhev, deputy head of the city’s executive committee, on July 25.

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