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A criminal investigation of large-scale fraud in the execution of a state contract of a public utility business has been initiated by the Investigative Department of the Russian FSB Directorate for Crimea and Sevastopol against a group of people, including the heads of two subcontractors at the same time,...
A package of financial assistance measures for catering businesses has been authorized by Moscow. In addition, the mayor's cabinet said on Tuesday that the program of concessional loans to small and medium-sized enterprises in the capital has been extended until the end of 2021. According to the mayor's cabinet, a...
A Moscow court upheld the judgment of the first instance on a fine against TikTok for refusing to erase content encouraging children to engage in an illegal protest activity, Russian agency TASS reports. A magistrate court fined TikTok in April for refusing to delete appeals encouraging adolescents to take part...
About 50% of public catering establishments in Moscow announced their work in COVID-free mode, as announced on Tuesday by the first deputy chief of staff of the mayor and government of the city, Aleksey Nemeryuk, who heads the capital's department of trade and services. Nemeryuk told TASS that to date,...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has reviewed its forecast for the recovery rates of Russian economy in 2021 by 0.3 percentage points, Interfax reported citing official sources of the bank. According to the EBRD, the estimates provided in the report for Russia's GDP growth in 2021 show growth...
The Bank of Russia in July may consider raising the key rate in increments from 0.25 to 1 percentage point, said the head of the bank Elvira Nabiullina. Since the beginning of spring, the Bank of Russia has raised its key rate following the results of already three meetings -...
The Ministry of Agriculture does not expect a significant increase in wholesale prices for bakery products in Russia, TASS reports citing an official statement of the ministry. "Producer prices for bakery products are at a stable level, and the Ministry of Agriculture does not expect their significant increase in the...
The Russian government is working on a proactive mechanism for assigning an old-age pension and social supplements to it, so that representatives of the older generation can receive it without "going through the courts and filling out papers," Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday during a meeting...
Disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT payment system would damage the European economy, said the leader of the party Alternative for Germany, Bundestag deputy Tino Krupalla in an interview with RIA Novosti. "I hope that such steps will not be taken, because it will isolate the country. I also do not...
Additional funds in the amount of 25 billion rubles for the fight against coronavirus, the allocation order of which was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, will go to regional budgets within 30 days. This was announced on Saturday by the press service of the Cabinet. "Some 25 billion rubles...