The main project of the Russian aviation industry is tolerated due to US sanctions and requires new investments MS-21. Photo: Agency "Moscow" It is unlikely that the most difficult, but definitely one of the most offensive consequences of American sanctions.

Dmitry Medvedev signed a regulation on the mandatory classification of hotels according to the level of service. Now all hotels will have to receive stars without fail, and not at will, as before. Detailed. “If earlier classification stars were assigned at the request of the hotel itself – whoever wanted to draw these stars for themselves, regardless of the actual services they often provide,” now hotels will develop “on the basis of regulatory requirements,” the prime minister said .

Last year, Russian exporters lost more than $6 billion due to various restrictive measures against Russia, including sanctions, according to the monitoring of the Ministry of Economic Development. The countries of the European Union became the leader in terms of the number of foreign trade restrictions on Russian imports. Detailed. At the end of 2018, 159 restrictive measures from 62 countries were in force against Russia.

The start of serial production of the newest Russian passenger airliner MS-21 with a composite wing will have to be postponed due to US sanctions, Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov admitted today. Prior to this, the manufacturer insisted that the replacement of imported composites with domestic ones would not delay either production or certification of the aircraft.

Rostec has technologies that may be in demand during the construction of a city of the future in Saudi Arabia, said the general director of the state corporation Sergei Chemezov in an interview with Arab News. Read more. Chemezov said that Rostec managed to sign several contracts with Saudi Arabia, including the supply of S-400 air defense systems.

The subsidiary of Roscosmos, JSC Satellite System Gonets, has gained control of a joint venture with the OneWeb project, which wants to cover the planet with high-speed Internet, follows from SPARK data. What's happened. The share of "Messenger" in OneWeb LLC increased from 40 to 51%, and OneWeb decreased from 60 to 49%. At the end of January, OneWeb explained the need to restructure the joint venture with the requirements of Russian law.

Business property tax in Moscow will be increased to the federal maximum of 2%. But the transition will be extended - you will have to pay the full rate from 2023. Read more. The Moscow City Duma commissions supported the extension of the period for increasing corporate property tax rates until 2023. The city law will likely be adopted on Wednesday, February 20th. The rate will increase by 0.1 percentage points.

The applicant in the Baring Vostok case, shareholder of Vostochny Bank Sherzod Yusupov, spoke for the first time about his position to Vedomosti. Yusupov’s main complaint against Michael Calvey and other defendants is that the charter of the ITFG company, which Vostochny received for a debt of 2.5 billion rubles, limited payments to its shareholders to several thousand dollars. Calvey argued in court that this clause was removed from the charter. Read more.

The Aurus company, the manufacturer of the Cortege car for Vladimir Putin, will receive a foreign investor, writes TASS . The Tawazun Fund from the UAE will buy 36% of this company from Sollers and invest 110 million euros in the project over three years. The Fund is going to become a distributor of Russian luxury cars for heads of state in the markets of the Middle East and North Africa. More.

Facebook has blocked several video projects of the RT channel, said Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the channel, . RT claims that the blocking was caused by a CNN publication about the connections of these communities with the Kremlin. Detailed. We are talking about the In the Now project and related Soapbox, Back Then and Waste-Ed, which are owned by the Berlin company Maffick Media. Communities were locked down on Friday, Feb. 15, Maffick said in a post.

The head of "Yandex" Arkady Volozh commented on the arrest of the founder of Baring Vostok, whose funds were major investors in his company. Volozh called Michael Calvey " the standard of legality for the market " and doubted that one of the company's representatives could violate the law. Quote: "It's hard for me to imagine that Michael [Calvey], and indeed someone from Baring Vostok, did something indecent or illegal.

The case of Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey will be with us for a long time - on Saturday, the Basmanny court arrested him for two months on the second attempt. After two hearings, there are still more questions than answers in the case. The main question is what gave the applicants grounds to claim, and the court to believe, that Baring Vostok gave the bank a company with an asset value of 600 thousand to pay off a debt of 2.5 billion rubles.

Gazprom, even with the support of Germany, will still not be able to withdraw the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from the EU Gas Directive so easily: consent to this will have to be given not only by the European Commission (EC), but also by a committee from among representatives of all countries of the Union. The EC has a new lever of pressure on Gazprom and Russia, Kommersant writes . More.

The founder of Baring Vostok was arrested until April. We figured out the most dubious places of the prosecution The case of the founder of Baring Vostok Michael Kalvi with us for a long time - on Saturday, the Basmanny Court arrested him for two months on Saturday. In the case, after two meetings, there are more questions than answers.

The Vkusville chain of stores began opening micro-format stores in office buildings - without salespeople, locks or video surveillance, Vedomosti reported. To increase revenue in anticipation of the IPO, the company is forced to expand in a competitive market through new formats, the newspaper notes. However, a business model based on customer trust is quite workable, but only if the markup compensates for the several-fold increase in product loss. Read more.