Oil prices are kept at $ 70. But the ruble will be crushed by record purchases of currency by the Ministry of Finance and the fear of American sanctions Photo: AGN "Moscow" Record from the end of 2014, oil prices are not a guarantee of further strengthening of the ruble, which today has strengthened to 56.4/$. By the end of March, the Russian currency can weaken by 4%, suggest in Nordea and UBS.

The government is considering the possibility after the presidential election to raise the personal income tax rate to 15% for citizens with salaries of 7-10 million rubles a year, writes RBC.

Record oil prices since the end of 2014 are no guarantee of further strengthening of the ruble. By the end of March, the Russian currency may weaken by 4%, according to Nordea and UBS. The reason is the purchases by the Ministry of Finance of foreign currency to replenish the National Welfare Fund and possible US sanctions.

Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin recognized the scheme for legalizing the self-employed, in place since last July, as a failure. The Ministry of Economic Development will prepare a new tax reform, which involves calculating tax for the self-employed based on their real earnings instead of patents and fixed insurance premiums.

The alleged daughter of Vladimir Putin, Katerina Tikhonova, liquidated her second (in addition to the well-known Innopraktika) Foundation, Interdisciplinary Initiatives in the Field of Natural Sciences and Humanities (FMI). Since its foundation in 2012, the fund has never shown its statements. FMI, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, was engaged in financial activities, the provision of rental property, publishing and scientific research.

Ksenia Sobchak's anti-rating has grown by 10 percentage points in the two months of her election campaign: in October, 79.3% of Russians would not vote for her "under any circumstances", in January - 89.8%, according to a VTsIOM poll from January 10-11. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's anti-rating was 44.6% (it was 39.5% in October), Pavel Grudinin's - 28.2% (in October, his nomination was not yet known). Only Vladimir Putin's anti-rating has decreased - since May, it has fallen from 6.8% to 3.9%.

Companies processing personal data may require them to be insured. This initiative is included in the Digital Economy program. The idea of ​​the bill belongs, according to Vedomosti, to Sberbank and InfoWatch, which are involved in the development and implementation of the program. The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications and Roskomnadzor have until July to decide whether such a law is needed.

The Media Communications Union (ISS, which includes MTS, MegaFon and Vympelrom, as well as major media holdings, including the National Media Group and Gazprom Media) will develop an Infocommunication Code, a single document that should replace the current laws “On Communications”, “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection” and “On Personal Data”. Members of the "open government" also participate in the development of the code.

The investigation into the case of director Kirill Serebrennikov and ANO Seventh Studio ended last Friday, two sources close to the investigation told The Bell. “It ended quite unexpectedly,” one of them added. In the near future, the materials of the case will be sent to the court for consideration on the merits. A criminal case on embezzlement at the Seventh Studio was initiated back in 2015; in May 2017, Serebrennikov and the Gogol Center headed by him were searched.

To finance the program of Alexei Kudrin, the government may return to the idea of ​​a progressive tax scale Photo: kremlin.ru Vedomosti learned the first plans of Vladimir Putin for a new presidential term. The president instructed the government to find money to increase budget expenditures for education, healthcare and infrastructure.