Tele2 sues Ericsson, stores of more than 150 foreign brands continue to operate in the mall: the main thing on November 11

World

• The United States extended permission for financial transactions with Russian banks until May 15, 2023. The Treasury license will allow US companies to conduct energy-related transactions with banks that are under sanctions.
• The United States will no longer classify Russia’s economy as a market economy. In the US Department of Commerce, this decision was explained by excessive state intervention in the country’s economic processes.
• The FTX cryptocurrency exchange has filed for bankruptcy. The exchange’s founder and CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, has resigned. As of early 2022, FTX was valued at $32 billion and its founder was worth $17 billion.

Russia

• 33-year-old State Duma deputy Yana Lantratova has proposed to ban video games with a display of violence and LGBT propaganda in Russia. The deputy referred The Sims 3, The Last of Us, Fallout, Assassin’s Creed and others to such games.
• The state decided to take on the return to Russia of the IT specialists who left. The Ministry of Digital Development will develop a special program for their return relocation. IT specialists should understand that they have nothing to fear, said the head of the department.

Finance

• VTB has launched transfers by card number to some CIS countries. For such transactions, the bank will charge a commission of 1% of the amount, but not less than 50 rubles.
• The Moscow Stock Exchange begins to calculate the yuan bond index. The trading platform explains this decision by the growth in the number of transactions in Chinese currency.
• The Central Bank admitted that shareholders of Meta** may face criminal risks after the completion of trading of the company’s securities on the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange.
• The Bank of Russia intends to resume the publication of the financial statements of the banking sector. A spokesman for the regulator promised disclosure of the 2022 results.
• Sberbank has planned to open a branch in China and is discussing this issue with the country’s regulator. At the moment, Sberbank has a representative office only in India; the bank has sold its subsidiaries in Kazakhstan and Switzerland.

Business

• Financial intelligence, the Bank of Russia and the Federal Tax Service have uncovered one of the largest shadow platforms for tax evasion and concealment of restaurant and cafe income across Russia. The organizers launched their own “showroom” in Moscow, giving store owners replacement boxes and access to an app to manage hidden income.

• “Vkusno – and that’s it” enters the Belarusian market. The local McDonald’s will also become Tasty, period. The company will start working under the new brand within a few weeks after all necessary legal procedures are completed and organizational issues are resolved.

• Following the announcement of partial mobilization in Russia, more and more manual workers refuse to apply for self-employment. The number of failures increased by 1.5 times. The most common reason is a change of residence. The second most popular is the unwillingness to be visible to government agencies.

• Mobile operator Tele2 is suing Ericsson over the Swedish company’s refusal to supply products to Russia due to sanctions. The lawsuit against the seller was filed with the Moscow Arbitration Court on November 9.
• Stores of 152 foreign brands continue to operate today in large Russian shopping centers.
• MTS has invested 200 million rubles in the Yandex people’s startup Rubbles. As part of the partnership, the companies will work on big data products. As a result of the transaction, the operator received a stake in Rubbles that did not exceed 10%.

Transportation

• The regime of flight restrictions at 11 airports in the south and center of Russia has been extended until November 21 – Rosaviatsia.

services and media

• Twitter will toughen its policy on parodic accounts. The new owner of the social network, Elon Musk, announced that all parody accounts must be marked as “parody” in his name.
• VK has released a game on the Roblox metaverse platform, in which the characters are dressed in exclusive national brands.

** Recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia, included in the terrorist list.