How Vladimir Putin carried out his most successful economic reform and why he turned it back The threats of the Kremlin sources about increasing income tax for the middle class were exaggerated. Vladimir Putin announced such an increase in personal income tax that he will not be noticed by either taxpayers or budget. The Kremlin is also not worth counting on a long populist effect. But this decision will not pass without a trace.

"Medusa" not only discovered a system that allows enterprises to control the appearance of their employees to sections for voting on amendments to the Constitution, but also found that it works on servers of regional public structures. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress introduced a bill on additional sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline under construction. The new document provides for softer sanctions than in the Senate version, prepared at the beginning of the month. Now both houses of Congress will be able to consider additional sanctions for Nord Stream 2. The bill was introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger, Denny Heck, Mike Turner and Ruben Gallego.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced director Kirill Serebrennikov to a suspended sentence of three years. He was found guilty of embezzlement of 128 million 964 thousand rubles. The court appointed Itin and Malobrodsky additional punishment in the form of a ban on managing cultural institutions. The court also satisfied the claim of the Ministry of Culture and recovered 129 million rubles from Serebrennikov, Itin, Malobrodsky.

The police came to the house of the host of the Dozhd TV channel, Pavel Lobkov. He refused to let the policeman into the apartment until the arrival of lawyer Leonid Solovyov, reports the Apology of Protest telegram channel. Prior to this, the journalist managed to vote on amendments to the Constitution twice - at the polling station and remotely using electronic voting.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the basic law of the country needs to be changed. According to the head of state, he was presented with several versions of the updated Constitution, but the changes were "not decisive enough." “The Constitution is the fundamental law. We will do it in two years. Several options have already been suggested to me, but they are not suitable. People are simply afraid to make more drastic changes to the Constitution.

International flights from Russia may resume in July, subject to the safety of air travel within the country. This was announced by Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich. “I expressed the hope that such a discovery is possible in July ... Hope is still alive. After we are convinced that air travel within the country is safe, we will be ready to release our citizens to the vast expanses of the global air ocean,” the minister stressed.

Retailer Amazon bought Zoox, a startup that develops hardware and software for unmanned taxis, for $1.2 billion. This acquisition will be the company's largest investment in the unmanned industry, according to The Information and The Financial Times . The moment from the point of view of the buyer is good: in 2018, Zoox was valued at $3.2 billion, but it was severely crippled by the corona crisis.

The cost of the Russian Urals oil variety on June 25 has reached a record for Brent oil in the history of monitoring since 1994. The prize has grown to $ 2.35 and now the Futures on Urals costs $ 43.25, reports Argus. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

The Bank of Russia has decided not to extend some of the relaxations introduced in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. The main one of the cancellations is the right to pay with expired bank cards. “The introduction of this measure made it possible to protect citizens from visiting bank offices during the period of self-isolation. Today, in many regions, the population has the opportunity to move freely, and most bank offices have switched to a standard operating mode.

On the first day of voting on amendments to the Constitution, 10 million people voted - this is 9.2% of all voters in the Russian Federation, the Central Election Commission reported . According to the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, on June 25, 10,000,126 citizens voted in person and in electronic format. She stated that the commission did not expect such results. “Suddenly even, since we scolded ourselves that maybe we didn’t give enough information that the voting starts on the 25th.

The average maximum rate on deposits of the top 10 Russian banks for the first time since the beginning of the calculation of the indicator in 2009 fell below 5% - to 4.99%, the Central Bank said today. Last week, the regulator lowered the main rate to 4.5%. The maximum deposit rate has been declining from 7.5% since last summer and briefly moved up this spring. The maximum, exceeding 15%, the rate reached at the beginning of 2015.

On June 26, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow found director Kirill Serebrennikov and two other defendants in the Seventh Studio case guilty and sentenced them to suspended sentences and fines. Serebrennikov and Yury Itin were sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment, Aleksey Malobrodsky to two years of probation. Sofia Apfelbaum was sentenced to a fine, from which she was released due to the statute of limitations.

The budget rule will not be canceled, but will change, according to fitch The budget rule in Russia, even for the sake of leaving the coronacrisis, will not be canceled, but change, and softly enough, the Fitch agency believes . Crisis stimulation of the economy will remain stingy. According to the agency, the government will leave in the rule the price of oil cut off, and restrictions on the expenditure of the National Welfare Fund (FNB).

The budget rule in Russia, even for the sake of leaving the coronacrisis, will not be canceled, but will be changed, and quite softly, the Fitch agency believes, and this will not affect macrostality. Economic stimulation measures will remain quite stingy. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!