Major Events of the Month
Innovative development of Russian economy is a fiscal policy priority for the governmentThe ultimate goal is to provide Russia a worthy place in the international division of labor, including, as holder of intellectual properties ownership rights... |
CC upholds the constitutionality of WTO Accord and its compliance to local lawsSpecifically, the Constitutional Court ruled that the WTO Protocol signed by the Kremlin does not violate Russians’ rights and freedoms nor threatens the country’s sovereignty... |
Audit Chamber seeks creation of a special council to oversee state contracts policySuch a council has become necessary in connection with the removal of public control from the bill on public procurement rules... |
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Companies incorporation via mobile phone devices in Russia to begin in the fallThe online service allowing companies to be incorporated via the Internet using mobile devices would be launched this autumn in accordance with the prime minister’s order... |
The Customs Union troika devises mechanisms to protect market against unfair competitionThe document that takes into account all areas regulating access to our market will use new arsenal of tools to protect the three countries' markets... |
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Oversight agency calls for harsher penalties for food technical requirements violationsRussia needs to significantly increase the financial responsibility, so that firms "can no longer pay their way out” as the current fines are merely symbolic... |
Government and businesses to facilitate more economic mobility for citizensIn this regard, the government has been ordered to prepare a plan within three months on the concept of migration policy till 2025... |
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Navalny ranked among the world's elite, but the tandem team fails to make the listThe publication linked Navalny’s popularity to social activeness of Russians seeking radical reforms and Internet’s rapid development... |
Nurgaliyev decrees ‘second re-certification’ for Russian Force employeesThis order for a new purge in the long-suffering agency means Nurgaliyev has officially recognized the failure of the previous certification held during the militsia reform... |
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Russian Central Bank wants talks on new banks capitalization increase off the agendaRussian Central Bank Chairman Sergei Ignatyev has said it is premature to start discussing a new benchmark of minimum capital for banks... |
Mobile subscribers to be able to keep numbers after changing services providersAccording to the order, the Communications Ministry is to submit its proposals on how to implement this policy by July 1... |
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Russian Foreign Ministry decries U.S. State Department’s visa denial to KobzonForeign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said Moscow was ‘perplexed’ by the U.S. refusal to grant a visa to Russian singer and State Duma legislator Iosif Kobzon... |
Preparation of a ‘road map’ for implementing Putin's electoral campaign promisesThe president-elect said such ‘road map’ should focus on implementing his election campaign strategic objectives without jeopardizing the country's macroeconomic stability... |
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Kremlin denies Khodorkovsky and his business partner Lebedev presidential amnestyThe Russian authorities have refused to ‘tamper justice with mercy’ by denying jailed ex-Yukos Oil Corp. owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky a presidential amnesty... |
Union Government losing integration competition with the Customs UnionThe Russian and Belarusian Union Government (UG) will find it harder to compete with the trilateral Customs Union (CU) of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, UG State Secretary Grigory Rapota said... |
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Difference in civil servants and private workers’ salaries to hover around 20% in RussiaSpeaking on the issue, Deputy Minister Oleg Fomichev noted that people often enter the civil service for career growth opportunity, status, stability, as there is no risk as in the business sector... |
Russian medical sciences declared ‘near-comatose and non-competitive’Health and Social Development Minister Tatyana Golikova has severely criticized Russian medical health sciences as 'backward, ineffective and uncompetitive at home and abroad'... |
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Call for switching from Anglo-American model of justice to Romano-German modelFor this purpose, RIC Director Alexander Bastrykin wants to introduce the concept of the Institute of Establishment of Objective Truth to the Criminal Code... |
Prevailing trends in Russia's economy favorable for mass privatizationThe market conditions are better than they were during the crisis, and therefore, mass privatization, which must include the natural monopolies, should be done right now, official says... |
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Russia loses 4% of GDP through the illegal cash conversion and export of capitalA top official says the negative practices affect the pace of Russia's economic development, reduce investment incentives and poses a serious threat to its national security... |
Russia’s Financial Monitoring Agency to be transformed into a Financial Police ForceThe strategy that will combine the functions of financial intelligence and crimes detection will enable the authorities to detect and verify suspicious financial transactions... |
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Audit Chamber ready for privatization review and drafting of compensation sumThe Russian Audit Chamber is ready to reevaluate the 1990s privatization and calculate the amount of a possible one-time compensation payment to the state, the agency said... |
Expensive cars and elite real estate properties to subjects of luxury taxationThe finance minister specially noted that the interests of poor people will not be affected by the introduction of such luxury property taxes... |