The Central Bank on Friday published its main strategic document - "The main directions of monetary policy until 2025". It contains three development scenarios for the coming years - the baseline, "accelerated adaptation" and "global crisis". None of them suggest that the Russian economy will be able to fully recover from military losses on this time horizon.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week called on Western countries to completely close their borders to Russians, regardless of their political stance. The main supporters of a pan-European ban on issuing visas to Russians are the Baltic countries and Finland, which have land borders with Russia. Estonia has already taken the first real step: in a week, it will close the border for Russians entering the country on Schengen visas issued by Estonia itself.

Indian banks refuse to join the Russian alternative to SWIFT - the SPFS system - for settlements in rubles and rupees, the Indian Economic Times writes , citing sources. They fear that Russian partner banks with which an exchange is possible through the system will fall under sanctions in the future, and the Indian bank's links to SPFS (through the Indian analogue of SFMS) may be considered a sign of circumvention of US sanctions.

The Central Bank, in the report on the main directions of monetary policy on 2023–2025, presented three forecast scenarios-basic, “accelerated adaptation” and “global crisis”. The latter is possible in the event of a recession in the global economy and strengthening geopolitical tension and threatens a crisis comparable in scale with the crisis of 2007-2008.

Stocks of consumer electronics in the EAEU countries are not enough for Russia Shipments of tablets, smartphones and computers to Russia from “friendly” countries, still coming from excess stocks, will fall with the onset of the autumn peak in demand. Local sellers will not sacrifice domestic markets, and manufacturers will not increase supplies to Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan on a scale at least comparable to the needs of the Russian market, writes .

Stocks of consumer electronics in the EAEU countries are not enough for Russia, parallel imports of premium brands at reasonable prices may not be until the end of the year Shipments of tablets, smartphones and computers to Russia from "friendly" countries, still coming from excess stocks, will fall with the onset of the autumn peak in demand.

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