“People’s Inspector”, Japan tightened sanctions against Russia: the main thing on the morning of January 27

Peace

• Starting February 3, Japan will impose a ban on the export to Russia of vaccines and medical devices, as well as robots, radioactive materials, equipment for nuclear facilities, oil exploration and natural gas.

Russia

• Against the background of staff shortages, they suggested looking for IT specialists among the players. The level of training of programmers will be redistributed in favor of open source software.

Finance

• The offer of nominal accounts to work on crypto exchanges has increased on the dark web. They are inexpensive and often used by scammers to launder funds. However, the current growth, according to Kommersant experts, is associated, among other things, with the restrictions that cryptocurrency exchanges impose against the Russians. At the same time, many risks remain in the mechanism, including access to the original holder’s account.

Business

• In 2022, the share of clothing and shoe stores in the structure of new lease transactions decreased to the lowest 34% in five years, and their place, according to Kommersant, is now taken by service and entertainment operators.
• Fix Price increased revenue by 20.5% to RUB 277.6 billion for the whole of 2022. Future discount store share growth will be influenced by an increase in sales growth rate and only then because of the dividend policy, experts told Vedomosti.
• The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy and the Central Bank opposed the sale of Vimpelcom by the Veon holding company to the company’s Russian top management in its current form.

Technologies

• Vedomosti found that the number of DDoS attacks on Russian IT systems in 2022 increased by 73% compared to 2021. Most of the attacks targeted the media and financial sector.

• Drivers will be fined for taking photos in the new People’s Inspector app. The service based on “Moscow Helper” will be developed by the “Software Product” group of companies.