Oreshkin explained the miracles of statistics, Gorbachev accused the United States of militarism, and Avito returned to the App Store

Miracles of statistics are a temporary phenomenon, says Minister Maxim Oreshkin, the economy will not grow so sharply

The unexpected data of Rosstat on the growth of the Russian economy to the record in six years 2.3% in 2018 turned out to be a “one -time history”, it is not worth making global positive conclusions, the Minister of Economics Maxim Oreshkin admitted. This year, the Russian GDP will grow by a maximum of 1.3%, and maybe less, he said in an interview with Vedomosti.

• Last week, Rosstat presented data on the growth of Russian GDP in 2018 by 2.3%, surpassing the most daring expectations of not only economists, but also the Ministry of Economic Development. The growth of the Russian economy over the past year has been a record since 2012. In an interview, Oreshkin admitted that it wasa “one -time story” , but there would be no more pleasant surprises. Inside this figure there are many different factors (an increase in oil production, consumer lending boom), but not those that can really be felt by the population, the minister said. The forecast for 2019 is a slowdown in the economy up to 1.3%. We will briefly retell that Oreshkin said on other important issues.
• On tax leveling: the idea to evaluate (and then align) a fiscal load on different industries, which recentlyfrightened the business, does not mean that taxes will certainly grow for someone, it was needed “for a better understanding of the situation,” says Oreshkin. The government promised not to increase the tax burden until 2024, a promise in force, the minister says.
• On the income of Russians: salaries (+9.7%) are growing in Russia, but not incomes of the population (-0.2%). Oreshkin explains this, firstly, by the structural effects of low inflation, which hits the “more wealthy part of the population with significant savings” due to a decrease in bank rates. Secondly, mandatory payments are more pressed on the income of relatively rich ones-loans and property taxes. “Their income in the average indicator weigh more, which led to a decrease in the general level of income,” the minister says.
• On the increase in VAT: there will be benefits, but not immediately - without this measure it would be difficult to finance the national projects, now the question is - how effective they will be, but the money that were removed from the economy will begin to return to it this year.
• “From a strategic point of view, there can be no complaints about the macroeconomic policy about the tough policy of the Central Bank and its influence on the economy, ” Oreshkin said, but he refused to comment on the decision of the Central Bank to increase the key rate.
• Pension reform: without it it would be impossible to index pensions now, the question of a new increase in the retirement age will not rise for at least another 10 years.
• About the new leader of Rosturism: 33-year-oldZarina Dogusova from the presidential administration recently appointed by the head of Rosturism will work with Sergey Galkin as a responsible deputy minister, says Oreshkin. “Doguzova has strong abilities in terms of communication, so here I am waiting for a breakthrough in matters of promotion,” the minister said. The ally of Roman Abramovich and the former head of the Moscow Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov claimed the same position.

What am I to me?

Regarding the sanctions, the minister said nothing new, and it would hardly be able to. But in the coming weeks, it is this issue that, most likely, will affect the situation the most. After evening news on sanctions for the incident in the Kerch Strait, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed with Sergey Lavrov the likely sanctions for the Skripals.

Signals

Gorbachev commented on the gap of a nuclear contract

Mikhail Gorbachev, who concluded an agreement with the United States in 1987 on the elimination of medium and shorter missiles (INFMD), estimated the consequences of the almost inevitable breakdown of the contract in 2019, calling this to the US mistake. The true reason for the US withdrawal from the INFMD is “the desire of the United States to free itself from any restrictions in the field of weapons, to get absolute military superiority,” Gorbachev writes in the Vedomosti column and calls on the Republicans and Democrats in Congress to save the Treaty and prevent the world from sloping into the arms race. ”

MONEY

You can't get away from VAT

“Trunting of tax administration”, about which yesterday, representatives of small businesses spoke about one of the main problems of 2019, acquires unexpected forms. As RBC found out , the Booking.com service began to charge VAT in the amount of 20% of its commission from all their Russian partners - even those who pay taxes on simplification, which means that no VAT should pay. Lawyers, however, believe that the tax agents should have paid anyway - but they could use the loophole by paying the Booking.com commission from their personal accounts, and the tax tax did not see these payments.

“Yandex.Nera” was paused

For a couple of months negotiations on the sale of Yandex have been heard for a couple of months - and the bill on limiting the share of foreigners in news aggregators, which appeared immediately after the news on the possible sale of a large share in Yandex, is postponed. The project was adopted in the first reading in December, the second was scheduled for February, but now the consideration of amendments to the final reading was postponed indefinitely, the Vedomosti recognized .

Responsible for garbage

The project to create a state -owned company to dispose of waste “Russian Ecological Operator” begins to acquire familiar outlines. Denis Butsaev, deputy chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region, may be appointed general director of the “garbage monopolist”, designed to solve the environmental problems in the industry, who was responsible for the construction of garbage plants near Moscow. However, officials call its main achievement 11-percent growth of investments in the region during the period when Butsaev was responsible for them in the regional government.

PRACTICE

Where are the most traffic jams

It turns out that the most Russians suffer from traffic jams not in Moscow, but in Rostov-on-Don, follows from the data of Inrix. In third place among all Russian cities-St. Petersburg. But according to the global rating, the most loaded roads are in Bogota, Rome, Dublin and Paris.

How to disappear from the App Store

The instructive story from Avito: how to risk removing your application from the App Store, even if you are the largest online service in Russia worth $ 3.8 billion. Yesterday, the Avito application disappeared from the Apple store (and the first in the search for this word was issued by its main competitor-Yula from Mail.ru). The Russian Marketing Telegram channel suggested that the application was removed for the use of the Appsee service that records what is happening on the user screen. After the investigation of TechCrunch, which showed that dozens of applications use such services, and for users this, as a rule, became a surprise, Apple 7 asked the developers to reveal or remove the code that records the screen from the applications. Today, the Avito application has returned to the App Store.

Irina Malkova