The FAO food price index in March came close to 150 points (where 100 = the average price level for 2014-2016) — that is, on average, food in the world now costs almost one and a half times more than 6-8 years ago
The world prices for sugar grew the least (by 18% compared to the average level of 2014-2016), the most for vegetable oils, almost two and a half times compared to 6-8 years ago
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The labor force aged 15 and over was 74.8 million in February 2022. According to Rosstat, the unemployment rate in Russia for the same period amounted to only 4.1%.
Compared to the same period last year, the unemployment rate in Russia decreased by 1.6 percentage points. If we turn to the monthly dynamics, the unemployment rate in Russia in February decreased by 0.3 percentage points compared to January.
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The revenue of Auchan LLC last year increased by 2.6%, to 229.04 billion rubles. In the previous few years (since 2016), revenue has been declining (at the peak — in 2015 — this figure reached 344.2 billion rubles, according to the company’s reporting data).
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NLMK Group (the flagship asset is Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant) will not disclose quarterly operating results, but will publish the results of production activities along with financial statements for the first half of the year.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting in Kyiv with President of Poland Andrzej Duda, President of Latvia Egils Levits, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda and President of Estonia Alar Karis, who are visiting Ukraine.
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The quota for the export of sunflower oil from the Russian Federation is distributed among 54 companies, follows from the order of the Ministry of Agriculture, a copy of which was familiarized with Interfax.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry imposed sanctions on 398 members of the US House of Representatives, as well as 87 Canadian senators. Now foreign politicians are included in the stop list of Russia. Also, as a retaliatory measure, Russia declared a senior diplomat of the Czech Embassy in Moscow persona non grata. The Foreign Ministry promised to announce new measures and counter-sanctions soon.
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The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has published a list of accredited distributors, trading houses and metal service enterprises that will limit the margin on the sale of metallurgical products to 12%, the ministry said.
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General Jacques Langlade de Mongros has been named the new chief of the French Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM) with the task of restructuring the intelligence agency, Le Figaro reported on Wednesday.
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The European Commission presented member countries with an analysis of the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on paying for gas from Russia in rubles and warned that its implementation would violate anti-Russian sanctions, Bloomberg reports citing a source.
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The Spanish hotel chain RIU has stopped accepting new customers from Russia. The ban will apply to hotels in the UAE, the Dominican Republic, the Maldives and Sri Lanka from April 13. At the same time, previously confirmed bookings will be preserved, and the Russians will be able to go on vacation in a hotel chain. New bookings will not be accepted.
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The Russian Federation imposed sanctions against 87 Canadian senators. Now these Canadian citizens will not be able to open accounts in Russian banks and obtain a residence permit in Russia. What does not prohibit them from visiting the country as tourists
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Morocco received from Israel a set of advanced defense systems that were developed by a group of Israeli military companies, including Israel Aerospace Industries Company, Elbit Systems Company and I24NEWS.
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The White House has denied information about Japan’s invitation to the AUKUS defense bloc, which includes the US, Australia and the UK.
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The King and Queen of the Netherlands have denied Prince Harry and Meghan Markle permission to stay at their residence. They will have to rent a hotel. They were also denied an audience and the right to their own armed guards, the Dutch police will guard the scandalous couple.
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On April 12, Sberbank transferred foreign securities of its brokerage clients to “other professional participants in the securities market not included in the sanctions lists of foreign states,” the bank’s call center told a Forbes correspondent.
The operator specified that by April 26, the bank will send a report to the clients’ e-mail, which will contain the details of the specific legal entity where the securities were transferred, as well as the list and number of transferred foreign securities. At the same time, the call center operator did not specify where exactly the clients’ foreign papers were transferred.
Clients of the Sberbank broker surveyed by Forbes, who have foreign securities on their balance sheets, did not receive notifications of a transfer to another broker, they do not see any changes in their personal accounts. Forbes sent a request to Sberbank.
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A Japanese company has unveiled an electric gaming bed that converts into a chair. Now you don’t even have to get out of bed to play the computer.
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The Australian government is imposing sanctions on 14 Russian companies in connection with the situation around Ukraine, the country’s Foreign Ministry reports.
The sanctions lists include KAMAZ, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Transneft, Rostelecom, RusHydro, Sevmash and the United Shipbuilding Corporation, Ruselectronics holding, Russian Railways, Novorossiysk Marine commercial port, ALROSA, Sogaz and Sovcomflot.
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Russia’s membership in the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be suspended from 11 May. This is stated on the website of the Agency.
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The owner of the rights to the Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Helvetica fonts, the American company Monotype, has blocked access to its library on the site for Russian users.
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Police on the island of Fiji have detained the Amadea superyacht, which is believed to belong to Russian Senator Suleiman Kerimov, who is under US, UK and European Union sanctions, Reuters reported.
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The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has identified the owner of the 156-meter superyacht Dilbar, despite attempts to hide offshore, the agency reports on Twitter. This is Gulbahor Ismailova, whom the BKA calls «Alisher Usmanov’s sister»
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The Czech Foreign Ministry announced the return of its diplomats to the embassy in Kyiv. The ministry said in a statement that this is just one of many steps the Czech authorities are willing to take to express their support for Ukraine.
The European Union, as well as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Turkey, returned their diplomatic mission in Kyiv. And the representatives of Poland and the Holy See (ie the Vatican) did not leave the Ukrainian capital.
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In Barcelona, from 24 to 29 April, there will be a strike of cleaners. The union is demanding a fair wage increase in line with rising prices. It is expected that about 4,000 people will take part in the protest, according to the Beteve portal.
