Amazing economic statistics and oil embargo, the results of a hundred days of war and Volozh under sanctions Press Service Gazprom @ The economic statistics published this week for April turned out to be unexpectedly good - judging by the numbers, the Russian economy was able to quickly digest the first effect of sanctions accumulated over two months of the war. This should not deceive: the main consequences of sanctions by the economy have yet to feel.

On Friday, since the beginning of the war, it turned 100 days. The past week, Russian troops in the Donbass continued to slowly squeeze the encirclement in the west of the Luhansk region, and the Ukrainian ones took up a distracting counter -offensive in the south, in the Kherson region.

The Ministry of Justice added to the lists of foreign agents. The register of media-foreign agents includes six more people, including journalists Alexei Pivovarov and Oleg Kashin. into the register of individuals-foreign agents .

The sixth EU sanctions package included not only Russian oil and banks, but also the National Settlement Depository (NSD), through which all settlements on the securities market go. The main consequence for investors is that the likelihood of returning blocked foreign shares or receiving dividends on them is now significantly reduced. What do sanctions against NRMs mean? NSD is the National Settlement Depository, it records the rights to securities and settles them.

Even before the EU embargo, Western oil companies and large traders refused to work with Russian oil. Now their place is taken by companies of a completely different kind - opaque intermediaries with post-Soviet roots and newly created firms registered in "friendly" jurisdictions. Analytical agency Energy Intelligence analyzed the rapidly graying Russian oil trading market.

The Marriott hotel chain has announced that it is suspending operations in Russia. The company explained its decision by the protracted conflict in Ukraine and sanctions. Marriott announced back in March that it was closing an office in Moscow, suspending the opening of new hotels in Russia and curtailing all investments in the country. Now we are talking about the complete cessation of work in Russia.

Arkady Volozh is leaving all positions at Yandex, the company said half an hour after Volozh was included in the EU sanctions list. Volozh served as CEO of Yandex's parent company, the Dutch Yandex NV, and was a member of its board of directors. The European Union on Friday published the sixth package of sanctions against Russia. From the materials posted on the official website of the bloc, it follows that the founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, also fell under the sanctions.

The European Union has published the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, they come into force. From the materials posted on the official website of the block, it follows that the founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, fell under the sanctions. The company's shares fell 14% on this news. Update Arkady Volozh is leaving all positions at Yandex, the company said half an hour after Volozh was included in the EU sanctions list.

In January - May 2022, 3.8 times more attacks were made on Russian organizations than during the same period of 2021, Caspersky Laboratory calculated. Most of the cyber attacks are massive, for example, DDOS, but about 20% falls on carefully planned targeted attacks, and the share of such attacks is only growing. How attackers hack your business, how much it can cost you and what can be done with it right now - in the partnership material The Bell and Kaspersky Laboratory .

The world's richest man, Elon Musk, wrote in an internal letter to Tesla managers yesterday entitled "Stop Hiring Worldwide" that he had "a terrible feeling about the economy." The letter was reported by Reuters. The letter also states that the company will have to lay off 10% of its employees. Given that Tesla has almost 100,000 employees, about 10,000 will have to be laid off.

Another shake-up in the Russian gaming market: problems threaten companies with beneficiaries from “unfriendly” countries The ban on persons from "unfriendly" countries and companies under their control to be the beneficial owners of the organizers of gambling is contained in a bill submitted to the State Duma by three deputies from United Russia, writes RBC. This is necessary "in the face of increasing sanctions pressure," the explanatory note says.