From January to September 2026, construction of 3.03 thousand apartment buildings was approved in Russia, and this became the lowest figure in six years, RBC writes, citing data from the Unified Information System for Housing Construction (EISHS) and market participants. The decline in housing demand amid the cancellation of the untargeted subsidized mortgage, the tightening of the family program, and expensive lending led to a reduction in new projects.

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Norilsk Nickel President Vladimir Potanin said in an interview with RBC that the tax burden on business has already exceeded the level after which it begins to hurt budget revenues. He named the shortage of investment as the key internal problem for the coming years.

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In Russia, some online media outlets and services experienced a disruption: the websites of several major publications and platforms stopped opening. Some companies linked the outages to an attack on Yandex’s data center in the Ryazan region, and the company itself confirmed a fire and the suspension of the site’s operations.

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In 2026, Sberbank’s portfolio included cross-border M&A deals in which Russian owners buy assets abroad, the bank’s first deputy chairman Alexander Vedyakhin told RBC on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum. He called such transactions isolated and said they are not visible on the surface because of confidentiality.

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