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Vitaly Savelyev chaired a meeting of the organizing committee of the first International Transport and Logistics Forum.

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The meeting addressed key organizational issues related to forum preparation, the development of the business program, working with participants and partners, as well as infrastructure, information, and media support.

The First International Transport and Logistics Forum (ITLF) will be held from April 1 to 3 at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg. It is organized by the Russian Ministry of Transport and operated by the Roscongress Foundation, with the support of the Russian Government.

"The International Transport and Logistics Forum will serve as a platform for transforming strategic objectives into concrete projects and solutions. It will facilitate coordinated efforts to develop international transport corridors passing through Russia, expanding the use of the North-South International Transport Corridor, the Northern Sea Route, and the trunk infrastructure of all participating countries," emphasized Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev.

The forum's main theme, "Transport Connectivity as the Foundation of a New World Order: From Global Competition to Global Security," will be reflected in the discussions at the plenary session, the key event of the MTLF.

The International Transport and Logistics Forum will bring together deputy prime ministers and ministers from more than 60 countries to develop transport corridors, synchronize legislation, and create a unified digital transport system. "Russia offers its partners alternative, safe, and technologically advanced routes that connect countries and continents far beyond Greater Eurasia. The forum will discuss infrastructure integration, digitalization and automation of border crossings and multimodal transport, the sustainability of logistics routes, and the use of unmanned transport systems. I am confident that such multifaceted work will accelerate the process of coordinating and adopting key practical intergovernmental decisions to achieve the national development goals of both Russia and partner countries," added Transport Minister Andrey Nikitin.

Around 50 events will be held within three thematic blocks: "Logistics and Transport Industries," "Global Connectivity and Transport Corridors," and "Digitalization and the Future of Transport." Participants will discuss the integration of national transport systems into the global logistics network, the development of seamless logistics, and the digitalization of the industry to enhance the connectivity of the Eurasian transport system with countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Persian Gulf.

"The event's active business agenda is intended to become an important platform for multilateral dialogue on the further development of the global transport and logistics system and Russia's role within it. The forum implements the Russian President's instructions on the global competitiveness of transport corridors within the framework of national goals for 2030–2036 and will facilitate the search for practical solutions for creating a seamless route system, laying the foundation for the prosperity of the Eurasian continent through multilateral, mutually beneficial partnerships in the new geopolitical landscape," said Anton Kobyakov, Advisor to the Russian President and Executive Secretary of the MTLF Organizing Committee.

The full version is published on the official website business program International Transport and Logistics Forum, including information about the speakers.

The MTLF is being conducted in accordance with the President's instructions to ensure the global competitiveness of Russia's transport corridors, including the implementation of decrees within the framework of national goals up to 2030 and for the future up to 2036.

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Marat Khusnullin held a meeting on the development of the Krasnodar Territory.

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Marat Khusnullin held a meeting on the development of the Krasnodar Krai with the region's governor, Veniamin Kondratyev.

Deputy Prime Minister and Supervisor of the Southern Federal District Marat Khusnullin held a working meeting on the socioeconomic development of Krasnodar Krai. Governor Veniamin Kondratyev and representatives of federal ministries and agencies participated.

"The Krasnodar Krai is demonstrating sustainable development. In particular, it has traditionally been among the leaders in housing construction. By the end of 2025, the region ranked third in the country in terms of housing completions, with 6.2 million square meters, becoming the leader in the Southern Federal District. Major infrastructure projects are also being implemented in the Krasnodar Krai, including the construction of the Adler bypass. This is part of the prospective highway from the M-4 "Don" to Sochi. The bypass will provide access to the Black Sea coast, relieve congestion, and reduce travel time from the city center to the airport or Sochi's mountain cluster. This project is also important given the region's tourism potential. At the same time, there are a number of areas in the Krasnodar Krai that require close attention. One of the challenges is the construction of wastewater treatment facilities, which are crucial for the ecology of the Black Sea and the well-being of residents. This is an important but complex task, and we need to step up our efforts," said Marat Khusnullin.

Currently, work is underway at all key points on the Adler bypass being constructed by the state-owned company Avtodor. Last year, the Ivanovskaya overpass on the A-149 highway was expanded to two lanes. The Pobeda power substation, which will provide power for tunnel construction and will be used for future road maintenance, was also opened. Much of the bypass route will be tunneled, and construction will take place in challenging mountainous terrain. Construction of launch pads for tunnel boring machines continues at the eastern portal.

In turn, Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev thanked the Deputy Prime Minister and the Russian Government for their attention to the region.

