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  • MIL-OSI Russia: How teenagers learn to think creatively in the “Cascade digital” workshops at VDNKh

    Translation. Region: Russian Federal

    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    Turning a drawing into music, creating an installation for a capital museum, and creating an illustrated textbook are the projects teenagers work on in their workshops “Cascade digital” at VDNKh. This is a creative space where you can bring your boldest and most original ideas to life and express yourself in different ways. Children aged 13 to 18 discover their inner world, learn to think outside the box, and see many possible solutions for each task. These skills will come in handy in any profession, and even in life.

    mos.ru correspondents visited the workshops and learned how the classes are conducted, what an artistic gesture is, and how sleep inspires creativity.

    Embodiment of ideas

    Teenage workshops “Cascade digital” are located in pavilion no. 49 at VDNKh. Previously, this building, built in 1954, was called “Sheep Breeding-2” and was part of a complex of buildings related to livestock farming. And in 2022, the workshops received it for permanent use from the Moscow Government with the support of Museum of Moscow.

    “Our workshops appeared in 2018. Before that, my colleague Sasha Kheifets and I worked in museums and often thought: why do many modern teenagers get bored walking around exhibitions? We studied the results of sociological research and realized: at this age, a person is looking for himself, wants to create something of his own, it is difficult for him to passively observe. In addition, the process of growing up is underway, which is not easy for everyone. It is important to be heard, to find like-minded people. This is how the idea came about to create a space for contemporary art, where you can open up, embody any thoughts in creativity, communicate with peers. This initiative was supported by several cultural institutions at once – the Museum of Moscow, the Triumph Gallery, the creative industries center Fabrika. And in 2023, with the support of the Museum of Moscow, we moved to pavilion No. 49 at VDNKh, which became a permanent coworking space for teenagers,” says Lidiya Lobanova, head of the Cascade Digital teenage workshops.

    The pavilion is white as a canvas, except for the burgundy frames around the windows, and this is symbolic: draw whatever you want. And indeed, inside it is decorated according to the project of the guys who study in the workshops “Cascade digital”: multi-colored walls, steps, ceilings, hammocks. In the language of modern art, this is one big installation.

    “Before moving to VDNKh, we opened a two-week program, which was led by architect Natalia Zaychenko. Participants were asked to come up with a space in which they would feel comfortable and good,” explains Lidiya Lobanova.

    Artbook and melodic emotions

    The workshop trains about 100 children for free in 11 areas. Registration is available at website. In October, there is an open day, or fair as it is called here, and everyone can choose their profile, within the framework of which they will attend two-hour classes once a week. The authors of the project believe that during the year it is better for teenagers to focus on one thing: this way creative thinking develops more effectively. Among the most popular workshops are “The Place Where I Am” (understanding space, home), “Modern Theater”, “Documentary Writing Laboratory” (the basics of journalism).

    We find ourselves in a workshop called “Museum and City.” Along the wall of the classroom are sheets of paper with lecture notes and students’ ideas. To the uninitiated, they may seem too unusual. For example: “I feel now that somewhere, in the sedge thickets or among the Himalayan cliffs, there is an amazing ability to address people directly.” This is how teenagers express their thoughts.

    “The Museum and the City workshop is about how to fit modern exhibitions into the urban environment, expressing the attitude to the capital in them. In the future, my graduates will be able to implement their own museum projects. But before moving on to this stage, you need to learn to record any thoughts, not to deny them, even if at first glance they are strange. Therefore, we write everything down and hang it on the wall. At the end of May – beginning of June, we will present an exhibition of finished projects in our space, it will be a performance or installation,” explains the curator of the Museum and the City workshop Nikita Spiridonov.

    The guys gather, each with a cup of tea and cookies: it is important for a creative person to experience pleasure – visual and gustatory. The curator reminds them of the material covered over the year. Performance and installation have much in common, but the first type of contemporary art is dynamic and interactive (for example, the artist invites viewers to draw something on prepared sheets), while the second is static. Moreover, it is not at all necessary to create from scratch – even a ready-made object can become a masterpiece.

    In the next room, a workshop of artistic gestures is starting, led by Irina Litvinova and Dunya Frankstein. “We are professional artists and could teach teenagers academic painting. But we have a different goal – to show that absolutely everything can be turned into an artistic gesture,” says Irina Litvinova.

    Thus, a graduate of the artistic gesture workshop Taisiya Sedova created an art book – a textbook about how the world works, made in the style of naive art. She sewed the pages and backing herself, wrote the texts by hand and illustrated them.

    “Right now, high school students are busy, preparing to pass the Unified State Exam, enter universities, and additionally attend pre-professional classes. And Taisiya decided to unload them by depicting the world through the eyes of a child. She emphasized that everything around us can be not only complex, but also simple. By developing such projects, children gain self-confidence, independence, develop their imagination, and learn to refract the familiar into the meaningful,” says Dunya Frankstein.

    The programs of the “Cascade digital” workshops are designed for a year, but some guys come back again, already in a different direction, and some stay here to work, like, for example, Ivan Sdvizhnikov, curator of the “Oscillations Laboratory” workshop. The young man works with his students on sound design and visual-sound installations and performances. He himself, while studying, developed several projects.

    “In my classes, the kids also learn to translate pictures into sounds. First, they draw in a computer program, then the machine transforms the pixels into notes, and an abstract melody is obtained. Last year, my students created a project: they offered those who wanted to take a test on their emotional state on a tablet, and the speakers played each emotion,” says Ivan Sdvizhnikov.

    Horses and Dreams

    At the end of the academic year, participants in each workshop prepare a final project, which becomes an exhibit at the exhibition in Pavilion No. 49. However, not only graduates of the “Digital Cascade” can present their works: there is a program to support residents – beginning representatives of creative professions. To join it, you need to submit an application on the workshops’ website and send a presentation.

    Thus, from March 27 to April 13, 2025, the exhibition “Dream in Hand” was held, dedicated to the role of the unconscious in creativity. Artist Ksenia Nagornaya brought here the installation “Fall” – this is a booth like those where they take instant photos, on its wall are black and white pictures of a person in fetters, sitting on a chair, and inside on the screen, strokes, candles, threads flicker to disturbing music. And Margo Churaeva prepared a series of drawings called “My Zoo” – they depict horses, made in different styles.

    “These works are about self-knowledge through creativity. Teenagers are inspired by studying the paintings of their older friends or their peers, they also want to create something similar and, probably, get away from some prejudices, fears, doubts, and believe that everything will work out,” explains exhibition curator Asya Maksimova.

    Not all graduates of the “Cascade digital” workshops see art as their calling. Many go into the field of information technology, economics, investment management and other areas. “It is important that in our creative space they find friends with similar interests, see their own potential, understand that they can do a lot and know how to do it, learn to defend their position. This will come in handy in life,” Lidiya Lobanova sums up.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Environmentalists warn city residents against planting box elder maple in their summer cottages

    Translation. Region: Russian Federal

    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    In anticipation of the summer season, specialists Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection reminds that box elder is an invasive (alien) tree species. It actively spreads and grows quickly.

    Box elder is a dominant tree species that poses a threat to biodiversity by disrupting the ecological balance. This tree was brought from North America in the 17th century. A few decades ago, it was used for landscaping Moscow. However, over time, it became clear that box elder is displacing local tree species such as birch, alder and other plants that cannot fully develop in conditions of insufficient light. Only a few survive in its shade. Thus, the balance of the ecosystem is disrupted and biological diversity is reduced.

    Moreover, the fast-growing plant poses a threat to human life and property. The fact is that due to its shallow root system, it is unstable in soft and wet soil. It is the box elder that most often falls during heavy rains, hurricanes and other adverse weather conditions.

    Environmentalists advise avoiding buying box elder seedlings for summer cottages. Although the box elder has a large crown that provides shelter from the heat, you should choose seedlings that are compatible with the local flora and less aggressive in development. The planting material market offers a huge selection of beautiful plants for garden plots that can be both beautiful and useful.

    To create a comfortable recreation area or a hedge on a summer cottage or house plot, specialists from the capital’s Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection recommend considering alternative options, such as ginnal and Norway maple, hawthorn, ornamental apple trees, thuja and other trees, and from shrubs – elderberry, cotoneaster, as well as dogwood and mock orange.

    In addition, it is advisable to promptly remove self-seeding and shoots of box elder in the first year of their appearance. This will avoid dense plantings with an asymmetrical crown in the future, which, together with the superficial root system, reduces the stability of the tree.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Applications are now being accepted for two internships in the Moscow Government

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    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    Applications are now being accepted for two internships in the Moscow Government for young professionals. Graduates and students of specialized educational institutions are invited to join the program.

    The internship will last six months. Students will be able to combine it with their studies, because they themselves choose a convenient schedule – full-time or part-time. Official employment and salary are also provided.

    Moscow transport

    Graduating students will be able to become part of a large Moscow transport team and work on projects in one of seven areas: Information Technologies, Transport Environment, Transport Management, HR City, Media City, Legal Space, and Urban Economics and Finance.

    80 young specialists have already joined the first internship stream in Moscow transport. Since February, they have been gaining unique experience and helping to develop the most significant city projects, including driverless trams, a high-speed railway, the Big Circle Line of the metro, Moscow Parking, and river transport.

    The new stream, which will begin on August 1, promises to be no less informative. Beginning specialists will be able to learn all the intricacies of working in one of the best transport systems in the world and apply their knowledge, skills and talents to solve difficult but interesting problems.

    During the internship, each participant in the program will be supported by an experienced mentor who will help them adapt to the new place and teach them how to effectively handle all assignments.

    Applicants can apply for an internship on the Moscow Government career portalThen they will have to take a test, record a video business card and meet with the manager.

    Veterinary Internship

    Students and graduates of specialized colleges and universities will be able to gain their first experience in one of the 26 clinics of the State Budgetary Institution “Moscow Veterinary Association”. The organization is part of the State Veterinary Service of the capital and ensures the protection of citizens from the spread of diseases common to humans and animals, as well as the veterinary safety of food products.

    Beginning specialists will be able to choose one of four areas: medical and preventive, surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic. Under the guidance of experienced doctors, young people will learn how to conduct outpatient appointments, collect anamnesis, give injections, make a diagnosis and develop a treatment plan. In addition, interns will learn how to work with documents and electronic databases in the field of veterinary medicine. The most goal-oriented and responsible guys can become permanent employees of state veterinary clinics.

    Thus, Olga Kozyreva, a graduate of the veterinary faculty of the International Veterinary Academy named after K.I. Skryabin, was hired as an outpatient doctor after just one month of internship at the Station for the Control of Animal Diseases of the Eastern and South-Eastern Districts.

    “I always dreamed of treating animals and helping them. The decision to come to this internship was connected with the desire to gain practical experience, which is impossible to master only at a desk at the institute. I wanted to immerse myself in the real work of the clinic, learn to make decisions in stressful situations and understand how the process is organized from the inside,” said Olga Kozyreva.

    To take part in a veterinary internship, you need to fill out a questionnaire on the career portal Moscow Government and take several online tests on logic and motivation. The best candidates will advance to the second stage of the competition, during which they will spend a test day in one of the capital’s clinics.

    The Personnel Services Department has been running an internship program in the Moscow Government since 2011. During this time, more than 2.5 thousand young specialists have joined the work on capital projects and helped make our city even more convenient and comfortable to live in.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Like at the city’s leading enterprises: new workshops and laboratories will be created in Moscow colleges

    Translation. Region: Russian Federal

    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    Large-scale modernization of workshops and laboratories continues in the capital’s colleges. They are equipped with the same equipment as modern enterprises in the city. This allows students to master the skills necessary for subsequent employment from their first year, the press service reported. Department of Education and Science of the City of Moscow.

    “Modern conditions for student training are being created together with partner employers. New laboratories and workshops are being opened in colleges, and innovative equipment will be installed in existing ones, like in the capital’s largest enterprises. 650 updated laboratories and workshops were modernized in colleges last year, and by the end of this year their total number will reach almost 1.5 thousand,” the department’s press service noted.

    So, inPolytechnic College named after P.A. Ovchinnikov digital metrology laboratories were updated. They were equipped with high-precision measuring instruments for quality control of products. Two new workshops with an automated surface mounting line and a full set of equipment for working with electronic boards were opened to train specialists in radio electronics.

    IN College of Communications No. 54 named after P.M. Vostrukhin The technical maintenance and repair area for power supply devices began operating. Here, students practice their skills in installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting industrial equipment, transformer substations, distribution devices, and overhead power lines. The college also opened the largest production line for assembling printed circuit boards and an electrical and radio assembly workshop, and modernized the quantum communications laboratory, which now has the latest quantum key encryption equipment.

