Russia could lose up to 40% of its oil exports due to Ukrainian strikes. This will prevent it from taking advantage of the favorable situation in the context of the US war with Iran. Unsplash

India pays for Russian oil, temporarily exempted from US sanctions, in rupees into special offshore accounts of Russian suppliers, Bloomberg has learned . There they are converted into other currencies - UAE dirham, yuan, and in the future, Singapore and Hong Kong dollars. The main thing is that Russian companies would like to maintain the “dollar-free” scheme further, after the likely return of sanctions. And it looks possible: some Indian banks are now participating.

On the channel “This is Ossetian!” An interview was published with the founder and CEO of Toloka Olga Megorskaya. Toloka is one of the IT companies that are part of Arkady Volozh’s Nebius Group, the same international part of Yandex that, after a long division of assets, remained with Volozh and focused on AI infrastructure.

The Gulf War has already cost Turkey's central bank more than a tenth of its international reserves. The regulator has already spent $26 billion to compensate for the liquidity leak—in fact, to support the lira exchange rate—during three weeks of the conflict, writes the Financial Times. Approximately $16 billion of this amount is US government bonds. So far, the country's Central Bank has been spending foreign exchange reserves, but it is possible that soon it will have to spend gold as well.

It took Russia less than ten years to become one of the world leaders in non-cash payments. But now, due to the actions of the Russian authorities, Russians increasingly prefer cash: increased taxes are hitting businesses, and Internet blocking is making non-cash transactions unreliable. Renaissance cash In January 2026, several indicators pointed to an unusual sharp increase in the popularity of cash payments in Russia.

The Ministry of Digital Development has sent to the government a bill on the modernization of Russian Post. The project assumes that marketplaces from the register of digital platforms will be required to open pickup points in post offices or deliver goods directly there. This is not the only requirement for business.

On the night of March 25, Ukrainian drones attacked the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region, the largest Russian port on the Baltic. A fire broke out in the port area, which is being localized, said the governor of the region, Alexander Drozdenko. 56 drones were shot down over the Leningrad region. Ust-Luga is a key oil export hub in Russia: in February, the port shipped about 450 thousand barrels of oil per day.

The Ministry of Digital Development plans to increase the capacity of the Internet blocking system by 2.5 times and spend almost 84 billion rubles on this. This is the largest expansion of the RuNet censorship infrastructure - and it comes against the backdrop of signs that the system can no longer always cope with the current load. Unsplash @

The Federal Antimonopoly Service announced that they will not be held accountable for advertising on Telegram and YouTube until the end of 2026. The department called this a “transition period” for adaptation: “It is obvious that business entities need time to adapt to new rules and refocus on other advertising channels.