The first batch of goods ordered from abroad through CDEK.Shopping has already been delivered to the recipients.The company explained the delay by the need to urgently look for new routes and payment schemes “in current realities” The delay in the delivery of goods ordered from abroad through the new CDEK.Shopping service is due to changed external circumstances that have turned the delivery into ...
According to Ruben Vardanyan, the usual postulates turned out to be discarded, and in the new world, not only new coalitions are needed, butbut also new moral leaders and pillars Ruben Vardanyan Globalization has not led to harmonization, but, on the contrary, has in many ways increased the polarization of society. There are signs of systemic chaos, from which it is necessary to look for a way out...
Vardanyan So, the pictures of crises that we used to fear - market crises, financial, corporate, epidemiological, military and other cataclysms - faded at once before the current civilizational upheaval. It shakes not only the superstructure of world systems, but also its basis. It is not just commodity, financial, technological platforms that are crumbling - the value pillars are shaking. In a ma...
Russian Imperial Movement" In 2020, the Russian Imperial Movement was recognized as a terrorist organization in the United States. Under sanctionshit Ukrainian Stanislav Shevchuk and Russian Alexander Zhuchkovsky US Department of the Treasury The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated two "key supporters" of the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM), a nationalist organ...
Russian Export Center Prepares for Cryptocurrency Settlement TestsThe Russian Export Center is considering the possibility of making payments in cryptocurrencies. This was announced at SPIEF by its head Veronika Nikishina. The Russian Export Center (REC) is actively working to establish alternative payment mechanisms, Veronika Nikishina, head of this development institute, said at the St. Petersbu...
Mir cards of sub-sanctioned banks may not work in all ATMs and POS-terminals in Turkey, where this payment system is accepted.A number of Turkish banks make a distinction between the cards of sanctioned and non-sanctioned Russian banks Turkish acquiring banks may not accept cards from the Russian Mir payment system if the bank that issued it is under Western sanctions. Vladimir Komlev, head of the...
Kazakhstan does not renounce allied obligations to Russia, but interaction with Moscow will be built within the framework of the sanctions regime,said the President of the country Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Kazakhstan will comply with all the restrictions that the world community has imposed on Russia, although work with Moscow will continue, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in an interview ...
Vladimir Chizhov Exports from Russia to the European Union doubled in the first quarter of 2022, Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel during the broadcast of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). “Even after six packages of sanctions, Europe, strange as it may sound, remains our largest trade and eco...
Riga previously imported 90% of the required volume of gas from Russia, but the decision not to continue purchases will not be reconsidered, Karins said.He also called for a change in NATO's defense strategy and an increase in arms supplies to Kyiv. Latvia does not intend to resume gas imports from Russia, despite the difficulties after the refusal of supplies; a way should be found to impose sanc...
Vologda milkin Russian packaging may appear on store shelves this year, Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko said. Import-substituted packaging will not be white, but gray, The Russian authorities have begun an experiment to replace foreign packaging for products with domestic counterparts, Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko, who oversees the agro-industrial complex, said in an inter...
NKR experts analyzed the resistance of key sectors of the Russian economy to sanctions pressure. In their opinion, the greatest negative impact of Western sanctionswill have on aviation,telecommunications and ferrous metallurgy The Russian economy faced unprecedented external pressure in 2022, and its various sectors turned out to be differently prepared for the new reality, experts from the NKR r...
With the withdrawal of large companies from Russia, US authorities"were caught off guard by the potential side effects," Bloomberg learned. However, the American administration does not consider its sanctions policy a mistake, A number of officials in the US presidential administration have expressed concern that sanctions , "instead of affecting the Russian authorities, exacerbate inflation, wors...
According to Washington, despite “thousands of sanctions,” Moscow is likely toearns more profits due to rising fuel prices The United States is concerned that anti-Russian sanctions imposed against the backdrop of a special operation in Ukraine may become excessive, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said during a speech at a congressional hearing broadcast by C-SPAN. “In the United States al...
Until next year, retail chains will be able to buy or lease the space of companies that have left Russia,without looking back at antitrust restrictions on market share On June 15, a new procedure for the purchase and lease of retail facilities and premises owned by foreign companies that left Russia came into force. President Vladimir Putin signed the law on this on June 11. Under the current legi...
Sportmaster bought Go Sport in 2019. On April 27, the Polish authorities put Go Sport on the sanctions list along with 35 companies from Russia and Belarus. According to the newspaper, Sportmaster may close its Polish sports goods network Go Sport, for which the group paid an estimated €40 million three years ago, Kommersant reports, citing sources in the retail market. Sportmaster bought Go Sport...