    IN Moscow College of Business Technologies Six IT laboratories were modernized. They installed 180 high-performance computers with domestic software. With their help, students hone their professional skills in the field of creating mobile and web applications, analyzing network security, providing technical support to users, protecting data, backing up and restoring virtual, physical and cloud environments. The equipment allows working with several programs simultaneously and quickly processing graphics to create complex illustrations and animations.

    In the educational complex of urban development “Capital” opened two modern sites for practical training. In the laboratory of ornamental plant growing, students master the technologies of vertical gardening and plant care, using rare watering systems and special lighting. The soil science workshop was equipped with modern equipment – electronic scales and ion pH meters. Here, students analyze seed material, determine the quality of seeds and select optimal soils for industrial use.

    IN College of Automation and Information Technology No. 20 The electrical engineering and electronics laboratory was modernized. It was equipped with modern measuring instruments, including multimeters and oscilloscopes. Students learn to create and configure digital and analog circuits, gaining practical skills for work in the fields of IT, robotics, industrial automation and electronics.

    A new laboratory for practical training of forensic expert skills has opened in Police College. High-tech digital fingerprint scanners and expert lighting have appeared here. Thanks to the “Virtual Forensic Scientist” system, students can practice their investigative skills using virtual reality glasses.

    Detailed information about the in-demand professions and specialties taught in the capital’s colleges is available in the section “Colleges” on the portal“School. Moscow”, in the telegram channel “Colleges of Moscow” and the community of the same name on the social network “VKontakte».

    Practical classes for students of Moscow colleges are held in modern workshops and laboratories. This contributes to the formation and development of professional skills in students and corresponds to the objectives of the “Professionalism” project of the national project “Youth and Children”.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Two areas in Alekseevsky district will be improved under the integrated territorial development program

    Translation. Region: Russian Federal

    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    Two sites with a total area of 0.44 hectares in the North-Eastern Administrative District will be reorganized under the program of integrated development of territories (IDT). The corresponding draft decision already posted on the Moscow Government website. This was reported by the Minister of the Moscow Government, head of the capital’s Department of City Property Maxim Gaman.

    “The integrated development project for the territories includes two sites in the north-east of the capital with a total area of 0.44 hectares. They will be landscaped and greened, and outdoor sports grounds will be equipped. The new place for walks, recreation and sports will become part of the already established infrastructure of the Alekseevsky District,” said Maxim Gaman.

    The plots are located at the following addresses: Yaroslavskaya Street, Building 12, and Kosmonavtov Street, Building 2a. The Cosmos Hotel and the VDNKh station of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line are located in close proximity to them.

    According to the KRT program, multifunctional city blocks are created, where roads, comfortable housing and all the necessary infrastructure are designed on the site of former industrial zones and inefficiently used areas. Currently, 302 KRT projects with a total area of about 4.2 thousand hectares are at various stages of development and implementation in the capital. The work is being carried out on behalf of Sergei Sobyanin.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: A beach recreation area has been created at Pionersky Pond in Gorky Park

    Translation. Region: Russian Federal

    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    A beach recreation area has been created on the bank of the Pionersky Pond in the Maxim Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure. This season, you can swim and sunbathe here.

    “This summer season, you can swim and sunbathe on Pionersky Pond. Despite its relatively small area, you can swim here, splash around in the water with your children, and sunbathe on comfortable loungers and deck chairs,” said the deputy head of the capital’s Department of Capital Repairs

    Sergey Dunaev.

    Gorky Park is one of the most popular in the capital. It is located in the very center of the city, combining natural areas, historical heritage and modern public spaces. Over time, Muscovites’ ideas about quality recreation have changed, so there was a need to create new infrastructure and expand the existing functionality of the park.

    One of the objects of improvement and rehabilitation was the Pioneer Pond. It appeared in the 19th century during the arrangement of the garden of the bourgeois school, which owned this territory. At that time, the pond was called Small. Actor Mikhail Chekhov fished here and singer Fyodor Shalyapin skated here.

    During the Soviet era, the pond was called Pionersky. In this picturesque place, you could go boating or feed the ducks. However, the pond was unsuitable for swimming. It was decided to change this and create a new beach recreation area literally two steps from the Garden Ring.

    The specialists cleared the bottom of silt and debris in the amount of 3.7 thousand cubic meters, and then arranged a sandy pond bed and a beach area with gentle slopes to the water. They restored more than 620 meters of the coastline. To make swimming not only pleasant but also safe, they equipped a mobile point for complex water purification with a bottom outlet.

    Along the shore, decking was installed. For this purpose, a metal frame with a decking covering of almost 4.6 thousand square meters was mounted on piles. Various chairs, chaise lounges and sun loungers for relaxation and sunbathing were placed on the decking. Benches and urns were also installed around the pond. In total, 356 small architectural forms appeared.

    Four pavilions were erected near the pond, which will house changing rooms, showers, toilets, a beach equipment rental point, administration offices and a cozy café with a terrace.

    In the sunbathing areas, wooden pergolas in pastel green were placed. Their contours resemble the arch of the main entrance with a central part and semicircular wings extending from it – circumferences.

    You can walk around the pond in cool weather, when the swimming season has not yet opened or has already ended. For this purpose, sidewalks made of concrete tiles with an area of 3.4 thousand square meters were made. The space is illuminated by 55 lanterns, made in a modern design, with energy-saving lamps.

    For the safety of vacationers, lifeguard towers were installed, an alert system and 25 CCTV cameras were mounted. The area around the pond was landscaped: almost 6.5 thousand square meters of lawn were laid out, more than 30 linden trees, maples and about 500 bushes were planted.

    About a thousand safety signs will be replaced on Moscow reservoirs

    A playground with a slide, a climbing frame, swings and an obstacle course was set up near the pond. A small recreation area with a pergola, comfortable chairs and tables was placed nearby. Parents will be able to sit there and watch their children play.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Bright victories and engineering achievements: the XI Tournament of young research engineers has ended

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    Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University – On April 18, the final battles of the XI Tournament of Young Research Engineers took place in the auditoriums of the NSU Faculty of Information Technology “Inzhevika”. Intense struggle, bold decisions and real discoveries – participants competed in 13 tasks in 4 sections: “Neurotechnology”, “Programming”, “Electronics”, “Design”.

    Back in October 2024, schoolchildren received difficult tasks, and since then they have been working on solving them in order to brilliantly defend their projects before the jury. This year, about 100 participants and their mentors from 11 educational institutions of Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk region competed for the title of the best young engineers.

    — The tournament consisted of two stages: preparatory (from October to April, when participants solve proposed problems and develop prototypes of devices) and the day of the final battles, when the participants meet offline, — said Boris Solomatin, head of the Inzhevika laboratory.

    The winners of the task battles were the following teams: — Biotechnology Lyceum No. 21, Koltsovo (task “Shock Control”) — Gymnasium No. 12, Novosibirsk (tasks “Labyrinth”, “Hand Music”) — Gymnasium No. 7 “Sibirskaya” (task “Tug of War”) — Lyceum No. 81, Novosibirsk (tasks “Radio Communication”, “Spark Generator”) — Lyceum No. 9, Novosibirsk (tasks “Trainer”, “Long-Worded”) — Novosibirsk Economic Lyceum (task “Color the Magic Picture”) — Technical Lyceum No. 176, Karasuk District (task “Tennis Trainer”) — School No. 9, Iskitim (tasks “Spark Generator”, “Walker”, “Glass Balls”)

    The winners of the Tournament by the number of victories in battles and maximum points for solutions were recognized as the teams: — Section “Neurotechnology”: Gymnasium No. 7 “Sibirskaya”, Novosibirsk — Section “Programming”: Lyceum No. 9, Novosibirsk — Section “Electronics”: Lyceum No. 81, Novosibirsk — Section “Design”: Secondary School No. 9, Iskitim

    The final protocol of the XI TYUI is available by link 

    — Winners of the Tournament of Young Research Engineers receive an additional 5 points in the subject of “computer science” when entering the training areas of the Physics, Mechanics and Mathematics Faculties, the Faculty of Information Technology, and the Institute of Intelligent Robotics, — shared Boris Solomatin.

    The development of original tasks, methodological support throughout the year and judging at the final fights were provided by the joint work of specialists from the Faculty of Information Technology, the Physics Faculty of NSU, Komsib LLC, the CMIT KYUT and Ledas LLC.

    Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all participants! See you in the new season!

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Transcript of April 2025 Fiscal Monitor Press Briefing

    Source: IMF – News in Russian

    April 23, 2025

    Speakers:

    Vitor Gaspar, Director, Fiscal Affairs Department
    Era Dabla‑Norris, Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department
    Davide Furceri, Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department

    Moderator: Tatiana Mossot, Moderator, Senior Communications Officer

    The Moderator: Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening for our viewers around the world. I am Tatiana Mossot with the IMF Communications Department, and I will be your host for today’s press briefing on the Spring Meetings 2025 Fiscal Monitor named “Fiscal Policy Under Uncertainty.” I am pleased to introduce the Director of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, Vitor Gaspar. He is joined by Era Dabla‑Norris, Deputy Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, and Davide Furceri, Division Chief of the Fiscal Affairs Department. Good morning, Vitor, Era, and Davide.

    Before taking your questions, let me start our briefing by turning to Vitor for his opening remarks. Vitor, the floor is yours.

    Mr. Vitor Gaspar: Good morning. Many thanks for your kind introduction. Thank you all for your interest in the Fiscal Monitor, covering fiscal policies around the world. Since the last Fiscal Monitor in October 2024, global economic prospects have significantly deteriorated and risks to the economic outlook are elevated and tilted to the downside. Uncertainty is very high, and confidence has been weakening. Financial markets have partially corrected, and financing conditions have tightened.

    Global public debt is very high and rising. According to the WEO reference projection in 2025, it will rise above 95 percent of GDP. It is higher and growing faster than pre‑pandemic. It will be approaching 100 percent of GDP by the end of the decade, surpassing the pandemic peak, but global numbers hide a wide diversity across countries. In the figure, every bubble represents a country. The larger the bubble, the larger the country’s GDP. The figure shows debt levels on the vertical axis and debt growth on the horizontal axis compared to pre‑pandemic. The higher the bubble in the figure, the more debt has increased compared to 2019.

    119 countries are above the horizontal axis. For these countries, public debt is higher than pre‑pandemic. The further to the right in the figure, the faster debt grows compared to pre‑pandemic trends. Bubbles as you can see are all over the chart. That illustrates a wide diversity across countries. Therefore, fiscal policies must vary in line with country‑specific factors and circumstances, but in the face of turbulent and threatening times ahead, resilience is needed everywhere. Countries should redouble efforts to keep their own fiscal house in order.

    Let us zoom in on the top, the right top quadrant. Countries in the quadrant have public debt higher and rising faster. This group includes 59 countries. That is about one third of the 175 countries in the chart. But their economies represent 80 percent of world GDP. Their economic weight makes them the main drivers of global trends. You can see many large bubbles in this quadrant. No surprise. Most large economies, including the largest, are there.

    Now, let us focus on the remaining two thirds of countries in the world. There are 116 countries in the group that represent about 20 percent of world GDP. In the chart that you are looking at, the blue line represents all countries except for the 59 that I have mentioned before. The two lines in the chart representing the world and representing the remaining 116 countries evolve similarly up to the year of the pandemic. After 2020, as you can see, the trends diverge. The two lines actually cross in 2023. For these 116 countries, aggregate public debt is now well below pandemic levels, but going forward, it is very flat, indicating a stabilization of public debt at high levels. But the distinctive feature of the current conjuncture is uncertainty. One must go beyond referenced projections.

    In the words of the Managing Director, trade policy uncertainty is off the charts. Upside risk to public debt projections dominates the outlook. The October 2024 Fiscal Monitor introduced a novel tool to quantify the distribution of debt risks around the referenced projection. We call it public debt at risk. According to this tool, global public debt three years ahead would come at 117 percent of GDP in a severe adverse scenario.

    Recent developments with sharpening, increasing, and persistent uncertainty, tightening financing conditions push public debt at risk even higher. In a fast-changing and perilous world, Ministers of Finance must act urgently and decisively. They face stark tradeoffs and painful choices. Policymakers should invest their political capital in building confidence and trust. That starts with keeping their own houses in order. That is especially important in a situation that tested the resilience of individual economies, not to mention the entire system. Putting the house in order involves three policy priorities.

