According to an Ipsos survey, the general state of the global economy (average 77% of respondents), Russia’s actions in Ukraine (76%) and the COVID-19 pandemic (72%) are most often blamed for rising prices in their country.
It is the state of the economy that is put in the first place by residents of the USA, Great Britain, France, Japan and Spain. Russia was named the main culprit of world inflation in Italy, Germany and Poland. Canadians and Australians believe that the main fault lies with the pandemic
And only the residents of Turkey put internal reasons in the first place: immigration, high interest rates and, in general, government actions
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Siemens is terminating service contracts with Russian Railways from May 13. The agreements concerned trains of the Lastochka and Sapsan types, which were produced and serviced by a German company.
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FESCO Group (parent company — PJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company, FESCO) will not pay dividends based on the results of work in 2021
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Moldova handed over to the European Union the second part of the completed application form for the republic’s accession to the EU, the ceremony was held on Thursday as part of the opening of a new building of the EU Delegation in Moldova in Chisinau, an Interfax correspondent reports.
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The revenue of the Russian developer of solutions in the field of information security Positive Technologies (the issuer is PJSC «Group Pozitiv») under IFRS in the first quarter of 2022 amounted to 1.4 billion rubles, which is 49% more than a year earlier.
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The ceremony of presenting the National Television Award TEFI, which was planned to be held in May-June this year, was reported to Interfax by the Chairman of the Committee of Industrial Television Awards, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation Mikhail Shvydkoi.
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The volume of foreign direct investment (FDI, FDI) in the economy of mainland China in January-April increased by 20.5% and amounted to 478.61 billion yuan, according to the country’s Ministry of Commerce.
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The current head of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Russian Arkady Dvorkovich, will take part in the presidential elections of the organization, according to the chessbase.in chess portal.
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AvtoVAZ due to the lack of components will introduce downtime from May 16 to May 20 inclusive.
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Japan will ban the export to Russia of electronic and atomic force microscopes, quantum computers, 3D printers and powdered metals and their alloys, and other high-tech equipment. The full list is published on the website of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. “The measures will be implemented from May 20,” the Japanese ministry warned.
The list also mentions catalysts for oil refining, devices with quantum technologies, equipment for the production of organic light emitting diodes and for the manufacture of microelectromechanical systems, semiconductor and electrically conductive polymers.
Cooling equipment capable of operating at extremely low temperatures, as well as their components, program control devices for machine tools and their parts, and other equipment will also be banned from export to Russia.
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In the UK, the number of government officials should be reduced by 90 thousand people due to «bloated» departments, the saved funds will be used to help the British in a crisis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at an off-site cabinet meeting in Stoke-on-Trent, writes Daily Mail with links to sources.
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The House of Representatives of Congress passed a law prohibiting the US Treasury Department from participating in any transactions in which the Russian central bank could exchange funds placed with the International Monetary Fund for dollars.
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Gold, which is located in the vaults of the Central Bank inside Russia and made up a fifth of the gold reserves, fell under separate measures: at the end of March, the US Treasury Department announced that any transactions with bullion from the Russian Central Bank are prohibited under the threat of fines and criminal penalties, as well as activities, facilitating such transactions.
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The Cabinet of Ministers of Cyprus has approved a bill on the introduction of tax incentives for managers and employees of foreign companies who choose Cyprus as their place of relocation, according to the portal evropakipr.com. The bill has now been submitted to parliament for consideration.
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According to the results of April, spare parts for car body repair rose by an average of 31% compared to February, follows from the data of Tinkoff Insurance. Bumpers (front and rear) rose in price most of all among the exterior body elements, regardless of the brand of car — by 34% and 32%, respectively. Headlights, fenders — by 31%, front doors — by 30%, hoods, rear doors and radiator grilles — by 29% were also added in price by 32%. Least of all, glass went up in price — by 26%.
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American experts have grown plants in lunar soil delivered to Earth as part of the Apollo program, according to a study published in the journal Communications Biology. This is the first time plants have been grown in soil from another celestial object. Scientists at the University of Florida used Tal’s clover (Arabidopsis thaliana), a small flowering plant in the cabbage family.
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The American company Twitter Inc., which owns the social network of the same name, is suspending hiring in an effort to cut costs, writes The Wall Street Journal. Parag Agrawal, the chief executive officer of the company, announced this to employees, he also announced the departure of two top managers.
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The Government of the Russian Federation has extended the implementation of investment projects for the construction of fishing vessels and fish processing plants by two years, according to a press release from the Cabinet of Ministers. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed the corresponding decree on May 11.
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The Russian company Sovcomflot sold nine tankers to companies from the United Arab Emirates and Singapore to pay off debts to Western banks, the Wall Street Journal writes, citing sources. After February 24, sanctions against the company were imposed by the US, the EU and the UK.
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Afghanistan is determined to cooperate with Russia in the areas of finance and business, but purchases of oil and gas remain a priority for Kabul. This was stated by Charge d’Affaires of Afghanistan in Moscow Jamal Nasir Garwal. According to him, the Afghan authorities want to conclude specific agreements with Moscow.