The European Commission has provided clarifications on the extent to which the execution of existing contracts can be used to continue business with Russia.There are fewer options for applying this exception to the sanctions The Framework Agreements cannot be considered as valid contracts for the purposes of implementing anti-Russian sanctions, and the extension of the contract also cannot claim t...
The head of Rostec Sergey Chemezov called sanctions"unprecedented" and acknowledged that the Russians had lost access to certain goods,but urged to "keep a sober mind" and "to be aware of the scale of the tasks" Sergei Chemezov Russia must remain part of the global world, where development is impossible without international partnerships, said Sergey Chemezov, head of the Rostec state corporation,...
The director said that Abramovich helped modern Russian culture a lot, including paying for Andrey Zvyagintsev's treatment for COVID in Germany.The billionaire is under EU and UK sanctions Kirill Serebrennikov Director Kirill Serebrennikov explained his call to lift sanctions against billionaire Roman Abramovich with the help of a businessman for contemporary Russian culture. He said this in an in...
According to the deputy chairman of the Security Council, without Russian resources, Western countries will not be able to provide citizens with food and warmth. He noted Western countries are beginning to understand that without Russian resources they will not be able to avoid inflation and economic decline, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, said on Telegram. Accor...
According to Vučić, from November Serbia will have to stop importing Russian oil. Previously, he stated Serbia will not be able to import Russian oil from November 1 due to EU sanctions, President Aleksandar Vucic said, RTS reports. According to him, only in Obrenovac (TEP TENT-A) 350 tons of fuel oil are consumed daily, since the coal is not dry enough and of good quality. And in winter, the cons...
The Ministry of Finance published only the total amount of executed expenses, refusing to provide data for specific areas,including under the section "National Defense" The Ministry of Finance decided to limit the distribution of budget reporting due to Western sanctions, the ministry's press service told RBC. “In connection with the pressure exerted by the United States , the EU, Great Britain an...
and Navyprohibited from entering Russia. The list included journalists from leading British media, including the BBC, The Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail, The Russian Foreign Ministry has included in the sanctions list of journalists from the British media, including the BBC and Sky News, as well as commanders of the types of troops of the armed forces of Britain, according to the website of...
The owner of the largest container operator, Sergei Shishkarev, proposed creating a second "trading artery" of the Eastern Hemisphere. It will go from Southeast Asia through India and Iran to Russia, Central Asia, Against the backdrop of unprecedented Western sanctions, the chairman of the board of directors of the Delo group of companies (which owns the largest container operator in Russia, Trans...
Earlier, Switzerland joined the sixth EU sanctions package. It provides, inter alia, restrictions against the National Settlement Depository, The Moscow Exchange has been suspending trading in Swiss francs since June 14, according to a message on the exchange's website. The suspension of operations is due to "difficulties in making settlements in the Swiss franc", which is associated with the sanc...
Dmitry Peskov Russia and its friendly countries are looking for new ways to interact against the background of the imposition of sanctions and the emergence of other risks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with TASS. “The situation is not easy, it can rather be described as difficult in terms of this unprecedented economic war. But there is no evil without good. This situation ...
Exhibition “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Not everyone will be taken into the future” at the New Tretyakov Gallery in 2018 A few years ago, the leading museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg hosted an exhibition of one of the most famous contemporary Russian artists in the West, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, with the intriguing title “Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future…”. The name of the exhibition wa...
The world economy could collapse if the West issues the same “red card” to China, which, according to the head of VTB Bank Andrei Kostin, was issued to Russia, Senator Alexei Pushkov said in his Telegram channel. Earlier, in a column for RBC, Kostin, speaking about the priorities of the financial sector under the sanctions, noted that now access to the world market must be earned by “playing by th...
The workload of glass factories in Russia decreased by 30%, and production also decreased. Flat glass sales fell due to reduced domestic demand, disruptions in logistics and sanctions. The load on the production of sheet glass, which is used primarily in construction, has decreased by 30%, follows from a comment by the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, received by RBC. In May 2....
The French regulator considered the disclosure of the addresses of the house and villa of the Russian businessman "proportionate" to the circumstances Aleksey Kuzmichev The Supreme Court of France rejected the claim of Russian businessman, co-founder of Letter One and Alfa Group Alexei Kuzmichev, who challenged the publication by the country's authorities of data on the location of his house in Pa...
Andrey Kostin The events of recent months have changed each of us and each of us in different dimensions. And of course, changes are inevitable in all key areas of our country's life. Over the 30 years of the existence of modern Russia, certain tools and guidelines have appeared that have become familiar and convenient. And their loss should not throw us off balance. Today it is necessary to sober...