Relations of Russia with the United States survived the action -packed week. How will events develop? A week with the call of Joe Biden Vladimir Putin and looked like an American slides with new American sanctions-and ended with mutual hostile steps and maintaining the actual status quo. Washington’s sanctions were symbolic, but the United States reserved for the future the whole set of restrictions that can continue to threaten Russia - and even simplified the procedure for introducing them.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced retaliatory sanctions against the United States. 10 American diplomats will be expelled from Russia, and Ambassador John Sullivan is advised to leave for Washington for consultations. Eight US officials will be included in the Russian sanctions list. "Painful measures for American business" decided to hold in reserve, said Lavrov. Lavrov added that US sanctions are "on the shoulder" of Russia.

The Moscow prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit to recognize the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the headquarters of Alexei Navalny and the SFPG as extremist organizations.

The Kremlin and the government have published declarations on the incomes of officials - for the pandemic year 2020, Vladimir Putin earned 10 million rubles, increasing his official income by 200 thousand. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin - twice as much, or almost 20 million rubles. In the prime minister's chair, Mishustin's income increased by 1.7 million rubles. Putin earned 9.99 million rubles in a year.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has threatened mass deportation of a million illegal migrants to the CIS countries - it will begin in June if the migrants themselves do not leave the country, said Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Gorovoy. In December 2020, Vladimir Putin extended the period of temporary residence of migrants in Russia until June 15, 2021. This decision was made in connection with the pandemic.

The Central Bank may sharply raise the key rate by 50 bp at once. at the next board of directors, predict that against the background of the imposed sanctions, it may rise to 5%. analysts at Morgan Stanley Analysts of the investment bank in a note to clients write that they expect the key rate to be raised at the next meeting of the Central Bank - it will be held on April 23.

The post of president of AvtoVAZ will again be taken by the Frenchman Nicolas Maure, the company said - he already held the position in 2016-2018. Mohr will take over as president of the company from June 1, 2021. What position the current president of AvtoVAZ, Yves Caracatzanis, will go to, the company promised to reveal later. Mor was already the president of AvtoVAZ - he was appointed to this position in April 2016 and worked in it until May 2018.

The American company Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which has developed a vaccine against COVID-19, has confidentially asked its pharmaceutical competitors to jointly study the risk of blood clots and unanimously declare the safety of drugs. However, Pfizer and Moderna dropped the idea, citing that their vaccines have no problems and participation in research could "tarnish" them, told The Wall Street Journal.

The “stability” reached in Russia at the cost of refusal of development is actually unstable. Upon preservation of the “equilibrium of stagnation” on the horizon of 10 years, social and domestic political destabilization is predicted, in the 2030s-a full-scale crisis, the prevention of which requires the authorities to start radical reforms right now.

The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden can take place "without any conditions and at any time," said Dmitry Peskov . According to him, the Kremlin appreciated the words of the American president about the de-escalation of tension with Russia.

The Yandex.Lavka product ordering and delivery service will begin operating in Paris and London - the company has already registered the legal entity Deli International in France and has begun hiring staff, VTimes writes with reference to the company. Yandex.Lavka will operate under the international brand Yango Deli (obviously, this is an abbreviation for Yandex Go Delivery), but according to the same 10-15 minute delivery model that operates in Moscow.

On Friday, April 16, the Bank of Russia canceled three more banking licenses. All organizations were included in the second hundred in the banking system - Interprombank, Neiva Bank and Nordea Bank.

Navalny's team confirmed the authenticity of the database that appeared on the network with e-mail registered for the upcoming rally "Freedom to Navalny!" and apologized for the leak. Its danger is small, according to the FBK. “This is only a database of email addresses, without last names, first names or any additional information,” wrote FBK director Ivan Zhdanov.

During the pandemic, luxury brands in Russia increased their sales. The fact is that due to closed borders, wealthy citizens have focused on buying a house, writes RBC. The publication analyzed the reports of luxury brands that operate independently in Russia and are included in the top twenty of the world ranking of the largest luxury sellers according to Deloitte. There were nine such brands.

Russia reduced investments in US government bonds from $6.145 billion to $5.756 billion in February, but now almost all of them are short-term, follows from the report of the US Treasury. The largest holders of US government securities in February were Japan ($1.258 trillion) and China ($1.104 trillion). Russia reduced the share of long-term bonds by nine times - from $2.7 billion to $306 million.