Adidas is considering the sale of business in Russia, the maximum price for software – the main thing May 2

World

• The Cypriot government has changed the criteria for granting permanent residence to foreign investors, the changes came into effect on May 2, 2023. The key innovation is that applicants are now required to prove annually that they have maintained their investment and also meet the requirement of income for themselves and their families.

Business

• MTS completed an agreement to purchase the assets of the Zelenaya Dot Group, which provides broadband Internet access and digital television services in 12 Russian cities. MTS bought the remaining 49% stakes in six regional fixed line operators in Belgorod, Lipetsk, Ufa, Neftekamsk, Beloretsk, Tomsk and Vladivostok.

• The Ministry of Digital Development and Russian software developers will sign a letter on a maximum price for software, agreeing to increase prices by no more than 15% per year plus the Rosstat Consumer Price Index. The price cap will slow down the launch of new products, market participants noted.

• German sportswear, shoes and accessories maker Adidas is considering selling its Russian business to a foreign investor. This will allow around 100 of the most profitable stores to be relaunched in a new format.
• In the context of the opening of new brands in place of the old stores of the Inditex group, attendance at shopping centers in the regions increased by 1.7% during the week, writes Izvestia.

• After two years of hereditary and corporate conflicts, Natura Siberica will change ownership: AFK Sistema will soon close the purchase of this cosmetics company. Analysts estimated the amount of the transaction at 3 billion rubles.

Technologies

• Alfa-Bank launched “reverse verification” of employees using one-time codes. Now you can be sure that an Alfa-Bank employee is calling, and not a scammer. If the customer receives a call from a bank employee, they can ensure that they are not a scammer by generating a unique one-time code in the Alfa-Bank app and then asking the employee to name it.

• In Moscow, in the summer of 2023, CyberDom will be launched – this is a platform that, according to plans, will represent the interests of the entire cybersecurity industry. The volume of investments for its creation amounted to 1.6 billion rubles.

• Yandex Cloud has developed its own modules for the open source infrastructure management tool Terraform and made them publicly available on GitHub. These are ready-to-use sets of files with configurations for cloud services – they make the work of DevOps engineers easier and avoid code duplication.

• Russian developers have created a droneport post office “ERI” for the delivery of packages and documents without human intervention. The device will hit the market in 2023.

• Russia has developed a technology to create displays with high brightness. Due to this property, they require much less energy than their organic counterparts.

Transport

• Western car manufacturers have limited the functionality of their apps for Russian users. The problem affected owners of Skoda, Kia, Infiniti, Nissan and Renault.