Thursday, November 7, 2024
The growth rate of Russia's GDP in 2021 is unlikely to exceed 4.2%, the last two months, business activity has been declining against the background of the exhaustion of the recovery growth of the economy, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) Maxim Reshetnikov at a...
Russians started buying more alcohol - excluding beer, cider, mead, and similar drinks, in September sales increased by 3.6% compared to the same period last year, and amounted to 17.1 million decaliters of alcohol, according to the National Union for the Protection of Consumer Rights. In particular, experts found out...
According to Yevgeny Muraev, a former deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, the Russian state-owned firm Gazprom benefits from Europe's decarbonization. The country's gas transmission system (GTS) capacity, according to the lawmaker, is 145 billion cubic meters of gas. At the same time, the total capacity of gas pipelines transiting Ukrainian...
The most common misconception regarding self-employed people is that they can't work for hire; however, this isn't true; self-employment may be paired with labor under an employment contract, RIA reports citing SberUslugi. Self-employment, contrary to common belief, does not imply full-time work. This is a false assertion. Work under an...
The HSE Development Center's latest newsletter "Comments on Government and Business" is devoted to a study of imports in September 2021, Kommersant reports. According to the Federal Customs Service, the cost of importing products from non-CIS nations increased by 23% in the last month compared to a year ago, but...
The size of maternity capital in 2022 will be revised taking into account actual inflation, head of the Ministry of Labor of Russia Anton Kotyakov told reporters on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women's Forum. Starting from 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested switching to indexation of mother capital not...
There are no grounds for the introduction of a federal lockdown, the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said, Russian media reported. Matvienko noted that the situation with the spread of coronavirus in Russia is not easy. However, at the moment there are no grounds for introducing such drastic...
The size of Russia's international reserves in August for the first time exceeded 618.2 billion US dollars, Russian media reported. "This is a historic record - during the entire existence of the Bank of Russia, such indicators have not been achieved," says the report of the Accounts Chamber of the...
The Moscow authorities do not plan to put further restrictions on restaurants and cafés, nor do they intend to employ QR codes to identify visitors. Dmitry Levitsky, the chairman of the restaurant alliance "Real," who was present at a meeting with industry executives in the Moscow mayor's office, said...
The top ten Russian retailers changed at the conclusion of the first half of 2021. Auchan and Metro, the two last-placed hypermarket companies, made their imprint on the rating. The daily "Kommersant" reported on this, using data from the analytical firm Infoline. Instead, Ozon and the Svetofor discounter chain...