Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has criticized US licenses that ban companies doing business with sanctioned Venezuelan state-owned companies. Washington last year allowed US and European firms to resume taking in Venezuelan crude oil on the condition that cash was not paid to Venezuela. Last week, the United States allowed Trinidad and Tobago to import gas from a Venezuelan offshore field and banned the transfer of cash to the Venezuelan government. “They tell the country that it has permission to cooperate with Venezuela, but the company cannot pay in dollars or any other form of cash. The company must pay with food or other products,” Maduro said on air and called the approach “colonialism.” @banksta
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Turkish Airlines has started accepting payments with Russian cards again. You can buy tickets on the website using Mir, Visa and Mastercard cards. At the same time, payments do not always go through, since payment services of third countries are used. @banksta
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Artyom, 31, a senior inspector at the Russian Emergencies Ministry Academy, received a phone call in late January. The “employee of the Central Bank” at the other end of the phone stunned the soldier with the fact that several transactions allegedly took place from his account, and the money went to support the troops of Ukraine. Even worse, the same thing happened to his wife, and now the couple faces a criminal case and a long prison term. After the “Central Bank officer” Artyom received a call from the “FSB officer” and persuaded the man to take out several loans and install a remote access program on his phone. In a few days, the inspector transferred 1,300,000 rubles to the criminals. Only later, when the “FSB officers and banksters” began to persuade Artem to take a new loan in order to avoid a criminal case, he guessed everything and went to the police, writes Baza. @banksta
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The French Danone offered investors 75% of its assets with the possibility of repurchase, Kommersant learned. The company intends to retain its share and seat on the board of directors of the Russian division. According to the newspaper’s sources, only Russian brands Danone will be included in the deal, including Prostokvashino, Rastishka, and Tema. @banksta
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Kazakhstan has increased oil exports by 10 times, bypassing Russia. At the end of 2022, the country exported 1.328 million tons of oil through the ports of Georgia. @banksta
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The Russian authorities want to tie the calculation of oil taxes to the price of Brent, which should encourage oil companies to either reduce discounts or pay more taxes. @banksta
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The Federal Bailiff Service seized property worth 246.8 billion rubles last year, which is 14% more than in 2021. But the total amount of income from the sale for 2022 amounted to only about 32 billion rubles. @banksta
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The size of the discount on Russian oil continues to increase and has already exceeded 40%, the Finance Ministry said. Urals is on sale for $20 cheaper than budget benchmarks. Last year, the Russian Finance Ministry projected a budget deficit for 2023 of almost 3 trillion rubles, or about 2% of GDP. However, experts see the risks of increasing the budget hole to 6 trillion rubles. @banksta
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In January, the Russian budget received less than 52.1 billion rubles due to lower than expected revenues from the export duty on gas. In February, the shortfall in oil and gas revenues of the Russian budget is estimated at 108 billion rubles, follows from the data of the Ministry of Finance. @banksta
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Google’s quarterly revenue grew just 1%, well below expectations. Fourth-quarter operating profit fell 24% to $18.16 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai promised that the company would introduce a neural network version of search in the “coming months.” @banksta
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Pavel Lerner, a former top manager of the EXMO crypto exchange and one of the most influential people in the crypto industry, has been detained in Spain. He is suspected of complicity in carrying out illegal operations for the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange. The Spanish media reported the other day that the Civil Guard detained in Barcelona and Valencia three citizens of Russia and Ukraine who are related to this crypto platform. “In the course of the operation, launched in France and covering five countries, six people were arrested, half of them in Spain. These are P.L., aged 45, and O.G., aged 25, both residents of Barcelona, and M.L., aged 26, he was in Valencia. The detainee in Valencia lived in a rented apartment and planned to leave Spain soon,” wrote Europa Press and Baza. Bitzlato co-founder Anton Shkurenko confirmed Lerner’s arrest on YouTube. The arrested Pavel Lerner is a legend in the world of the crypto industry. He is known for being the co-founder and director of the EXMO cryptocurrency exchange. In 2018, Lerner left EXMO for another exchange, Utorg. Another significant project that Lerner has been involved in is the Monolith OS DAO, the first decentralized cryptoruble, a MCR stablecoin with a 1:1 soft peg to the Russian ruble. According to the research portal Cryptolab, Pavel Lerner is one of the world’s best developers of analytical systems and a specialist in quantum computing. In December 2017, Lerner was kidnapped in Ukraine by unknown individuals and demanded a ransom of one million dollars in bitcoins. Having received a ransom, the kidnappers released the programmer. @banksta
