Two top managers of Baltika were detained, Russian Post stopped using Yandex rovers: the main thing on November 16

World

• Banks in Israel began to restrict securities transactions by Russians even with an Israeli passport. The segregation of accounts occurs at the request of the Belgian depositary Euroclear.
• The Finnish authorities announced the closure of four checkpoints on the border with the Russian Federation; They will not allow people to pass from November 18, 2023 to February 18, 2024. We are talking about the Vaalimaa, Nuijamaa, Imatra and Niirala border crossings.

• The Russians set a 10-year record for the number of real estate transactions in Spain. In January-June, their number increased by 50.2% and amounted to 2,137. In most cases, Russians buy objects rather than sell them.

Russia

• The restaurateur and founder of the Tanuki and Yorsh chains, Alexander Orlov, is included in the list of wanted criminals. According to the media, he is suspected of “causing particularly significant material damage to an organized group”; According to this article, Orlov could face up to five years in prison. Previously, the businessman sold all Russian assets and left the country.

• Representatives of Russian companies at the meeting with Putin discussed scenarios for increasing the investment attractiveness of the economy, as well as the conditions for completing the transfer of companies to Russian jurisdiction. Participants in the meeting stated that they were being treated illegally abroad.

Business

• VimpelCom acquired 12% of the Russian corporate training platform Kampus. With this purchase, the telecommunications operator hopes to strengthen its portfolio of ventures. The day before, RB.RU learned of another investment by VimpelCom: since November 8, the operator owns 10% of the restaurant cloud solutions service Restik.

• Digital financial asset (DFA) platform Atomize has changed CEO for the first time since its founding: Alexey Ilyasov, who previously served as Deputy CEO of IT and Digitalization at Interros, became CEO.

• Ozon’s revenue in the third quarter of 2023 increased by 77% year-on-year and sales volume (GMV) increased by 140% to 450.8 billion rubles.

  The market also raised its forecast for the entire year 2023.

• Two senior managers of Baltika were arrested. They were suspected of having transferred the rights to the company’s brands to the Danish Carlsberg group.

• Tinkoff opened a new headquarters in Moscow. The flexible office space was created based on the “city within a city” concept and is located in the AFI Square business center. The new headquarters features a clinic with a full range of VHI services, cafes and restaurants, pharmacy, beauty salon, gym, massage room and more.

• The food delivery service “Cocina en el Distrito”, in response to consumer requests, launched the sale of daily products. The assortment includes dry and wet wipes, batteries, plasters, toilet paper and reusable eco-friendly shopping bags – a total of 200 items.

• Since the beginning of September, Russian Post has stopped delivering parcels from branches using Yandex Rovers. The cost of this shipment was 1 ruble.
• Two Russian advertising companies have opened representative offices in the United Arab Emirates: Igronik and SA Media, writes Vedomosti. Both plan to work with local partners who want to enter the Russian market and with Russian partners who are interested in the UAE markets.

Transport

• Serial production of the new Evolute i-SKY electric crossover has begun at the Motorinvest Lipetsk plant. The cost, taking into account state support, starts at 3,995 billion rubles.

Technology and media

• Odnoklassniki launched a model based on machine learning that limits intrusive dating and communication with unwanted interlocutors on the social network.

• Yandex showed new products for YaC 2023: a new Yandex station, an electric bike for couriers, maps with stories inside them, and a sports video analysis system.

• The Ministry of Digital Development published a draft resolution on amendments to the document regulating the granting of IT subsidies (it was suspended to conduct an audit of the awarded subsidies and update the composition of the commission that verifies applications), RBC reported.

• Whoosh shared the results of testing scooters with a computer vision module. The devices successfully recognized people and read the types of road markings and surfaces. Thanks to this, the device itself adjusts the speed depending on the environment.

The market also raised its forecast for the entire year 2023.