Vladimir Putin's proposals to soften the pension reform turned out to be quite modest and predictable - the main thing was to reduce the retirement age for women from 63 to 60 years. But economists don’t like these concessions, and among the losers were businesses, which failed to ward off criminal liability for the dismissal of employees near retirement age, and the budget, which will lose almost all the savings from the reform. What Putin promised.

Business, budget and men: the main victims of softening of pension reform Photo: Vadim Akhmetov/TASS Vladimir Putin’s proposals to mitigate the pension reform were quite modest and predictable - the main thing was the decrease in the retirement age for women from 63 to 60 years.

The German concern Uniper will refuse to participate in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline if it falls under US sanctions, said company board member Christopher Delbrück. Details We are talking about sanctions imposed by the United States against Russia in early August 2017. They provide restrictions for one-time investments from $1 million or annual investments from $5 million in the construction of Russian pipelines.

Vladimir Putin's proposals for adjusting pension reform will require financial investments of approximately 500 billion rubles over six years, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. Quote : “The volume of financial resources for the proposals made over a six-year period is about 500 billion rubles. This will require clarification of our budget plans <...> and the projections of the Pension Fund budget.

For dismissing an employee of pre-retirement age, employers will be subject to a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles or 18 months' salary, said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. Quote : “We will be based on the article for the unjustified dismissal of a woman for reasons of pregnancy or having children under three years of age [we are talking about Article 145 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation]. This is a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles or 18 months’ salary,” Golikova said.

Today, what everyone has been waiting for has happened – Vladimir Putin has finally named his proposals for pension reform, and the government has already reported on the work to implement them. The experts interviewed by The Bell believe that only the social effect will be positive – from an economic point of view, the proposed measures will negatively affect the reform and reduce additional budget revenues.

Women should retire at 60, and not at 63, Vladimir Putin said in his television show. Quote: “In the draft law, it is proposed to increase the retirement age for women by 8 years - up to 63 years, while for men it increases by five years. So it will not work, of course. This is wrong <...> the retirement age for women should not increase more than for men. Therefore, I consider it necessary to reduce the increase in the retirement age proposed by the bill for women from 8 to 5 years.

In the face of a falling ruble, Russian tourists found two alternatives to popular foreign destinations: in the summer, demand for Russian resorts increased by 15%, and the most popular booking destination for the New Year holidays suddenly became Georgia, which a year ago was not even in the top 20 destinations. Summer season The flow of tourists to Russian resorts this summer increased by 15%, said Dmitry Gorin, adviser on transport to the head of Rostourism.

Summer ends and it's time to make forecasts for the rest of the year. The most vulnerable among Russian assets will be a ruble, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Bank of America reduced the forecast for the ruble to the third and fourth quarters of 2018 - from 60 to 65 rubles. For the dollar, writes RBC with reference to the review of the economist of the bank Vladimir Osakovsky.

The Yandex company believes that the requirement of Roskomnadzor to block pirated content on the Yandex.Video service is unreasonable, the company's press service told The Bell. By law, it applies to the owners of the respective sites, and not to search engines, the company claims.

What awaits the ruble in the second half of the year. Details - in the mailing of The Bell Photo from Facebook Central Bank Summer ends and it's time to make forecasts for the rest of the year. The most vulnerable among Russian assets will be a ruble, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Bank of America reduced the forecast for the ruble to the third and fourth quarters of 2018 - from 60 to 65 rubles.

The head of the Yandex geoservices Roman Chernin. Photo of the company Less percentage of 30-40 million cars actively moving along Russian roads are now connected to the Internet. However, in the coming years, there may be at least 10 million such machines, they are confident in Yandex. To take a leading position in this market, the company in August allocated geo service in a separate business. And Yandex plans are not limited only to cars.