Decrease in salaries of IT developers, business expenses increased by 2 trillion rubles – the main thing February 1

Russia

• The IMF predicts the growth of the Russian economy by 0.3% in 2023, and a year later: a growth of 2.1%. This will be 1% less than forecast for the world economy.

• The Ministry of Industry and Trade, together with the Center for the Development of Advanced Technologies (CRPT), will help simplify the labeling system for Russian catering. The updated functionality of the system software will allow you to accept goods and remove them from circulation “with one click”.

Finance

• In January 2023, the average salary for IT developers dropped dramatically. Junes began to receive 13% less – about 100 thousand rubles.
• The expenses of Russian companies increased by 2 trillion rubles. Spending on product promotion and administrative and management functions has increased above all in commerce, processing, mining, transport and also in the field of professional activities.

Business

• In 2022, Samsung became the sales leader in the Russian secondary market. Their share was 35.5%.
• Russian and Chinese manufacturers of household appliances are interested in buying and leasing the capacities of LG, Bosch and Samsung in the Russian Federation, which after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine halted production in the country or redirected it towards exports.
• UniCredit received a loss of 220 million euros in Russia in 2022, according to reports from the Italian conglomerate.
• The most affected by the lack of foreign tourists in Russia on the hotel market were five-star hotels in Moscow, writes Kommersant. Now some of these properties are lowering their prices in the hope of attracting corporate clients.
• By 2022, according to Kommersant, pear cider production and sales have more than halved, due to problems with the concentrate supply.
• A subsidiary of AFK Sistema is going to buy 10 hotels from the Norwegian Wenaas for 203 million euros. If the operation is approved, Cosmos North-West will receive six hotels in Saint Petersburg, two in Moscow, as well as one hotel each in Yekaterinburg and Murmansk.

• Edadil, a discount aggregator, part of the Yandex ecosystem, has entered the Belarusian market; it is the first country other than the Russian Federation to launch the service. Large commercial networks of the republic have already joined.

Services

• MTS-Bank launches a contactless payment service for owners of iOS devices. The company has developed an external NFC module that connects to a smartphone and works in conjunction with the MTS Pay application. Since February 1, the module is available for pre-order in Moscow. In March it will appear in the chain’s stores throughout the country.

Technologies

• Yandex has started to develop its own analogue of ChatGPT. The YaLM 2.0 generative network is built using the company’s supercomputers. With the help of technology, it is planned to make the voice assistant “Alice” smarter.