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Fintech services have appeared in Turkey that allow you to use the Mir card and the Fast Payment System. A year ago, Turkish banks stopped accepting Russian Mir cards due to a warning from the US authorities Russian bank cards can work in Turkey through special fintech services. The HEAD of the National Payment Card System (NSCP, Mir card operator) Vladimir Komlev spoke about this in an interview ...

The country intends to adopt a corresponding bill soon . it will affect the assets of Russian companies worth €35 million. The Kremlin warned that RUSSIA would respond to such actions with legal proceedings Margus TsahknaEstonia in the near future intends to pass a bill that will allow the confiscation of Russian assets; it will be a pioneer in the EU in this regard , the HEAD of the Republic’s Fo...

About $280 billion of Russian assets are blocked around the world, most of them are in the EU , the US Treasury reported . In 2022, the total value of Russia's frozen assets was estimated at $330 billion. Moscow considers this illegalThe total value of frozen Russian assets abroad is estimated at approximately $28......

11 members of the Trickbot hacker group were subject to American and British sanctions . The US accuses her of attacks on companies and the country's government , as well as hospitals during the covid-19 pandemic The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has published a new sanctions list that includes 11 people. The list states that the sanctions were imposed for activi...

The G7 countries have decided not to revise the price ceiling for Russianoil at $60 a barrel, although some countries in the EU have come up with such an initiative, REUTERS learnedThe G7 countries (Great Britain , Germany , Italy , CANADA , France , Japan and the United States ) do not plan to revise the price ceiling for Russian oil at $6......

18 planes became the property of a Russian insurance company, which paid for them the funds of the Irish AerCap. After the imposition of sanctions, the company stopped working with Russian carriers, they leased ships from itThe Russian airline Aeroflot has completed the settlement of a dispute with the Irish company AerCap on 18 aircraft that were leased from it, RBC was told in the press service ...

Вторую строчку рейтинга занимает Татьяна Литвиненко - супруга ректора Санкт-Петербургского горного университета В ладимира Литвиненко (№40 в рейтинге богатейших бизнесменов России). Сообщается, что она получила от мужа в мае 2022 года 20,6% акций производителя минеральных удобрений «Фосагро». В том же мае 2......

The EU authorities are not negotiating with RUSSIA on the exchange of frozen assets, RBC was confirmed in the European Commission. As the FT wrote earlier, they are unlikely to be possible in the near future.The European Commission is not aware of the proposal to exchange frozen assets with Russia, an EC representative said in response to a request from RBC. “We are not aware of such an offer, and...

Brazilian Embraer stopped serving Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane back in 2019 due to US sanctions against the founder of PMC Wagner. They emphasized that they did not have additional information about the crash of an Embraer ERG 135 aircraft (tail number RA-02795) at Pulkovo Airport, May 2023Brazilian Embraer, the manufacturer of Yevgeny Prigozhin's crashed business jet, said it stopped servicing the a...

The scheme for exchanging assets with foreigners is first supposed to be extended to investors with portfolios up to ₽100 thousand, RBC learned. But without permission from regulators in the EU , non-residents may not want to participate, lawyers fear View of the building of the Central Bank of RussiaThe exchange of frozen assets of foreigners and Russians under the scheme announced by the Ministr...

Boris TitovA sharp increase in the key rate by the Central Bank is similar to a doctor's decision to prescribe antibiotics to a patient , but side effects are inevitable, business ombudsman Boris Titov said. “The Central Bank raised the key rate more than expected. Now 12%. Trying to crush the disease , the DOCTOR hastily injected a double dose of an antibiotic, but any antibiotic has side effects...

Разморозка активов для последующего обмена в первую очередь затронет бумаги розничных инвесторов, заявил ЦБ. Иностранцы смогут приобрести у российских инвесторов «заблокированные» зарубежные бумаги за счет денег со счетов типа С Механизм обмена заблокированнными активами, над которым работают Минфин и Центробанк, предусматривает в первую очередь разморозку бумаг розничных инвесторов, сообщил РБК п...

The fact that the FAS decided to check the validity of the prices of large market participants, RBC sources reported a week ago. The department said that two poultry producers were issued ordersThe Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) sent inquiries to the three largest poultry MEAT producers to verify the validity of their wholesale selling prices, as well as to animal feed manufacturers and repres...

Under the new British sanctions fell, including Iranian and Belarusian individuals and companies. London promised to maintain restrictions until Moscow pays compensationThe UK imposed sanctions against the former HEAD of the Moscow office of the Swiss UBS Anselm Schmukki, the head of the Moscow office of the Swiss DuLac Capital Ashot Mkrtychev. The full list is published on the website of the Brit...

Former counterintelligence officer Charles McGonigal has previously pleaded not guilty to circumventing sanctions and working for Oleg Deripaska, but may soon "wish to change his statement," the COURT said. Businessman considers sanctions illegal Charles McGonigalThe former HEAD of counterintelligence of the New York office of the FBI, Charles McGonigal, is ready to plead guilty in connection with...

