Five main conclusions about the St. Petersburg Economic Forum The first post-Pandemic St. Petersburg Economic Forum was not the brightest, but honest-its entire agenda revolved around the role of the state in the economy, and the international part turned out to be unprecedentedly scarce. But the business learned a little more about the new taxes and that Vladimir Putin is thinking about Andrei Belousov’s proposal about the seizure of “sunk” from the metallurgists of 100 billion rubles.

The head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, criticized the government's initiative to increase taxes for companies that aggressively export profits abroad. The official advised officials to improve the investment climate instead. Kudrin told Forbes on the sidelines of the SPIEF that he considers everything earned in Russia by any company to be their unquestioning property.

Vladimir Putin said he did not know what exactly happened in Minsk during the landing of the Ryanair plane, and did not answer the question whether he believed in the threatening letter from Hamas. At the SPIEF session, the president said that the only thing he could say for sure about the situation with the forced landing of Ryanair was that the Russian special services were not involved in this.

The European Union has officially banned all Belarusian air carriers from using its airspace, follows from the statement of the European Council. The statement says that the council decided to strengthen the existing restrictive measures, taking into account the situation in Belarus, therefore, it introduces a ban on flying over EU airspace and on access to EU airports for all Belarusian carriers.

Vladimir Putin's speech at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum turned out to be mainly devoted to the domestic agenda (although there were at least two reasons for the "lightning" of international agencies). Most of all, the speech looked like another presidential address with the distribution of benefits to business and the population, and some of them turned out to be important.

Putin said that the construction of the first line of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has been completed. According to the president at the SPIEF, Russia is ready to start launching gas through the pipeline. Vladimir Putin I am pleased to announce that today, literally 2.5 hours ago, the laying of the first string of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was successfully completed. Work on the second line continues. <...> Gazprom is ready to be filled with gas (pipeline. - The Bell).

Putin proposed to extend the preferential mortgage for another year with a change in some conditions. The President said that it was impossible to abruptly curtail the preferential mortgage program and that it would be extended with a change in the criteria. The preferential mortgage rate will be 7% instead of the current 6.5%. The maximum loan amount is 3 million rubles. Now the limits are 6 million rubles for the regions and 12 million rubles for Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Putin announced the emergence of "vaccine tourism" in Russia - in the country, foreigners will be able to get vaccinated for money. The President instructed the government to work out the issue of paid vaccination of foreigners in Russia by the end of the month. Vladimir Putin Sputnik V has already been registered in 66 countries of the world, where more than 3 billion people live.

Billionaire Oleg Deripaska urged to wait another 10 years before Russia becomes a middle-income country, he said at the SPIEF session “Reset or “overload”? Multilateral Cooperation on the Ruins of Globalization: A Business Perspective”.

Bell.Club Live continues the Business Leaders project: a series of video interviews with PMEF-2021 participants at the Trust Nonfuscular Asset Bank. Another guest is the general director of the Russian Post Maxim Akimov. - Our project is called "Business Leaders." It seems to me that the “mail” as an infrastructure for the Internet trade that takes off the market simply cannot but be a business leader. - Of course, we are trying.

In Moscow the day before, on June 3, at the age of 80, the long-term leader, the first president of AvtoVAZ, Vladimir Kadannikov, died. He headed the country's largest car plant from 1988 to 2005 - from USSR General Secretary Gorbachev to Russian President Putin and from Samara to LADA Kalina. The death of Kadannikov was announced by the head of Togliatti (whose honorary citizen was the ex-president of the concern) Nikolai Renz.

The European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority announced on Friday that they are launching an antitrust investigation into Facebook. They suspect the company of illegal use of advertising data.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow denied Meduza's claim to be excluded from the list of media outlets that were foreign agents, where the publication was included by decision of the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice was unable to attach to the case a single document confirming the foreign funding of Meduza, the publication emphasizes - the department provided only a certificate from Rosfinmonitoring "for official use", which cannot be attached.

RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev expects the Russian vaccine Sputnik V to be approved by WHO in two months, he told reporters on the sidelines of SPIEF. WHO approval means simplified access for those vaccinated to Europe. “We are confident in our vaccine and that it will be registered,” Dmitriev told reporters and even called the registration period about two months (that is, until August 2021).

The Central Bank revoked the license from the Moscow RFI Bank for settlements with online casinos - before that, the bank was seen in ties with the infamous German Wirecard, which was the main settlement service for casinos operating in Russia.