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SSEECCUURRIIITTIIIEESS MMAARRKKEETT NNEEWWSSLLEETTTTEERR weekly Presented by: VTB Bank, Custody April 22, 2021 Issue No. 2021/15 Market News Central bank places RUB 4.98 bln coupon bonds out of RUB 23.6 bln On April 20, 2021 it was reported that Russia’s central bank had sold RUB 4.975 bln out of RUB 23.601 bln coupon bonds during the day. The cut-off and the weighted average prices amounted to 100% of a face value each. Demand totaled RUB 5.017 bln. The settlement date was April 21. Finance Ministry fully places RUB 20 bln OFZ bonds On April 21, 2021 it was stated that Russia’s Finance Ministry had fully placed during the day RUB 20 bln of OFZ 26236 government bonds with a fixed coupon maturing in May 2028. The cut-off price and the weighted average price amounted to 93.11% of a face value. The cut-off yield and the weighted average yield stood at 7.07%. Demand for the bonds totaled RUB 83.7 bln. Company News MTS raises stake to 100% in 6 local fixed-line operators On April 15, 2021 it was stated that Major Russian mobile operator MTS had exercised a call option with provider of broadband and digital TV services Zelenaya Tochka Group to buy out the remaining 49% of the group’s capital in six local fixed-line network operators. Altogether, this deal will provide opportunities to more than one million Russian households to expand access to advanced solutions from across the MTS digital ecosystem. In February 2020, MTS acquired a 51% stake in Zelenaya Tochka Group – comprised of 13 local fixed-line Internet providers – via an agreement that included a provision for a three-year call option on the remaining share capital. -
ECONOMIC BULLETIN Short Term Has No Future
ECONOMIC BULLETIN Short term has no future 1/28/2011 № DEB-2011.01-03 Economic News • Russia's unemployment hit its highest in seven-months in December but remained well below 2009 highs and looked unlikely to deter the central bank from raising interest rates to fight inflation. The number of unemployed in Russia was 5.39 mln at the end of December, taking the jobless rate to 7.2% from November's 6.7% the previous month, exceeding analysts' forecasts of a 6.8% rate. The data underscores the fragility of the Russian economy's recovery since it suffered its deepest recession in 15 years, hit by the slump in the prices of key exports metals and oil in the wake of the global economic crisis. But, despite blips, the recovery continues. For 2010 as a whole, unemployment averaged 7.5%, higher than the 7% percent forecast by analysts but a definite improvement on the six-year peak of 8.6% recorded in 2009. As such, analysts said the CBR would likely continue to focus more on containing runaway inflation and follow up December's hike in deposit rates with further monetary tightening as soon as its end-January meeting. "It (unemployment spike) is a short-term trend ... and it does not mean that the recovery will deteriorate further," analysts said. "Trade and industrial output data show that the fourth quarter will be better after the 'burnt-out' third quarter due to the weather. "There is a very high chance that the interest rates will continue to be raised.. -
Kharkiv, EWJUS, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2020
Borderland City: Kharkiv Volodymyr Kravchenko University of Alberta Translated from Ukrainian by Marta Olynyk1 Abstract: The article attempts to identify Kharkiv’s place on the mental map of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and traces the changing image of the city in Ukrainian and Russian narratives up to the end of the twentieth century. The author explores the role of Kharkiv in the symbolic reconfiguration of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland and describes how the interplay of imperial, national, and local contexts left an imprint on the city’s symbolic space. Keywords: Kharkiv, city, region, image, Ukraine, Russia, borderland. harkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine after Kyiv. Once (1920-34), K it even managed to replace the latter in its role of the capital of Ukraine. Having lost its metropolitan status, Kharkiv is now an important transport hub and a modern megapolis that boasts a greater number of universities and colleges than any other city in Ukraine. Strategically located on the route from Moscow to the Crimea, Kharkiv became the most influential component of the historical Ukrainian-Russian borderland, which has been a subject of symbolic and political reconfiguration and reinterpretation since the middle of the seventeenth century. These aspects of the city’s history have attracted the attention of numerous scholars (Bagalei and Miller; Iarmysh et al.; Masliichuk). Recent methodological “turns” in the humanities and social sciences shifted the focus of urban studies from the social reality to the city as an imagined social construct and to urban mythology and identity (Arnold; Emden et al.; Low; Nilsson; Westwood and Williams). -
