In 2014, the access of Russian public and private companies to the global financial market was blocked. The reason for this was the sanctions imposed on Russia by the world's leading creditors - the USA, EU, Canada and Japan. The sanctions had a negative impact on the entire economy of the country. Even those companies that were not on the sanctions lists suffered from the most serious cooling in relations between Russia and the West in several decades.

The Ministry of Economic Development published a negative opinion on the Ministry of Finance’s bill banning money surrogates, including electronic money – primarily bitcoins. According to the Ministry of Economic Development, the definition of money surrogates from the bill is too general, so the marketing programs of many companies, including telecom operators, large retail chains and even Sberbank, may also be banned.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he does not keep money in foreign currency due to a lack of available funds. He stated this at the final press conference in Grozny. Ramzan Kadyrov “I spent all my money before the crisis was declared. Therefore, I don’t have [money] to store in dollars, or rubles, or euros. Now is the end of the month, I will receive my salary and will think about what to do with the salary. And so, we don’t have such funds,” RIA Novosti quotes Kadyrov .

The annexation of Crimea and the separation of Donbass were part of a broader plan to create a buffer zone of unrecognized quasi-states between Russia and westward Ukraine. But the plan was only partially realized and led to the largest military conflict in Europe in the new century.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the Chongar Peninsula, connecting Crimea with Ukrainian territory, has completely come under the control of the Kyiv authorities. “Chongar is completely under our control,” Poroshenko wrote on account . his Twitter Chongar is a peninsula in the northern part of the Sivash Bay of the Azov Sea. Administratively part of the Kherson region. Connected by bridges and dams to the Crimean Peninsula. On Chongar there is a village of the same name.

The Bank of Russia officially announced that the competition for participation as an investor in measures to prevent the bankruptcy of Trust Bank was won by the Otkritie Financial Corporation. In total, the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) and the Central Bank will allocate 127 billion rubles for the rehabilitation of Trust. Photo: Getty Images At the same time, 99 billion rubles.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Alexander Turchinov does not exclude the introduction of martial law if other ways of peaceful settlement in Ukraine will be exhausted Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexander Turchinov (photo: RIA Novosti) Martial law was announced on Friday in an interview with the “5th channel” in Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine in Ukraine, UNIAN reports.

After a sharp fall last week, the ruble strengthened and approached “the area of ​​equilibrium, fundamentally justified exchange rate,” the Minister of Economic Development said. In November, Ulyukaev called the equilibrium ruble exchange rate at the level of 41-43 rubles. for a dollar. He forecasts double-digit inflation throughout the next year.

The Ministry of Finance gave its forecast for the development of the Russian economy in 2015, based on the average annual oil price of $60/barrel. In this case, the dollar exchange rate will be 51 rubles, inflation will be 10%, and the economy will collapse by 4% Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC) $60/bbl. – no longer a “stressful scenario”. The Ministry of Finance believes that this is the oil price that we will have to live with in 2015.

The All-Russian movement of foreign currency borrowers appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to speed up the decision to refinance foreign currency mortgage loans into rubles.

Since December 2014, the Bank of Russia has provided Russian banks with a service for transmitting financial messages in SWIFT formats within the country, according to the Central Bank website. Connection of credit institutions is carried out by concluding appropriate agreements with the Central Bank. The Central Bank noted that the new service will allow credit institutions to transmit messages in SWIFT formats through the Bank of Russia in all regions and without restrictions.

The cost of construction of the Zenit Arena football stadium in St. Petersburg may increase due to the depreciation of the ruble. This is reported by Sports.ru with reference to the press service of the developer - the Transstroy company. “Some of the materials have already been purchased, but not all yet. We relied on domestic manufacturers, increasing the share of Russian materials by 1.5 times compared to what was originally planned.

The emerging strengthening of the ruble, as well as a large -scale sale of burning tour of tourists and air tickets, gave their result. According to representatives of tourist operators and reservation systems, over the past week, the demand for air travel has grown by 25% compared to the previous week.

The difference between the value of Trust Bank's assets and the size of its liabilities is 67.8 billion rubles, Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Mikhail Sukhov told reporters Photo: Getty Images It was previously reported that the bank did not have sufficient liquidity to fulfill clients’ orders to write off funds, and the Central Bank discovered a hole in the Trust’s capital of tens of billions of rubles.

The Bank of Russia has done most of the work to clean up the banking sector, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Simanovsky announced on December 24. In 2014, the Central Bank revoked 84 licenses: 71 from banks and 13 from non-bank credit institutions. During the cleanup, various schemes for drawing balance sheets and people emerged who, by coincidence, regularly ended up in problem banks. RBC has compiled a small encyclopedia of such concepts and heroes.