    First, fiscal policy should be part of overall stability‑oriented macroeconomic policies. Second, fiscal policy should in most countries aim at reducing public debt and rebuilding buffers to create space to respond to spending pressures and other economic shocks through a credible medium‑term framework. Third, fiscal policy should, together with other threshold policies, aim at improving potential growth, thereby easing policy tradeoffs. In these times of high uncertainty, fiscal policy must be an anchor for confidence and stability that can contribute to a competitive economy, delivering growth and prosperity for all.

    Ministers of Finance must build trust, tax fairly, spend wisely and take the long view. My colleagues and I are ready to answer any questions that you may have.

    The Moderator: Thank you, Vitor. We will now open the floor to your questions, but before we do that, a couple of ground rules, please. If you want to ask a question, please raise your hand first, wait until I call you and a colleague will give you the microphone. When you ask your questions, please identify yourself and the network you are working for. And for colleagues online, please ask your questions on Webex, and we will come to you.

    QUESTION: According to the report, tariffs and trade tensions have increased uncertainty and risks to economic growth. How can affected countries manage the negative impact on public confidence and growth, especially considering the high level of public debt and financial challenges they are already facing?

    Mr. Vitor Gaspar: Thank you very much for your question. That allows me to summarize again the top‑level message from the Fiscal Monitor. Global public debt, as you said, is high, rising, and we always emphasize it is also risky. It rose above $100 trillion in 2024, and that was a headline six months ago. In the IMF referenced projections, that will continue rising, approaching 100 percent of GDP by the end of the decade.

    But what we emphasize most at this point in time is the unusually elevated degree of uncertainty. To repeat the quote from the Managing Director, “Trade policy uncertainty is literally off the charts.” There is, therefore, a sense of urgency in policymaking. According to our public‑debt‑at‑risk tool, our estimates for three years ahead point to debt at risk at 117 percent of GDP for the world, which is a level that has not been seen in many decades.

    But even that extreme adverse scenario may be under‑estimating tail risks because trade and geoeconomic uncertainty has escalated, financing conditions tightened, financial market volatility is visible from headlines, and spending pressures have intensified further. So, in those conditions, the point about countries keeping their own houses in order is crucial, and that is instrumental to deliver resilience and sustained growth from a long‑term perspective.

    The Moderator: Thank you, Vitor. As you may have seen, there are two chapters, the second one is on emerging markets. And I think Era and Davide; we have some questions for you too.

    QUESTION: Given the current global economic slow‑down, what are the specific challenges and impacts faced by emerging and developing countries and what policy measures can be implemented to mitigate these effects?

    Ms. Era Dabla‑Norris: Let me start with what we see as some of the key sources of uncertainty that emerging market and developing economies are facing. Vitor had laid out some of the broader issues but let me highlight three. So, in addition to the fact that we see growth prospects being marked down across the board, and we see that emerging markets and developing economies could be impacted through trade, financial and commodity channels, let me highlight three specific risks. The first is escalating uncertainty about tariffs and associated policies. In the Fiscal Monitor, we find that geoeconomic uncertainty, in particular, an escalation of geoeconomic uncertainty actually can push up debt over the medium term by about 4.5 percentage points. For emerging market economies in particular, it could be as high as 6 percent of GDP.

    Why is this the case? Because essentially, with higher geoeconomic uncertainty, that can dampen growth prospects, it lowers revenues because consumption production tends to fall. It also leads to higher spending, so as a result, fiscal positions deteriorate and debt increases. That is one important source of risks.

    A second source of risks is more volatile financial conditions. In the U.S., for instance, or other systemically important economies can spillover into emerging market and developing economies. And it can do so by raising sovereign borrowing costs. So, our analysis in the Fiscal Monitor shows that at 100 basis point increase in U.S. nominal Treasury yields translates into 100 basis point increase in emerging market economies’ borrowing costs. And this lasts for several months.

    A third source of risk is that we have seen that debt levels are high in many emerging markets and developing economies, so interest expenses are commensurately very high, and they are eating up a larger share of the budget. So, our analysis shows that 1 percentage point of GDP increase in interest expenses results in crowding out of other essential items within the budget, such as social spending and infrastructure investment. So, as Vitor pointed out, in this environment, it is very, very important for countries to put their own fiscal house in order.

    What does that mean? Country specifics will vary, but what it really means is that countries need to think about putting in place a gradual fiscal adjustment within a credible medium‑term fiscal framework. For EMDEs, where tax revenues are low, they can mobilize additional revenues by expanding the tax base. They can eliminate energy subsidies and other types of subsidies that can be distortionary. They can find ways to reprioritize spending. And most importantly, they can think about the policies that are needed to boost growth because that really can help ease these fiscal tradeoffs.

    QUESTION: My question is about energy subsidies and perhaps pension reforms, which are not related to emerging markets but pretty much the same problem. It is when the margin exists in many countries when you want to have some fiscal space. But in those many countries you have already social tensions that are quite high, so what are the possibilities for countries to make those reforms that are highly unpopular most of the time if they want to have this margin created?

    Ms. Dabla‑Norris: Let me talk about energy subsidies and my colleague Davide can speak a little bit about pension reforms. As you correctly pointed out, countries need to reduce debt. They need to create fiscal space. And energy subsidies and pension reforms can be important reforms that countries can undertake to generate fiscal savings. So, when we look at energy subsidy reforms in particular, energy, they account for about 1.5 percent of GDP on average in emerging markets and developing economies. And reforming them can have tremendous benefits for the economy. So let me enumerate some of them.

    First, it increases energy efficiency in the economy. Secondly, it generates fiscal savings that can then be used to increase other types of social spending and needed priority infrastructure investments. And finally, many of these subsidies tend to be highly regressive, so they do not necessarily benefit the poorest segment or the most vulnerable segments of society.

    In our Fiscal Monitor Chapter 2, what we did is we developed a novel real‑time measure of public sentiment. This is the sentiment of households, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders to gauge how governments can leverage strategies in order to make these kinds of reforms acceptable. There are a number of things that we found that are specific to energy subsidy reforms that I would like to talk about.

    The first is that we found that reforms that are—or changes that take place gradually have greater success of being implemented. To give you an example, Colombia very recently had an energy subsidy reform. They implemented it over a two‑year period, that was preannounced, so that people had time to adjust.

    A second strategy that we found successful—to be successful in shaping the acceptability of these reforms is that there was timely implementation of accompanying measures. And countries that put in place accompanying measures to really protect and support the most vulnerable, countries that put in place measures up‑front and invested in social programs and social infrastructure that was very visible to the public had a greater chance of succeeding.

    We also found that policies that were well‑communicated, that built consensus, that explained the tradeoffs to people had a much higher success of being accepted by the general public. For example, Morocco made it very clear that there was going to be a comprehensive communication strategy at the very beginning, at the very outset, and the message that was conveyed was that subsidies were a poor instrument for providing social support. A host of these strategies can be used by countries to implement these politically challenging reforms.

    Mr. Davide Furceri: The chapter also deals with pension reforms. We know that in many countries, spending on pensions is quite high. Just to give you a couple of numbers, in the case of advanced economies, it is 8 percent of GDP; in emerging market, about four. This spending is projected to increase due to increasing life expectancy and retirement. Reforming the pension system is important to generate fiscal savings but also to sustain labor‑force participation, as well as employment.

    Some of the key messages that we find in the chapter on reforms touch upon some of the issues that Era mentioned, gradual and timly of the reform. But for pension, what we find is that strategic communication and stakeholder engagement has been especially important. Indeed, there are cases of countries that have succeeded in implementing significant reform, for example, presenting an increasing retirement age as part of the reform that was trying to sustain adequate benefit levels. Or in some cases they were creating bipartisan commissions where they were engaging with stakeholders to hear their concerns and think about implementing the reform in the best way.

    An important issue when we think about pension reform is strengthening financial literacy and making sure that various stakeholders will talk about the potential benefits and cost of various pension schemes. Thank you.

    The Moderator: Very last one before we move to the U.S. and the other countries and regional and then we will move to other topics.

    QUESTION: I still want to focus on Chapter 2 because we are talking about developing economies and public sentiment. Era, when you were talking, you talked about subsidies being discretionary, not making the budgets, you know, complete and all of that, but we also know for many developing countries and even frontier economies, they are under pressure to cut back energy subsidies to ease debt burdens, yet these same subsidies often help keep the lights on for millions of families, low‑income families and businesses. You talked about growth earlier on. So, without these low‑income businesses, how would you also get growth? How does the IMF suggest governments manage this delicate balance and enable these countries to rationalize subsidies while safeguarding energy subsidies and cushioning the most vulnerable without leaving them behind because we are torn between having to think that subsidies are really 100 percent bad, so I really wanted to comment on that.

    Then on Nigeria, energy subsidy reforms that were seen have sparked protests and public frustrations, reflecting a top balance between fiscal responsibility and social equity. How do you think that Nigeria can navigate this difficult path and what specific measures can the IMF suggest ensuring that these reforms are fair, inclusive and accepted by the public. Thank you.

    Ms. Era Dabla‑Norris: Let me talk in more detail about subsidies. Thank you for your question. These are challenging reforms to undertake. Why? Because they impact people’s, small firms’ pocketbooks immediately. An increase in energy prices as the government is moving towards cost recovery, pricing impacts pocketbooks immediately. This is a very tangible impact. Whereas the benefits that I spoke of, which are energy efficiency, the ability to reallocate fiscal savings take time to materialize. They are much more diffuse. Everyone benefits from those, but the pocket impact is felt immediately. This is why it is important as we note in our chapter, this is why it is important to have—for governments to think about a comprehensive strategy on how to implement these reforms. When you look at public sentiment across different sort of steps of these reforms, what we find that is really important is that countries that put in place compensatory mechanisms — whether this is cash transfers or more targeted transfers — really for those people who need it most have an easier time in carrying out these types of reforms. So in environments where the public does not trust the government, where there is weak accountability, doing these things up‑front in a very visible way, increasing support for social programs makes it very tangible to the public that the government is going to be doing this, and it is going to be accountable, if you will, for the fiscal savings that will be generated.

    QUESTION: Good morning. As risks for the fiscal outlook have intensified and debt levels may rise even further, as stated in the Fiscal Monitor, how worried are you about any sort of global debt crisis or regional crises that can appear, considering slower growth and new spending pressures on countries?

    Mr. Vitor Gaspar: As you heard yesterday, recession and crisis more than an individual nature are not in our reference projections, although, of course, part of the role of the Fiscal Monitor is precisely to systemically look at risks and vulnerabilities, and our public‑debt‑at‑risk tool is one of the instruments to do exactly that.

    Now, one point which I believe is very important is that precisely because risks and uncertainty are so elevated right now, there is a sense of urgency in policy action. Why? Because there is still time to adopt policies that improve resilience, and there is still time to think through what are the most relevant vulnerability scenarios that apply to individual countries, to regions, or even to broader systems. And it is very important to do that result systemically so that one is ready if and when a crisis comes. Our experience during the pandemic showed that countries that had easy access to financial markets and ample fiscal space did substantially better than others at managing the shocks associated with the pandemic.

    The Moderator: Thank you. We will get back to this part of the room.

    QUESTION: My question is that you just mentioned the public debt remains very elevated and also this would cause fiscal space to continue to narrow down in many countries, including some major economies. So, what consequence will this bring to the world global economy if this kind of situation continues to develop?

    Mr. Vitor Gaspar: So I think that the answer that I gave to the question just now applies, given these elevated risks and uncertainties, it is crucial that countries focus on keeping their own house in order since situations around the world are so diverse, as Era emphasized, that will imply different policies in different countries. But the crucial thing is that in a situation that is as fast changing as the one we are facing now and where risks and uncertainties are so elevated, there is an urgency in acting to improve fiscal space, build buffers, and, therefore, be in a position to ensure resilience and sustain growth.

    The Moderator: Thank you. We will get back to this part of the room. The gentleman with the red shirt, please.

    QUESTION: Thank you very much. Allow me to back‑pedal to the EMDEs. The Fiscal Monitor speaks about the need to widen the tax base. A number of frontier market economies have been rolling out significant economic present stacks and minimum top‑up tax in line with the Pillar 1 and Pillar 2. But now this puts them in the cross‑hairs with the Trump administration, and many are now wondering whether they should be rolling back. So which pathway does the Fund see sustainable, considering many are looking at preferential access to the American market?