"Over the past 10 years, we have built more than 110 schools, 220 kindergartens, 260 feldsher-midwife stations, and general practitioner offices in all municipalities of Kuban. Despite the challenging economic conditions, we plan to maintain this momentum. In 2026, we are simultaneously building over 120 social facilities, with over 37 billion rubles allocated for their construction, including funds allocated with your support under national projects. We are maintaining full control of each of them. Just yesterday, I visited construction sites in one of the densely populated neighborhoods of Krasnodar, where two schools and a kindergarten are being built, forming a full-fledged educational cluster. We are doing everything possible to ensure that young people and children can study and develop their talents in comfortable conditions. We strive to open social facilities within walking distance in all cities and districts to improve the quality of life in the region," noted Veniamin Kondratyev.

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Financial news: From April 1, 2026, the rules for calculating a borrower's debt burden will be clarified.

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Source: Central Bank of Russia

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Banks and microfinance organizations are gradually are crossing over more accurate methods of assessing the borrower's income to calculate his debt burden. In particular, in accordance with Bank of Russia Instruction No. 7286-U Starting April 1, bank statements can only be used to confirm wages, pensions, social benefits, and income from property rentals. Other account receipts will need to be supported by additional documents. For example, a borrower can provide a certificate of income from deposits or securities.

Furthermore, for salary clients, banks were able to use internal models approved by the Bank of Russia to evaluate sources of income other than salary. Banks did this, in particular, based on the individual's expenses. Starting April 1, the Bank of Russia will no longer accept such models for review. Models approved prior to this date will be available for use by banks for one year from the date of their approval. After this date, creditors will need to obtain supporting documents from salary clients to take into account other sources of income.

At the same time, banks and microfinance organizations will still be able to use a wide range of income documents obtained from government information systems or directly from the borrower, such as a personal income tax certificate or a salary account statement.

Starting April 1, it will no longer be possible to use self-issued documents to assess the income of individual entrepreneurs. However, individual entrepreneurs retain the right to issue salary certificates to their employees, and they will be able to confirm their own income using tax returns and income and expense records.

The simplified approach, in which borrowers declare their income on the bank's application without providing supporting documents, will also remain in place. However, this approach will be gradually curtailed. While lenders can currently factor in declared income up to the regional average per capita income according to Rosstat when calculating their debt burden, starting July 1, 2026, banks will be required to apply an additional 10% discount. Starting July 1, 2027, the simplified approach is planned to be completely abandoned, with only borrowers' officially confirmed incomes being considered.

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Financial news: In February, the corporate portfolio grew moderately, while mortgage lending slowed as expected.

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Bank lending to companies (including bonds) increased by 0.6% in February (-0.4% in January). Significant budget payments restrained lending dynamics, as government contract executors had less need for financing.

The growth of household mortgage debt slowed in February to 0.2% (0.9% in January), mainly due to a significant reduction in loans issued under the Family Mortgage program after its terms were changed on February 1, 2026.

The consumer loan portfolio decreased by 0.7% (0.6% in January), primarily in the cash loan segment. Credit card use was also less active than in the previous month, when people had significant spending during the New Year holidays.

Household deposits in banks increased by 1.9% in February, following a seasonal decline in January (-1.4%). Legal entity deposits also increased by 2.7% (0.2% in January), but this increase is primarily due to companies paying a portion of their February taxes in early March.

In February, the sector earned 392 billion rubles, which is comparable to January's profit.

For more details, read the information and analytical material "On the development of the banking sector of the Russian Federation in February 2026".

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Financial news: Admission of an insurance organization to the financial market in the form of a joint-stock company (JSC).

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1. Study the necessary federal laws and regulations.

2. Check the organization's compliance with the requirements for authorized capital.

To do this, follow these guidelines: By Bank of Russia Instruction No. 6171-U dated June 28, 2022 "On establishing a list of documents confirming compliance with the requirements for the authorized capital of an insurance organization, a list of documents confirming the sources of origin of property contributed by founders (shareholders, participants) of an applicant for a license to carry out insurance and (or) reinsurance to the authorized capital, and requirements for such information and documents."

Minimum amount of authorized capital Types of insurance activities
300,000,000 rubles Voluntary personal insurance, with the exception of voluntary life insurance and/or voluntary property insurance and/or other types of insurance provided for by federal laws on specific types of compulsory insurance.
450,000,000 rubles Voluntary life insurance or voluntary life insurance and voluntary personal insurance, excluding voluntary life insurance.
600,000,000 rubles Reinsurance, as well as insurance in combination with reinsurance.
120,000,000 rubles For insurance companies providing exclusively compulsory medical insurance.

3. Check officials for compliance with legal requirements.

The list of persons, as well as qualification and other requirements for these persons are provided for in Article 32.1 Law No. 4015-1.

