The State Duma of Russia adopted a law on the legalization of parallel imports. It protects Russian companies from administrative and criminal liability that import goods into the country without the permission of the copyright holders.
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The State Duma of Russia adopted in the third reading a law that introduces a ban on the issuance of licenses for the development of mineral resources to foreign companies. To continue their work, they will have to create legal entities in the Russian Federation and transfer the rights to use subsoil plots to them.
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From July 4, Rosbank will charge individuals a commission for servicing foreign currency accounts. It will be 0.5% if the amount exceeds 10 thousand in these currencies. Interest is calculated on the total balance if several accounts are opened. Only balances on current accounts are summed up; no commission will be taken for balances on foreign currency deposits.
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Orenburgneft (part of the Rosneft oil and gas production complex) discovered two new oil fields in the Orenburg region — Biktovskoye and Chertyshovoye with total initial recoverable oil reserves of 2.2 million tons in category C1, Rosneft said in a statement.
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US electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc will cut its full-time workforce by 10% over the next three months while increasing the number of hourly employees, CEO Elon Musk said.
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Taiwan’s defense ministry said 29 Chinese military aircraft entered the island’s air defense identification zone. According to him, fighters, strategic bombers, anti-submarine aircraft and other aircraft took part in the operation.
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The State Duma allowed refugees from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine not to issue OSAGO policies for three months after entering Russia in 2022. In the event of an accident due to the fault of a visitor, the losses to the injured party are compensated by the Russian Union of Motor Insurers.
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Wholesale prices for gasoline in June moved to growth. The cost of AI-92 and AI-95 at SPIMEX increased by 3.5% and 1.9%, to 41.9 thousand rubles. and 44.9 thousand rubles. per ton respectively
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The Ministry of Finance plans to take 416 billion rubles from Gazprom. in the form of a one-time increase in the MET in 2022. The corresponding amendments to the Tax Code, according to Kommersant, have already passed the government commission on legislative activities. The withdrawal was approved despite the fact that the monopoly decided to pay a record dividend of 1.2 trillion rubles for 2021, half of which will go to the budget.
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In Ireland, according to the latest data, the assets of Russian individuals and organizations totaling 1.72 million euros have been frozen, The Irish Times reported, citing a representative of the Irish Foreign Ministry.
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The export duty on wheat from the Russian Federation has been raised to $142 per ton from $131.6 since June 22, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
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Belarus does not delay payment for the supply of Russian gas, RBC was told in the information department of Gazprom.
“Information about the “delays in payments” of the Belarusian side for the supply of Russian gas is not true,” the report says.
Earlier, the Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva reported about the delay in payments for gas supplies from Russia, citing sources. His interlocutors argued that the reason for such a decision was the strengthening of the Russian ruble (including against the Belarusian), in connection with which the fulfillment of obligations became unprofitable for Minsk. The gas price for Belarus is $128 per 1,000 cubic meters. m, it is fixed.
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The Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced Akhmed Guloev to one year and 10 months of restriction of liberty for the murder of anti-fascist Alexei «Socrates» Sutuga.
“Socrates,” an active participant in the anarchist and anti-fascist movement in Russia in the 2000s and 2010s, an actor at Teatra.doc and a defendant in political criminal cases, was beaten on the night of August 23, 2020, near the Baumanskaya metro station. He died in the intensive care unit of the Sklifosovsky Institute
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Russia lacks about 170,000 IT specialists. This figure was named by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Igor Zubov.
«We have a large outflow of IT specialists in connection with the sanctions,» Zubov stated at a meeting in the Federation Council.
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Lithuania has extended restrictions on the transportation of goods to the Kaliningrad region and on road transit
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The automotive company Stellantis has successfully tested its Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWTP) technology integrated into the road surface. She built a test road where electric cars can drive without stopping to charge at all. The company stated that DWTP is comparable in efficiency to fast charging stations, and the involved magnetic fields did not affect the driver, passengers and pedestrians.
