Today, mobile Internet suddenly returned to Moscow after an almost three-week shutdown. As before the shutdown , residents were not warned about anything - just at the right moment, news that the Internet was available again appeared in news agencies . Unlike the previous shutdown in May 2025, which the mayor’s office warned about, the current shutdown took place in an atmosphere of secrecy unprecedented even for Russia.

Today, mobile Internet suddenly returned to Moscow after an almost three-week shutdown. As before the shutdown , residents were not warned about anything - just at the right moment, news that the Internet was available again appeared in news agencies . Unlike the previous shutdown in May 2025, which the mayor’s office warned about, the current shutdown took place in an atmosphere of secrecy unprecedented even for Russia.

The head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said at a meeting of State Duma committees that the contribution of the VAT increase and other tax changes to inflation amounted to just over 1 percentage point. - less than feared.

The race for AI has turned into a cost race: engineers compete to see who can “burn” the most tokens, employers include them in KPIs, and computing bills per person reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. Skeptics warn that the volume of tokens consumed does not mean high quality work. What's happening The tech market is captivated by the phenomenon of “tokenmaxing”: developers are trying to spend as many tokens as possible to show their “advancedness” in working with neural networks.

Only 23.7% of the 3,500 representatives of medium, small and micro businesses surveyed by Opora Russia are confident that they will continue their business. Every twentieth (5.5%) of those surveyed said that they had actually already closed their business; 18.2% estimated their chances of continuing to operate at 30% or less. The survey aimed to reflect changes in business sentiment after increasing VAT to 22% and lowering VAT payment thresholds for the simplified taxation system (STS).

The Supreme Court of Russia ordered the lower court to consider on the merits the claim of a St. Petersburg couple against the Finnish authorities and thereby for the first time applied a limitation of the immunity of a foreign state, Interfax writes . What's the matter The plaintiffs are spouses Alexander and Elena Tsvetkov from St. Petersburg.

Russia successfully launched into an intermediate orbit and took control of the first 16 production satellites of the Rassvet communications orbital constellation. Foreign media write about it as the Russian answer to Elon Musk’s Starlink. In this case, Russia is seven years behind SpaceX in terms of the start of satellite deployment and two technological stages behind launch vehicles. The satellites were developed (and the constellation is managed) by Bureau 1440, originally created at Megafon.

About 15 minutes before Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about “productive negotiations” with Iran, unusually large deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars took place in the oil market. Traders and analysts regard them as potential insiders. According to the Financial Times, on March 23, between 6:49 and 6:50 a.m. New York time, about 6,200 transactions were made in Brent and WTI oil futures worth $580 million.

A jump in oil prices due to the war between Israel and the United States with Iran will allow Russia to postpone at least a tightening of the budget rule, and most likely, a budget sequestration Unsplash