To perform the check, we recommend using:

4. Select a unique name and include it in the legal entity's charter and the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

To check the names already in use, we recommend using unified state register of insurance entities. It is also necessary to comply with the naming requirements specified in Article 4.1. Law No. 4015-1.

The name must contain The organizational and legal form of the insurance entity.
The type of activity of the subject of the insurance business using the words “insurance”, “reinsurance”, and derivatives of these words.
A designation that individualizes the subject of insurance business.
An indication that the joint-stock company is public (for public joint-stock companies).

In the event that the insurance supervisory authority refuses to issue a license or returns an application for a license, a legal entity whose name contains the words “insurance,” “reinsurance,” or their derivatives is required to exclude them from its name and make appropriate changes to its charter or resubmit the documents within 90 working days from the date of the relevant decision.

5. Pay the state fee for performing legally significant actions.

The state duty amount is 7,500 rubles.Details for payment of state duty

In order to minimize errors when entering information, we recommend using Payment order designer.

6. Activate personal account of an information exchange participant and send a set of documents to the Bank of Russia.

7. Obtain a license to carry out insurance and reinsurance.

When making a decision on issuing a license, information about the subject of the insurance business is entered intoUnified State Register of Insurance EntitiesThe license is valid from the day following the day the Bank of Russia makes a decision to issue it.

The license for insurance and reinsurance in the form of an extract is sent through the personal account.

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Financial news: Changes to the trading schedule on the T2 Derivatives Market test site.

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Dear users,

We inform you that, effective March 26, 2026, changes will be made to the schedule for the T2 Derivatives Market test site. The current version of the schedule is published on the Moscow Exchange website at https://www.moex.com/s438

Schedule polygon T 2:

Opening auction: 06:40:00 – 06:59:45 Morning trading session: 07:00:00 – 11:00:00 Main session: 11:00:00 – 12:30:00 Contract expiration 11:30:00 Evening session 12:30:00 – 14:00:00 Settlement price determination 12:30:00 Contract expiration 12:30:00 Evening settlement session 13:00:00 Mark-to-market clearing session 14:00:00 End of trading 14:00:00

Please note that the T2 Urgent Market test site will be decommissioned approximately by mid-April 2026. The exact date will be published later.

Contact information for media: 7 (495) 363-3232PR@moex.com

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Musical Life: Praetorius "Terpsichore".

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Instrumental music from the 16th and 17th centuries rarely finds itself in the spotlight among performers and listeners. Recordings of such music are even rarer. This makes Traditerra all the more intriguing—a collective bringing together professional performers of Renaissance and Baroque music: Vladimir Molodtsov and Ksenia Kudryavtseva (wind instruments), Dmitry Cherevko (plucked string instruments), Yuri Posypanov (percussion), and multi-instrumentalist Ekaterina Lozbeneva.

Michael Praetorius made history primarily for his treatise, Syntagma Musicum. His music is known only to a few specialists. Yet, in that same treatise, he listed his works on 28 pages! Of this entire list, only a few sacred works and a collection of French dances, Terpsichore, have survived.

Here, it's important to note an important point: Praetorius didn't compose, but rather copied and arranged the melodies of dances in vogue at the time, as transmitted to him by French dance masters. One cannot help but recall the phrase persistently attributed to Glinka: "The people create music, and we, composers, merely arrange it!" In Praetorius's case, this aphorism should be taken in its most literal sense. The lion's share of this collection consists of courantes—an absolute hit of the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. There are far fewer voltes, ballets, galliards, and branles—genres little known today.

Terpsichore's dances are often included in the repertoire of ensembles performing early music, including the renowned The Early Music Consort of London and the New London Consort. Interestingly, different groups have clear favorites: foreign ensembles often choose ballets and voltes from the wealth of Terpsichore's music, while the Traditerra album primarily features branles and courantes. And this, perhaps, is its greatest interest: listeners are introduced to virtually every variety of branle, from the simple to the royal. Another distinctive feature of the Traditerra ensemble is its use of combinatorial play—composing one dance from several, freely alternating knees. All of this was typical of the living performance tradition of the time. The dances recorded by Praetorius do not pretend to be complete works. They can and should be varied and combined.

In pursuit of an authentic sound, Traditerra turns to instruments described by Praetorius himself: hummelchen, recorder, guitar, cittern, landsknechttrommel, and panderet. The ensemble always manages to find a balance in their combinations, achieved through two key techniques: the gradual introduction of timbres and their variation. The density of the sound changes from piece to piece, featuring both solo and group dances. Among them, the "Simple Branle," with its naive, pastoral undertones, and the "Double Branle," with its somewhat out-of-place, meditative, oriental introduction, sound like quiet intermezzos. Some of the dances have been given a rounded three-part structure by Traditerra, not so characteristic of early music but familiar to the modern ear. Ultimately, the album's form builds into a suite with perfectly calibrated dynamics and drama.

