The Russian business of McDonald's, which announced its final withdrawal from the country, will go to one of the largest local franchisees, three sources who follow the fate of the company told The Bell. Two of them name Kairat Boranbaev, a relative of the ex-president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, as a potential buyer, the SPP company, the third one, the GiD company, an oilman from Novokuznetsk, Alexander Govor.

After the basic forecast for the next three years, the Ministry of Economic Development published a conservative one. The forecast is still soft, but there are fewer prospects for the Russian economy Based on tougher sanctions, slower economic restructuring and a larger decline in prices for export goods, the fall in GDP in 2022 will be 8.8% instead of 7.8% according to the base forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development, in 2023 - 2.9% instead of 0.7%.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested Andrey Panov, the former deputy general director of Aeroflot, in absentia for a period of two months. He is accused of particularly large-scale fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and put on the international wanted list.

A court in Washington began considering a case on the transfer of more than $ 10 million through a crypto exchange in circumvention of US sanctions, reports The Washington Post. This is the first such criminal case that signals to exchanges that they are responsible for users who evade sanctions, whether the platform knowingly facilitates it or not.

The Russian structure of Google - LLC "Google" - intends to apply to the arbitration court with an application for recognition of its own bankruptcy, follows from the notice on the Federal resource. It notes that the company "foresees its own bankruptcy and the impossibility of fulfilling monetary obligations from March 22, 2022." A Google representative in a conversation with RBC noted that the company had previously suspended most of its commercial operations in Russia.

EU wants to use frozen assets of Russians to restore Ukraine Christian Lue/Unsplash @ The European Commission plans to create, in order to restore Ukraine after the “special operation”, the Rebuildukraine Foundation, which proposes to send income from European assets of Russian businessmen, against whom sanctions were imposed. This was reported with reference to the appropriate project by Bloomberg. According to the agency, the initiative may be presented on May 18.