According to research by inFOM LLC as part of an order from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM-OM project), in the opinion of 33% of the Russians surveyed, in six months or a year life in the country will improve, 26% believe that it will worsen, 20% — that Will not change.
In the perspective of three to five years, 49% hope for improvements, 13% predict worsening, 19% do not expect changes.
As for their own lives, 30% of respondents hope for improvements in the next six months or a year, 16% foresee worsening, and 32% for no changes.
Long-term forecast: 48% believe that family life will improve, 9% — that it will worsen, 21% — that it will not change.
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The Central Bank offers banks to mark up at least 10 rubles. to the exchange rate, if the currency is bought not for import and not for settlement on foreign currency loans.
The Central Bank also recommended that banks bring the exchange rate closer to the exchange rate for importers and those who have foreign exchange obligations.
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The Russian-French company PowerJet, which produces SaM146 engines for the Superjet 100 aircraft, has stopped their maintenance and repair due to sanctions, a source close to the aviation industry told Interfax.
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Actress Chulpan Khamatova resigned from the Moscow Sovremennik Theater of her own free will, theater director Tatyana Baranova said.
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The Swiss Glencore came to the conclusion that in the current conditions it does not see realistic options on how to exit the capital of En + Group and Rosneft, the company reports.
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Alisher Usmanov’s Mercedes worth more than 600 thousand euros was confiscated in Italy. This is an armored Maybach S650 Guard VR10, which was one of the assets of the oligarch. Usmanov also lost a villa in Sardinia for 17 million euros and six companies with assets worth 66 million euros.
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Cancer cells have tentacles. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have found that cancer cells, living cells, use small «tentacles» called filopodia to move around and penetrate healthy tissue. Findings that have implications for cancer research, neurological disorders and other diseases
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on ensuring technological independence from foreign software. He assumes that from tomorrow, government customers are prohibited from buying foreign software for critical infrastructure without the consent of the relevant department. From 2025, the use of foreign software on critical infrastructure will be completely prohibited.
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President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov said that in the near future the republic would take the necessary legal steps to become part of the Russian Federation.
«I believe that unification with Russia is our strategic goal. Our path. The aspirations of the people. And we will move along this path. We will take appropriate legal steps in the near future.»
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The UK government has expanded sanctions against Crimea, as well as the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR). Restrictions imply a ban on financial transactions, as well as on trade and freight and transport with these regions.
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The EU authorities conducted searches in the subdivisions of «Gazprom» in Germany. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing sources. The antimonopoly authorities visited the offices of Gazprom Germania GmbH and Wingas GmbH, which account for about 20% of gas supplies to the German market. The investigation is underway on suspicion of cutting supplies in order to increase the selling price.
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€95.5 million is frozen in German financial institutions in connection with the sanctions imposed against Russia, AFP reports, citing federal government data.
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London has imposed new sanctions against Russian oligarchs. British firms will now be banned from carrying out maintenance on their yachts and aircraft. The purpose of this step is to prevent the sanctioned oligarchs from using the achievements of British engineers and the services of the aviation and marine industry, which are leading in the world in terms of quality. The new restrictions, in particular, will affect Russian entrepreneurs Yevgeny Shvidler and Oleg Tinkov.
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The Russian Ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, he was notified of the reduction in the staff of the diplomatic mission – Russian Embassy in Slovakia
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The Hubble telescope has discovered Earendel, the farthest observable star from Earth. It formed almost 13 billion years ago.
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Tunisian President Cais Said announced on state television that he was dissolving parliament eight months after he suspended it and concentrated power in his own hands last July.
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The FAS proposes to completely ban foreign exchange contracts within Russia. This initiative applies not only to new contracts, but also to those already signed. Citizens will be given 30 days to convert them into rubles.
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Japan will take emergency measures to secure a stable supply of strategic materials for which it is heavily dependent on Russia as sanctions against Russia disrupt supply chains, Japan’s industry ministry said on Thursday.
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In Australia, gasoline prices have exceeded $2 per litre. For this reason, the government reduced the tax from 44.2 to 22.1 cents per liter.
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From April 6, Belarus will issue licenses for the export of potash fertilizers from the country, follows from a government decree, Izvestia reports.
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Foreign Minister Lavrov: Moscow issued accreditation to the first Afghan diplomat from the Taliban government (a terrorist organization banned in Russia and under UN sanctions for terrorist activities), he arrived in Russia last month, Lavrov said
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Australia has introduced duties of 35% on all goods imported from Russia and Belarus. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
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Almost two-thirds of Russians (60%) believe that the sanctions imposed by Western countries on the Russian Federation due to the military operation in Ukraine will either not affect their financial situation at all, or their impact will be insignificant, according to a survey by the Public Opinion Foundation. (FOM), received by Interfax.
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The international rating agency S&P Global Ratings downgraded the ratings of Moscow, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Leningrad and Samara regions, and the Krasnoyarsk Territory to «CC» and placed them on the review list with a «negative» outlook.
