The Ministry of Economy on the recession and falling income of the population, the outcome of Sberbank and the new prospects for default Emil Kalibradov/Unsplash @ The Ministry of Economy published scenarios for the development of the Russian economy for the next three years.

CFO Alexandra Buriko, as well as board members Sergey Maltsev (deputy chairman of the board) and Natalya Alymova (curator of the Welfare block) will leave Sberbank, reports Frank Media . According to the publication, "people are losing their nerves" amid unprecedented restrictions against the country's largest creditor. Initially, sources close to Sber told Frank Media about the departure of Buriko and Maltsev.

PPF and Home Credit announced that they are selling their Russian banking assets and subsidiaries to a group of individual investors led by St. Petersburg Exchange co-founder Ivan Tyryshkin.

The Russian currency reacted weakly to the decision of the Central Bank to ease restrictions on money transfers abroad. In the first minutes after the opening of trading, the dollar first rose by 50 kopecks to the closing level, but then rolled back. At the time of publication, the dollar was trading almost at the level of yesterday - 63.5 rubles. Euro after the opening of trading has risen in price by 50 kopecks and cost 66.3 rubles.

UN Secretary General António Guterres is negotiating with representatives of Russia, Turkey and other countries about the possibility of exporting grain from Ukraine. This was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, and then confirmed the information. the US Ambassador to the UN According to the WSJ, Guterres proposes to ease restrictions on the export of Russian and Belarusian potash fertilizers in exchange for the passage of ships with grain from Ukrainian ports.

Russia's current account surplus was a record high in April, further ruble appreciation is likely. But this is not an indicator of the health of the economy, but of its growing isolation. Following the trend of closing all economic statistics (why this is bad for business, we explained here ), the Central Bank published not the balance of capital inflow and outflow, but only the current account and foreign trade balance for April.