Legislation Company News SECURITIES MARKET NEWS
SSEECCUURRIIITTIIIEESS MMAARRKKEETT NNEEWWSSLLEETTTTEERR weekly Presented by: VT- -an3, Custody August 20, 2020 Issue No. 2020/32 Legislation Russia, Malta agree to raise tax on dividends, interest to 15% On August 14, 2020 Russia’s Finance Ministry said that Russia and Malta agreed to increase tax on dividends and interest to 15%. On August 13, 2020, the authorities of Russia and Malta agreed on a draft protocol to amend the Convention between the two states on prevention of double taxation and tax avoidance concerning income taxes( and also agreed to increase tax on dividends and interest to 15%, except for a limited list of institutional investment Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested in March imposing a 15% tax on dividend yield withdrawn to accounts in foreign jurisdictions, which would re,uire adjustments to agreements on avoidance of double taxation with other countries Russia will cancel such deals unilaterally if the agreements are not reached On August 10, an agreement on the Russian terms of new taxation deal was reached with Cyprus Company News Mobile operator MTS buys back 0.075% of its share capital On August 14, 2020 it was reported that -astion, a wholly.owned subsidiary of major Russian mobile operator MT0, has ac,uired 1,500,110 MT0 shares, including American depositary receipts, representing 0 015% of the operator’s share capital The shares were ac,uired under the repurchase plan announced on March 31 2nder the Russian law, MT0 must disclose any shares ac,uired by the company or any of its subsidiaries Rosneft -
© Copyright 2020 Volodymyr Sklokin 1 Catherine II, Evdokim Shcherbinin
1 Catherine II, Evdokim Shcherbinin, and the Abolition of Sloboda Ukraine’s Autonomy1 Volodymyr Sklokin Ivan Ostroz’kyi-Lokhvyts’kyi (1750–1825), the son of the captain of the Slonovka company of the Ostrohoz’k regiment Iosyp Ostroz’kyi-Lokhvyts’kyi, left the following account of the events of 1763 in his memoir: Then a very terrible thunderclap of God’s anger crashed over all the Sloboda regiments in 1763, during the reign of Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna, and a special commission was appointed to the city of Ostrohoz’k over all the officers, of regimental and company rank. Nor did my father, captain Iosyp, escape that thundering stormcloud at that time; those under his command rebelled then and began to write false petitions, and especially at the instigation of the junior ensign Ivan Korets’kyi (who tried to return evil for good, because that captain often saved him from serious troubles, especially bootlegging, and from death itself…). Now [he was] dismissed from command, ordered not to absent himself from the commission, without making any excuses to compensate with many for grievance, even though false, since anything that anyone had given as a gift was regarded as bribery. And thus not waiting for the return of their captain from Ostrohoz’k, the common people began to rob horses from his farmstead, chop down forest acquired by first possession (zaimanshchynnyi), devastate the orchards, beat peasants in the streets for no reason, [and] curse his wife and children to their faces. There was no end to the abuse and insults that he suffered from those under his command, and especially from the relatives of the Korets’kyis, whom he, when they were still poor, provided with everything he had, and also supplied with bread, but they all forgot this and returned evil for good, especially in those evil days, and in all these actions they were the ringleaders and instigators of the common people to evil.2 These events also radically changed the life of Ivan, then a young student at the Kharkiv College. -
The Empire, the Nation
“The relationship between empire and nation was among the thorniest of questions in the late Russian Em- pire, and the complications proved most acute in the country’s western regions. This volume assembles a The truly international team of scholars to explore these matters in a range of different contexts, from education Edited by and religion to censorship, tourism, and right-wing political mobilization. The chapters reveal an exception- al set of challenges that statesmen, reformers, and imperial subjects of diverse nationalities and confessions Tsar Darius The faced in conceptualizing and actualizing their projects in the context of new forms of association and al- Staliūnas tered political frameworks. As the authors reveal, the greatest casualty for imperial policy was