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Bulgaria stopped granting international humanitarian status to Ukrainian refugees. Now they can only get temporary protection. Local officials explained the decision by saying that there are very few applications for humanitarian status, and it prevents refugees from accessing social benefits and free housing, writes dnevnik.bg.
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A way to store solar energy for 18 years has been created. The technology is based on a molecule of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, which changes shape upon contact with sunlight. This isomer can then be stored in the liquid state for an extended period of time. The ultra-thin chip designed by scientists releases energy.
According to experts, the technology they described will replace classic batteries and solar cells. They stressed that the created closed system works without carbon dioxide emissions.
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The Indian software development corporation Infosys is closing its representative office in Russia.
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Colombian authorities promise to help Western countries with energy supplies. To this end, the production of oil, coal and gas will be increased in the country.
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At the request of the State Bureau of Investigation in Ukraine, 154 objects of movable and immovable property of Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko were arrested. Under arrest were 30 land plots, 32 apartments, 23 houses, 17 parking spaces, as well as a yacht and a fleet of 26 luxury cars.
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Roskomnadzor added the mdza.io domain name, which Meduza uses for shortened links, to the list of sites with prohibited information. The RKN website indicates that the blocking is carried out according to the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office adopted on March 16.
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In March, Russians actively borrowed funds for unforeseen and urgent expenses, according to a study by the Webbankir online platform. The growth amounted to 19.9% of all loans against 15.5% in February.
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VTB has reduced the minimum mortgage rate from 22.4% to 16.9%, the company’s press service reported. Clients who have already received approval under the old conditions will be able to reissue a loan for more favorable ones. The company also reduced the rate on loans for the purchase of parking spaces and storage rooms to 17.3%, for individual housing construction — to 17.2%. The decline was explained by the decision of the Central Bank to lower the key rate from 20% to 17%.
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In March 2022, Russians spent 160% more on medicines than last year, according to data from the Advanced Technologies Development Center (CRPT). According to their calculations, the demand for medicines increased by 98% in a year.
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President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev signed a decree «On measures to de-bureaucratize the activities of the state apparatus,» the press service of the head of state said on Thursday.
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Following the meeting on April 14, the Bank of Korea raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points amid inflation twice the target level.
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REA Ministry of Energy explained the classification of data on production and export of oil in the Russian Federation. The CDU TEK has stopped providing statistics on oil production and exports, as they can be used to put pressure on companies and the market as a whole.
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Russians’ spending on fish in 2021 increased by 7.5%, and its consumption decreased to 14 kg per person, Alexander Savelyev, head of the fishing news agency, told Interfax.
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Evelina Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked for several years with a patient without a part of the brain that is involved in speech processing. Despite the lack of a left temporal lobe, she speaks fluent English and Russian, has a degree, and has had an «impressive» career.
Scientists did not know before that whether the frontal lobes could form in the absence of the temporal lobes, but the experience of the patient Fedorenko showed that they can. A series of experiments confirmed that her language abilities are in no way inferior to those of neurotypical people.
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The film «Tchaikovsky’s Wife» by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov entered the competition program of the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the country will follow the sanctions against the Russian Federation if they are approved by the UN.
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MasterCard payment system and Nexo cryptocurrency platform announced the launch of Nexo Card. The card allows making payments without spending the user’s cryptocurrency assets, but using them as payment collateral, Nexo noted.
With each purchase with a card, the user can receive up to 2% cashback in cryptocurrency — in bitcoin or in Nexo tokens. The card can be issued both in virtual and in physical form.
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President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeev said that most of the Academies of Sciences of Western countries «froze» contacts with the Russian Federation, in addition, after the imposition of sanctions against the Russian Federation, there were difficulties in contacts with scientists from China.
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Gold production in Russia in January-February 2022 amounted to 38.9 tons, the Finance Ministry said, citing data on the supply of raw materials to Russian refineries.
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Leading Russian mushroom companies in 2021 could not get out of the unprofitable zone, but some of them reduced their losses, follows from the information of these enterprises in the SPARK-Interfax system. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2021 the country’s greenhouse industry produced a record 111 thousand tons of mushrooms, which is 29% more than in 2020.
Most mushrooms are grown in the Krasnodar Territory, Kursk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Leningrad, Penza and Moscow regions.
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In Russia, 32 thousand tons of breast milk substitutes were produced in 2021, which is almost 20% more than in 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture reported.
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JSC «Derbent Cognac Plant» in 2021 received a net profit of 328.798 million rubles, which is 19.1% less than a year earlier, according to the company’s statements.
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The duty on the export of sunflower oil from the Russian Federation from May 1 will increase to $372.2 per ton from $313 in April.
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Softline, a Russian IT solutions provider, has offered to buy up to 10% of its shares (18,369,283 shares) from investors at a price of $1 per share. This announcement was posted on the company’s website.
The decision to buy back was caused by a sharp decrease in the liquidity of Softline shares «in the current unstable market conditions,» the company explained.
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The Russian tax authorities have stopped accepting letters from American and European domains. This is done to protect the email of the Federal Tax Service from «external negative influence», the department explained.
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Customers filed a class action lawsuit against Yandex Food after the leak of user data. They demand compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of 100,000 rubles for each
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Tenaris, an international pipe supplier, is suspending all sales and purchases in Russia and refusing to invest in a joint project with Severstal, the company said in a statement.
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The French authorities have arrested two hotels belonging to the company of Elena Ermakova, the wife of Russian businessman Gennady Timchenko. Ilya Shumanov, General Director of Transparency International in Russia, announced this.
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