Decline in the economy of Moscow, cleaning of the registry of IT companies – the main thing for business August 15

World

• About 70% of British companies suffered the consequences of the sanctions against Russia.

Russia

• The Roscosmos State Corporation showed for the first time a model of the new Russian orbital station. The draft design is being developed by RSC Energia. The deployment of the station is planned in two stages. In the first, the station will include four modules: scientific and energy, hub, base and gateway.

• The Moscow authorities estimated the decline of the capital’s economy at 3-4% and the loss of income at 5% in 2022. The recession will occur in the automotive and metallurgical industry.
• The Ministry of Digital Development intends to establish a council to purge the registry of IT companies that receive special benefits. After verification, child organizations will be removed from the list. Losses due to their presence in the register since the beginning of the year amounted to about 9 billion rubles.
• More than a quarter of Russians began to pay less attention to the popularity of the manufacturer’s brand when buying products. The main criteria for buyers turned out to be the taste, the low price, the availability of promotions for the product and the expiration date.

Business

• The Russian early career guidance service for children Leoni raised 50 million rubles from Andrey Enin, the founder of the BBK trading house. The valuation of the company has grown to 250 million rubles. Leoni users can conduct an online diagnosis of a student’s abilities and interests.

• Wildberries Market has changed its name to Berries. The new name is displayed in the site header. The company itself “does not confirm, but does not deny the possible name change” and specifies that it is a marketing campaign, in the style of the advertising campaign from which the site was updated.

• Businessman Oleg Deripaska filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against businessman Oleg Tinkov in connection with “offensive statements”. Deripaska demands to recover from Tinkov “compensation for moral and reputational damage” in the amount of 2 billion rubles.

• Alexey De-Monderik, co-owner and member of the board of directors of Kaspersky Lab, left all positions in the company and sold his share in it. De-Monderic created Kaspersky Lab together with Evgeniy and Natalia Kasperskaya and Vadim Bogdanov in 1997.

• Entrepreneur Josef Liokumovich became the owner of a majority stake in the Russian OBI business. 27 hypermarkets in Russia cost him 600 rubles.

• By the end of 2022, the bar menu of Russian restaurants will consist of half of domestic products. Now these drinks represent 10%. Companies are actively entering into contracts with manufacturers from the Russian Federation and the CIS countries, but so far short-term contracts to assess demand.
• The Turkish holding company FLO Retailing, which acquired the business of the American company Reebok in Russia, will sell the products of its brands in the Wildberries and Ozon markets.

Finance

• By the end of 2022, 15-20 Russian banks may voluntarily and forcibly exit the market. The reduction in players will come at the expense of small and weak banks. Experts suggested this was due to the regulator’s objective desire to reduce the burden on those under supervision in the face of strong external pressure and the economic downturn.

Transportation

• The first deputy director of Aurora Airlines, Dmitry Tyshchuk, became the general director of Pobeda, which has been working without a leader since March. The former head of Pobeda, Andrey Kalmykov, left the company with the words “you can fly without me.”

• The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is going to replace the co-pilot in passenger and cargo aircraft with a virtual one and thus reduce the cost of its operation. The department announced a competition worth 2.9 billion rubles for the development of such technology by the end of 2024.

• Russian airlines have asked the Transportation Ministry to allow them to legally rearrange components from one plane to another to maintain fleet performance under the sanctions.