Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Rosstat will change the procedure for determining the financial situation of Russians, including in the assessment system provided to citizens social assistance and assets owned by citizens, Russian media informed. In particular, Rosstat will change the assessment of the situation of large families, the elderly, and the disabled. Rosstat has placed...
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave instructions for the development of the Far Eastern Federal District (DFO), the Kremlin website reports. In particular, the government will consider the issue of payment of one million rubles to families living in the Far Eastern Federal District, in which a third and subsequent child...
In Dubai, Yandex plans to employ courier robots to deliver meals. Sergey Kirillov, the company's director of business development for unmanned technology, discussed this at the international expo GITEX, Vedomosti writes. "We want to start delivering in Dubai since our analysis revealed that one-third of the city is appropriate for...
According to a source in Nord Stream 2 AG's press office, the operator is eager to supply the market with more dependable gas transport capabilities as soon as feasible. "Our aim is to offer more dependable gas transport capabilities to the market as soon as feasible. We will keep you...
The next meeting of the Bank of Russia's key rate committee will be held on October 22. None of the experts contacted by Vedomosti expects the key rate to be maintained, much alone reduced, at the next meeting. The vast majority (13 out of 20 questioned experts) anticipate a...
Russia and the United States have submitted to the United Nations General Assembly a joint resolution on responsible state conduct in cyberspace. According to Kommersant, the paper is unexpected considering the two nations' long-standing rivalry and having supported competing cybersecurity negotiating structures at the UN. Moscow and Washington believe...
According to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, the Russian government has no plans to alter the personal income tax in the next three years. The minister opposes progressive taxation because "large billionaires will find a method to evade taxes," and "the middle class would suffer", Kommersant writes.  "We are usually...
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...
Russia in 2021 will set a new record for gas consumption within the country but at the same time Moscow is also ready to increase gas supplies to the EU countries, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Russian media. Gas demand has also grown at a record in the...