Following the Baltic states , another jurisdiction popular with us begins to get rid of Russian money - Cyprus. After a visit to the country of representatives of the US Treasury, local regulators tighten control over Russian accounts, and commercial banks offer Russians either to close accounts or transfer them to a local bank, the largest shareholder of which is VTB.

Cyprus begins the fight against Russian accounts. Why did this happen and what to do now - read in the mailing room The Bell Following the Baltic states , another jurisdiction popular with us begins to get rid of Russian money - Cyprus. After a visit to the country of representatives of the US Treasury, local regulators tighten control over Russian accounts, and commercial banks offer Russians either to close accounts or transfer them to a local bank, the largest shareholder of which is VTB.

Billionaire Roman Abramovich, who had problems with a UK visa, received an Israeli passport, said . the country's Interior Ministry Details On Monday, Abramovich flew to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport and received a passport under the Law of Return, which allows Jews to become Israeli citizens.

The Tver court on Monday arrested the accounts of some assets of the Summa group, Yekaterina Grishkovets, a representative of the group, told The Bell. Details Grishkovets did not name the companies whose accounts were arrested. Ziyavudin Magomedov's lawyer Victoria Tsiryulik told The Bell that these are the companies mentioned in the criminal case. At the same time, Grishkovets denied information about the arrest of the accounts of the group itself.

Coca-Cola began selling alcohol for the first time in its history - the drink, called Lemon-Do, went on sale today in Japan. The company's management emphasizes that it has no plans to produce alcoholic beverages in other countries. But the problem that has forced Coca-Cola to expand in Japan is the same in all developed countries: sales of the company's main product, sweet soda, are declining.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is going to speed up his space project, the goal of which, like Elon Musk, is Mars. Humanity "will have to leave this planet" to survive, the world's richest man told the National Space Society on Friday. For the Amazon owner, the space business is just as important as the retail business — Blue Origin, which deals with rocket launches, Bezos calls his “most important” job.

Roskomnadzor demanded that Apple stop distributing the Telegram Messenger application hosted in the App Store in Russia, as well as sending its service push notifications to Russian users. Quote “In order to avoid possible actions by Roskomnadzor to disrupt the functioning of the above services, Apple, Inc. we ask you to inform us as soon as possible about the further actions of the company aimed at solving these problematic issues,” the letter says.

The owner of O1 Group Boris Mints (according to Forbes, his fortune is $1.3 billion), his three sons and their families left Russia, reports Vedomosti , citing sources. One of the interlocutors of the publication explained the move as a "tense situation" with the business. Details About the departure of Boris Mints, Vedomosti was told by two sources close to the Central Bank, a federal official and a person who received information from a familiar shareholder of O1 Group.

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, announced the need to close the Instagram social network in Russia after the "terrorist attack in Leningrad," writes RBC. Later, the UK explained that it was about Telegram. Details The head of the UK made his statement at the congress of commissioners for children's rights. He said that an information war is being waged against Russia and that foreign experience should be looked at.

Oleg Deripaska, who fell under the American En+ sanctions, asked the government for benefits, which, as found out Kommersant, who studied the proposals, , should allow the company to save at least 40 billion rubles. Basically, they come down to discounts for UC Rusal in the energy market, for which other Siberian consumers will pay. If measures are taken, electricity prices will increase by 13-14%, and housing and communal services tariffs for the population will be increased.

One of the elements of “tuning” the tax system promised by Anton Siluanov at SPIEF could be an increase in VAT to 20%, Vedomosti found out . Such a proposal was already discussed in 2017, but then it was proposed to simultaneously reduce insurance premiums - now this is no longer discussed. Raising VAT to 20% is one of the options that will help find the 8 trillion rubles needed to implement Vladimir Putin’s “May decree” . It could bring the budget an additional 2 trillion rubles.

Putin wants to find money for the “May decree” of Putin by raising VAT to 20%. For a business working with a retail consumer, this is very bad news. Details - in the morning mailing of The Bell. Photo: kremlin.ru One of the elements of the “configuration” of the tax system, promised by Anton Siluanov at the PMEF, may be the VAT growth of up to 20%, “Vedomosti” found out .