Putin about the economy and the Fifth Column, a draft of the plan of peaceful settlement and increasing the Fed Today in the media for the first time in two weeks of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, a draft of a plan of peaceful settlement appeared. Both sides, however, do not predictly confirm it.

Weekly inflation in Russia once again topped 2%, standing at 2.09% for the week of March 5-11 after 2.22% from February 25 to March 4, Rosstat said today. Since the beginning of the year, inflation thus reached 5.62%, since the beginning of March - 3.38%. Of the products, granulated sugar (by 12.8%), mixtures for baby food (by 4.1%), buckwheat and rice - by 2.7% went up. Fruit and vegetable prices went up by 4.8%.

The chairman of the board of Sibur Holding, Dmitry Konov, who fell under EU sanctions, is leaving leadership positions, the company said .

On Wednesday, March 16, the Russian and Ukrainian delegations continued negotiations in video format. It follows from the statements of the parties that there is a real hope for a compromise. The vision of the prospects of the Russian side in an interview with RBC was outlined by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Main: Negotiations "are not easy for obvious reasons, but nevertheless there is some hope for a compromise." At the talks, "concrete absolutely wording" appeared, close to agreement.

Presidents about negotiations, record revenue in retail and returning to button phones and ICQ Today, negotiations will continue between Russia and Ukraine. Vladimir Zelensky claims that the positions of the parties have become “more realistic”, but Vladimir Putin is much less optimistic - he accuses Kyiv of the absence of a “serious mood for the search for mutually acceptable interchanges”.