The European Commission has suspended cooperation with Russia in scientific projects. The EC website says that under the Horizon Europe program, neither new contracts nor new agreements will be concluded with Russian organizations. Payments under existing contracts are frozen.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation BBC has announced that it is temporarily stopping work in Russia due to tightening laws.
“The BBC Russian-language news service will continue to operate from outside Russia,” British Broadcasting Corporation CEO Tim Davey said.
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Roskomnadzor began to completely block Facebook in Russia.
“On March 4, 2022, a decision was made to block access to the Facebook network (owned by Meta Platforms, Inc.) in the Russian Federation,” the agency said in a statement.
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Carlsberg Corporation has decided to stop deliveries to Russia. The Danes also freeze investments. In Russia, the Carlsberg Group owns the Baltika brewing company.
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Putin signed the law on criminal punishment for calls for anti-Russian sanctions and fakes about the Russian Armed Forces.
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Roskomnadzor confirmed the beginning of blocking Twitter in Russia. This is also evidenced by the Global Check data. Service availability is 0%.
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Booking.com leaves Russia after AirBnb, the site no longer displays accommodation options in Russian cities
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FEDEX says it has made the decision to suspend all services in Russia and Belarus. FedEx Corporation is an American company providing postal, courier and other logistics services worldwide.
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Electronic Arts has issued a statement to stop sales of games and content in Russia and Belarus
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Auchan introduces in its stores a restriction on the sale of a number of socially significant goods in one hand
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Louis Vuitton closes 124 stores in Russia from Sunday — Reuters
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Retail chains were allowed to limit the sale of a number of socially important goods to one hand to fight speculators — Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
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Bloomberg agency announced the suspension of work in Russia
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Dassault suspends deliveries of Falcon jets to Russia
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The cosmetics and household chemicals manufacturer Henkel is halting new investments in Russia, as well as ending public media advertising campaigns and all sponsorship activities.
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Leading US ISP Cogent Communications said it was cutting off relations with Russian customers.
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The American television company CNN will stop broadcasting in Russia. This was reported by TASS with reference to the publication of the channel on Twitter. The broadcaster did not specify the exact time of the end of broadcasting.
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Samsung suspends shipments of phones and chips to Russia — Bloomberg.
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Italian media report that yachts of Russian billionaires and Putin’s friends Alexei Mordashov and Gennady Timchenko have been arrested in the country’s ports. Their total value is $140 million. Also, the villa of ex-deputy Oleg Savchenko was confiscated in Tuscany.
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Egypt Air canceled all flights to Moscow until March 10 due to problems with European flight insurance
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The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has banned Russian athletes and officials, including judges, from participating in competitions under its auspices.
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The Kering Group, which owns luxury brands Gucci, Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent, has announced the closure of its stores in Russia.
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Reuters: Finnish President Sauli Niinistö announced the intensification of defense cooperation with the United States.
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Bloomberg: Singapore has imposed sanctions against Russian banks and banned the export of dual-use products to Russia. Banks VTB, Rossiya, Promsvyazbank and VEB fell under the sanctions. RF. In addition, the Singapore authorities prohibit transactions with cryptocurrencies.
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The terrorist group Daesh (ISIS) (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) has claimed responsibility for the attack on a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. The death toll in a mosque in Peshawar has reached 60, injured 190 people, some of them are in critical condition.
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North Korea fired an unidentified projectile towards the Sea of Japan, according to the South Korean Yonhap news agency, citing the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
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The Dutch company Houthoff, whose lawyers represented Russia’s interests in the Yukos case, said it was cutting off all relations with the country, as well as its affiliates and Russian companies
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Japanese manufacturers of construction equipment Hitachi Construction Machinery and Komatsu have decided to suspend the supply of products to Russia.
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The Canadian television and radio broadcasting corporation CBC announced the suspension of the work of its employees in Russia
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China’s state budget deficit in 2022 will be 2.8% of GDP, according to a report by the Chinese government. The inflation target for 2022 in China is set at 3%, the target for GDP growth is 5.5%. Unemployment in China in 2022 will be 5.5%.
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Kremlin refuses direct conversation between Putin and Zelensky — Peskov
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The Chinese authorities have stated the need to comprehensively intensify military training and combat training in 2022. It also became known that China will increase its military budget to $229.5 billion this year.
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In Russia, the PayPal payment service has suspended its work, the CEO of the company said. eBay has suspended delivery of orders to Russia and Ukraine. The company said in a statement that such measures came into effect on March 3.
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The educational platform Coursera suspends its activities in Russia
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Rosselkhoznadzor lifts restrictions on imports to Russia from nine countries. It is allowed to import potatoes from Egypt, tomatoes from Armenia and Azerbaijan, tomatoes and peppers from Belarus, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and zucchini from Turkey.
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Browsers in Russia will be required to switch to national encryption certificates. This will allow whoever has the private key to read all encrypted traffic.
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The rating agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the long-term credit rating of Belarus from «B» to «CCC». According to the agency, this means that Belarus is experiencing significant difficulties in paying its debt obligations.
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Fitch has downgraded the long-term ratings of 32 Russian banks, placing them on the Rating Watch list (rating under review) with a negative outlook.
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Biden extended the «state of emergency» in the country against Iran declared in 1979. While the Biden administration claims to be conducting the nuclear talks in Vienna in good faith and seriously, it extended the national state of emergency over Iran the day before.
