Bashkortostan Clearing Out Huge Heating Bills
In January 2020, the residents of Ufa, the capital city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a constituent region of Russia to the west of the Ural Mountains, received heating bills with unexpectedly...
Archive for February 2020
February 2020
Permission Issued to Make Fun of Russians
The laughter of the TV host of the ‘Vesti’ newscast in Kamchatka over the increase of social payments cannot have any legal consequences -- the law does not provide for any. In most probability,...
State Corporations Give Preference to Imports
Despite all the efforts of the authorities to make installation of Russian software on all gadgets mandatory – even with the help of legislative amendments -- these measures do not work. Moreover, in...
A Judge Calls on Russia to Renounce Legal Succession to USSR
Konstantin Aranovsky, a Russian Constitutional Court judge believes that the Russian Federation should renounce the status of the successor to the Soviet Union, as, in his opinion, the latter was...
Will St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region Be United?
The issue of unification of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region has once again gotten into the agenda. Local residents are promised a unified transport system, solution of the problem of garbage,...
The Central Bank Revises Grounds for Blocking Accounts
The Central Bank of Russia has published amendments to Regulation No. 375-P which define the indications of suspicious transactions. By these criteria, banks can block the clients’ accounts. The list...
City of Tver Fails Transport Reform
A new reform has been launched in Tver, a Russian city to northwest of Moscow, between Moscow and St Petersburg. It is aimed at replacing the shuttle vans, known as marshrutkas in Russian, with...
Russians Getting Under-the-Counter Wages Are Denied Loans
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has drafted a bill that permits the lending institutions to use data of the Federal Tax Service. The relevant document has been submitted to the State Duma...
Nizhny Novgorod Pharmacies Boosted Prices for Medical Face Masks by 374%
At the end of last week, the prices of medical masks in the pharmacies of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fourth largest city 450 km to the east of Moscow, were at the usual level of 15 to 80 rubles per...
The Historical Center of Krasnoyarsk Gets into a New Mess
A yet another time, investors have made public a plan to build an ultramodern office complex in Strelka, an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of Lesosibirsk in the...
Residents of the Chelyabinsk Region Protesting against Quarantine Centers
Residents of townships in the Chelyabinsk region in southern Urals are rebelling against the deployment of quarantine centers for Chinese citizens and the Russians who have visited China near their...
Self-Employed Russians Hiding Away From Taxes in Their Garages
Driven by the desire to get more taxes from people, the government extended the regulations for registration of self-employed persons to 19 more regions in addition to the four regions where they had...
"Not Enough Money for a Slice of Cake:" the State Duma Accuses the Pension Fund of Robbery
There is no doubt that the officials will take the credit of this "generous" gift to the disabled people. Moreover, some of them will continue uttering the words like "increase” and “premium" -- or...
Clashes in Kazakhstan Reveal Presence of “Foreigners”
The Kazakh village of Aukatty, where the ethnic group called the Dungans settled densely, looks like the war film shots: burnt-out houses and cars off the roads blackened by fire. Aukatty, Sortobe...
The Black Skies over Russia's Regions
"Black sky mode" – this expression can often be heard in Russia’s major industrial cities. Usually it is set in frosty windless weather in winter. Sometimes during heatwaves in the summer. The...
United Russia Party is Offered to Stand and Deliver in a Fair Fight
The State Duma lower house of parliament has refused support a bill proposing to oblige state media to publish the results of party fractions' voting on the issues that are mandatory for publication...
Siberian region of Khakassia: Is It Pondering a Financial Suicide?
The Ministry of Finance of Khakassia, Russia’s constituent republic located in the south of Siberia, has said that the region may face a default in the short term. Khakassia lacks about 14 billion...
Are You Seeing Surkov? He Is Still Here
The possible resignation of Vladislav Surkov from the post of Assistant to the Russian President is still causing an intrigue. He was also a supervisor of policies towards Ukraine.
Sergei Makhlai is suspected of corruption for tax evasion purposes
The main owner of Togliattiazot PJSC, a US citizen Sergei Makhlay, convicted in absentia for especially large-scale fraud last year in July, became a defendant in another criminal case. Now Makhlay,...
Russia Ridding Itself of Pensioners
Russia’s Pension Fund is reporting on its indisputable victories as regards the reduction of spending. The figures are impressive. In 2019 alone, the number of pensioners went down by 355,000...
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