Category: Russia

The Central Bank proposed to introduce a permanent opportunity to take credit holidays The Central Bank wanted to make permanent the opportunity to take credit holidays. Such a proposal was announced by Mikhail Mamuta, Head of the Service for the Protection of Consumer Rights and Ensuring the Availability of Financial Services of the Bank of Russia, at a conference of the Association of Russian Banks (ADB), TASS reports. Mamuta said that the extension of the mechanism for introducing credit holidays to consumer loans on an ongoing basis, “it would be very, very useful”, since the borrower receives a guaranteed right to a respite at a difficult moment for himself. Now this is not always possible, because some lenders do not always meet the client's needs and begin to use their dominant position. Mamuta believes that legislative support for such an initiative would be in great demand. In 2020, at the

AKIT asked Mishustin to solve a possible problem with double taxation in the EAEU Changes in the legislation of Belarus and Kazakhstan, together with Russia Union (EAEU), create risks of multibillion-dollar losses for Russian marketplaces, warned the Association of Internet Trade Companies (AKIT), writes Kommersant. The industry association complained about the situation to Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, asking him to help solve the problem. Starting next year, in Kazakhstan and Belarus, Russian Internet sites will have to pay tax on the goods they sell on the territory of the countries, according to the letter to AKIT. Moreover, companies will continue to pay VAT in Russia. According to AKIT estimates, taking into account the tax rate of 12 percent in Kazakhstan and 20 percent in Belarus, the additional tax burden on Russian marketplaces could amount to 3.6 billion and 3.8 billion, respectively. Now the organization asks the Russian prime minister

Polish border guards reported 200 infiltrated migrants with the support of Belarusian services More than 200 illegal migrants forced their way into Poland and were returned to the border … This was announced by the official representative of the Polish Border Guard, Anna Michalskaya, RIA Novosti reports. Related materials 00:01 – 18 November “They would rather die in Europe than return home” How migrants on the border with Poland changed life in Belarus alien. Europe has taken in millions of refugees. Why are they now hated, considered terrorists and want to drive them out? Illegals entered the country on November 24 at about 19:00 (21:00 Moscow time) at the section of the border detachment in Cheremsha. “A group of more than 200 people forcibly forced the border, of course, with the active support of the Belarusian services. These persons were aggressive, they threw stones and tree branches at the Polish

Microsoft Edge has added maximum security mode Microsoft has added several hidden features to the Edge browser. This is reported by the TechRadar edition, whose journalists discovered new settings in Microsoft's proprietary browser. According to the authors of the material, in the Edge assembly 96.0.1054.29 there are two modes of the program. The first configuration is balanced. While working in this mode, the browser remembers which sites the user visits most often, and allows access to them – as a rule, regardless of restrictions. The second mode called “Strict” controls all sites, which the user is visiting. In this case, the browser draws attention to websites with a low level of protection and warns the user about this. This maximum protection mode also includes blocking attacks via JavaScript Just in Time Engine (JIT), flow control technology and hardware protection against exploits from Intel. The new mode can be activated on

Kronen Zeitung: Slovak government apologizes for decades of sterilization of Roma women … This is reported by the Kronen Zeitung. According to the newspaper, in the adopted statement, the country's four-party coalition condemned the violations of the rights of the Roma population and apologized to all the victims. Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic called this decision “the first important step” towards compensation for victims of Bratislava politics. According to Cabinet reports, forced removal of the uterus of Roma women was practiced in Slovakia from 1966 to 1989. the aim of limiting the number of children from disadvantaged ethnic minorities. At the same time, after the fall of the communist regime in the period from 1990 to 2004, women were persuaded to agree to sterilization after the birth of a child. European Union human rights organizations have repeatedly called on Bratislava to pay compensation to the victims.

Human rights activist Litvinovich on the change of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service: control over the service is transferred from the FSB to the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Kalashnikov and the appointment of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Arkady Gostev to this post, one can see the weakening of the positions of the Federal Security Service (FSB), from which the former head of the FSIN is a native. Human rights activist Marina Litvinovich wrote about this in her Telegram channel. “Control over the FSIN is transferred from the FSB to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The decision to remove the head of the FSIN Kalashnikov and appoint Gostev is quite strong and inspires some optimism, “she commented on the change in the head of the service. Litvinovich stated that it is the FSB that oversees all operational work in colonies and pre-trial detention centers, using

Latvian Minister of Health Pavluts announced vaccination of 70% of the adult population percent of the adult population, reports TASS. “Yesterday we achieved the goal set in the [Latvian] vaccination plan, and the EU goal to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the adult population,” Pavluts said. 70.28 percent of residents aged 12 and over were fully vaccinated, the head of the Ministry of Health explained. “We are approaching the average vaccination coverage of the entire EU population (70.1 percent), now we have 66.67 percent,” added Pavluts. Earlier, the Latvian authorities announced that from December 6, all workers in a country who has possible contact with other people at work will be required to be tested for the presence of antigens to COVID-19 twice a week, regardless of the fact of vaccination. In eight weeks, the state will have to spend 14-15 million euros for these purposes.

Executive Director Shaninka Kryuchkova testified against Rector Zuev Executive Director of Shaninka – Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences) (MVSES Kryuchkova began to cooperate with the investigation and was placed under house arrest. This is reported by “Interfax” with reference to a source in the investigating authorities. According to him, Kryuchkova pleaded guilty and told about cashing the stolen money. In addition, she testified against other defendants in the fraud case, including the rector Sergei Zuev. The executive director was released from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest. Earlier it was reported that the rector Shaninka was placed in the medical unit of the SIZO “Matrosskaya Tishina”. He was accused of embezzling 21 million rubles allocated from the budget for the federal project “Teacher of the Year” of the national project “Education.” In 2020, the parties terminated them by mutual agreement. At that time, 21 million rubles