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- The Hungarian Foreign Ministry stated that the country will not approve the 12th package of EU sanctions against the Russian Federation if it includes the gas, oil and nuclear energy sectors.
- From January to September 2023, cement production in Russia increased by 3% (compared to 2022) and consumption by 5% (Soyuzcement).
- The first three quarters changed the landscape of the market for physical copies of console games (PlayStation, XBox, Nintendo): retail sales fell by 8.3% year-on-year in physical terms (up to 1.1 million units) and by 6% in monetary terms. In general terms (up to 3.4 billion rubles), and in the markets, on the contrary, they grew by 8-10%.
- The Moscow City Council approved the development of the territory of the Savelovsky shopping center: 7.5 hectares will accommodate a shopping center (90.2 thousand m2), office space (32.9 thousand m2) and a hotel (64 thousand m2). .).
- In October 2023, Russians’ demand for furniture increased sharply (on average, by 35%, according to VseInstrumenty.ru), and buyers were most interested in stools (they belong to the furniture category kitchen, which grew by 235%). living room furniture (189%) and hallway furniture (112%).
- AvtoVAZ confirmed its plans to expand the color palette of the Lada Vesta and add a new non-metallic coriander black and brown to the “Glacial” white and the “Platinum” metallic silver.
- The Google Bard AI chatbot can now be configured to respond in real time and the program can be interrupted mid-sentence.
- The Nouvelle Tribune newspaper, citing problems with the Galileo satellite navigation project, whose business cannot cope with the abandonment of the Soyuz aircraft carriers, claims that anti-Russian sanctions have made Europe dependent on SpaceX and Elon Musk.
- Elon Musk himself, at an internal corporate conference in honor of the anniversary of the acquisition of the ex-Twitter, said that he wants to turn X into an “app for everything”: dating, learning, commerce, etc., and X’s digital services .should “replace your bank” by the end of 2024.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB

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