Moscow can initiate an international document that would prohibit the enforcement of foreign judgments related to sanctions. it will be a kind of "multilateral shield", said the HEAD of the Ministry of Justice Chuichenko Konstantin Chuichenko The Ministry of Justice of RUSSIA allowed the creation of an international treaty that would allow not to execute COURT decisions made in connection with the...

M-Invest, which is allegedly engaged in gold mining in Sudan, the Sudanese Maroe Gold and Al-Solag Mining Company, as well as Lobaye Invest Sarlu and Sewa Security, operating in the Central African Republic, fell under sanctions for “links with PMC Wagner ” .The UK Treasury has included in the sanctions lists for Mali, the Central African Republic and Sudan eight individuals and five legal entitie...

The Ministry of Finance proposed to expand the capabilities of companies that have moved to special administrative regions (“Russian offshores”). In particular, they can receive new tax benefits, including when dividends are paid to them Bridge to Russky Island The Ministry of Finance proposed a list of tax changes that will expand the opportunities for companies when moving to “Russian offshores”...

Serbia does not impose sanctions against Moscow for moral reasons, President Aleksandar Vucic said in an interview with Pink TV channel. “The moral position of Serbia is most important. Are we making money from this or not? No. Do we have many problems because of this? Yes, we have. Am I sure we'll keep going? No, I'm not sure," he said. Vučić has repeatedly stated that Serbia is under pressure be...

Vladimir Putin and Andrey Kostin Sanctions have helped RUSSIA build immunity , VTB chief Andrey Kostin said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The transcript of the conversation was published on the Kremlin website. “As for the sanctions that were applied against us, you know, maybe thanks to them we developed a certain immunity and increased our sovereignty in this matter,” he said. Kost...

Since the beginning of the special operation, the EU countries have frozen €207 billion of Russian assets, including the assets of the Central Bank, the European Commission reported. The EC is currently discussing the possibility of using the proceeds from these funds to rebuild Ukraine Didier Reynders The amount of Russian assets frozen after the start of the special operation by the EU countries...

Japan withdrew construction and engineering works at the Arctic LNG 2 and the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 projects from sanctions. This could be influenced by the expectation of growth in demand in the country for liquefied natural gas (LNG) Japan decided to make an exception to the sanctions, which imply a ban on the provision of construction and engineering services in RUSSIA, which were adopted a...

The list includes two companies from the Central African Republic: gold mining company Midas Resources and diamond trading company Diamville. The WSJ previously wrote that the US postponed PMC-related sanctions due to the events of June 23-24 The US sanctions list associated with Russia's "malicious" activities abroad includes four legal entities and one individual. All of them, according to the U...

The United States was going to announce new sanctions against the Wagner PMC on June 27, but changed its mind for fear that their actions would look like “support for one side or another” The situation in Rostov-on-Don after the announcement of the departure of the Wagner PMC fighters The US authorities have decided to postpone the introduction of new sanctions against Wagner PMC due to the action...

In 2022, Russian companies transferred ₽1.1 trillion in dividends to foreign shareholders, almost three times less than in 2021. Investors from the usa accounted for the most , and dividends to Cyprus fell three times, follows from the data of the Federal Tax Service At the end of 2022, the amount of dividends payable to foreign organizations amounted to RUB 1.1 trillion. This is almost three time...

Foreign Ministry in response to Canberra sanctions "as part of the Russophobic campaign of the collective West" banned the entry of 48 Australians - municipal deputies, military-industrial complex employees and journalists Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow The Russian Foreign Ministry has banned 48 Australian citizens from entering the country. These are contractors of ...

Foreign states and legal entities paid RUSSIA in 2022 24.4% of the plan on debts. The volume of payments amounted to ₽34 billion against the plan of ₽138 billion. Violation of the payment infrastructure makes it difficult to service debts, experts say The amounts of repayments in terms of the principal debt on state financial and EXPORT loans provided by Russia to foreign countries and legal entit...

US sanctions are forcing countries to look for alternatives to the DOLLAR, said US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, speaking at a hearing in the House Financial Services Committee. Congressman Vicente Gonzalez asked if the US should be more thoughtful in imposing sanctions so as not to "create paranoia" and force others to abandon the dollar. “It is true that when we impose sanctions, countries th...

Brussels has been developing the 11th package of sanctions against RUSSIA since the beginning of March, it will focus on preventing the circumvention of restrictions. According to Politico, at the June 7 talks, EU ambassadorsagain failed to reach an agreement on sanctions EU ambassadors in closed talks on June 7 failed to reach an agreement on the draft 11th package of sanctions against Russia, Po...

associated with anti-government protests that took place in Moldova in February-March.The Russian Foreign Ministry called the accusations of interference in the affairs of the republic unfounded The United States imposed sanctions against seven Russians and one company, according to the website of the Office for Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury. They were included in the...