The Russian government presents new bills to the State Duma that will affect business, the Ministry of Digital Development asked telecom operators to limit SIM card sales during elections, technology market experts predict new Apple launches and Google, and RB continues to follow the most interesting events in the field of entrepreneurship.
Join
- The government submitted to the State Duma a bill on amendments to the Tax Code, one of the innovations is the reduction of the minimum level of assets, income and taxes for business monitoring: now, for monitoring, an organization must have at least 1 billion rubles of assets and turnover and pay at least 100 million rubles in taxes per year, according to the new rules: up to 800 million rubles and up to 80 million rubles, respectively.
- A bill to extend anti-money laundering measures to transactions with the digital ruble was also submitted to the State Duma.
- The Roskachestvo – Tourism system will develop a voluntary rating system of industrial enterprises and assign star ratings to camping and glamping sites.
- The Ministry of Digital Development sent a request to the largest Russian operators to limit the mass sale of SIM cards to both individuals and commercial customers from March 12 to 20 (RBC).
- The Russian Ministry of Labor intends to expand the labor mobility subsidy program by financing the relocation of workers to the regions to work in their key companies.
- The average price per square meter of new premium apartments in the capital in two years increased by 37% to 936 thousand rubles.
- In February, demand for purchasing warehouses in large cities increased by 15% year-on-year (Avito Real Estate).
- Rusal began using Shanghai Futures Exchange prices when dealing with clients in China, moving away from traditional London Metal Exchange quotes.
- Maxim Liksutov: After testing driverless trams, the city will move on to testing driverless metro trains. Some of them could move to unmanned control after 2030.
- Retail trade turnover in Moscow in 2023 increased by 7.3%.
- Apple will pay $490 million to settle a class-action shareholder lawsuit in 2019 after CEO Tim Cook allegedly misreported sales in China in its 2018 earnings report. And while the company denies guilt, the decision was made. to pay compensation “to avoid new litigation.”
- Additionally, several media outlets, citing internal sources, report that Apple could launch an OLED iPad Air in 2028 and a foldable iPhone in 2026.
- Google has announced that the annual Google I/O conference will be held on May 14 and experts are waiting for the presentation of Android 15 there.
- The US Federal Trade Commission, ahead of Reddit’s initial public offering, launched an investigation into the company’s provision of user data for AI training.
- The Russian Red Cross reported a hacker attack on its website and social media after a post appeared about the paid evacuation of Belgorod.
Author:
Ekaterina Alipova
Source: RB

I am a professional journalist and content creator with extensive experience writing for news websites. I currently work as an author at Gadget Onus, where I specialize in covering hot news topics. My written pieces have been published on some of the biggest media outlets around the world, including The Guardian and BBC News.