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The Subcommittee on Customs Tariff and Non-Tariff Regulation decided to increase the export quotas for nitrogen and complex fertilizers by 231 and 466 thousand tons, respectively.
From December 1, 2021, the Government of the Russian Federation introduced quotas for the export of nitrogen and complex nitrogen-containing fertilizers as one of the measures to curb food price growth. The maximum export volume of nitrogen fertilizers within the quotas valid until May 31, 2022, was set at 5.9 million tons, complex — 5.35 million tons. Later, the urea export quota was increased by 280 thousand tons, taking into account the commissioning of new capacities by Akron.
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The Lithuanian authorities «froze» the real estate in Palanga of Mikhail Poluboyarinov, who headed the Russian airline Aeroflot until the end of March, in connection with the sanctions of the European Union (EU) against Russia, the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT reported on Thursday.
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The NSIDC data center reported that the extent of sea ice surrounding Antarctica at the end of February was the lowest on record since 1979. It amounted to 1.92 million square kilometers
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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury has published a new general license, which removed Russian mineral fertilizers from possible sanctions. These chemical products necessary for agriculture were included in the list of vital goods along with medicines, agricultural products and medical products, Kommersant writes.
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According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), as of November 2021, Russian oil and oil products accounted for 34% of all Western European oil imports.
The largest supplier of gas to Europe is the Russian Gazprom: it accounts for 45% of all EU gas imports
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Casco and MTPL tariffs increased by 10–15% and 5–10%, respectively, over the month.
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As it became known to Kommersant, the German Miltenyi Biotec has suspended deliveries to Russia of technologies and equipment for cell therapy of oncohematological patients and bone marrow transplantation.
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The Vkusvill retailer in 2021 increased revenue by 42.3% to 162.19 billion rubles and received a net loss under RAS of up to 2.38 billion rubles, follows from the data of the SPARK-Interfax analytical system. Commercial expenses jumped by 56.7% to 57.25 billion rubles.
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The largest online retailer in Russia, Wildberries, in 2021 slowed down the growth of revenue under RAS, but increased its net profit by 6.7 times, to 14.062 billion rubles from 2.114 billion rubles in 2020 (in 2019, profit was 4.415 billion rubles, in 2018 — 1.882 billion rubles, in 2017 — 428.25 million rubles).
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The head of French military intelligence resigned because of the events in Ukraine. General Eric Vido is accused of incompetence. In January-February of this year, Vido misled Emmanuel Macron
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Taxi service Citymobil announced that it will stop working on April 15. According to a Forbes source, the company’s employees are fired by agreement of the parties with the payment of three salaries and a bonus.
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The UK has identified eight Russian «oligarchs» who received the country’s «golden passports» and then fell under sanctions. The names of these people London has not yet disclosed.
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China will impose visa restrictions on some U.S. officials in response to similar restrictions in Washington, CGTN reported Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.
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The American ExxonMobil increased the price of gas supplied from the Sakhalin-1 project to the Khabarovsk Territory by about 30%, due to the linkage of its price to the cost of oil in the Japanese market, said Viktor Kalashnikov, Minister of Economic Development of the region.
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Russia is ready to give India big discounts on direct oil sales, Bloomberg reports citing sources. According to them, Russia is offering India its flagship grade Urals oil at a discount of up to $35 per barrel compared to prices before February 24 (Brent has risen in price by about $10 since then).
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Instead of chattering about the Union State and the single currency, it is necessary to create joint ventures with Russia, the economy will bring it to the required level of integration, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko believes.
«It is necessary to create joint ventures. Then there will be no chatter about some single state, a single currency, and so on. The economy will bring us to that level and lead to what should exist between our states. The economy is the foundation of any relationship. In this direction we are acting,» Lukashenka said at a meeting with the governor of Russia’s Penza region Oleg Melnichenko on Thursday in Minsk. His words are quoted by the presidential press service.
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The UK has imposed sanctions against VGTRK employee Sergei Brilev. He is a subject of the kingdom. Russia Today, the RT TV channel and the head of the National Defense Control Center Mikhail Mizintsev also fell under the sanctions. The list of sanctioned persons is published on the website of the British government
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We have foreseen all the risks associated with the organization of the Unified State Examination in 2022, the regions are already provided with everything necessary, the exam will be held even if the country is disconnected from the Internet, said Anzor Muzaev, head of Rosobrnadzor.
«We understand the conditions under which the exam will be held this year. We have a high-tech exam, we need the Internet. We have various equipment, software. We have foreseen all the risks. (…) even if the country is disconnected from the Internet», he told reporters in Pyatigorsk.
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The sixty-two-story skyscraper, which is being built on the 15th section of the Moscow City center, has received the official name Moscow Towers, Knight Frank Russia, the consulting company for the project, said.
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Marriott International has taken the decision to close its corporate office in Moscow, freeze all new projects, and stop investing in Russia. Since the network facilities are owned by third parties, the decision to continue the operation of hotels will be considered additionally.
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