New clinic, lack of money for reform and the "new 90s"

RBC Petersburg with a selection of the most important news of the working week

Long-term traffic restrictions are being introduced in several districts of St. Petersburg. Basically, the traffic pattern is changed by road repairs, reconstruction of heating networks and gas pipes, the State Administrative and Technical Inspectorate of the Northern Capital (GATI) reports.

Petersburg created a bot to collect "signals" about fakes

The St. Petersburg branch of the United Russia party has applied new technologies to combat fakes. To report “false and malicious information,” politicians created a chat bot in the Telegram messenger. With its help, "United Russia" intend to bring all the "signals" of citizens about suspicious information directly to Roskomnadzor.

New 90s: will investors be able to make money during the crisis

The reduction of the discount rate of the Central Bank was another sharp change in the financial rules of the game that took place in Russia in a very short time. In a situation of extreme instability, some Russians have chosen the strategy of withdrawing funds from bank and brokerage accounts and keeping them “under the mattress”. However, such a path will inevitably lead to a strong depreciation of money, RBC Petersburg experts emphasized in previous publications of the series of opinions “What will happen to the money?”. Whether the right moment has come to invest in financial instruments and whether determined investors will be able to make serious money, as happened during the crisis of the 1990s, RBC Petersburg's interlocutors from the investment and banking sectors told.

Against the trend: a major deal was concluded on the St. Petersburg office market

A major deal has been concluded on the St. Petersburg office real estate market. IT-company TRACE studio signed an agreement with the business center "Obvodny 28" for the lease of office space with an area of ​​3.1 thousand square meters. m, according to the company Maris, which acted as a broker of the transaction. The St. Petersburg company TRACE studio develops art content for computer games. According to the SPARK information system, the company employs about 160 employees. The deal for the lease of such a large office space is out of the general trend associated with the contraction of the rental market due to the withdrawal of foreign IT companies from Russia.

St. Petersburg lacks money for transport reform

The transport reform, which started in St. Petersburg on April 1 this year, may not be implemented as originally planned. This statement was made by Vice-Governor of the city Maxim Sokolov at a meeting of the working group of the State Council of the Russian Federation in Kazan on April 19. According to Sokolov, the city lacks about 4 billion rubles for the implementation of the second and third stages of the introduction of a new model of transport service. It is in this amount that the amount of federal subsidies necessary for the purchase of buses running on natural gas fuel is estimated.

St. Petersburg network of opticians "Happy Look" entered a new market

The St. Petersburg network of opticians Happy Look has opened the first ophthalmological clinic under the brand of the same name on Ligovsky Prospekt. Investments in the project, according to the founder and owner of the network, Viktor Gordeychuk, amounted to 250 million rubles. Happy Look has been trying to open its own clinic since 2018. Market players say that now is not the best time - the demand for medical services in the city has fallen.

“Money is not a liquid asset”: where and how to save funds

The Central Bank of Russia lowered the discount rate, thus marking a trend towards a decrease in the profitability of ruble deposits. Where will the money of Russian citizens, temporarily settled on high-yield ruble deposits, flow? At the discussion “What will happen to the money?”, held by RBC Petersburg, experts spoke about the flight of capital abroad and how segments of the Russian economy are preserved in which investments can be “parked”.

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