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State Duma deputy Maxim Ivanov proposed to mobilize the unemployed. At the employment center, he was told that they had “healthy, strong men, unemployed, without money” registered with them. @banksta
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Turkey said on Friday that Western countries, including the United States and Germany, have not provided it with information to support their claims that security threats prompted them to close their offices in the country. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu suggested that the authorities may have been trying to portray Turkey as an unstable state when they temporarily closed embassies and consulates and issued travel warnings following the Koran-burning incidents in Europe. “If they want to give the impression that Turkey is an unstable country that is facing a terrorist threat, this act is not in line with our friendly and allied relations.” Last week, France, Germany, Italy, the United States and other countries issued warnings to their citizens about the increased risk of attacks in Turkey, especially on diplomatic missions and Muslim places of worship, in connection with protests against the burning of the Koran in Europe. This week, countries such as Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland temporarily closed their diplomatic missions in Turkey, saying it was for security reasons. @banksta
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Google employees took to the rally, demanding higher wages and protesting against mass layoffs. At the same time, the average salary of Google employees is $ 295,884 (about 21 million rubles) per year. The average salary in the US is about $51,000 – $53,500 per year. @banksta
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Sberbank installed stationary ATMs in Simferopol. Today, the first stationary ATMs have been installed in local supermarkets in Simferopol. Until the end of March, Sberbank will install them in a number of Crimean shopping centers. Setting up and operation of devices will be adjusted within a week. “Until the end of March, Sberbank ATMs will start operating in a number of other shopping centers in Crimea, as well as in many supermarkets of the PUD network in Simferopol, Sevastopol and Yalta,” the bank promised. Recall that Sberbank announced in January that it was starting work in Crimea: the first ATMs have already been installed, the first offices will open in the first half of the year, and all the necessary services of Sberbank will be deployed on the peninsula within a year. @banksta
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The state prosecution requested 4 years and 10 months in a general regime colony for the former and. O. Inessa Brandenburg, chairman of the board of the SBRR, accused of embezzling more than 560 million rubles. Spain issued it to Russia in 2018. She took out 560 million rubles in sports bags from the bank vault. The investigation found out that the bankster Grigory Romanyuta created a criminal group, which included his deputy Brandenburg. @banksta
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Ozon continues to develop specialized financial services for businesses and launches a new fintech product, Money for Purchases. With its help, sellers placing their goods on the marketplace will be able to receive financing with a deferred payment. Ozon pays for the purchase of a new product, and the entrepreneur pays a fee as the required amount appears on the balance sheet within a period of 30 to 90 days. Sellers don’t need to collect a lot of documents or look for a guarantor – Ozon will make a decision based on the sales history on the platform. Thus, entrepreneurs will be able to increase sales turnover and scale their business even faster. @banksta
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Banksters from PSB continue their active work in new Russian regions. They announced that they were acquiring PSB Donetsk LLC and PSB Lugansk LLC, which belong to the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. This significantly strengthens the position of the PSB. Now the service network will almost double, exceeding the mark of 350 sales offices throughout the DPR and LPR. The client base will be about 3 million individuals and more than 17 thousand legal entities. The head of the PSB, Petr Fradkov, noted that the future plans include a gradual expansion of the range of services provided, the provision of banking products on the most attractive and flexible terms, and assistance in strengthening the financial and economic system of the DPR and LPR. Advertising. PJSC Promsvyazbank, TIN 7744000912
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The discussion of the careers of Siluanov’s children is surprisingly described according to the template of an anecdote, and has little to do with reality. According to our source close to DOM.RF, the format of the work of the minister’s youngest son does not coincide with what is being broadcast in a number of anonymous TGs. For example, he did not even work at DOM.RF, but did an internship. He was offered a job at the company’s Bank as a novice specialist, where he rose to the position of chief specialist in 2 years of work. As you know, this is a state bank, where all statements are checked by both the Central Bank and the Accounts Chamber, so there is no chance to hire a student and give him a non-market salary and position, so the guy received 20 times less than they came up with in the TG. Yes, and another surprise: they have a strict control of the dress code, open space and the corporate culture is quite tough, for a person to stay in a position that does not correspond to experience for a long time.