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The Turkish Coast Guard will escort all vessels over 175 meters in length carrying dangerous goods across the Bosphorus. In the past, a similar tightening of requirements led to the formation of queues of tankers, including due to a lack of tugs
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The Russian government has reduced the list of goods and equipment that were imported into the country from abroad and the export of which is prohibited until the end of 2022. It excludes consumer goods, consumer electronics, certain products of the radio-electronic industry, a list of watercraft, certain tools and road construction equipment, a list of plastic and rubber products, goods from the automotive and railway engineering industries.
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The Finnish company Raisio, which sells cereals and muesli under the Nordic brand in Russia, has sold its Russian business. It was bought by a food packer from the Moscow region for €1.5 million
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To prepare a trip to Mars, NASA has signed a contract with Epic Games. Using Unreal Engine 5, VR scenarios will be developed that will help train future Mars colonizers. According to Gamerant, about 150 game development teams from around the world are already participating in the challenge.
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In Novosibirsk, on May 13, they dismantled the countdown clock to the start of the youth ice hockey world championship, which was to be held in 2023 in Novosibirsk and Omsk.
Yes, indeed, the dismantling procedure has been launched today. All this is coordinated with the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. The clock will be kept in the directorate of sports facilities for the time being. Their further fate is still being decided: a variety of proposals are being received. One of them is to put the object as an exhibit in the new ice arena when it is completed. So that there is a memory that we were given such an honor — to host the World Youth Championship. We have done a lot of work in order to prepare for this event,” said Yana Mazhinskaya, press secretary of the Ministry of Sports of the NSO, to the NGS.
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Google showed a prototype of AR-glasses for real-time translation of a foreign language. It works like this: you look at the interlocutor through glasses and just read the translation of his speech before your eyes. In fact, these are such subtitles — only now not in the film, but in real life. When they will be released is unknown.
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Google banned Russians from installing and updating the Google Chrome browser on the Android platform. It is also forbidden to install a number of mobile applications through the Google Play store. The company has yet to comment on the situation.
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The United Kingdom issued a license to the Dutch subsidiary of Alfa-Bank, Amsterdam Trade Bank (ATB), to complete operations for a period up to May 12, 2023.
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Japan’s largest company ENEOS Holdings has stopped buying Russian oil, said Takeshi Saito, its head. According to him, in the ENEOS basket, oil from the Russian Federation accounted for 5%, and in April 2022, contracts for Russian oil expired.
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Russia is expelling eleven diplomats: ten employees of the Romanian embassy and one employee of the Bulgarian embassy. Interfax, citing the Russian Foreign Ministry, reports that the ambassadors of these countries were summoned to the ministry in Moscow on May 13 and handed them notes declaring embassy employees persona non grata in response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Bucharest and Sofia
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Elon Musk has suspended the purchase of Twitter. The billionaire demands the provision of real statistics on fake accounts. According to company representatives, they are no more than 5%, but the data needs to be confirmed.
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Britain has imposed sanctions against Alina Kabaeva and her grandmother, Putin’s ex-wife, his relatives and businessmen whom the British government links to him. In total, 12 people fell under the new restrictions. The new sanctions include an asset freeze, a ban on entry or stay in the UK, and transport restrictions.
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Golikova reported an increase in the number of unemployed since March. The number of people officially registered with employment services increased by 4,000.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry recommends that citizens refrain from traveling to the UK and issuing British visas.
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The official delegation of Finland refused to participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in June 2022.
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Allianz Group refutes the information that has appeared in the media about the complete withdrawal from the Russian insurance market, according to a press release from the group
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In Russia, the number of idle workers has risen from 98,000 in early May to 138,000, Labor and Social Protection Minister Anton Kotyakov said at a meeting of the interdepartmental working group on the restoration of the labor market.
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Aleksey Vasyasin, General Director of the Formula Kino/Cinema Park cinema chain, confirmed negotiations with the owners of shopping centers on the possible termination of the partnership and the closure of some of the cinema halls.
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Russian Ambassador to Warsaw Sergei Andreev said that the accounts of the Polish embassy in Moscow were blocked. This was a response to the blocking of the accounts of the Russian embassy in Warsaw.
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The price of gasoline in the United States has updated a historical high, reaching an average of $ 4.432 per gallon (3.785 liters) in the country, according to analysts. And at a gas station 10 km from the White House, there are records: for a gallon of fuel with a high octane rating, you will have to pay $ 6.
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Startup Semtive Energy showed a working model of a windmill the size of a liter bottle of water. Its installation takes 2 minutes, and in the presence of wind, it is capable of delivering up to 40 watts. The kit comes with a 12,000 mAh power bank, and if desired, travelers will be able to charge their phones during breaks.
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The American paper manufacturer SvetoCopy has announced its withdrawal from Russia. Sylvamo Corporation intends to sell the Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Mill and is already discussing the details of the deal, the company said.
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The export of Ukrainian agricultural products through the EU countries, including taking into account deliveries through the Danube river ports, under any circumstances cannot exceed 1.5 million tons per month, while before the blocking of the seaports, the country could supply more than 5 million tons to the world market every month crops per month, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine notes.
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Aluminum inventories on the London Metal Exchange (LME) fell to a record low, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
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