The tourism boom in Thailand is accompanied by a boom in the real estate market. Last year, 338 villas were sold on the island (+82% by 2021), about half of which were purchased by Russians, according to Knight Frank Thailand. One of them bought 16 villas at once, said Christian Steinbach, FPG’s sales director. @banksta
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Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy announced that the House of Representatives is investigating the impeachment of US President Joe Biden. It turned out that Biden lied to voters about the fact that his family did not receive money from China. In fact, she had two dozen offshore companies that received money from China, dozens of payments from Romania. Biden also said that as vice president he did not help his son in business, but in reality, it seems that he helped. There are also two more cases under investigation – a special attitude of the tax authorities towards Biden’s son and documents sent by the FBI on Burisma and the removal of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
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In May and June cash desks and ATMs of Raiffeisenbank replenished by 30 billion rubles. After the crisis began, this balance sheet item of the “daughter” of the Austrian RBI more than tripled. Against this background, the bank introduces restrictions on accepting cash. @banksta
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“Die in the workplace.” A former employee of Wildberries started a channel where he publishes terrible details of work on Wildberries and other marketplaces: • How employees of the pickup point breathed manure for two weeks because of the joke of competitors; • Why are Wildberries employees in warehouses forced to undress? • Why people go to work even sick. The whole hell of working on Russian marketplaces, which the media will not tell you about. Subscribe to understand that your job is not so bad — @russian_ecom
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The EU stopped financial support for Niger after the coup, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement. The EU has allocated 503 million euros from its budget for the development of governance, education and sustainable growth in 2021-2024. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said aid from the United States is also at risk. The UN noted that the coup did not affect the delivery of humanitarian aid. @banksta
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Germany, whose economy showed no growth during the last quarter after emerging from recession, risks strengthening its status as the “sick man of Europe”, according to Bloomberg. This phrase refers to a European country experiencing protracted economic difficulties. @banksta