    Mr. Davide Furceri: Regarding the tax, I think it is important to make three important points. The first is that in the current situation where many emerging market and developing countries are characterized by three factors, one, foreign aid is declining; second, we have seen that increasing financial volatility can increase interest rates in these countries. This is in a situation where interest rates over revenue for many countries is about 10 percent of GDP. Third, [volatile] financial conditions also implies that less flows will go to these countries. The point that we make in the Fiscal Monitor is that revenue and revenue mobilization can be a stable source for financing significant spending for social benefit or public investment. How we should strengthen revenue mobilization, typically there are three sorts of arrows that you can go. One is expanding the tax base. Second, eliminate tax exemptions. Third, which is also important, and that the IMF does a lot of work in terms of capacity development is strengthening tax administrations. When we think about the tax strategy, we have to consider all of these three elements, and for many emerging markets and developing countries, there are significant potential tax gains that can be achieved.

    The Moderator: Yes, please.

    Mr. Vitor Gaspar: Just one word of addition. Davide correctly pointed out these three very important elements, broadening the tax base, dealing with tax expenditures and strengthening revenue administration. Yesterday I participated in a high‑level panel precisely on the mobilization of resources, and these three elements were repeated by the Ministers of Pakistan, Paraguay and Rwanda, and they found this frame relevant in their own experience of trying to improve the capacity of their countries to mobilize revenues.

    The Moderator: We have two questions online. I think this one will be for you, Era, about Spain. Yesterday they revised upwards the growth of Spain and have already highlighted the good performance of the Spanish economy. What should this country do with these good growth results regarding its fiscal policies in the short and medium term? And we will have another one for South Africa online.

    Ms. Era Dabla‑Norris: Thank you for the question. Given Spain’s relatively strong fiscal position as well as economic position, there is scope now to front‑load some of the adjustment that they were thinking about because public debt levels in Spain still remain very high, although they have come down from the pandemic peaks. They still remain very high. This would be really important to put debt firmly down on a downward trajectory.

    Accumulative adjustment of about 3 percent of GDP over the next three years, say 2025 to 2029, similar to the one that was envisaged in terms of magnitude by the authorities but more frontloaded, would help achieve the goal. Now, as Vitor has pointed out, we are encouraging countries to bring debt down for a number of reasons. This is important because you want to reduce debt risks. This is important because countries should either expand or replenish the buffers that were diminished in the wake of the pandemic and also because of ongoing uncertainties. Finally, because countries will need—countries like Spain will need to spend on other areas, population aging, climate, defense and such.

    The Moderator: Just before we go to South Africa, any other European question? One time, two time, no European question in the room. OK.

    QUESTION: Thank you. The question on South Africa but also on the broader region: On South Africa, the IMF is quite significantly more pessimistic on the fiscal trajectory than our own government, which sees debt stabilizing, whereas the IMF sees it rising close to 90 percent of GDP at the end of the decade. Why are you so much more pessimistic of the authorities’ promised consolidation? But also on the region, sub‑Saharan Africa more broadly, how do you see the impact of what is happening globally on the region’s ability to borrow and particularly to borrow in international markets, and given a lot of the countries in the region are in debt distress or close to debt distress, what impact will that have on the economies of the sub‑Saharan Africa? Thank you.

    The Moderator: Thank you very much.

    Ms. Era Dabla‑Norris: Thank you very much. Briefly on South Africa, the general government deficit in South Africa was about 6 percent of GDP in 2024. We project the fiscal deficit in 2025, although this is subject to considerable—all projections are subject to considerable uncertainties at this juncture to be around 6.6 percent of GDP. This is mainly driven by higher spending. Some of the differences stem from the fact that our projections are based on much more conservative assumptions regarding the buoyancy of the tax system, as well as the extent of primary spending compression that can be undertaken. So that really accounts for differences in projections between the two countries and also the path of debt going forward. Let me turn it over to Davide.

    Mr. Davide Furceri: Yes, more broadly and on financing costs for sub‑Saharan African regions, let me point out two factors. The first is that, of course, we have seen interest rates rising. So, this increasing interest rate in many countries, including South Africa, is basically driven by two factors. You have sort of an interest rate in main advanced economies that has been on a rising trend. On the positive side, in many countries, especially those with better fiscal positions, you actually have seen spreads, so the difference between the domestic interest rate and the foreign interest rate declines. However, and this is something that we point out in the Fiscal Monitor, that increased risk, increase of risk of uncertainty, financial market volatility, can turn things around. In other words, we see that increasing financial market volatility globally can lead to an increase in spreads.

    The second point is that one part we have seen for many low‑income countries since the pandemic is they are relying much more on domestic issuance of debt rather than on the foreign market. This is on one hand sort of offset some of the challenges like to the global environment but also increase some sort of domestic vulnerability, because sometimes the interest rates rise. There are things that are important to think about this strategy. But definitely, as we mentioned, interest rate is a source of rising in terms of revenue is a source of concern. Let me make the point again that we made, I think strengthening fiscal buffers, revenue mobilization are important elements to reduce — to have this trend to decline.

    The Moderator: Thank you. I believe we received some questions for Latin America and, yes, there are some reporters in the room. Yes, please, the lady in the third row here.

    QUESTION: Thank you. You already talked about emerging markets, but focusing on Latin America, I want to know which one—you already have talked about it too, but which one is the biggest fiscal risk and what should economies in Latin America should be thinking about doing in terms of growing and accepting new investment, for example, to confront the situation abroad? Thank you.

    Ms. Era Dabla‑Norris: Thank you for your question. Many of the risks that other emerging market economies face, countries in Latin America obviously also face, we have already talked at length about that. But I am going to talk about a few things that are specific to many of the countries in Latin America. So, there is two challenges that limit fiscal flexibility in Latin America. The first is that there are spending rigidities. What I mean by that is there is a lot of amounts of spending that is mandatory, on pensions, on wages, on transfers. This leaves very little room for fiscal flexibility.

    At the same time, like many other emerging markets and developing economies, spending pressures are on the rise. There are growing demands for social services, for infrastructure, for adopting to climate change, and all of these are putting pressures on the budget. Now, when you look at what has happened since the pandemic, countries have made ambitious plans to consolidate their budget. There have been ambitious announcements of fiscal consolidation plans, but at the same time expenditure increases have outpaced revenue gains. So, for many countries in the region, we see debt levels continuing to rise. And the challenge here is that we are in a world with greater uncertainty than we were even six months ago. So, it is really important for countries in the region to implement at a minimum the announced fiscal consolidation plan and to do this within credible medium‑term frameworks. Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region have fiscal rules. So to implement these rules, to spend efficiently, to think about the types of fiscal reforms that are needed, whether it is revenue mobilization in countries where revenue‑to‑GDP ratios are low, whether it is spending prioritization or reprioritization, to create the room that is needed for priority investments and social spending and infrastructure and such.

    The Moderator: Thank you. One last question.

    QUESTION: I am from Thailand. I want to ask about the overall trend of the public debt, especially for the ASEAN 5. It would be great if you could mention specifically on Thailand.

    The Moderator: I think we had the Nigeria question to answer too, and we will close there. Thank you.

    Mr. Davide Furceri: Let me start with Nigeria. So, Nigeria managed to do a very difficult reform that was important to deliver fiscal savings. The authorities also scaled up transfers, technical transfers. What we think there is, what is important to act on two pillars. One is to generate additional fiscal savings. We mentioned revenue mobilization. To really scale up spending on social protection, spending on investment, in a way as was mentioned, many countries, they need to spend, and there I want to go back to Vitor’s first remarks. We encourage countries to spend very wisely. Strengthening prioritization in terms of spending, strengthening the efficiency of spending is important. Final important message we would like to give for Nigeria but also for other countries is that fiscal institutions are very important. Having a medium‑term fiscal framework, Public Financial Management are key important because on the one hand they try to help the fiscal anchor, so they set apart for the fiscal adjustment, but also reduce the fiscal uncertainty per se. So as Vitor mentioned, we want the fiscal to be a source of stability and not a source of uncertainty, and that is where fiscal institutions have an important role to play.

    The Moderator: Thank you. Very quickly, Era.

    Ms. Era Dabla‑Norris: On ASEAN, there is a huge variation in fiscal positions across the region. On average, the ASEAN region debt‑to‑GDP ratios are lower than they are in other emerging market and developing economies. That said, in Thailand, relative to the other countries in ASEAN, debt levels are slightly more elevated, over 60 percent of GDP. Our advice has been that fiscal policy should be prudent and parsimonious, given all the reasons we have discussed over the course of this morning. So, measures that are needed to smooth adjustment in light of higher tariffs should be thought of in a wise way, temporary, targeted measures in the context of tariff uncertainty, and ongoing consolidation plans implemented to bring debt down in a sustainable manner.

    The Moderator: Thank you very much

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: IMF Staff Reaches Staff Level Agreement with Armenia on the Fifth Review of the Stand-By Arrangement

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    April 23, 2025

    End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF’s Executive Board. Based on the preliminary findings of this mission, staff will prepare a report that, subject to management approval, will be presented to the IMF’s Executive Board for discussion and decision.

    • IMF staff and the Armenian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on the fifth review under the 3-year Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), which the Armenian authorities treat as precautionary. The SBA aims to support the government’s policy and reform agenda to maintain macroeconomic stability and foster sustainable and inclusive growth.
    • Economic activity remains strong. GDP growth reached 5.9 percent in 2024 and is expected to decelerate to 4.5 percent in 2025 as external growth drivers continue to taper off amid higher global uncertainty.
    • Policy priorities include enhancing economic resilience, further mobilizing tax revenues and prioritizing spending to maintain a moderate debt level, strengthening institutional frameworks, and continuing structural reforms to boost labor productivity, enhance trade diversification, and improve the overall business environment.

    Washington, DC: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Iva Petrova visited Yerevan from March 31 to April 10, 2025, to conduct discussions for the fifth review under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with Armenia. At the conclusion of the discussions, Ms. Petrova issued the following statement:

    “I am pleased to announce that the IMF team and the Armenian authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on policies for the completion of the fifth review under the three-year SBA, which supports Armenia’s economic reform program. The agreement is subject to approval by the IMF’s Executive Board, scheduled to consider this review in June. This approval would enable access of about US$ 25.0 million (SDR 18.4 million), bringing total access to about US$ 149.9 million (SDR 110.4 million) since the SBA’s inception.

    “Armenia’s economic activity remains robust, with real GDP growth of 5.9 percent in 2024, driven by robust consumption and investment. Employment growth has been steady, and inflation remains subdued, gradually picking up to 3.3 percent year-on-year in March 2025 in line with expectations. The current account deficit widened somewhat to 3.9 percent of GDP in 2024 as inflows from trade, tourism, and remittances continue to decelerate. The 2024 fiscal deficit was limited at 3.7 percent of GDP, keeping central government debt moderate at 48.3 percent of GDP. The banking system has high profitability and strong capital and liquidity buffers.

    “Real GDP growth is expected to remain generally strong but return to its potential of 4.5 percent in 2025 as trade and services normalize. Inflation is expected to remain around the Central Bank of Armenia’s (CBA) target by end-2025. Risks to this outlook stem from the unprecedented uncertainty related to the ongoing global trade tensions and potential slowdown in the growth of trading partners. Regional geopolitical shifts, which could lead to a reversal of recent capital inflows and FX volatility, also weigh on the outlook.

    The authorities’ upcoming medium-term expenditure framework aims to preserve macro-fiscal stability while supporting Armenia’s development needs. In this context, the 2025 budget deficit target of 5.5 percent of GDP remains appropriate, accommodating priority spending needs, including national security, refugee integration, and infrastructure development. However, with rising spending pressures, creating fiscal space while ensuring a gradual fiscal consolidation, would require careful expenditure prioritization, implementation of recently introduced tax policies and further revenue administration efforts. Reforms to strengthen medium-term fiscal planning, enhance public financial management—including through robust fiscal risk management, transparency, and governance—and bolster the public investment management framework remain critical to support fiscal sustainability.

    “Amid subdued inflationary pressures and anchored inflation expectations, the current monetary policy stance is appropriate. In view of the significant uncertainty, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) should continue to monitor closely economic developments and inflation expectations and stand ready to adjust policy rates if inflation expectations drift away from target. The flexible exchange rate remains a key shock absorber, and the authorities’ commitment to maintaining healthy international reserve buffers is welcome. The CBA continues to monitor vigilantly financial sector risks and to upgrade its supervisory toolkit and capacity.

