Top Deals and Forum Statements
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The 26th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2023) was held from June 14 to 17. This year it was visited by 17,000 representatives from 130 countries and territories. The United Arab Emirates became the guest country of SPIEF. More than 900 agreements were concluded for the amount of 3 trillion 860 billion rubles. The main transactions and statements of the participants are in the Kommersant selection.
What happened at SPIEF 2023 — read Here.
Deals
“Rosatom” And Sri Lanka agreed to build a nuclear power plant with a capacity of up to 300 megawatts.
“Rosatom” signed with Myanmar a memorandum on the start of pre-project work on the construction of wind farms in this country with a total capacity of 172 MW.
Gazprom signed an agreement with Kazakhstan QazaqGaz on the transportation of natural gas from the Russian Federation to Uzbekistan through the territory of Kazakhstan. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Uralkali signed memorandums with five Chinese companies on deliveries to China for three years up to 3.5 million tons of fertilizers.
Aeroflot and Venezuelan airline Conviasa intend to jointly develop transportation between Russia, Venezuela and Cuba, they signed a corresponding memorandum.
Ministers of Energy of Russia and Kazakhstan extended until the end of 2033 intergovernmental agreements on the transit of Russian oil to China with an increase in volumes up to 10 million tons.
China National Chemical Engineering Corporation (CNCEC) joined the implementation of a joint venture with the holding AEON Roman Trotsenko of the project for the construction of a methanol plant with a capacity of 1 million tons per year in Volgograd. The total planned cost of the project is more than 80 billion rubles.
“Rusal” will build in the Leningrad region an alumina refinery with a capacity of 4.8 million tons and a deep-water port. The entire project will cost the company 400 billion rubles.
VTB will finance the construction of the 3rd and 4th serial universal nuclear icebreakers of project 22220 GK “Rosatom” to service cargo traffic in the western and eastern sectors of the Northern Sea Route, the bank said following the signing of an agreement with the state corporation on cooperation in the development of the NSR. The icebreakers will be built at the shipyards of the Baltic Shipyard.
Timber holding Segezha Group signed an agreement with the transport group FESCO on the joint development of logistics in domestic and export directions. Cooperation will cover transportation from the North-Western, Central, Volga and Siberian regions of Russia to the countries of South-East Asia, the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, India and China.
Rostelecom And “National Media Group” (NMG) announced on the merger of video services more.tv and Wink under the latter’s brand. The parties will set up a joint venture for this, in which Rostelecom will have a 70% share and NMG a 30%.
Promsvyazbank will launch concessional lending to small and medium-sized businesses in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The press service of the bank announced the signing of an agreement with Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
Russian Football Union (RFS) signed memorandum of cooperation with a Russian manufacturer of sportswear Jogel. The company will become the new outfitter of the Russian national football team. Jogel’s contract with the RFU will be for two seasons.
Statements
Photo: Dmitry Azarov, Kommersant
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the linear session of the SPIEF, where declaredthat a business should not be tested if it does not involve risks of harm to humans and the environment. He also proposed an amnesty for businesses for forced currency violations committed during the period of the moratorium on fines. The president announced on the indexation of the minimum wage, by 2030 it should double. Besides, According to himRussia is obliged to increase defense spending to protect sovereignty.
Photo: Emin Jafarov, Kommersant
Head of Rosneft Igor Sechin spoke strongly opposed to increasing the tax burden on the oil industry in order to make up for the shortfall in oil and gas budget revenues in 2023. Presenting a report entitled “Sodom and Gomorrah in the energy market” at SPIEF 2023, Igor Sechin blamed the decline in budget revenues on the poor results of Gazprom, which is not “a reason to transfer the tax burden to the oil industry.” Also, Rosneft again raised the issue of liberalizing gas exports and reducing electricity tariffs.
Photo: Alexander Miridonov, Kommersant
Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune offered his mediation in resolving the conflict in Ukraine. “Our only goal is to live in peace, so that there is a real integration of the economy and relations between peoples. All wars bring destruction, many lose from them. And so I would wish peace, prosperity, security to all mankind,” he said.
Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant
Chairman of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina stated that there is a risk of a return to a planned economy. Ms. Nabiullina supported the idea of privatization and stated that there is something to privatize in Russia without prejudice to the country’s strategic interests.
Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant
Mintsifra and Minpromtorg of the Russian Federation are discussing a ban on parallel imports of heavy computer equipment from unfriendly countries that have competitive Russian counterparts, said the head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev. Also, according to him, a ban on the parallel import of smartphones, Samsung and LG mobile devices is being discussed, because there are Chinese analogues that are not inferior to them.
Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant
Finance Minister Anton Siluanov indicated that the main KPI for him for the current year is the return to the country of pessimists who left. In addition, according to him, the Russian authorities did not expect that local businesses would replace the departed foreign companies so quickly – Russia ensured technological sovereignty and developed “antibodies” to the new economic situation.
Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant
Aide to the President of Russia Maxim Oreshkin declaredthat in reality, discounts on Russian oil for friendly countries are less than it is believed, and in the future they will be even less. “But you don’t have to tell anyone about this. Let everyone think that everything is bad,” he said.
Photo: press service of the President of the Russian Federation
Head of Aeroflot Sergey Aleksandrovsky said the group was in talks with Western companies about an “insurance settlement” for 47 aircraft under operating lease. Also, Mr. Aleksandrovsky said that the airline had secured a $199 million advance payment from the European auto concern Airbus for four A350 aircraft ordered in 2007.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Head of VTB Andrey Kostin thinksthat the price of a share in Yandex is too high. In his opinion, if they try to sell a business without the discount provided by law for the exit of foreign investors, it should be transferred under the control of the Federal Property Management Agency, as was done with the Finnish Fortum.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova informedthat about 6 million employed people do not receive the minimum wage, and another 12 million do not have employment contracts.
Photo: Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant
Head of the FAS Maxim Shaskolsky thinks it is wrong to enter into a settlement agreement with metallurgical companies due to rising prices for products. “Therefore, we are working to ensure that prices are reduced,” he said.
Photo: Roman Yarovitsyn, Kommersant
The main shareholder and chairman of the board of directors of Severstal Alexey Mordashov declaredthat low taxes in Russia spur economic growth. “Low taxes in our country have always been a very powerful stimulus for economic growth, let’s keep this stimulus,” he said.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Deputy Chairman of the Board of VTB Anatoly Pechatnikov said that the portfolio of yuan savings of the population in Russian banks this year will double and reach 88 billion yuan. “As a result, the Chinese currency will take a quarter of clients’ foreign currency savings, and by the end of 2024, its share will exceed 45%,” the top manager predicts.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko said the government is considering imposing quotas on the import of foreign seeds, in addition to drones used by farmers, may allow to work at a height of up to 150 m. Vice Prime Minister expects continuation of food deflation in Russia in the summer and in September. Besides, according to Mrs. Abramchenko, Russia in 2023 concluded more than 750 transactions for the supply of agricultural products in national currencies.
Photo: Igor Ivanko, Kommersant
Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Sergey Vakhrukov noted a significant decrease in the share of “toxic” currencies in Russia’s international settlements. “If at the beginning of 2022, export calculations were mainly carried out in the currencies of unfriendly countries – it was 87% in all calculations (mainly in US dollars and euros), then by the end of 2022, the share of toxic currencies in these calculations decreased to 48%. And by May of this year, it was less than 36% and has a good downward trend,” he said.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Anton Alikhanov declaredthat the damage to the Kaliningrad region after the ban on transit through Lithuania is 900-980 million rubles. per month.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Acting Governor of Kherson Region Volodymyr Saldo informedthat the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP is subject to restoration. At the same time, he pointed out that the generation of electricity is not relevant.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin noted that Moscow does not absorb the finances of other regions of Russia, but, on the contrary, is the main donor among its regions. He called incorrect the opinion that Moscow “is a kind of funnel that sucks up all the finances of the country and regions.” In addition, the mayor allowed Moscow’s entry into the borrowing market in 2025-2027 as it enters “a phase of super-high renovation spending.” Mr. Sobyanin also said that the construction of the fifth Moscow Central Diameter has begun in the capital.
Photo: Alexander Podgorchuk, Kommersant
President of the Association of Internet Trade Companies Artem Sokolov predicts that the turnover of the e-commerce market in Russia will grow by more than 20% and amount to 6.2-6.5 trillion rubles. at the end of 2023.
Photo: Alexander Petrosyan, Kommersant
The Russian advertising market will show record growth in the first half of 2023 compared to the same period last year, said Executive Director of the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia (ACAR) Valentin Smolyakov.
Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant
Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia Valery Falkov declaredthat the magistracy does not fulfill its purpose in universities. He believes that she needs serious changes: in the new system of higher education, the magistracy will not be present in all areas, and all graduates of the basic level, and not just bachelors, will be able to enter it.
Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov, Kommersant
At the Russian Media Group party, it was announced that its owner Vladimir Kiselev will pay one million rubles. to the one who knocks out the Leopard 2 tank, and 700 thousand rubles each. for Leopard 1. Singers also want to pay for destroyed tanks Grigory Leps And Nikolay Baskov.
Photo: Alexander Kazakov, Kommersant
LDPR showed SPIEF participants a pilot version of the Zhirinovsky neural network. As they learn, artificial intelligence will begin to help party members work for the good of the country and the people, the Liberal Democrats assured.
AvtoVAZ chose the name for a new line of cars based on the CMF-B platform, inherited from a former Renault shareholder, Lada Iskra.
About how it went first, second And third days of SPIEF-2023, – in the materials of Kommersant.
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