Breaking News and Important Updates for Africans in Russia by E-Solutions.

📰What’s New? ☕ Starbucks is coming back? The Starbucks coffee chain, which left Russia after February 2022 and sold its business, filed applications for registration of 14 trademarks at the end of May. 🇺🇿In Russia, the number of labor migrants from Uzbekistan has decreased fourfold The number of labor migrants from Uzbekistan in Russia has decreased from 4–6 million to 1 million since 2016. According to the government of the republic, this is due to the effectiveness of the country’s economic reform. The country began paying returning migrants compensation for visas, exams and tickets from June 1. 🇷🇺Microsoft has disabled the subscriptions of half of Russia’s organizations Russian companies are restricted with Visio Online, Project Online and Power BI. However, the restrictions did not affect individual Russians. Mircosoft has blocked cloud services for Russian companies due to the 12th package of EU sanctions including a ban on the supply of business analytics software. @news_esolutions

🌍 Top News Updates 🇲🇽A woman became the President of Mexico for the first time ☄️Media: NATO is creating a plan for the transfer of US troops to the borders of Russia in the event of a conflict with the Russian Federation ⚽️The Telegraph has learned that Mbappe will receive €150 million for his contract with Real Madrid 📲Social network X (formerly Twitter) has allowed users to post pornographic content 🇮🇳In India, 33 people died from the heat during exit polls; they were held as part of parliamentary elections, in which, according to preliminary data, the ruling party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won 🇲🇻The Maldives will ban entry into the country for holders of Israeli passports. The state religion of the islands is Islam 🌾In Russia, due to lost crops, they are preparing to introduce a federal emergency regime 💳In Russia they propose to change the legislation so that Mir cards are accepted abroad 🇹🇷The Turkish Foreign Minister announced the country’s desire to join BRICS @news_esolutions

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🇷🇺In Russia 📥A bill on a shortened working week for women with two or more children will be submitted to the Duma 👴Citizens who reach 80 years of age in May will receive a double fixed payment of 8,134 rubles, and the total amount will be 16,269 rubles. Disabled people who received in May will receive the same bonus. 🥃 From June 1, the sale of alcoholic beverages in summer cafes was allowed. But the establishment must have a license to sell alcohol. 👧Parole for women with children. From June 10, 2024, some women in prison will be able to apply for parole and replacement of the unserved part of the sentence with a more lenient form. 🤰Pregnant Russian women may be transferred to work remotely. The largest banks will combine data on customer accounts in their applications. The project is being launched by VTB with Alfa Bank and Sberbank with Tinkoff. According to media, Gazprombank has similar plans. By the end of summer 2024, the project will be launched for 100,000 clients. @news_esolutions

Infographic: Countries With the Highest GDP per Capita in Africa This chart shows the African countries with the highest GDP per capita in 2023. @news_esolutions

🌍Around Africa 🪙Monetary regulators in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Sudan and Ghana are introducing new restrictions on street currency trading, Bloomberg writes. Street currency traders are accused of undermining currencies and are arrested and subject to heavy fines. The parallel markets’ exchange rates are much more commonly used than the official ones. The rise in street currency trading is due to a shortage of dollars in official channels and low rates. 🇳🇬One year after PresidentTinubu came to office, investor excitement over his reforms has faded. Some say they’ll reconsider their positions if Nigeria stabilizes its currency 🇿🇲Zambia’s annual inflation accelerated further in May, fanned by currency weakness and the effects of an El Niño-induced drought, the worst in at least four decades 🇿🇦South Africa’s ruling party falls short of retaining its parliamentary majority in its worst electoral performance since coming to power at the end of apartheid three decades ago @news_esolutions

🌍Top News Updates 🇩🇪On June 1, Germany introduced a new type of visa, Chancenkarte (“Chance Card”). It allows a foreigner to move without an offer of employment. The residence permit will be issued for a year. During this time, the foreigner must find a job. The German authorities are introducing this type of visa against the backdrop of a shortage of personnel. ⚽️Real Madrid won the Champions League for the 15th time. 🛢️The price of oil decreased slightly against the backdrop of the decision of the OPEC+ countries. OPEC+ countries will extend voluntary production cuts by 1.66 million bpd to 2025 💸The IMF will make the final decision on allocating $2.2 billion to Ukraine in the coming weeks 🏦The G7 and the EU are discussing restrictions against banks that use SPFS, the Russian equivalent of SWIFT— Bloomberg 🇲🇻The Maldives is banning entry to Israeli citizens due to the situation in the Gaza Strip- The Sun. About 15000 tourists from Israel visit the country every year. @news_esolutions

“I have tasted love without money and ‘Tueh’ (spits out in disgust), it’s not even sweet at all. Wait, wait, don’t judge me. Hear me out first. I met him at a work function. I was just climbing up the ladder in my career at that time but I was already making good money… We had been together for about eight months and I was in his apartment one afternoon when his phone lit up with a credit alert for a large sum of money. His balance even shocked me…” Read the rest of today’s blog post on the ESolutions website👇🏿 WHEN MONEY ENTER, LOVE IS SWEETER @news_esolutions

At least 17,000 representatives from 136 countries will participate in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024 (SPIEF), which will be held on June 5–8— Roscongress Foundation 🧑‍⚖️The Supreme Court emphasized the equality of both parents in determining the place of residence of children after divorce, there is no unconditional reason to leave the child to the mother 💲The families of the deceased participants of the special operation will be able to receive two pensions at the same time 📞Putin allowed Rostelecom structures to fully buy out Nokia's share 💸Raiffeisenbank will suspend outgoing payments in dollars from June 10 🍾Starting from June 1, alcohol will be allowed to be sold on summer verandas 💳Pensions for military pensioners will be indexed by 5.1% from Oct 1 💵The average monthly nominal salary in Russia increased by 21.6% in March compared to March 2023. This amounted to ₽87,740 🎑Putin instructed to organize a World Youth Festival once every six years @news_esolutions

In Russia 🇷🇺The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to limit sales of alcohol in duty free on domestic flights This is because of an increase in the number of drunken fighters 🍻More than 40 regions of Russia will limit the sale of alcohol on June 1 💨The draft law banning vaping could not be agreed upon 🦠Russia entered the top 3 countries for measles incidence in Europe 🌆Anapa was deprived of its city status, now it is a municipal district. The resort did not meet the criteria: an urban population and the area of ​​the territory 🧑‍🏫The Russian Government will allocate funds for increased payments to class teachers 🥵 The last day of spring in Moscow was the hottest in the last 17 years (May 31, 2007). It was +31.7 in Moscow 🪲 More than 3,000 people in the Moscow region recently sought medical help after tick bites 🪪 In Russia, there is a more cases where border guards refuse tourists to travel abroad and confiscate passports based on criteria, including technical data errors @news_esolutions