    “Structural reform efforts should continue to strengthen economic resilience and foster inclusive growth. The authorities’ plans to boost labor force participation among vulnerable populations, encourage diversification in the country’s export basket and markets, and improve corporate transparency and access to finance are welcome. Achieving these objectives requires timely and effective implementation of the employment and export strategies, prioritizing governance reforms, and upgrading the insolvency framework to support quality investments.

    “The IMF team thanks the Armenian authorities, private sector, development partners, and the diplomatic community for fruitful discussions and cooperation.”

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Uzbekistan: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2025 Article IV Mission

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    April 23, 2025

    A Concluding Statement describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit (or ‘mission’), in most cases to a member country. Missions are undertaken as part of regular (usually annual) consultations under Article IV of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, in the context of a request to use IMF resources (borrow from the IMF), as part of discussions of staff monitored programs, or as part of other staff monitoring of economic developments.

    The authorities have consented to the publication of this statement. The views expressed in this statement are those of the IMF staff and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF’s Executive Board. Based on the preliminary findings of this mission, staff will prepare a report that, subject to management approval, will be presented to the IMF Executive Board for discussion and decision.

    Washington, DC:

    Recent Developments, Outlook, and Risks

    The economy has continued to perform strongly. Real GDP growth was robust at 6.5 percent in 2024, supported by strong domestic demand. The external current account deficit narrowed by 2.6 percentage points of GDP to 5.0 percent in 2024 on the back of strong remittances, high commodity prices, rapidly growing non-gold exports, and the winding down of a one-off increase in imports in 2023. International reserves remain ample. The consolidated government deficit (CGD) fell by 1.7 percentage points of GDP to 3.2 percent in 2024, largely reflecting a reduction in energy subsidies and better-targeted social expenditure, with higher gold prices mitigating lower VAT revenues from high VAT refunds. However, the reduction in domestic demand from the smaller deficit was dampened by higher spending in the broader public sector, including from SOEs, facilitated by an increase in the external borrowing ceiling. Inflation remains elevated, with a headline reading of 10.3 percent year-on-year (y/y) in March 2025, reflecting last year’s needed increases in energy tariffs and other administered prices, as well as spillovers into other prices.

    Growth is expected to remain robust, however, external uncertainty has ratcheted up recently. The announced global tariff increases have increased uncertainty and tightened global financial conditions and could affect Uzbekistan through external demand, commodity prices, and financial flows. Despite this uncertainty, under the baseline, real GDP growth is projected to remain close to 6 percent in 2025 and 2026, supported by continued strength in private consumption, investment, and advancement of structural reforms. The current account deficit is forecast to remain unchanged at 5 percent of GDP in 2025, as higher gold exports and broader public sector consolidation offset weaker non-gold export performance brought about by slower growth in trading partners. Inflation is expected to moderate to slightly above 8 percent y/y at end-2025, and continue to gradually decline thereafter, supported by tight macroeconomic and macroprudential policies and the continuation of structural reforms.

    Elevated uncertainty presents both risks and opportunities. Key external risks stem from larger and protracted trade policy shocks, spillovers from the war in Ukraine, reduced availability of external financing, and commodity price volatility. Domestically, risks include higher-than-expected fiscal deficits, upward adjustments to borrowing ceilings, weakened bank balance sheets, and contingent liabilities from state-owned enterprises, state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs), and public-private partnerships (PPPs). Opportunities could arise from faster implementation of structural reforms, stronger capital and remittance inflows, and higher gold prices.

    Fiscal Policy

    The decline in the consolidated government deficit (CGD) in 2024 is welcome. Staff commends the government for reducing the CGD and remaining committed to the 3 percent medium-term fiscal target. Adhering to the external borrowing limit of US $5.5 billion in 2025 and setting future borrowing ceilings that ensure public and publicly guaranteed debt as a share of GDP doesn’t increase are paramount to enhance budget credibility, help mitigate risks from state-owned enterprises and PPPs, and alleviate demand pressures on inflation. Volatile gold prices create risks of inflationary spending pressures when they are high, and pressures to lower spending when they are low, exacerbating macroeconomic fluctuations. The authorities should thus seek to minimize responses of government spending to gold price changes.

    Revenue mobilization and spending rationalization are needed to create room for development and social needs. A medium-term revenue strategy is needed to offset the 2 percentage point of GDP decline in the tax-to-GDP ratio since 2020. Tax policy options include reforming the corporate and personal income taxes, reducing income-based tax incentives, and removing ineffective customs exemptions while refraining from granting new ones. These should be complemented by revenue administration measures, including revamping the audit program and improving large taxpayer office operations, while ensuring that taxpayers’ rights are respected. In this regard, the two strategies currently under consideration, to reform the tax administration and combat the shadow economy should be approved and implemented. Rationalizing wages, reducing the cost of goods and services leveraging recent procurement reforms, accelerating state-owned enterprise reforms, further consolidating and improving the design of social assistance programs, and reforming the pension system would enhance spending efficiency.

    The reform of fiscal institutions should continue in order to strengthen fiscal discipline and transparency. Staff commends the government for adhering to the budget calendar, preparing the fiscal strategy paper and fiscal risk statements, and adopting the 2025-2030 Public Financial Management Reform Strategy. Further progress is needed to unify the public investment process irrespective of the financing source, better align and integrate the preparation of capital and current budgets, cover all capital expenditures institutions are responsible for when setting their budget ceilings, and publish these ceilings with the budget documents. Importantly, to address fiscal risks from a rapidly growing PPP pipeline, the authorities have made notable progress in designing a system to monitor and manage risks from PPPs. This should be complemented by conducting a sensitivity analysis of key assumptions, include potential PPP costs in the budget, integrate PPPs in the broader public investment management framework, and lower the annual PPP cap in line with limited absorption capacity. Improving Government Financial Statistics (GFS) reporting and publishing the debt management strategy, along with annual borrowing plan, will strengthen fiscal transparency and facilitate relations with investors.

    Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy

    The Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) should keep monetary policy tight until inflation approaches its 5 percent target. The recent policy rate hike in response to rising inflation and inflation expectations signals the CBU’s readiness to address existing pressures. Monetary policy should remain data-driven and be tightened further if core inflation or inflation expectations do not decline. The exchange rate should be gradually allowed to fluctuate in wider ranges to better reflect market conditions, serve as a shock absorber, safeguard reserves, incentivize firms to hedge foreign exchange exposures, and help avoid persistent depreciation expectations. In addition, adhering to the principle of neutrality within the calendar year will facilitate exchange rate flexibility. Staff commends the CBU for its efforts to enhance communication. Bolstering communication further will help anchor inflation expectations and ensure predictability of monetary policy. Efforts to strengthen monetary policy transmission should continue by further improving liquidity management, modernizing the reserve requirements framework, and reducing the role of the state in the banking sector and high dollarization.

    Financial Sector Stability

    The authorities should advance reforms of state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) and accelerate their privatization to promote financial stability and efficient resource allocation. Their mandates should focus on profitability, and any costs arising from non-commercial operations should be fully and transparently compensated for in the budget until these operations are gradually phased out. Strengthening the corporate governance of SOCBs would support their commercial focus, facilitate privatization, promote state-owned enterprise restructuring, improve monetary policy transmission, and increase access to affordable credit for the private sector. A reduction in government ownership of banking system assets to 40 percent, as envisaged in the 2020-2025 banking reform strategy, calls for the acceleration of SOCB privatization. Transparent procedures, strong regulatory frameworks, good creditor and shareholder rights, and competitive bidding during the privatization process would ensure the attraction of qualified investors and maximize asset value. Furthermore, staff advises against current plans to keep systemic banks as policy banks, which could increase financial risks or costs to the budget.

    Bank supervision should be enhanced, including by adopting international standards. Staff advises the authorities to implement the recommendations of the recent and first Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) for Uzbekistan. These call for reforms to focus on strengthening bank regulation; implementing robust risk-based supervision; enhancing systemic risk analysis and stress testing; strengthening capital requirements; aligning asset classification and non-performing loan resolution with international best practices; improving payment system oversight; and establishing adequate bank resolution, crisis management, and financial safety net arrangements.

    The Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) should continue to closely monitor and be prepared to address emerging financial stability risks. The welcome introduction of macroprudential measures in 2023-24 has moderated household credit growth and resulted in banks’ increased attention to borrower’s creditworthiness. Nevertheless, the microlending segment has been growing rapidly as micro loans and credits are provided under less stringent conditions. While initiatives that aim at enhancing financial inclusion and deepening are welcome, they should not undermine proper credit assessment by banks, which would add to financial stability risks. The CBU should therefore strengthen risk-based supervision to limit these risks and deploy additional capital requirements or other binding macroprudential measures, as needed. It should also address risks from foreign exchange lending to unhedged corporate borrowers, and lending to individuals without formal income and to corporates facing heightened risks of insolvency or illiquidity. Phasing out preferential and directed lending should remain a priority.

    Structural and Governance Reforms

    After significantly advancing economic transition reforms, Uzbekistan needs to complete them and accelerate implementation of institutional reforms. Necessary energy tariff and broader administrative price increases have advanced price liberalization and should be continued until its completion to allow prices to fully reflect market forces. Significant progress has also been made with World Trade Organization accession in both bilateral and multilateral tracks, and the increased engagement with neighboring countries and other regions such as the Gulf Cooperation Council, have significantly contributed to advancing trade liberalization and diversification. Support for state-owned enterprises needs to be transparent, made conditional on restructuring, and be gradually phased out to level the playing field for the private sector. State involvement in the economy should continue to be reduced, and privatization of large state-owned enterprises should be accelerated and carried out in accordance with international best practices. Controls and direct intervention should be replaced with effective regulation and market institutions. Facilitating firm entry and exit would further contribute to stimulate a competitive environment for the private sector.  

    Governance, labor, and climate reforms should continue. Governance indicators have improved significantly in recent years. The enactment of the conflict-of-interest law, training of government officials to implement it, and the establishment of the Virtual Anti-Corruption Academy are welcome. Public discussion of the draft law on asset declaration for officials of the government and state enterprises, and cabinet review of the draft whistleblower protection law are expected soon. The authorities should enact and implement these laws as soon as possible. Improving transparency and access to information, particularly regarding procurement, and finalizing the National Strategy on Anti-Corruption would also contribute to improved efficiency of public spending and administration. Labor market reforms need to be accelerated to address low female labor participation, high informality, and skill mismatches. Completing the energy price reform and swiftly adopting measures to enhance water efficiency, diversify crops, and support reforestation efforts will significantly advance the climate agenda. Improving the quality of statistics would lead to better analysis and more informed policymaking.

    The mission would like to thank the Uzbek authorities, stakeholders, and private sector representatives for their hospitality, constructive policy dialogue, and productive collaboration during the Article IV mission.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Dmitry Grigorenko: Digital projects allow the FAS to create equal conditions for business and protect the interests of citizens

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    The creation of a real-time price monitoring system for the timely prevention of unjustified growth, the automation of the process of conducting public procurement tenders to identify anti-competitive agreements, as well as a digital format for regulating housing and communal services tariffs are the key areas of the digital transformation of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister – Head of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko during a meeting of the department’s board.

    The work of the FAS Russia covers all existing commodity markets, as well as the areas of tariff regulation, public procurement, and foreign investment control. The introduction of digital technologies and big data analysis allows us to significantly increase the efficiency of many processes, creating equal conditions for business and objective control over tariffs and prices for citizens.

    “Today, the FAS is becoming more than just a supervisory body. The best system is one in which there are no violations. Digital solutions and big data analysis allow us to act preventively: to deal not with the facts of violations, but to prevent them at the stage of the problem’s emergence,” noted Dmitry Grigorenko.

    Thus, the FAS of Russia, together with the Treasury of Russia, launched an information panel (dashboard) of the national system of price indicators. The service makes it possible to monitor exchange and over-the-counter transactions and display price indicators for groups of goods on one screen. Real-time analysis allows you to see the overall picture of pricing in the markets and combat speculation. At the moment, the dashboard monitors prices for gasoline, diesel fuel, fuel oil, coal, bitumen and gas. In the future, the list of goods will be expanded.

    The GIS “Anticartel” allows for daily automated scanning of information about all tenders conducted using artificial intelligence and a risk-oriented approach. Automation of the process increases the efficiency of identifying signs of anticompetitive agreements at tenders to combat cartels. In 2025, the service is planned to be integrated with the information systems of the Federal Tax Service of Russia, the Federal Customs Service of Russia, and electronic public procurement platforms.