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The median cost of air tickets to European countries from Russia, booked for the summer from May to mid-June, increased by 87.84% over the year, to 61.33 thousand rubles. Such data is provided by Kommersant, citing a study by the Yandex Travel service.
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The area near the US embassy in Moscow was officially named «the square of the Donetsk People’s Republic.» The decree appeared on the website of the mayor of the capital. We are talking about the area located from Bolshoi Devyatinsky Lane to Maly Konyushkovsky Lane along Konyushkovskaya Street.
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Ireland has frozen Russian assets worth 1.72 billion euros. As part of the sanctions, elite real estate, yachts, private jets and financial assets were arrested.
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Powerful earthquake in Afghanistan kills 280 people, over 600 injured
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Great Britain refused to issue visas to the members of the Russian delegation to participate in the session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
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The European Union is considering imposing sanctions on Russian gold. This is reported by Reuters sources.
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The Serbian government will provide subsidies to employers in the employment of Russians. This rule will apply to those who arrived in the country after February 24 and entered into an employment contract in the amount of 1.8 thousand euros.
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EasyJet’s Spanish staff will go on strike for nine days in July. Flight attendants of a British low-cost airline in Spain demand a 40% increase in base salary.
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France’s highest administrative court has upheld a ban on Muslim burkini bathing suits, Euronews reports. In May, authorities in the city of Grenoble sparked a national controversy when they relaxed rules regarding swimwear in public pools.
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The European Commission has raised wages for employees in line with inflation, contrary to its own recommendations. The EU executive has long opposed such measures on the grounds that they drive up prices and push inflation even higher.
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Archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved temple complex of the 1st-4th centuries in the Netherlands, writes DutchNews. It is assumed that the sanctuary was used by Roman soldiers. Remains of idols, sacrificial pits, stone altars and other artifacts were found at the excavation site.
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The Association of Banks of Russia (ADB) offered the Bank of Russia options to return to market participants their money, which was frozen in the accounts of the National Settlement Depository (NSD) after it fell under EU sanctions. This was reported to RBC, which got acquainted with the letter of the ADB, its authenticity was confirmed to the publication by the representative of the association.
Banks are ready to receive funds not in euros, which have become unavailable, but in another currency. According to Frank RG, about €4.5-7 billion of banks, companies and investors hung on the accounts of the depository
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Experimental design work on import substitution of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) under existing contracts with the Ministry of Industry and Trade will cost about 50 billion rubles. excluding engines, a representative of the aircraft manufacturer, the Irkut company (part of the Rostec United Aircraft Corporation), told Vedomosti.
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Rosgeologiya will need at least five years to replace Western software, its CEO Sergei Gorkov told RBC. Now the company depends on such software by 95%
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China has successfully launched an experimental satellite Tianxing-1 into Earth orbit. This is reported by China Central Television (CCTV). This launch was the fifteenth for this series of rockets. The launch took place at the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in Gansu Province in northwest China at 10:08 local time (5:08 Moscow time).
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Automaker Toyota has reduced its global production plan for July by 50,000 vehicles, or 6%.
“Global production in July is expected to be about 800,000 units (about 250,000 units in Japan and 550,000 units overseas,” the report says.
The company clarified that the production plan may be lower «because it is still difficult to look into the future»
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Sri Lanka’s economy has «completely collapsed» and the country can no longer afford to buy imported oil, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe said on Wednesday.
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In Prague, the historical name of Podebradova Street, which now bears the name of the Soviet Marshal Konev, will be returned.
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Ex-employee of Amazon Web Services 36-year-old Paige Thompson was found guilty of hacking into the cloud systems of the bank Capital One, which leaked the data of 106 million customers. In all, Thompson is charged with seven federal crimes, including wire fraud. And now she faces up to 20 years in prison.
The Capital One bank itself left sensitive financial data in the public domain, which led to a fine of $80 million. And the settlement of customer lawsuits cost the company $190 million.
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The State Duma of Russia adopted in the first reading a government bill that refers to information that may constitute a state secret, information about the size of the gold reserves and the state foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Federation.
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