JAC under Sollers, iPhone for 250 thousand rubles: news highlights September 8

World

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will close the entrance to the Russians from September 19.

• The lawsuit against Elon Musk in the United States in the case of creating a crypto pyramid with Dogecoin brought together new participants: seven new investors joined him. In June, American Keith Johnson filed a lawsuit against Musk and his companies SpaceX and Tesla. He accused them of creating a “crypto pyramid”, a structure whose task is to artificially inflate the value of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.

• TV personality Kim Kardashian and former The Carlyle Group boss Jay Sammons have launched a private equity firm, SKKY Partners, to buy fast-growing media companies. The partner, of course, is the head of the Kardashian-Jenner family, Chris. The co-founders did not disclose the availability of funds for future investment.

Russia

• Mortgages in Russia will be issued using biometric data. Dom.rf Bank plans to conduct the first such transaction this year.

• The Ministry of Finance is ready to discuss the reduction of personal income tax for Russian employees working remotely from abroad, said Alexei Sazanov, deputy director of the department. Previously, the department proposed to force non-residents to pay income tax at a rate of 30%.

• The air traffic restriction regime at 11 Russian airports in the south and in the center of the Russian Federation has been extended until September 16 – Rosaviatsia.

• The fall in prices in September will be 0.15% MoM, according to the Izvestia consensus forecast. The Ministry of Economic Development reported that the monthly deflation could continue in the fall. It will rise to 12-13% instead of the 13.4% previously forecast.

Finance

• The Bank of Russia is discussing the idea of ​​creating a fund to compensate for the losses of investors whose assets are frozen. Funds may be offset at the expense of profits from frozen funds of non-residents of Russia.

• The Central Bank proposed to allow deposits from which money cannot be withdrawn until the end of the contract. Now the deposit can be closed earlier than expected, but with loss of interest.

Business

• Sony Music has announced its definitive withdrawal from Russia. The Russian division will be taken over by the local management company.

• The owner of Svyaznoy received another lawsuit from Alfa-Bank due to the retailer’s debt. The bank requires 5.99 billion rubles from the Cypriot company DTSRetail. In total, Svyaznoy received more than 80 lawsuits in the amount of more than 20 billion rubles.

• The global office of the German SAP is going to sell all the computer equipment that the company owns in Russia. We are talking about servers, switches, data storage systems – a total of 3.5 thousand pieces of equipment.

• “Yandex” began to issue a verified seller badge for stores. You can get it after passing an additional check, in which a quality officer follows the path of a buyer on the website of an online store and verifies the legal entity of him.

• Serial entrepreneur Alexey Moiseenkov has launched a recruitment platform for players LF.Group in London. Help players and communities find teammates in online games. The startup managed to attract investments in the amount of $1 million from American Grishin Robotics. The money will be used to create new features on the platform, in-game events.

• The Ministry of Industry and Trade and Rosalkogolregulirovanie were instructed to solve the problem of “introducing the labeling of beer and beer products with means of identification from March 1, 2023.”
• The price of new iPhones in Russia can reach 250 thousand rubles. If the exchange rate does not change by the end of September, the first devices will appear in Russia the night after the start of global sales at a price of at least 180-200 thousand rubles for the minimum configuration.
• Localized Chinese JAC cars will be produced in Russia under the Sollers brand. This will allow the automaker to participate in public procurement and receive benefits.
• Movie theater associations and book publishers found the “compulsory licensing” bill helpful, while online theaters opposed it.