    The Federal State Information System “Tariff” provides for the transfer of all tariff regulation processes to a digital format and monitoring of the implementation of investment programs in the housing and communal services sector. Already in 2026, the document flow for setting housing and communal services tariffs, as well as the adoption of tariff decisions in housing and communal services and communications, will be transferred completely to electronic form. The examination of tariff applications and control over the implementation of investment programs will also be automated. This will significantly reduce the burden on regional tariff authorities and increase control by transferring document flow from paper to electronic.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Financial news: 04/23/2025, 14-14 (Moscow time) the values of the upper limit of the price corridor and the range of market risk assessment for the security RU000A10A6B8 (RusGid2P02) were changed.

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    Source: Moscow Exchange – Moscow Exchange –

    04/23/2025

    14:14

    In accordance with the Methodology for determining the risk parameters of the stock market and deposit market of Moscow Exchange PJSC by NCO NCC (JSC) on 23.04.2025, 14-14 (Moscow time), the values of the upper limit of the price corridor (up to 123.95) and the range of market risk assessment (up to 1303.14 rubles, equivalent to a rate of 10.0%) of the security RU000A10A6B8 (RusGid2P02) were changed.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Marat Khusnullin: Almost 7 million sq. m of non-residential real estate commissioned in Q1

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    The construction of non-residential real estate, along with housing construction, is an important area of integrated development of populated areas. Modern business centers, industrial enterprises, trade facilities, social infrastructure and logistics complexes form a full-fledged urban environment, provide citizens with services, create jobs and contribute to the growth of the local economy, said Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.

    “At the meeting of the State Council Presidium, chaired by the President last week, issues of creating and updating infrastructure for comfortable living were discussed. An important factor in the balanced development of territories is the construction of non-residential real estate. A modern residential area must necessarily include the necessary infrastructure for life: schools and kindergartens, hospitals, shops, and so on. Every year, about 35 million square meters of non-residential buildings are commissioned in Russia. Last year, we saw an absolute record over the past 25 years – 38.4 million square meters of non-residential real estate were commissioned. In the first three months of 2025, we have also seen positive dynamics. The commissioning of non-residential real estate compared to the same period last year increased by 2.5% – to 6.93 million square meters,” said Marat Khusnullin.

    There is also growth in certain types of real estate. Almost 36% more administrative buildings – offices, enterprises, agencies – were put into operation. 23% more commercial properties, such as shopping centers, hotels, trade and consumer services enterprises, were commissioned. 15% more other buildings were put into operation at the beginning of the year: religious, transport, communication facilities.

    “The absolute leader in the commissioning of non-residential real estate today is commercial. In the first three months of 2025, 2.37 million square meters were commissioned – this is 34% of all non-residential. This trend confirms the dynamics of the previous year, when the commercial sector also occupied leading positions. Therefore, commercial properties are the most attractive for investors today,” emphasized First Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities Alexander Lomakin.

    At the same time, if you pay attention to the number of permits issued for future construction, you can see what prospects await the non-residential real estate sector.

    In the first three months of 2025, the largest number of permits were issued for the construction of industrial buildings – factories, plants, etc. – 1,036 permits for a total area of 4.5 million square meters, which is more than 34% of the area of buildings for all new permits.

    “Today, construction is still focused on commercial buildings. But new industrial facilities are on the way. Judging by the dynamics of project launches, more factories, plants, and defense industry enterprises will be commissioned. This is primarily due to the growth of industry focused on the domestic market,” said Dina Safiullina, head of the Project Directorate of the Ministry of Construction.

    As of 1 April 2025, the area of non-residential buildings with valid building permits was 171.5 million square meters, which is almost 12% more than the data as of 1 April 2024. The largest share – over 51 million square meters, or 33% – is accounted for by industrial buildings.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Dmitry Patrushev and Artyom Zdunov discussed the development of agriculture and environmental issues of the Republic of Mordovia

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    Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev held a working meeting with the head of the Republic of Mordovia Artem Zdunov. The issues of development of the agro-industrial complex and ecology in the republic were discussed.

    The agro-industrial complex of Mordovia has been showing growth for more than 10 years. Last year, the volume of gross agricultural output amounted to almost 118 billion rubles: more than 1.3 million tons of grain were harvested with the best yield in the Volga Federal District, as well as more than 1 million tons of sugar beet. This year, Mordovia plans to sow 755 thousand hectares with agricultural crops. The head of the region emphasized that farmers are fully provided with all the necessary resources, including fuel and mineral fertilizers. Thanks to the use of domestically selected seeds, import substitution volumes are increasing for a number of crops.

    According to the results of last year, Mordovia ranks third in Russia in milk production. In 2024, the region produced more than 550 thousand tons of milk, which is more than the year before. In January-March of this year, growth was also recorded compared to the same period last year. More than 2 billion rubles from the federal budget will be allocated to support the agro-industrial complex of Mordovia this year.

    A lot of work is being done in Mordovia within the framework of the state program “Integrated Development of Rural Areas” – the region has been allocated about 1.5 billion rubles.

    Special attention during the meeting was paid to the results of the implementation of the national project “Ecology” and the region’s participation in the new national project “Ecological Well-being”. The head of the region spoke about the progress of updating the infrastructure for the storage and processing of solid municipal waste. Dmitry Patrushev called for accelerating the work to eliminate unauthorized dumps in the region.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Financial news: 04/23/2025, 16-37 (Moscow time) the values of the upper limit of the price corridor and the range of market risk assessment for the security RU000A1009A1 (Megafon2P2) were changed.

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    04/23/2025

    16:37

    In accordance with the Methodology for determining the risk parameters of the stock market and deposit market of Moscow Exchange PJSC by NCO NCC (JSC) on 23.04.2025, 16-37 (Moscow time), the values of the upper limit of the price corridor (up to 95.68) and the range of market risk assessment (up to 992.01 rubles, equivalent to a rate of 8.75%) of the security RU000A1009A1 (Megafon2P2) were changed.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Financial news: 04/23/2025, 18-12 (Moscow time) the values of the upper limit of the price corridor and the range of market risk assessment for the security RU000A104Z71 (BinPharm1P2) were changed.

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    04/23/2025

    18:12

    In accordance with the Methodology for determining the risk parameters of the stock market and deposit market of Moscow Exchange PJSC by NCO NCC (JSC), on 23.04.2025, 18-12 (Moscow time), the values of the upper limit of the price corridor (up to 107.37) and the range of market risk assessment (up to 1122.16 rubles, equivalent to a rate of 11.25%) of the security RU000A104Z71 (BinPharm1P2) were changed.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Extended Board of the Ministry of Finance.

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    Mikhail Mishustin took part in a board meeting dedicated to summing up the work of the Ministry of Finance and setting goals for the future.

    Before the meeting, the Prime Minister toured the National Centre “Russia” and familiarised himself with the exhibition “Journey across Russia”.

    From the transcript:

    M. Mishustin: Dear Anton Germanovich! Dear colleagues!

    I am glad to welcome you all to this hall.

    We have just visited the National Centre “Russia” and the interactive exhibition “Journey across Russia”. It is a logical continuation of the large-scale exhibition that was recently held at VDNKh on the instructions of the President and received more than 18 million visitors, including from abroad. The most important achievements of the country, all our regions, aroused great interest among the guests. And we really have something to be proud of. Thousands of different events were held there. Now its continuation has become the new National Centre, which will work here permanently.

    This site is widely represented – we saw it today – by the cultural and natural assets of our federal districts. There is also room for technologies, innovations, achievements that the country has achieved over the past decades.

    Such exhibitions help visitors – and, importantly, young people – understand the scale and power of the state. Its potential and the opportunities that every citizen of our country, regions and businesses have. Guests will discover new names, goods and services, technological innovations that are produced in our regions. And all of this can be seen right here, in the center of the capital.

    Important state and public events for young people and the older generation, for volunteers and entrepreneurs, cultural figures, and innovators are already taking place here.

    To be continued…

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable – 4th Cochairs Progress Report

    Source: IMF – News in Russian

    Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable – 4th Cochairs Progress Report

    April 23, 2025

    Washington, DC: The Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) met today and reviewed progress on the work to improve debt restructuring processes and timelines, and to help address debt vulnerabilities. Participants also discussed priority areas for the work going forward. At the end of the meeting, the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Group President Ajay Banga, and Finance Minister of South Africa, G20 Presidency, Enoch Godongwana, co-chairs of the GSDR, issued the attached “Restructuring Playbook”, which aims to provide debtor country authorities considering a debt restructuring with the key steps, concepts and processes for such an operation. They also issued the attached GSDR 4th Cochairs Report as well as the compilation of technical issues discussed by the GSDR so far.

    The GSDR brings together debtor countries and official and private creditors with the objective to build common understanding among key stakeholders on debt sustainability and debt restructuring challenges, and ways to address them.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: History in numbers: how statistics help us understand the stability of Soviet society

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    Source: State University Higher School of Economics – State University Higher School of Economics –

    On April 16, as part of XXV April International Scientific Conference of the National Research University Higher School of Economics a round table discussion entitled “Historical Statistics for Studying Mechanisms of Social Stability in the USSR” was held. The event was supported by Interdisciplinary group on historical statistics of the National Center for Humanities and Social Sciences “Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Human Potential”.

    The opening speech was given by the Vice-Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Liliya Ovcharova. She emphasized the importance of studying the socio-economic legacy of the USSR not only for understanding the past, but also for analyzing modern trends: “The Soviet past contains the reasons for those long-term trends that are still in effect today. We see them in science and scientific schools, in education, in demography, as well as in the development features of Russian regions. Without attention from the Russian research community, important components may be missed in this history, which I include the connecting, civilizational role of the Soviet Union and Russia, as an institution for the development of union republics – future independent states in the post-Soviet space, as well as adjacent territories.”

    Round table chaired by the director Expert Institute And Center for Productivity Research The HSE Ilya Voskoboinikov conference brought together not only HSE experts, but also representatives of the Presidential Academy (RANEPA), Rosstat, Moscow State University, and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The discussion focused on rethinking Soviet official statistics and the availability of archival data, as well as the need for an interdisciplinary approach to studying the socio-economic development of the USSR and Russia using modern quantitative methods. Participants discussed the complexity of interpreting Soviet data, the comparability of sources, and the institutional barriers facing researchers.

    Vladimir Sokolin, Chairman of the Federal State Statistics Service (1999-2008) and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (2009-2022), devoted his speech to the importance of revising and refining official Soviet statistics based on modern scientific principles. He emphasized the uneven quality of Soviet data — high in terms of physical indicators of industrial production and transport, but questionable in agriculture. He also pointed out the almost complete lack of data in terms of price statistics and mentioned the influence of ideology on decisions to publish data and even statistical developments in certain areas — for example, in cross-country comparisons of living standards. The expert paid special attention to the importance of restoring long dynamic series of statistical indicators and preserving expert knowledge in the field of Soviet statistics as long as its bearers are alive.

    A presentation of the results of a project to analyze wage inequality in the USSR was given by Professor Leonid Borodkin of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research showed how the degree of differentiation of wages between workers and engineering and technical workers changed in different periods, from the NEP to the late Soviet era. The professor emphasized that data on actual accruals in the archives of enterprises often contradict official statistics. For example, under the conditions of equalization in the post-war period, responsible engineering and technical workers (ITW) were supposed to receive salaries comparable to or even lower than those of workers. This did not correspond to the role of IWW in production and could lead to a shortage of specialists. The solution was incentive funds, which made it possible to create material incentives for responsible and qualified engineers.

    Roman Konchakov, Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, spoke about institutional and methodological obstacles to the use of Soviet statistics. He presented statistics not only as a source of data, but also as an element of state building. Konchakov emphasized the importance of the 1920s as a key period for the formation of the Soviet statistical school and pointed out the need to create an infrastructure for combining various historical datasets.

    Speech by Ekaterina Boltunova, Director Institute of Regional Historical Research HSE, was devoted to the study of financial and time budgets of households in the context of late Soviet domestic tourism (late 1950s – 1960s). She paid special attention to how the prism of tourism can be used to study the availability of infrastructure, the perception of territories and the everyday economy of Soviet citizens.

    Mikhail Denisenko, director Institute of Demography HSE named after A.G. Vishnevsky, in his report examined the dynamics of the age structure of the population of Russia in the 20th century. In his speech, the expert emphasized the importance of demographic data for the analysis of social sustainability, and also spoke about the challenges that researchers face when reconstructing this data, especially in the absence of continuous data for a number of years.