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«Echo of Moscow» stopped broadcasting even from social networks. The editor-in-chief of the publication Alexei Venediktov (and a minority shareholder of Echo) was fired by the board of directors of the already former radio station.
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The Russian Ministry of Finance said that problems with the supply of auto parts will affect the cost of OSAGO. The price of a compulsory insurance policy will also be affected by exchange rate fluctuations, the Ministry of Finance noted.
The ministry added that the Russian Union of Motor Insurers regularly reviews reference books on the average cost of spare parts, materials and standard hours of work. The tariff system provides for a fairly wide interval for adjusting tariffs, and there are no plans to change working conditions, the Ministry of Finance explained.
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Sony is teaming up with Honda to produce electric vehicles. The partners plan to create a new company this year, with car sales starting in 2025.
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Porsche donates one million euros to provide emergency assistance to people affected by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
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Switzerland froze cryptocurrency assets of sanctioned Russians and Russian companies
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Coinbase, Tether and Ripple will implement sanctions against the Russian Federation, and the leading South Korean exchanges and the top 1 Ethereum mining pool have disabled users with Russian IP addresses
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Formula 1 team Haas terminated the contract with Uralkali and Russian driver Nikita Mazepin.
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Conor McGregor says he is ready to buy Chelsea from Abramovich for 1.5 billion pounds. Abramovich said he would sell the club for $4 billion.
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The Dutch concern Heineken suspends beer exports to Russia and investment projects in Russia
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Elon Musk has said he refuses to block Russian news outlets on his Starlink satellite network. Elon Musk clarified that he is an «absolutist of free speech»
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The Twitch platform stopped payments to Russian bloggers
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The Federal Air Transport Agency extends the ban on flights to 11 airports in the central part and south of the Russian Federation until March 14, the agency said. Flights are thus still limited to the following airports: Anapa, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov-on-Don, Simferopol, Elista.
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Ural Airlines canceled flights to Armenia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and Azerbaijan until March 26, the press service of the airline reports on Telegram.
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Yandex’s unmanned taxis were tested in Michigan, and Yandex.Rover’s delivery robots, together with the Grubhub platform, delivered food to American university campuses. Now robots will be transported to other countries
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Revolut Bank restricted operations with cards of users of Russia and Belarus
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In Poland and the Czech Republic, they are considering payments to families ready to accept Ukrainian refugees
The Polish government is considering paying 40 zlotys (about 8 euros) daily to people who receive and host Ukrainian citizens. As Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki said on the Polsat TV channel, the relevant law will be considered in the near future.
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The Czech Cabinet of Ministers on Monday is to consider a law that provides for lump sum payments to refugees of 5,000 crowns (about 190 euros). For those who do not have property and means of subsistence, payments can be extended for another two months. The law also assumes that families hosting refugees can receive 1,000 kroons (about 39 euros) per person per month, but no more than 5,000 kroons per month.
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The Spanish company Inditex, the owner of the Zara brand, stops trading in Russia, closes stores and online trading. The company will also close Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius stores.
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In Russia, about 10 more publications are blocked, including regional media and Radio Soboda projects: Sever.Realii, Sibir.Realii, Kavkaz.Realii, Idel.Realii, Factograph, Marsho Radio and Azatlyk. Of the regional Russian publications, the blocking affected the sites «Zasekin» (Samara), «Protocol» and «Voice of Kuban» (Kuban).
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Workers went on strike in Nizhnekamsk. The Gemont plant is owned by a Turkish citizen, but the company’s employees are paid in rubles, and due to the fall of the Russian currency, they have significantly lost money. About this publication «Rise» was told in the city hall. After the protests, the management of the plant promised to pay the builders extra at the contractual rate.
In «Gemont» itself, «Rise» was assured that they were fulfilling all obligations to the builders and together with them they made an «agreed decision on the formula for calculating» salaries.
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X5 Group stores (Pyaterochka, Perekrestok, Karusel) limit large volumes of purchases by citizens of certain goods, the company said
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The Federal Air Transport Agency recommends that airlines with aircraft in foreign registries stop flights abroad from March 6, and flights from abroad from March 8.
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Ural Airlines is canceling its flight program to Egypt from March 14 until at least May 20, according to the air carrier’s Telegram channel.
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Aeroflot Airlines has announced that it is suspending all international flights from March 8
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Moody’s has been suspending commercial activities in Russia since March 5, the agency said.
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The Bank of Russia has set another restriction for banks. The regulator limits the monthly amount of transfers abroad to the amount of $5,000 by resident individuals from their accounts in favor of spouses, close relatives (parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren), full and half sisters and brothers, adoptive parents and adopted children.
A letter dated March 3, signed by Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Yuri Isaev, is at the disposal of Kommersant. Two bankers acknowledged its receipt.
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Italian authorities arrested two villas of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov on Lake Como and a villa of businessman Alisher Usmanov in Sardinia. The Italian press writes about it. The arrest is due to the fact that both defendants are on the sanctions lists of the European Union.
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Tesla has received approval to open a factory in Germany. According to the DPA agency, the production of cars can be started in a few weeks. The capacity of the enterprise will allow the production of 500 thousand electric vehicles per year, at the initial stage we are talking about Model Y crossovers.
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Following Booking in Russia, the rentalcars.com car rental service and the agoda.com hotel booking service, which are part of Booking Holdings, have been suspended. On company websites, all accommodations and cars located in Russia are displayed as unavailable.
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