consistency. Full of new research and compelling insights, The Tsar, the Empire, and the Nation represents the latest , The and word on this important problem in Russian and East European history.” Tsar, —Paul W. Werth, Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Yoko “By investigating western borderlands from the Baltic provinces in the north to Ukraine in the south, this Empire Aoshima The Empire, volume creates a meso-level between the macro-perspective on the Russian empire as a whole and the mi- cro-perspective on a single region, paving the ground for comparative insights into the empire’s responses and to national questions. What I admire the most about this book is its very balanced discussion of national questions which still bear the potential to become politicized.” , The Nation —Martin Aust, Professor of History, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany and Dilemmas of Nationalization his book addresses the challenge of modern nationalism to the tsarist Russian Empire that first ap- Russia’s Western The in Tpeared on the empire’s western periphery. -
FCE 37 Ebook
Folia Cryptog. Estonica, Fasc. 37: 1–20 (2000) Lichenized, lichenicolous and other fungi from North and North- East Greenland Vagn Alstrup1, Eric Steen Hansen1 & Fred J. A. Daniels2 1Botanical Museum, University of Copenhagen, 130 Gothersgade, DK-1123 Copenhagen K, Denmark 2Institute of Plant Ecology, Westfälische Wilhems-Universität, 55 Hindenburgplatz, D-48143 Münster, Germany Abstract: A total of 410 taxa of lichens, lichenicolous fungi and other fungi are reported from fourteen localities in Kronprins Christian Land in North Greenland and Lambert Land in North East Greenland. Four new combinations are made, viz. Aspicilia bennettii, A. expansa, Caloplaca elaeophora and Neuropogon sphacelatus. 60 species of lichens and other fungi are reported as new to Greenland, viz. Acarospora impressula, A. picea, Amphisphaerella erikssonii, Buellia elegans, Carbonea aggregantula, C. atronivea, Catillaria contristans, C. subnegans, Collema coccophorum, Dacampia engeliana, Dactylospora rimulicola, Dermatocarpon luridum, D. meiophyllizum, Didymella praestabilis, Gibbera uliginosa, Ionaspis ventosa, Lecanora cavicola, L. flotowiana, L. perpruinosa, L. umbrina, Lecidella carpathica, Leptogium corniculatum, Leptosphaeria hendersoniae, Leptosphaerulina peltigerae, Lichenostigma semiimmersa, Melanomma sanguinarium, Merismatium heterophractum, M. nigritellum, Peltigera britannica, Pertusaria chiodectonoides, Phomopsis salicina, Physarum oblatum, Placynthium subradiatum, Pleospora graminearum, P. pyrenaica, Polyblastia fuscoargillacea, P. peminosa, P. schisticola, -
THE KREMLIN PLAYBOOK in EUROPE the Kremlin Playbook in Europe Analyzes the Tools and Methods Used by Russia to Exercise Its Influence on the Con- Tinent
THE KREMLIN PLAYBOOK IN EUROPE The Kremlin Playbook in Europe analyzes the tools and methods used by Russia to exercise its influence on the con- tinent. In particular, it shows how the Kremlin enjoys considerable surrogate power in some countries because of the oligarchization of their governance systems. It also highlights the effect of blinkered national policies which grant Russian capital access to European financial hubs. The report argues for a common transatlantic approach in the face of these threats. The report expands the map of Russia’s footprint built by previous Kremlin Playbooks, which examined Russia’s attempts to capture political and economic decision-making in sixteen European countries, by analyzing Greece and Cyprus. Their strategic location in the southeast of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, common religious traditions, and historic ties make them an object of influence operations by the Kremlin. Editorial Board: Dr. Ognian Shentov Ruslan Stefanov Martin Vladimirov ISBN: 978-954-477-394-6 © 2020, Center for the Study of Democracy All rights reserved. 5 Alexander Zhendov Str., Sofia 1113 tel.: (+359 2) 971 3000 fax: (+359 2) 971 2233 www.csd.bg, [email protected] ACKNOWLedGEMenTS he comprehensive systematization of the economic data and key policy findings from CSD’s research on Russian influence was the product of the interdisciplinary expertise of CSD’s programs and the meticulous work of Boyko Todorov from the Southeast Europe TLeadership for Development and Integrity (SELDI). The policy analysis in the report has greatly benefitted from the in-depth discussions with Dr. Michael Carpenter, Senior Director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, and his participation in the round table on countering state capture risks and Russian influence in Europe held in Sofia in November 2019. -
FROM SUGAR BEETS to BANKING: Rusagro's Rise As a Russian