    The discussion was summed up by the moderator of the round table, Ilya Voskoboinikov: “When a modern statistician submits a report, the document goes into the archive – but this is not the end of the work. In ten, twenty, fifty years, a historian will come to this archive. Statistics are not only numbers, but also a long-term contribution to our understanding of the past and the present. Soviet historical statistics are very important for modern research, since the Soviet experience touches on a big issue of the modern economy – finding a balance between economic efficiency and social sustainability.”

    The second part of the round table included a discussion with representatives of the scientific community, including Maria Drobysheva, Deputy Head of the Department of Living Standards Statistics and Household Surveys of Rosstat, Vyacheslav Stepanov, Leading Researcher at the Center for Ethnopolitical Studies at the Institute of Economics and Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Researcher Laboratories for institutional analysis of economic reforms HSE University Alexey Popov. The latter noted that many statistical funds still remain classified and this greatly complicates working with data.

    The discussion confirmed the high interest in the topic and emphasized the need for further development of the historical data infrastructure. Deputy Vice-Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Maria Nagernyak noted the often fragmented and unsystematic nature of a large part of the statistical data collected over a long period of time: “These data on various areas of the socio-economic development of our country are of interest not only to the scientific community, but also to the general public. The activities of the Interdisciplinary Group on Historical Statistics are aimed at uniting the efforts of scientists from various fields of science for the joint study of historical statistical data on the development of human potential both in our country and in the post-Soviet space, as well as in friendly foreign countries.”

    The group plans to create working groups to discuss statistics in various areas and to formulate an official position of Rosstat on unofficial data, as well as to organize regular conferences to discuss issues of access to archival data and cooperation between historians, economists and statisticians with the involvement of specialists from the faculties of social and economic sciences, as well as schools of historical research National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: At the XV Eurasian Economic Youth Forum in Yekaterinburg, Vladimir Stroyev shared his experience in implementing DPO programs

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    Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –

    On April 23, 2025, the rector of the State University of Management Vladimir Stroyev took part in the XV Eurasian Economic Youth Forum “Eurasian Synergy: Multipolarity – Integration – Dialogue of Civilizations”.

    The Eurasian Economic Youth Forum (EEYF) is being held from April 21 to 25 in Yekaterinburg at the Ural State University of Economics. More than 20,000 people from 116 countries, representing 209 universities, are taking part in the Forum.

    Rector of the State University of Management Vladimir Stroyev gave a report on the topic “Experience of the Eurasian Network University in implementing programs of additional professional education in the EAEU space.”

    Vladimir Vitalyevich told the audience that in 2022, the State University of Management was one of the initiators of the creation of the scientific and educational consortium “Eurasian Network University” – a project that united more than 30 universities from 7 states of the Eurasian space: Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, as well as universities of Uzbekistan and Transnistria as observers. More distant countries, such as Iran or Cuba, are also showing interest in joining the ENU. The ENU Secretariat is based at the State University of Management and carries out the necessary operational activities of the consortium.

    The rector of the State University of Management reported that in 2024 alone, with the support of Rossotrudnichestvo, 18 additional professional education programs were implemented, for the implementation of which 324 quotas were allocated. Among the program areas: management, marketing, management in the field of science and education, logistics and others. The programs turned out to be especially in demand in Belarus, 260 citizens of the union state studied under them. In-person strategic sessions on additional professional education programs were also held in Belarus, at the Russian House in Minsk.

    The basis of the DPO programs is a modular-block structure developed on the basis of the experience accumulated at the State University of Management. The program can be assembled from modules of different levels of complexity, duration of training and technologies for conducting educational events.

    “One example of a successfully implemented educational initiative of the State University of Management is the program “Strategic Planning and Macroeconomic Forecasting: Theoretical Foundations and Practice of the EAEU”. It is interesting because it was developed not only by specialists of the State University of Management, but also by teachers of the Belarusian State University of Economics, as well as leading experts of the Eurasian Economic Commission. Last year, 27 specialists from the EAEU countries successfully completed training within the framework of this program,” said Vladimir Stroyev.

    In conclusion of the report, the rector of the State University of Management noted that participation in such advanced training programs is becoming a driver for the development of trade and economic relations between Eurasian states, providing their participants with the opportunity to get acquainted with the experience and best business practices in the EAEU countries, and establish business contacts. Feedback received from participants in the additional professional education programs shows a high interest in such educational projects in the EAEU countries, which is largely due to the absence of a language barrier, and this makes the learning process more effective.

    Photo from the official website of the EEFM.

    Subscribe to the TG channel “Our GUU” Date of publication: 23.04.2025

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: With love for nature: the GUU garden continues to grow

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    Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –

    On April 23, the Institute of Marketing of the State University of Management held the campaign “Let’s Revive the Apple Orchard”.

    Under the direction of the institute’s director Gennady Azoev, teachers and students planted pears and plums of various varieties on the main campus square. The planted trees were whitewashed.

    During the planting work, Gennady Lazarevich shared his wisdom and told how to properly prepare the soil for planting trees, what expanded clay is needed for, how deep to place the seedling and how to care for it at first so that the tree takes root and bears fruit.

    “For example, frosts are expected soon, which fall just during the flowering period. This is very dangerous for this year’s harvest and young trees. Our seedlings have a strong root system and therefore will definitely be able to survive this period,” noted the director of the Marketing Institute.

    Let us recall that at the beginning of April, students and teachers of the institute brought the trees growing on the campus territory into a well-groomed condition.

    Also on April 23, flowers and trees were planted on the initiative of students as part of the project “GUU Garden”, which is participating in the grant competition of our university. Blue peonies and hydrangeas will soon bloom near the 6th dormitory, and spreading willows will bloom along the road near the Sports Complex.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: The All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics is being held at the Polytechnic University

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    Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –

    The All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics with international participation has started in Saint Petersburg. The event is held with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Association of Technical Universities and the Federal Educational and Methodological Association in the field of “Mechanical Engineering” at the Advanced Engineering School “Digital Engineering” of Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (PISh SPbPU).

    The All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics with international participation was held regularly from 1999 to 2020.

    At the opening of the Olympiad in the Technopolis Polytech research building, the participants were greeted in a video message by the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Valery Falkov:

    “Dear friends! Welcome to the All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics with International Participation. It is gratifying that after almost a five-year hiatus, we are reviving the platform for interaction between talented students and their mentors. I would like to express special gratitude to the Advanced Engineering School “Digital Engineering”, which organized this meeting within its hospitable walls. The profile of the Olympiad is of particular importance today in the context of strengthening Russia’s ties with its closest foreign partners in the scientific and technological sphere. Mechanics allows us to solve key problems in the creation of technologies and science-intensive products in many industries, including mechanical engineering and engine building, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, medical and biomechanical systems. I am sure that the revival of the Olympiad will become one of the effective tools for supporting talented students. Friends, I wish you fruitful work, success and all the best!”

    In 2025, the main goals of the revived All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics were to improve the academic and extracurricular work of students, develop deeper knowledge in the field of applied mechanics, develop creative activity and independent thinking, identify gifted students and develop human resources.

    Vice-Governor of Saint Petersburg Vladimir Knyaginin conveyed his greetings to the participants, in which he also noted the contribution of Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University and the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU “Digital Engineering” to the revival and development of the Olympiad: “The All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics is gaining particular relevance not only as a significant event in the personal and professional development of students. It also helps to synchronize watches and unite efforts in achieving common goals of technological development of representatives of the scientific and educational community, industry and government. It is no coincidence that this event is being held at the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU “Digital Engineering” – one of the leaders of the corresponding federal project, which was previously part of the national project “Science and Universities”, and since 2025 has been implemented within the framework of the new national project “Youth and Children”. I am confident that participation in the Olympiad will give students a positive and useful experience, and it will become an important annual event in the world of training new generation engineers, developing advanced technologies and strengthening the technological leadership of our country. I thank the St. Petersburg Polytechnic for organizing the Olympiad and wish all its participants interesting tasks and success in finding new promising solutions!”

    This year, 29 teams from the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia are participating in the Olympiad: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Volgograd, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Samara, Tver, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Yaroslavl regions, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Perm Krai, Khabarovsk Krai.

    “The advanced engineering school of SPbPU “Digital Engineering” has been training personnel for almost three years now, who will form the engineering elite of the country, the so-called engineering special forces. Therefore, the revival of the All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics, which has decades of history behind it, at the site of the SPbPU PISh – a modern and proven method of training engineering personnel in close cooperation with industrial partners – is a bright symbol that reflects the changes that are currently taking place in Russian engineering education in the broadest sense of the word. We see great interest in applied mechanics and potentially in engineering, including because teams from all over the country – from Kaliningrad to Khabarovsk, as well as students from foreign countries – participate in the Olympiad. I want to wish all participants success, and may the smartest win!” — the rector of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Rudskoy announced the start of the Olympiad.

    The All-Russian Student Olympiad in Applied Mechanics with International Participation is held in person and includes two blocks: theoretical and practical. In the theoretical block, participants are offered six problems to solve: three on the strength of materials and three on theoretical mechanics. Each problem will be assessed by an expert jury on a 10-point scale. The topics of the problems on the strength of materials include: tension-compression, bending and complex resistance. On theoretical mechanics: statics, kinematics and dynamics.

    The practical block is a wide range of events that will allow the Olympiad participants to immerse themselves in the world of modern digital engineering. Thus, students will be able to take part in master classes on the use of domestic software packages for solving computer modeling problems from leading Russian vendors of engineering software: APM (STC “APM”), FlowVision (OOO “Tesis”), “Logos” (FSUE “RFNC-VNIIEF”).

    Participants will be able to try their hand at the engineering championship, as well as visit leading high-tech industry enterprises such as Gazprom Neft Scientific and Technical Center and CentroTech-Engineering (part of the management structure of the Fuel Company JSC TVEL of Rosatom State Corporation) and get acquainted with their activities. In addition, Olympiad participants will visit the new laboratories of the Advanced Engineering School of SPbPU. An extensive cultural and entertainment program has been organized for the guests.

    The results of the Olympiad will be announced on April 25, 2025. The Olympiad website is HTTPS: // Applied-Mechanics.ru/

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Sobyanin told how the hotline helps passengers of Moscow transport

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    Source: Moscow Government – Government of Moscow –

    The hotline of the Moscow Transport contact center is turning 12 years old. During this time, specialists have received almost 40 million calls, the telegram channel Sergei Sobyanin.

    The hotline is one of the most popular and convenient services for solving any questions about transport. Most often, residents and visitors of the capital call the number: 7 495 539-54-54 or 3210 (from a mobile phone) to clarify the schedule of public transport and the operating hours of railway stations, to find out about the evacuation of a car, as well as the procedure for paying for parking and their location. In addition, Muscovites ask how to return things lost during a trip, and find out the details of paying for travel on transport.

    “For example, in 2024, passengers contacted the contact center almost 200 thousand times on the topic of lost things, about 100 thousand questions were asked about the work of the Troika and the ticket system. Contact center operators consult city residents around the clock and process an average of 6.6 thousand calls per day,” the Moscow Mayor noted.

    Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Telegram channel @Mos_Sobyanin 

    Since 2019, the hotline has been using artificial intelligence: a voice assistant answers questions about vehicle evacuation.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: We invite you to the “Victory Ball” at the State University of Education

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    Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –

    On May 17, 2025, the State University of Management will host a charity “Victory Ball” aimed at strengthening traditional Russian spiritual and moral values among student youth.

    We invite creative groups to join this beautiful and memorable event.

    Pre-registration of participants is required via the link.

    Please dress as close to 1940s fashion as possible. Recommended dress code:

    Ladies: Military uniform of the period 1945, polka dot dresses, crepe de chine and staple dresses in flowers and plain. Possibly a skirt and blouse. Below the knee length. Gloves. On the feet, low-heeled shoes. White socks are possible. Dresses with an open back are not allowed.

    Cavaliers: Military uniform of the 1945 period. Tunic with belt and black classic trousers. Shirts can be white, black, grey, striped, checked. No tie is allowed. If a tie, it should be short, no higher than the middle of the chest. Trousers are wide. Can be black, dark blue, grey, striped, cream, brown. Shoes – boots – black, brown, grey. White gloves are required.

    Master classes on preparing for a masquerade ball are held at the State University of Management every Tuesday from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM.

    Person responsible for the preparation of the event: Deputy Director of the Institute of Distance Education of the State University of Management, Yuri Kozlovsky, tel.: 8(915) 405-38-70.

    The ball will be held at: Ryazansky Prospekt, 99 (Vykhino metro station).

