Political advertising on Twitter, support for Russian inventors and developers: the main thing on January 4

Peace

• The Indonesian government will launch a national crypto exchange in 2023 as part of financial sector reform. (Bloomberg)
• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made “five promises” by 2023 to improve life in the country. Among them: the reduction of public debt, the fight against illegal immigrants and the reduction of inflation by half.

Russia

• The Government of the Russian Federation has extended the simplified procedure for the import of electronic devices and equipment until the end of 2023.

• In addition, a support program for light industry companies has been extended until the end of this year. The subsidies will be used to repay 70% of the repayment costs of the loans.

• Mishustin urged to provide “the most comfortable environment” for Russian inventors. Innovators should have access to Rospatent databases to “see what others have already done”.

• The Ministry of Construction will prepare a preferential loan program for developers who produce construction materials themselves.

• Against the background of Western sanctions and the withdrawal of foreign companies from the market in Russia, sales of computer games on discs doubled last year.
• Also, according to Rosalkogolregulirovanie data, in Russia in 2022, the volume of vodka sales increased by 6%.

Business

• Twitter has promised to ease its 2019 ban on political ads on the social network.

• “AvtoVAZ” will receive the Russian assets of Nissan, previously transferred to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “NAMI”, for “the further launch of the production of Lada cars.”

• SpaceX launched 114 satellites into orbit at once during the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. A larger number of devices (143) were simultaneously launched into space just once, in 2021.
• Microsoft plans to integrate ChatGPT’s smart chatbot functionality into its Bing search engine in hopes of attracting Google users.

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