Russia is increasing the quota of foreign workers, plans to install automated control systems at two of the country’s airports, the country is experiencing growing demand for hotel rental space, social network X wants to attract small businesses, and Open AI is postponing the opening. from a GPT store. RB continues to follow the news that interests businessmen in Russia and the world.
- For the first time since March 2022, Russia has once again been one of the main suppliers of cereals to EU countries (Eurostat).
- Lukoil received permission to acquire 2.6 billion shares of EL5-Energo, owned by UROC Limited.
- Ministry of Transport: Automated passport control systems will appear in Vnukovo and Koltsovo in 2024.
- The expansion of sanctions lists led to an increase in the volume of Russian assets frozen in Switzerland by 200 million francs ($229 million) to 7.7 billion francs ($8.81 billion) in the year (Reuters).
- The Russian authorities have increased the quota to attract foreign workers who arrive with a visa by 32,000, up to 155,929 people in 2024.
- During the year, the demand for rental of premises for hotels increased by more than 40% and the demand for the development of business plans for projects, by 35%.
- In 2023, the Ministry of Finance will allocate 200 billion rubles more than the amount initially promised to pay off the national debt: a record 1.73 trillion rubles.
- In November, Russians deposited 318.2 billion rubles in cash in banks, twice as much as in October (150.7 billion) and 10 times more than in September (27.9 billion).
- On December 1, the price of Bitcoin updated its 19-month high and reached $38.8 thousand.
- The price of Brent oil fell below $79 a barrel for the first time since Nov. 22 at the end of trading Friday on London’s ICE exchange.
- Social network X plans to attract small and medium-sized businesses to increase advertising revenue (Financial Times).
- The opening of OpenAI’s GPT store has been delayed until 2024 due to leadership chaos.
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Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB
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