    Event starts at 18:00. Guests will be arriving at 17:00.

    Subscribe to the tg channel “Our State University” Announcement date: 05/17/2025

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Rosneft held a literary patriotic event dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory

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    About 1,000 employees of Rosneft and its subsidiaries in many regions of Russia took part in a collective reading of the famous poem by poet Konstantin Simonov, “Motherland,” as part of events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

    Employees of Samotlorneftegaz, one of Rosneft’s key production assets, read the lines from Rodina at the monument to “Soldiers-fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” in Nizhnevartovsk and at the Samotlor field production site. The volunteers of the oil company were joined by activists of the “Movement of the First” and students of “Rosneft-classes”. An 80-meter St. George ribbon, symbolizing the Great Victory, was unfurled in Nizhnevartovsk’s Victory Park.

    The patriotic action was joined by employees of 33 major production, oilfield services, refining and marketing enterprises of Rosneft: RN-Yuganskneftegaz, ANK Bashneft, RN-Vankor, Rospan International, Kharampurneftegaz, Kondaneft, RN-Krasnodarneftegaz, Udmurtneft, SevKomNeftegaz, Tyumenneftegaz, RN-Bureniye, Saratov Oil Refinery, Novokuibyshevsk Oil and Additives Plant, Syzran Oil Refinery, Tuapse Oil Refinery, Krasnoleninsk Oil Refinery, Angarsk Polymer Plant, NK Rosneft-Stavropolye, RN-Severo-Zapad, RN-Yaroslavl, RN-Tuapse Marine Terminal, as well as institutes scientific and design complex of the Company, etc.

    Rosneft organizes and actively participates in patriotic events that help strengthen historical memory, foster civic responsibility, and preserve cultural heritage. In honor of the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Rosneft employees organize patriotic events, sports competitions, and creative contests aimed at preserving historical memory.

    Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft April 23, 2025

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Implementation of innovations in Samotlorneftegaz gave an economic effect of 6.9 billion rubles

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    Source: Rosneft – Rosneft – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.

    Specialists from Samotlorneftegaz, one of Rosneft’s key production assets, developed 29 projects to improve production efficiency in 2024. The economic effect from their implementation amounted to 6.9 billion rubles – almost 2.6 times more than the year before.

    The greatest result was achieved by the project of compounding (mixing different oil fractions) during primary oil preparation. The new method allows to significantly improve the quality characteristics of the raw material. The creation of an integrated model of the Samotlor field also had a great effect. The digital model of the mechanized production fund allows to quickly optimize the operation of wells. Thanks to the innovation, the efficiency of field operation increases and hydrocarbon production increases.

    Improving production efficiency is one of the key elements of Rosneft’s strategy. The company is carrying out large-scale work aimed at reducing operating costs and optimizing capital investments, including through the introduction of advanced technological solutions.

    Samotlorneftegaz is constantly engaged in innovative activities to improve production indicators, increase the reliability of equipment and rational use of resources.

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    Samotlorneftegaz, one of Rosneft’s key production assets, is developing Russia’s largest Samotlor field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. The total area of the enterprise’s licensed sites is 2.9 thousand square kilometers.

    Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft April 23, 2025

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. A number of events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory were held at the State University of Management

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    Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –

    The closer the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the more thematic events the State University of Management holds.

    The Institute of Personnel Management, Social and Business Communications held a patriotic event on the topic “Military Translators – Contribution to the Great Victory.”

    The students discussed the details of the complex and responsible work of specialists who speak foreign languages. Military translators are needed not only during military operations, but also in peacetime, providing troops with important information. In addition to their main duties, military translators also acted on the battlefield. They provided assistance in rescuing wounded soldiers and participated in special operations.

    One of such specialists was Doctor of Economics, Professor of the State University of Management Boris Ionas. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as a military translator for the intelligence department of the headquarters of the 3rd Guards Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front and reached Berlin with it. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, medals “For the Liberation of Prague” and “For the Capture of Berlin”. After the end of the war, from 1949 until his death in 1989, Boris Yakovlevich worked at the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute (currently the State University of Management) in the Department of Construction Economics, including as the head of the department.

    On April 22 at 12:00, near the entrance to the Central Control and Monitoring Center, a grand opening ceremony of the Immortal Regiment exhibition of the Marketing Institute “The Names of Heroes in Our Hearts” took place.

    First-year students majoring in Advertising and Public Relations, staff and teachers of the Institute of Management collected invaluable evidence, photographs and stories that tell of the feat of our heroes.

    During the opening of the exhibition, the director of the Marketing Institute Gennady Azoev said: “Remembering the exploits of our relatives, we create the history of our Motherland! After all, Motherland and relatives are words with the same root! And the names of our relatives are in our hearts!”

    The exhibition will run until May 12.

    On April 22 at 16:00, a joint screening of Mikhail Kalatozov’s film “The Cranes Are Flying” (1957) was held at the Institute of Economics and Finance. The film is the only Soviet film to receive the Palme d’Or at the Cannes International Film Festival.

    After viewing, the students left their feedback.

    Anzhelika Yamshchikova: “The film immerses you in the atmosphere of military events and conveys the tension and drama on the battlefield. The acting is impressive, each character reliably reflects the real emotions and experiences of the soldiers. The direction and camera work create vivid and memorable scenes, making you think about the price of war and heroism.”

    Ilham Usmonov: “Today I watched the work of art “The Cranes Are Flying” for the first time. In the epilogue, we were shown that not all films, as in real life, do not always have a Happy Ending, but this is not a reason to give up or throw in the towel.”

    Immersion in the history of the Great Patriotic War allows the modern generation of students to better understand the significance of the feat of the Soviet people in those years.

    #Scientific regiment

    Subscribe to the TG channel “Our GUU” Date of publication: 23.04.2025

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: A record number of people attended the parade and exhibition of Moscow trams.

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    Those who wished could enter the salons, examine the cash box and composters. There were also competitions, a concert and a tasting of dishes from the field kitchen.

    A ceremonial tram parade took place in Moscow. A column of 11 retro trams traveled along a new route – from Shabolovka to Danilovskaya Manufactory and back.

    The event guests were also able to visit the renovated tram depot named after P. L. Apakova, which opened its doors to everyone for the first time after a large-scale reconstruction. An exhibition of historical carriages was held on the depot territory.

    “Moscow Transport is happy to support the tradition of holding tram parades in the capital. Last year, we organized three such celebrations, which were attended by more than 500 thousand people. The tram parade on Shabolovka once again proved that residents love and appreciate this wonderful form of transport, which can safely be called a symbol of our city. We will continue to develop the capital’s tram on the instructions of Sergei Sobyanin,” said Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry Maxim Liksutov.

    In total, more than 20 trams of different generations took part in the exhibition. You could enter any car and try out the softness of the seats, hold onto the handrails, examine the cash box and composters – they were used to pay for travel in the past.

    Musical and dance groups performed at the event. The special guest of the program was the musical group “Moralny Kodeks”. Visitors were able to take part in competitions and win memorable prizes, as well as try dishes prepared in the field kitchen.

    The parade and tram exhibition on Shabolovka was seen by more than 220 thousand residents and visitors of the city. This is a record figure for the last five years.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Record attendance at Moscow tram parade and exhibition.

    Moscow recently hosted a grand tram parade that attracted a record-breaking number of visitors. Over 220,000 residents and guests gathered to celebrate the city’s tram history, marking the highest attendance in the past five years.

    A procession of 11 trams travelled along a new route, starting from Shabolovka Street to Danilovskaya Manufactory and then back. Visitors had the unique opportunity to step inside the meticulously restored tramcars, explore their interiors, and take a closer look at vintage fare boxes and ticket punchers, once used for fare collection.

    The celebration extended to the newly renovated P.L. Apakov tram depot, which opened its doors to the public for the first time after an extensive reconstruction. The depot hosted an exhibition featuring over 20 historic tramcars from various generations, allowing attendees to sit on the seats, hold onto the handrails, and immerse themselves in the history of Moscow’s tram system.

    The event was more than just a parade. Visitors enjoyed live performances by musical and dance ensembles, with the renowned band «Moralny Kodex» headlining the program. Guests also participated in contests to win memorable prizes and sampled hearty dishes prepared in a field kitchen.

    Moscow Transport is proud to uphold the tradition of hosting tram parades in the capital. Last year, we organized three such events, drawing over 500,000 visitors. The tram parade at Shabolovka Street once again demonstrated that residents love and appreciate this wonderful mode of transport, which can rightfully be called a symbol of our city. We will continue to develop Moscow’s tram system under the directive of Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, — said Maksim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry.

    Tram parade and exhibition served as a vibrant reminder of the city’s dedication to preserving and celebrating its transportation heritage while continuing to modernize and expand its tram network. This year’s event was a resounding success, bringing the community together to honor a cherished symbol of Moscow.

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  • MIL-OSI Russia: Financial news: Moscow Exchange Financial Services and Alfa Capital launch proprietary funds

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    Source: Moscow Exchange – Moscow Exchange –

    Marketplace for money Financial Services of the Moscow Exchange and the management company Alfa-Capital have started selling proprietary funds — shares of open-end mutual investment funds (OPIF) created to implement investment strategies of famous financial experts. The funds are managed by popular opinion leaders with extensive investment experience who will share their solutions and market vision with investors.

    A product that is innovative for the Russian collective investment industry is available for purchase at marketplace Finuslugi and on the website of the Alfa Capital Management Company. The marketplace and the management company provide all stages of the funds’ functioning, while the authors of strategies have the opportunity to form fund portfolios based on their own expertise and assessment of the prospects of investment ideas. The rules of trust management of funds are registered by the Bank of Russia.

    The new product line includes three funds:

    “Black Line” managed by Nazar Shchetinin, the author of the “Harmful Investor” Telegram channel. The fund will focus on stocks of companies that can create value for their holders, while the expert will open positions during periods of active business development. “The Magnificent Seven” managed by Ivan Kreynin, the author of the Investment Diary Telegram channel. Based on seven key criteria, the fund’s portfolio will select stocks that can show growth in any market environment. “Matryoshka a la Rus” managed by Konstantin Kudritsky, the author of the “Ask Vasilich” Telegram channel. The portfolio, diversified by asset class, will include stocks and bonds of companies from many industries that react differently to the economic situation.

    The funds are available to non-qualified investors, the minimum investment amount is 100 rubles. The total limit on expenses and remuneration provided for by the rules of trust management of the funds is 2.5% of the average annual value of the fund’s net assets. You can leave the fund without restrictions, no commission is charged for buying and selling on the Finuslugi marketplace.

    “Funds managed by invited experts are an absolute breakthrough in the Russian financial market. We offer clients the opportunity not only to follow the authors of well-known investment channels, but also to participate in their strategy. Finuslugi creates an accessible way to invest in fund shares: marketplace clients do not need to open a brokerage account, they just need to top up their wallet and buy the asset they like,” said Igor Alutin, Senior Managing Director for Retail Business, Development of Electronic Platforms and the Finuslugi Project at Moscow Exchange.

    “Author funds are not just open-end mutual funds, they are funds with a public manager, to whose feed investors will soon have access directly within the marketplace, where fund news, webinars and the author’s thoughts on strategy and completed transactions will be published. We hope that the new product will give a powerful impetus to the popularization of collective investments, and will also attract the attention of other market participants to the practice of creating author funds,” said Boris Blokhin, Managing Director for the Stock Market at Moscow Exchange.

    “Launching funds managed by invited experts is a fairly common practice in foreign markets, a proven one. Combining the resources of the management company, expertise and audience coverage of the creators of proprietary strategies will attract additional attention to the retail mutual fund industry and will contribute to the growth of popularity of the portfolio approach to investments in general. We are confident that the joint project with Finuslugi will open a new chapter in the development of the product offer on the Russian market for a larger number of retail investors,” commented Elena Chikulaeva, Strategy Director of Alfa Capital Management Company.

    Finuslugi is a marketplace for money created by the Moscow Exchange. On Finuslugi, you can select and open bank deposits online 24/7, take out cash loans, purchase mutual fund units, OSAGO, CASCO, mortgage insurance, real estate insurance policies, as well as public bonds of companies and Russian regions. You can top up deposits and accounts on Finuslugi for free using the Fast Payment System (FPS). The service can be used regardless of the region, anywhere in Russia and the world. More details on website.

    Alfa Capital Management Company is one of the largest companies in the asset management market. Alfa Capital Management Company was established in 1996 and is a pioneer in the asset management market for private, institutional and corporate investors.

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