British experts have found serious military equipment in the Russian troops concentrated near the border with Ukraine, in particular, Iskander missile systems redeployed from the Sverdlovsk region to Voronezh. Thomas Bullock, an analyst with the British authoritative military publication Janes, analyzed data from open sources on the composition of Russian formations concentrated in recent weeks on the border with Ukraine. He was able to identify 14 units of the ground forces.

The voltage around Donbass returned to the level of 2014-2015. Is it to wait for an open conflict? The aggravation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which began at the end of March, reached the climax, which allows you to compare the voltage level from 2014–2015.

Being an institutional economist, Alexander Auzan knows non -trivial answers to the eternal questions of Russian society. How to accelerate modernization and democratization? Why do the Russians do not like businessmen? How to deal with a "resource curse"? What scrapers actually unite Russians? Its task is to show students and politicians barriers and risks that are waiting for each management decision of the state, relying only on research data. Now in Russia another stagnation.

Vladimir Putin instructed the FAS to check housing prices - according to the president, real estate in Russia has "significantly risen in price." Both the Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance have repeatedly noted that housing prices are rising due to the presidential program of preferential mortgages at 6.5%. Putin said that on average in Russia, the cost of residential real estate has increased by 12%, but in a number of regions, for example, in North Ossetia, prices have risen by 30%.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) asked Slovakia to return the batch of Sputnik V vaccine delivered to it in order to transfer it to other countries. Prior to this, Slovakia de facto accused the Russian side of supplying the drug of inadequate quality.

The leadership of Kuzbass forced officials to portray Yeti (“Bigfoot”) in order to stir up tourist interest in the region - former governor Aman Tuleyev admitted this today. Tuleyev said that after local hunters said that they had seen the yeti with their own eyes, he personally rode a snowmobile to the Azas cave, but found no traces of the mythical creature. However, the head of Kuzbass came up with the idea to use the interest for the development of the region.

Deputy head of the presidential administration Dmitry Kozak said that Russia can stand up for the people of Donbass, and agreed with the opinion that if Ukraine unleashes hostilities, this will be the “beginning of the end” for this country. Dmitry Kozak said that Russia would look at the situation and, if necessary, could intervene in the Donbass. Dmitry Kozak Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia It all depends on the scale of the fire.

Judge Artur Karpov of the Basmanny Court, appointed by President Putin in 2007, resigned at his own request. He is responsible for dozens of cases that determined the modern history of Russia. Karpov, who comes from the military prosecutor’s office, appears on the European “Magnitsky list” and the Ukrainian sanctions list.

In 2020, many investors earned very well. But the market cannot grow forever. When and why the trend will turn around, says Andrey Movchan, managing partner of Movchan's Group . Part 1. New money Among the frequently heard statements about the current state of stock markets, perhaps the most popular sounds like this: new money comes to the market.

The Bank of Russia presented for the first time a detailed concept of the third form of money. The digital ruble will be issued and stored on electronic wallets at the Central Bank, and for offline payment of purchases, the user will receive a wallet on a personal smartphone. Transfers between individuals will be free and in this sense similar to cash transfers.

The tax burden on Russians is one of the lowest in the world and has remained virtually unchanged “for many years,” said the press service of the Russian Ministry of Finance . Earlier today, VTsIOM reported that more than a third of Russians consider the current taxes excessive.

In Russia, the death rate among prisoners has increased, follows from the report of the Council of Europe. The increase was mainly due to a decline in the prison population, but it is still the largest in Europe. In 2019, 2,420 Russian prisoners died, and as of January 31, 2020, 519.6 thousand people were in prison, the CoE report says. A year earlier, there were 563.2 thousand people in Russian prisons, and in 2018, 2,331 prisoners died.

Governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Morozov today announced his resignation. his resignation Morozov posted on Facebook. He asked President Putin to resign in order to run for the State Duma, follows from the message. “It is precisely the desire to focus on promoting the interests of the residents of the Ulyanovsk region in the federal parliament that is the reason for my request to the head of state for the voluntary resignation from the post of governor,” the official writes.

The ecosystem regulation model proposed by the regulator may have a negative impact on the ratings of large Russian banks, Moody's analysts say. The key problem is related to the requirement to “open” ecosystem data to third-party players. The measures proposed by the Central Bank will make the multimillion-dollar client base of large banks available to small players, which will undermine the market positions of the former, writes RBC with reference to an expert review.

Russia turned out to be the largest jurisdiction in the sector of shadow transactions and “gray” cryptocurrency exchanges, found out analysts of the Clain specialized platform . This, in their opinion, is due to the popularity of banned services based in Russia, including the darknet site for the sale of drugs Hydra. The share of Russia in the market of shadow crypto-operations reached 41.1%, Clain analysts calculated.