FROM SUGAR BEETS TO BANKING: Rusagro’s Rise as a Russian Conglomerate June 14, 2010 1 STRATFOR 700 Lavaca Street, Suite 900 Austin, TX 78701 Tel: 1-512-744-4300 www.stratfor.com FROM SUGAR BEETS TO BANKING: Rusagro’s Rise as a Russian Conglomerate Summary Rusagro is one of Russia’s largest agro-industrial holding companies, dealing mainly in sugar, oil and agricultural land. Starting as an intermediary for sugar producers and traders in the former Soviet states, Rusagro’s founder, Vadim Moshkovich, quickly used a sharp eye for opportunities and connections with established and rising businessmen throughout the region to grow Rusagro into a major force in Russia’s agricultural sector. Moshkovich himself has risen from low-level mercantile exchange worker to member of the elite Russian billionaire club and senator. He has been careful in cultivating powerful allies throughout the Kremlin and in powerhouses like Sberbank to promote his or his companies’ interests while holding the same tight-knit circle of loyalists around him for decades. At the end of the day, Moshkovich is interested in profit, and though Rusagro has been his mainstay for more than 15 years, he wants either to continue expanding it across Russia and the former Soviet states or start selling it off -- should the price be right. A Brief History As one of Russia’s largest agro-industrial holding companies, Rusagro has interests in more than 35 farms, seven sugar plants, eight regional trade branches, an oilseed refinery and dairy and pig-farming assets. A member of the Union of Sugar Producers of Russia, Rusagro is known mainly for its sugar and packaged margarine and mayonnaise, which is produced through 35 subsidiaries under well- known Russian brands such as Shchedroye Leto, Chaykovskiy, Khoroshiy and Brauni. -
Memory of Stalinist Purges in Modern Ukraine
The Gordian Knot of Past and Present: Memory of Stalinist Purges in Modern Ukraine HALYNA MOKRUSHYNA Thesis submitted to the University of Ottawa in partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the PdD in Sociology School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies Faculty of Social Sciences University of Ottawa © Halyna Mokrushyna, Ottawa, Canada, 2018 ii Table of Contents Table of Contents Abstract ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... iv Preface ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Methodology ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Research question ............................................................................................................................................................................ 10 Conceptual framework ................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Chapter 2: Social memory framework ......................................................................................................................................... -
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Kharkiv: the Elusive City
Kharkiv: The Elusive City Volodymyr Kravchenko University of Alberta Oleksiy Musiyezdov V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University his issue opens with a series of special issues of East/West: Journal of T Ukrainian Studies devoted to the largest Ukrainian cities of the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine: Kharkiv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro. There are several reasons to believe these cities are key to the future of Ukrainian nation-state building. First, they represent the most developed and urbanized regions located in the huge Ukrainian-Russian historical borderland. Second, they are the products of Russian imperial and Soviet modernization, still unsurpassed by its Ukrainian equivalent. Modern megapolises on the territory of Ukraine started acquiring a more pronounced ethnic-cultural Ukrainian profile only recently, during the “short” twentieth century. It is no wonder that they are still looking for their proper places in post-Soviet Ukraine, while their urban landscapes reflect contradictory visions of their past and future. Third, their dwellers surprised many Kremlin-based nationalists in 2014 during the Russian aggression and annexation of the Crimea when they opted for a Ukrainian nation state rather than the new incarnation of the Russian Empire. Kharkiv occupies a very special place in Ukrainian modern history due to its changing roles as a regional centre and a national capital. During its steady progressive development, which culminated in the twentieth century, Kharkiv became a modern, multi-ethnic, and culturally diverse city, the capital of a historical region known as Sloboda Ukraine, and even served as the capital of the short-lived Soviet Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih Republic (1917-18).