Rules on loans, growth in the flow of tourists to Russia, Bakalchuk about the fire in a warehouse: the main thing on January 21

World

• A fire broke out in the Sukhum Central Exhibition Hall building. The funds of the National Gallery of Art were located there and more than 4 thousand paintings were burned. The acting Minister of Culture of the republic called this “an irreparable loss for the national culture of Abkhazia.”

Russia

• New rules have come into force that require banks to calculate the total cost of the loan and also notify borrowers about the services they purchase along with the loan. You can now cancel additional services within 30 days (instead of the previous 14 days).

• The flow of tourists to Russia in 2023 amounted to more than 75 million people and exceeded the figure for 2019 before the pandemic, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri Chernyshenko.

• At the same time, Asia has become the most popular tourist destination in Russia: demand for trips to Japan in 2023 has increased almost sevenfold (Izvestia).

• The Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation proposed to exclude self-employed pensioners from the list of working citizens.

• The State Duma is preparing a bill and a 100% discount on compulsory car insurance for disabled people of the first group, people disabled since childhood, disabled children and their caregivers (RIA).

Business

• Wildberries CEO Tatyana Bakalchuk commented on the fire at the Shushary warehouse. The businessman stated that the company is “working 24 hours a day” to restore the logistics infrastructure.

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