Russians Take to the Street Five Times a Day
The number of rallies this year is promising to become record-breaking. Estimates by experts of the Center for Social and Labor Rights show that in the period January-September, 1,443 protests took...
Archive for February 2020
February 2020
Siberian Region Governor Hires Black PR Expert
Ivan Serebryakov, a deputy of the regional legislative assembly, has been accused of an information attack on the Krasnoyarsk territory's authorities. So far, his punishment confines to public...
Golden Rain Of Tardan
A large goldminer in the Republic of Tyva, a region in the south of East Siberia, seems to end up with losing its license. The patient Federal Agency for Subsoil Usage has just sent out another...
Did Khazin Convince Putin into Starting the process of Elimination?
Mikhail Khazin, a popular Russian economist, has recently published an article with a historical and economic slant entitled “The Golden Age of Catherine II or the Problems of Catch-Up...
New revolution in Russia to Start With Taxi Drivers’ Protests
A strike of taxi drivers was held at the end of October in Voronezh, a city with a million-strong population located 600 km to the southeast of Moscow. The incident little noticed nationwide. But in...
Young People Expect to be Included in Business
Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to find a way to include the Russians to 18 years of age in the list of entrepreneurs. Today it is almost impossible for underage...
Krasnodar Authorities: Beat the Animal Rights Activists, Make Others Scared!
The defense of animals in Krasnodar, the administrative center of the North Caucasus region in southern Russia, is turning into a dangerous business. On Sunday, the security guards of a private...
Potanin by Nature
Russian businessman Vladimir Potanin, who has briefly occupied a high state position in the past, has spent years in the top league of Russian business with a fair result. And that is why the art of...
Investments to Go Green
The so-called “green investment” is taking off in the world: investing in stocks and economic sectors related to environmental, climate and social projects. However, the efficiency of such...
Declining Number of Doctors Identified by Russian Healthcare Ministry
Russian Healthcare Ministry has released a report on the state of healthcare in the regions. In 2018 the number of doctors in Russia increased by 0.07 percent, a total of 404 specialists. However,...
Tax Regulations for Self-Employed Extending to 19 More Regions
Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has proposed to expand the area of application of special tax regulations for the self-employed to 19 more regions of the country. The bill drafted by...
Kazan Protesting Against the Construction of a Waste Incineration Plant
At the end of last year, RT-Invest, a subsidiary of Rostec, Russian state-owned holding conglomerate that specializes in consolidating the corporation’s stakes in the strategically important...
Stevedores Are to Pay for Dust
Finally, it happened: from now on, coal dust is considered a pollutant. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree on state regulation that provides for the introduction of fees for...
Duma Passes Bill Permitting Hunting in Enclosures
The State Duma lower house of parliament passed in the final third reading the law on hunting enclosures which will allow businesses to legally offer to shoot animals in the fenced areas. The law was...
Federal Security Service Demands Access to the Russians’ Online Correspondence
The Federal Security Service (FSB) demanded access to the Russians’ online correspondence and addressed Internet services to install special equipment for that purpose. The round-the-clock access to...
Kamchatka Territory at Odds with Far Eastern Mortgage Plan
The Far Eastern Mortgage project at 2% interest rate, launched by a presidential decree in 2019 for residents of the Far Eastern Federal District (the easternmost territory of Russia, between Lake...
Russia is Being Forced to Get off the Oil Needle
Oil exports from Russia dropped in early 2020. Although the rate of decline remains insignificant, the damage to the Russian oil industry stemming from the fall in "black gold" prices in early 2020...
Businessman Who Prefers Monitoring
Maxim Protasov, the head of Russian quality control system Roskachestvo, apparently imports his goods hiding behind Russian names and runs his key businesses, TomatoProm and Russalt, from Cyprus. Is...
Moscow Producer of Cheese Spread Objects to Marking of Its Produce
From the date of a meeting held on January 30, 2020 at the Ministry of Agriculture, reports have been coming on the possible plans of the Moscow cheese processing factory KARAT (the producer of...
Krasnodar: No Pulling Down Anymore Build at Once
In terms of the number of unfinished buildings, Russia’s southern Krasnodar territory is one of the most problematic regions in the country. Real estate in the south of Russia enjoys a high enough...