As the country’s oil and gas revenues fall, the government publishes rules for the operation of a “digital passport” and the Russian president celebrates his birthday, Amazon launches satellite prototypes into space, Apple finally hides all Russian content from the site Finland is against increasing subsidies due to its proximity to the Russian Federation and RB continues to monitor news that is interesting for entrepreneurs.
- The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, announced a possible enlargement of the EU in 2030.
- The US Department of Commerce has imposed sanctions against 49 companies from China, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom for aiding the Russian military-industrial complex.
- Seven regions in Finland have requested additional funding from the EU government from 2028, also due to their proximity to Russia (Lapin Kansa).
- Budget revenues from oil and gas decreased by 34.5% to 5.6 trillion rubles in January-September, revenues from other industries cumulatively increased by 26% to 14.1 trillion rubles (Ministry of Finance).
- The Ministry of Digital Development has published draft rules for the presentation of a “digital passport” (QR code of State Services): it will replace a paper document when purchasing alcohol, tobacco or train tickets, but it will not be an analogy complete of the original. .
- Apple, which previously stopped updating Russian content on its official portal, has now hidden all pages with Russian translations; only reference materials are available.
- Billionaire Sergei Gordeev, who stepped down as CEO of PIK in the fall of ’22, reduced his stake in the company to 32%.
- The position of general director of the national IT corporation “T1 Holding” will soon be occupied by the director of the technological development department of the retail business of VTB, Alexey Fetisov (“Kommersant”).
- In addition, the government allocated more than 632 million rubles from the reserve fund for the development of mobile communications base station equipment based on OpenRAN.
- According to the results of the third quarter, the average cost of secondary real estate in Russia increased by 8% year-on-year, up to 92 thousand rubles. per 1 square meter meter.
- The Compare market found that 89% of Russians consider it necessary to teach children financial knowledge from 6-7 years old.
- Amazon even has two important news: the launch of ULA’s Atlas V launch vehicle with two prototype satellites for the Amazon Kuiper Protoflight mission and the start of sales of Ubisoft computer games on a special Luna cloud service.
- And Vladimir Putin will celebrate his 71st birthday for the 20th time as president of the Russian Federation.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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