Growth in demand for portable electronics, Rutube on the hunt for YouTube: the main thing April 27

Russia

• The court imposed another 2 million rubles on Wikimedia for failing to remove prohibited content. Wikimedia has been fined for the seventh time this year for refusing to remove prohibited content. The amount of fines currently exceeds 8 million rubles.

• The author of the Marathon of Wishes, Elena Blinovskaya, was detained while trying to cross the border, the Investigative Committee said. She was charged with tax evasion and money laundering. According to the investigation, from 2019 to 2021, Blinovskaya did not pay taxes in the amount of more than 918 million rubles.

• The State Duma has prepared amendments to the law, which will make it mandatory to register electric scooters and assign numbers to them. Failure to register may result in fines. The deputies also want to toughen the liability for driving an electric scooter while intoxicated. If such a violation is repeated, a person can face a 10-15 day arrest.

Finance

• Alfa-Bank launched logistics and customs clearance services for entrepreneurs. Clients will be prepared and executed customs documents, consulted on foreign economic activity, informed about possible risks, helped to certify merchandise, issue certificates of conformity.

• The Burger King fast food restaurant chain completed 2022 in Russia with a 40% increase in revenue, to 69 billion rubles. The results were affected by the exit of the market of the main competitors: McDonald’s and KFC.

• The net profit of the Russian banking sector at the end of 2023 may reach 2.4-2.6 trillion rubles, having updated a record two years ago, according to the forecast of the NKR rating agency, cited by RBC.

• Bank for Entrepreneurs “Tochka” launched currency transactions in Georgian lari. Payments are available to Tochka foreign currency account holders. The commission will depend on the rate.

Business

• Yandex’s revenue in the first quarter of 2023 grew by 54% and amounted to 163.3 billion rubles, according to the group’s statements. Growth was mainly provided by the Rydtekh segment, e-commerce and Poisk.

• In Russia, the demand for portable electronic devices is actively growing: keyboards, mice, headphones. Sales leaders included brands Razer, A4Tech and MSI, Kommersant reported.

• The number of Yandex employees working from international centers tripled in 2022 and amounted to 1.7 thousand people, most of those who left are IT specialists. The global increase in the workforce is due to the acceleration of hiring in the Search and Portal division, also in the business group with taxi and delivery services.

• The number of Yandex employees working from international centers tripled in 2022 and amounted to 1.7 thousand people, most of those who left are IT specialists. The global increase in the workforce is due to the acceleration of hiring in the Search and Portal division, also in the business group with taxi and delivery services.

• “Yandex” launched sales of “Station Max”, “Yandex Hub” and sensors with support for the Zigbee protocol in Kazakhstan. The new devices can be purchased at Sulpak, Technodom, Alser, Mechta, and other retailers.
• The income of the main legal entities of the combined Formula Kino and Cinema Park chain, as well as Kinomax, Karo and Cinema Star, against the background of the exit of Western film studios, halved to the level of 2020, it found RBC.
• Since the start of the electric scooter rental season, Russians have spent about 1.7 million rubles on rent. This is double the figures for the same period in 2022.
• In the first quarter of 2023, car brands increased their ad spend by a multiple. Among them, first of all, the Chinese Chery and Haval, as well as AvtoVAZ, which hope to take a share of the market from the Western manufacturers that have left, Kommersant has learned.
• Over the past year, Russian TikTok’s earnings, despite the ban on monetization, grew 9.8 times and amounted to 530.3 million rubles, RBC reported. At the same time, revenue fell by 29% and reached 2.36 billion rubles. Of these, advertising accounts for only 1.4 billion rubles. This is almost 2.5 times less than in 2021.
• The largest Russian cinema networks in 2022 lost almost half of their revenue, RBC calculated. Cinema Park lost 43.2% of its revenue, KARO – 41.8%, Kinomax – 46.6%, Cinema Star network revenue decreased by 44.2% compared to 2021. At the same time, losses in some cases they do not exceed the losses of the pandemic year 2020.

Transport

• Moskvichi3 appeared on the BelkaCar car sharing service, the rental price starts from 11.6 rubles per minute. You can rent a car for a day, it will cost from 2250 rubles.

Technologies

• The BAS Consortium has carried out the first test flights of mail drones in Chukotka. The Geoscan-401 device transported several cargoes from Coal Mines to Anadyr. In the future, tests will be carried out in Kamchatka, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and YNAO.

services and means

• Rutube hopes to catch up with YouTube in key technical indicators and intends to spend around 30 billion rubles on this.