Russian Economy General News: #13

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PapaDragon wrote:

Colonel will not be defeated  

Hole wrote:The guy ate one year for free and as punishment he receives more free meals in prison. Win-win.

sepheronx wrote:

Hole wrote:The guy ate one year for free and as punishment he receives more free meals in prison. Win-win.

Prisons here in Canada feed their inmates better than what I eat.

Same with Homeless.

But things may change now on our economy being in the gutter.

LEGO-Russian Guard and domestic "Viagra". How Russia will replace Western brands that have gone completely

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Kirill Smolentsev



Some of the foreign brands that left the Russian market with the start of the CBO are returning to it in one way or another under new names after selling their business to local entrepreneurs. The place of those companies that do not plan to work with Russia at all in the foreseeable future is being taken by domestic brands, offering analogues of products once supplied from abroad. Read more about their successes and failures in the material 66.RU.

The manufacturer of LEGO construction sets ceased commercial activities in Russia in July 2022. Our manufacturers also know how to make constructors, but with their own flavor. Under the Igroland brand, they sell the set “The Main Temple of the Armed Forces of Russia” for 1042 parts. This one costs about 10 thousand rubles.



The company also produces a series of "Buildings of the Big City" with small versions of the Church of the Savior on Blood, the Vostochny cosmodrome, the main building of Moscow State University and even the Yeltsin Center.



The toy manufacturer Simbat also produces Lego-compatible sets of its own theme. The Russian company, unlike the Danes, does not turn to popular culture, its sets are dedicated to the military, firefighters, police and, of course, the Rosgvardia.




The popular Swedish chain IKEA left Russia last fall. It was decided to be replaced by entrepreneurs from the Republic of Belarus, where they came up with the idea of selling their own and similar goods “a la IKEA” under the SWED House brand. The first store of the network opened in one of the Moscow shopping centers, it is planned that SWED House will be present in other cities, including Yekaterinburg. You can still buy original IKEA products in Russia, for example, on Yandex.Market.




Apple was among the first to leave the Russian market, but they did not stop importing the iPhone. Parallel import helped. But the legislators decided that it could not last so long and at least at the level of employees of the presidential administration banned the use of "apple" technology. Instead, of course, their phones on the Aurora operating system. Since last year, the AYYA T1 smartphone has been actively advertised on the Web. For all the time of sale, it was eventually bought 905 times.


AYYA T1 was advertised by State Duma deputies Maria Butina and Denis Maidanov.

Officials also do not trust the American Zoom platform, recommending that it be abandoned in favor of the domestic Trueconf.


In February 2023, news appeared that the American biopharmaceutical company Viatris had stopped supplying the drug Viagra to Russia to improve potency. This happened against the backdrop of high popularity: in the first three months of this year alone, the number of drugs sold increased by 40% compared to the same period last year. Viagra is not produced in Russia, but the Ministry of Health assures that there is a “technological possibility for the production of drugs with the same active substance” within the country. As an example, officials cited the drug Sildenafil-SZ.

As a preventive measure, Russian IT specialists are developing analogues of Western software products. They will be actively implemented in case popular services are blocked. In particular, we are talking about the "Russian Wikipedia" - "Runiversalis". For comparison, according to SimilarWeb, in February, the Runiversalis website received 19.6 thousand visits, while this figure for Wikipedia exceeded 133 million.



Already on the main page of "Runiversalis" a large number of items with the epithet "Russian" are mentioned.

Rutube, unlike YouTube video hosting, is also used less often by Russians - video makers prefer to receive income from the affiliate program of the American service (for which some were even recognized as foreign agents).

They plan to replace YouTube with the help of the VK Video platform. Prerequisites - the transfer of the popular show "What happened next" to the Russian platform. The audience was not only dissatisfied with the content of the release, but also complained about problems with the player of the VKontakte social network, where the show is now released exclusively.



At the end of last year, the developer of the MyOffice office suite requested government funding to improve its software. We are talking about both interface elements and the ability to translate macros (embedded in program documents) written in the Microsoft programming language. Among the customers are Rosatom and Russian Railways, which already use MyOffice. The developer believes that "in the context of cyber warfare" the use of Microsoft products threatens the economy.