The colorful world of folk music recreated by Traditerra resonates with the paintings of the Little Dutchmen—the numerous scenes of revelry and feasting. The dances of "Terpsichore" would fit in well with our times. I believe the album will certainly find admirers among Dungeons & Dragons fans—connoisseurs of the so-called "medieval" atmosphere. Listening to these simple melodies, you're unlikely to conjure up the elegant image of one of the denizens of Parnassus, to whom the title of Praetorius's collection refers. But they serve as excellent proof of the well-known line by the "last troubadour," Guillaume de Machaut: "The Science of Music is how to sing, dance, and be merry."

Ivan Semkin, "Musical Life," March 22, 2026

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Financial news: In almost all regions of Russia, price growth slowed in February.

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Source: Central Bank of Russia

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In February, prices in 80 out of 85 regions increased less than in January.

The prices of fruits and vegetables increased more slowly, butter and fats continued to fall in price, and prices for milk and dairy products, cheese, tea and coffee, pasta and cereals decreased.

Non-food prices increased moderately on average. However, for a wide range of goods, prices in many regions even decreased or increased less sharply than a month ago. This affected, in particular, electrical goods and household appliances, communications equipment, tools and equipment, clothing and underwear, knitwear, and footwear. Meanwhile, in the services sector, international travel costs increased significantly, and prices for household and medical services continued to rise.

Annual inflation has declined in 65 out of 85 regions. The Bank of Russia will continue to pursue policies aimed at returning inflation to a stable and low level.

For more information on inflation in each region, please seeinformation and analytical materials.

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Financial news: 03/25/2026, 16:46 (Moscow time) the values of the upper limit of the price corridor and the range of market risk assessment for the security RU000A10B0T2 (RZhD 1P-39R) were changed.

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March 25, 2026

16:46

In accordance with the Methodology for determining the risk parameters of the stock market and deposit market of PJSC Moscow Exchange by the National Credit Center (JSC) on March 25, 2026, 16:46 (Moscow time), the values of the upper limit of the price corridor (up to 135.77) and the range of market risk assessment (up to 1473.27 rubles, equivalent to a rate of 21.25%) of the security RU000A10B0T2 (RZhD 1P-39R) were changed.

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Musical life: Melodiya releases Anna German's recordings on vinyl.

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To mark Anna German's 90th birthday, Firma Melodiya is releasing a vinyl reissue of selected recordings by the singer.

Anna German's first encounter with Soviet audiences took place in 1965, when Melodiya released her first record, featuring songs in Polish and Italian. By the 1970s, she was performing regularly in our country: her voice could be heard on countless radio stations across the Soviet Union, and her records sold in huge numbers.

…Not sweet, no, not sugary-honey,The tall Warsaw Madonna sang on stage honestly and brightly,Giving hope and warmth.

This is how the poet and songwriter Mikhail Plyatskovsky wrote about her. Millions of Soviet people loved and regarded this singer of German-Dutch descent, born in Central Asia and by fate ending up in Poland, as one of their own, much closer and dearer than some of their compatriots. And it wasn't just that she sang without an accent. The life of Anna German, possessor of a remarkably gentle and soft voice, was full of tragic trials: the execution of her father, wandering through the cities of the USSR during the hungry war years, and a terrible car accident in Italy at the very beginning of her international career, which forced her to forget about singing and the stage for three years. Fate did not grant her much time for creativity, but these were years of truly national love.

The album, produced at Melodiya's own production facility, features songs recorded by Anna German between 1965 and 1979. It juxtaposes early compositions like "City of Lovers" (by Vadim Gamaliya and Viktor Orlov), "Don't Hurry" (by Arno Babajanyan and Yevgeny Yevtushenko), and later ones like "Echo of Love" (by Yevgeny Ptichkin and Robert Rozhdestvensky), and "Spring" (by Valeria Milyaeva). And, of course, "Hope" (by Alexandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov)—a song-mantra that has become a symbol of resilience in the face of adversity.

Today, Anna German's voice, filling souls with hope, love, and the light of sincere feelings, is needed by people more than ever.

The record was pressed in 2026. The matrices were made from original analog tapes. The sound engineer for the remastering and restoration was Maxim Pilipov. The liner notes were written by Denis Boyarinov. The artist was Vasily Karmazin.

Musical Life, March 24, 2026

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