In the State Duma, in the wake of Putin's message, they are preparing a progressive tax on offshore dividends. How it will work is not clear, but business does not expect anything good Today it turned out what Putin had in mind in his message on April 21, speaking about "adjusting tax legislation" in terms of paying dividends abroad. A week ago, the president warned business that the authorities would look at how they use the profits received in 2021 and adjust the tax system accordingly.

Today it turned out what Vladimir Putin had in mind in his message on April 21, when he spoke about “adjusting tax legislation” in terms of paying dividends abroad. In the State Duma, in the wake of the message, they are preparing a progressive tax on offshore dividends. What happened A week ago, the president warned business that the authorities would look at how they use the profits received in 2021 and adjust the tax system accordingly.

The hero of the new issue of the project "Russian norms!" - Founder of the American company XSOLLA Alexander Agapitov. XSOLLA creates payment and billing solutions for developers and publishers of video games. This year, banks rated Agapitov at several billion dollars. It all started 15 years ago, when it was expelled from the mechanical and mathematics faculty of Perm State University. The entrepreneur told his story in an interview with Elizabeth Ossetian.

The European Parliament, which today discussed the situation with Alexei Navalny and military preparations on the border with Ukraine, included in the draft resolution the disconnection of Russia from the SWIFT system and the suspension of the Nord Stream 2 project if Russia "does not stop further escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine." The document lists the following measures: disconnection of Russia from the SWIFT bank transaction confirmation system; shutdown of the Nord Stream 2 gas

The Ukrainian government dismissed the head of Naftogaz Ukraine, Andriy Kobolev, and replaced him with the former executive director of the company, Yuriy Vitrenko, with whom Kobolev had a conflict. Kobolev said that he learned about the dismissal from the media, and refused to comment on it. Acting head of the oil company was appointed. Minister of Energy Yury Vitrenko.

In the first quarter of 2021, 6,080 counterfeit foreign banknotes were identified in Russia, according to the statistics of the Central Bank. This is almost one US dollar, the amount of which has increased by an order of magnitude year on year. In January-March, the regulator found 5968 counterfeit dollar bills. This is a record since 2010, when such statistics appeared on the regulator's website.

Telegram announced the launch of group video calls within the messenger – the function should appear in May, Pavel Durov, the founder of the service, wrote in his English-language Telegram channel.

Sber Entertainment (a subsidiary of Sber) is launching its own gaming direction, Sber Games, a bank representative told Vedomosti. It will be headed by the founder of one of Europe's leading mobile game development companies Game Insight, Alisa Chumachenko. Sber plans not only to develop its own games, but also to buy companies operating in this market. The first acquisition could be Gosu Data Lab, founded by Chumachenko herself.

The Bulgarian authorities suspected six Russians of explosions at factories and military depots in the country, three of them were also charged with the attempt on the life of Bulgarian businessman Emilian Gebrev. Today, Bulgarian national television, citing the country's prosecutor's office , said that over the past 10 years, the Bulgarian authorities have recorded a number of suspicious explosions in warehouses and production facilities.

A third wave of coronavirus has begun in Russia, according to unofficial statistics from the Russian government, told two unnamed officials Bloomberg. The Kremlin denies this, citing the lack of unofficial statistics in principle. Bloomberg, citing sources, writes that the latest unofficial data on Moscow speak of the possible beginning of the third wave, the newspaper notes.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Slovakia on the morning of April 28 to announce retaliatory measures against the expulsion of Russian diplomats. The Ministry demanded that two employees of the Lithuanian embassy, ​​as well as one employee of the Latvian and Estonian embassies, leave Russia within seven days. Three employees of the Slovak embassy in Moscow were declared persona non grata: they must leave Russia by May 5.

Yandex reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2021. For the first time in the company's history, non-advertising services accounted for more than half of its revenue. Revenue exceeded analysts' forecasts, but net profit fell by almost 50% due to the consolidation of Yandex.Market after a divorce from Sberbank. The company's quotes on the Moscow Exchange reacted with moderate growth - 1% by the close at 13:15 Moscow time.

The government plans to cut the soft lending program for small and medium-sized businesses. The maximum loan amount is planned to be cut four times, and the terms of financing - three times, learned . Izvestia The draft government decree proposes to limit the amount of loans issued: if earlier medium, small and micro-enterprises applied for loans up to 2 billion rubles, now the bar for small businesses will be lowered to 500 million rubles, and for micro-enterprises - up to 200 million rubles.

The introduction of the ability to accept payments in Telegram chats and channels, announced on April 26, will provoke the emergence of new fraudulent schemes and fake trading platforms, writes , citing information security experts. Kommersant Telegram users got the opportunity to accept payments by bank cards using eight built-in payment systems. Supported including the payment system of Sberbank.

The Constitutional Court allowed the only housing to be withdrawn from bankrupt citizens for debts - with the provision of a more modest one in return, writes .