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Drilling ships that have been idle for years are once again taking to the sea due to rising energy prices, writes The Wall Street Journal. In total, there are about 600 of them in the world, of which 90% were chartered in December. @banksta
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???? The number: not very clear yet, but very interesting More than 80% of Russians expressed a desire to raise their awareness of digital rights, according to a study by the Financial University, conducted with the participation of the Lomonosov scientific project with the support of the Interros group of companies. Cryptocurrencies and digital financial assets remain not very clear for Russians: on average, they rate their knowledge at 2.4 points out of 5. However, even this indicator can be considered quite high, the researchers say, since DFA appeared among the instruments about a year ago. At the same time, the vast majority of respondents would like to increase the level of digital literacy, and 70% of citizens declared their readiness to completely switch to paying for goods and services via the Internet. @KOjournal
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It became known about the emergence of a class-action lawsuit filed by investors against the founders of the service to search for temporary staff Gigant Denis Reshanov and Mikhail Valkovsky. The plaintiffs are the investors of the project, X5 Supervisory Board Chairman Petr Demchenkov, Hoff co-founder Mikhail Kuchment and Kekh Ekommerts LLC (Avito). According to a source familiar with the situation, the cause of the lawsuit, in the amount of 168 million, was the large embezzlement of funds by Valkovsky and Reshanov. The source explains that the Gigant conflict with investors began in 2021, and the shareholders did everything possible to resolve the situation peacefully, but in the end they were forced to go to court. The Gigant service was created in 2019. In 2020, the owners of Gigant actively attracted investors to develop the project. In the fall of 2020, Petr Demchenkov and Mikhail Kuchment became shareholders of the company, in December Avito closed the deal to acquire 25% of the service. The companies agreed to launch a joint service to search for temporary workers during peak hours. @banksta
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The United States continues to increase pressure on Turkey, which, after the start of the war in Ukraine, has become perhaps the largest “hub” for circumventing sanctions against Russia. According to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the situation, US officials demanded that the Turkish authorities stop deliveries to Russia of goods that fell under US restrictions. @banksta
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????News for those who wanted to invest in the Chinese Yuan???? Banksters from PSB launched Russia’s first bond mutual fund in yuan. Now you can invest in securities of Russian companies denominated in Chinese currency. ☝️ The Course to the East Fund will help increase the invested capital due to coupon income and growth in the value of bonds. And most importantly, it will protect investments in the event of a weakening of the ruble. Today, the yuan is an alternative and promising hard currency of a friendly country. Eastern bonds diversify the savings basket with minimal risk. ???? Read more about how to head east, as well as high-quality analytics and up-to-date forecasts, on the UK PSB channel. Advertising. PJSC Promsvyazbank, TIN 7744000912
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Deposits for the poor will appear in Russia. Legislators want to oblige systemically important banks to open social deposits and accounts for low-income citizens from July 1, 2024. The yield on such a deposit should not be lower than the key rate plus 1 percentage point. The maximum amount of funds on deposit is no more than 100 thousand rubles. @banksta
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Prices for apartments in the primary market jumped by 21% to 122.3 thousand rubles. for 1 sq. m – Rosstat. “Resale” has risen in price by 11.8%, to 94.4 thousand rubles. The rise in prices for the “secondary” slowed down the decline in demand due to high mortgage rates. @banksta
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Today we wrote that the network of PSB bankster offices in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics will almost double. The head of the PSB, Petr Fradkov, emphasized that the bank places special emphasis on providing access for residents and businesses of the regions to developed infrastructure. Banksters of PSB manage to open an average of two thousand accounts per day and issue more than one and a half thousand cards to individuals and legal entities. And here comes another important announcement. Alexei Moiseev, deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Finance, said that the ministry will strive to ensure that the full integration of new entities into the country’s financial sector occurs as soon as possible. The Russian government and the Ministry of Finance have set themselves the task of ensuring the availability of banking, insurance and other financial services in the new Russian regions on the same terms, in the same volume and at the same rates as in other regions of the country, Moiseev said. @banksta
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The EU countries have reached an agreement on the introduction of a price ceiling for oil products from Russia at $100 per barrel traded at a premium, and $45 per barrel traded at a discount – Reuters. @banksta
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The tenth package of anti-Russian sanctions will damage the Russian economy by € 10 billion, said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. The new package will come into force on the anniversary of the start of the NWO – February 24th. @banksta
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Bloomberg: Russia will nearly triple its foreign exchange sales through early March as energy revenues fall amid tightening export restrictions. @banksta
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