Recently, it became known about the development of a competitor to the ChatGPT neural network - the SistemmaGPT chat bot. The artificial intelligence model is under testing. The authors claim that SistemmaGPT is capable of producing high-quality texts, can answer questions, suggest recipes, create a curriculum, write an essay, code or resume, or simply carry on a conversation on behalf of famous people.

franco wrote:

Worked for me...

Oreshkin announced a new round of economic growth in Russia, 05.02.2023.

The mentor of the Leaders of Russia competition of managers, the flagship project of the presidential platform “Russia is a Land of Opportunities”, Presidential Aide Maxim Oreshkin is sure that a new creative era has begun in the development of the state. He urged the participants to show their worth.

Promising tasks, in his opinion, will require the work of competent and capable managers, while their demand in all areas will be very high. There is very little time left before the end of registration: it runs until May 14, 2023 on the leaderryrossii.rf website.

“For the Russian economy, a creative period has come, I would even say a creative era. There are a number of areas that have to develop, which will require the use of modern management approaches. The time has begun, so to speak, for the development of one's own country. This means big investments in infrastructure, its development and tourism. Progress is expected in the technological development of Russia: a number of projects will be implemented - from unmanned aerial vehicles to aircraft and shipbuilding. New financing instruments will be created in fast-growing technology companies. A very interesting period is coming, and I am sure that the participants in the Leaders of Russia competition will take their rightful place in this process,” Oreshkin said.

He emphasized that at the new round of the country's economic growth, there will be a need for competent specialists who can apply modern management technologies. In his opinion, the demand for such specialists will be very high.

“The task of Leaders of Russia is to enable any competent, capable manager to take an additional step forward, progress, and prove himself. The competition was conceived as a vertical social elevator so that a person from any field could prove himself,” he said.

Maxim Oreshkin considers the ability to work in a team to be one of the most valuable qualities of modern leaders: “A team is valuable by the balance of its members. Someone is more diligent and accurate, someone is creative and prone to creating new ideas. Each individual specialist will not achieve the result that he can give together with his colleagues. Any team is valuable for its diversity, the presence of different competencies, different abilities and types of character. Only such a balance allows you to achieve the maximum result.

The assistant to the President of the Russian Federation is sure that in order to become a good leader, you need to learn this: “You need to learn to listen to employees, give them the right motivation and the opportunity to develop. You will never do as much alone as you can with your team. Therefore, if you trust your team and properly motivate it, set interesting tasks for it, this will be rewarded with a high overall result.”

Oreshkin told what the main role of a mentor is: “It consists in explaining to the mentor what mistakes you yourself made, then the young specialist will be able to learn from others, and not from his own mistakes. This happens infrequently, everyone always steps on basically the same rake. But communication with a mentor allows you to go through this path faster, understand what the problem is, and move on.”

The Leaders of Russia contest, in which Oreshkin acts as a mentor for the participants, is interesting to him in the opportunity to meet bright people, their work and projects.

“The Russian economy has entered a unique period of development. On the horizon of several decades, now is the best time to prove yourself and take a step forward. Dare! Participate in the competition "Leaders of Russia"! Only in this way will you understand what you are really capable of. Be yourself, rely on your strengths, and everything will work out! Oreshkin addressed the contestants.

The Leaders of Russia competition for managers has been held on behalf of the President of the Russian Federation since 2017. For four seasons, more than 840,000 applications from 150 countries were submitted for participation in it.

https://vz.ru/news/2023/5/2/1210162.html

If Russia focuses on squeezing out Western manufacturing and services in the global south from a quality/price perspective then it should slowly delocate its economy into an export oriented one by proceeding with a weakening of the ruble as well as fomenting local multinational enterprises with sound Russian brand names operating on a global basis.

“It consists in explaining to the mentor what mistakes you yourself made, then the young specialist will be able to learn from others, and not from his own mistakes. This happens infrequently, everyone always steps on basically the same rake. But communication with a mentor allows you to go through this path faster, understand what the problem is, and move on.”