The price of land in the village is likely to reach 7 million rubles ($95,200) by the end of 2021 due to high demand when foreign tourism is limited. According to real estate data agency CIAN, the price of houses in the village is currently between 40 million and 900 million rubles (from about $544,400 to $12.2 million). Demand to buy houses mainly comes from successful businessmen in big cities. Prices here are above the income of an ordinary Russian. Guests gather at a cafe in the village of Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Photo: Reuters. At the same time, rents have also increased as many people want to temporarily move away from the city to Krasnaya Polyana to work remotely. The local airport is about 40 minutes by car from the village and there is a hiking trail directly from the village. “I love climbing mountains and relaxing at night spots in the village,” said Kirill Ryzhonkov, a data analyst from Moscow. Krasnaya Polyana is a scenic village located in the mountains near the Black Sea. The village is surrounded by mountains, has good quality tap water, fresh air – these are hard to find in Moscow at this time, according to Reuters . The village has about 5,000 inhabitants, similar to many other places in Russia. The difference is that there are many good services with cafes, restaurants, pubs with fast Wifi speed. Some of the restaurants here were built before the Covid-19 epidemic to serve skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Services decided to stay open all year round because residents no longer worried about guests. Guests from Moscow will bring Covid-19. A public workspace mainly serving IT workers and start-ups opened in October 2020. This office owner wishes to turn Krasnaya Polyana into Russia’s Silicon Valley in the future despite the obstacles of the epidemic. “People saw the potential of Krasnaya Polyana: in the same time zone as Moscow, only 2 hours away from Moscow, skiing in winter and sea in summer, as well as the infrastructure for the Olympics before.” Ilya Kreimer, manager of this office said.

According to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, anyone over the age of 18 who receives the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine between June 14 and July 11 will automatically be drawn into a lucky draw for a car. According to Sobyanin, five cars worth one million rubles ($13,900) each will be given away weekly. The move comes in an effort to speed up the slow pace of vaccination in this city as the number of new infections in Russia continues to increase. “This is only a temporary solution. To avoid difficult blockade measures and ensure improvement of the situation, we need to speed up the vaccination,” – Mayor Sobyanin shared. A medical professional holds a vial of the Russian-made Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine on January 18. Photo: REUTERS The Russian capital recorded 7,704 new infections on June 13, the most in a single day since December 24, 2020. Russian authorities also reported 14,723 cases nationwide, the largest single-day total since February 13. Earlier in the day, Mayor Sobyanin informed the city’s residents to take a break from work next week to help limit the spread of the disease and to enjoy a productive “long holiday”. Mr. Sobyanin once publicly lamented the small number of people choosing to vaccinate. After the call for people to get vaccinated to receive free cars, the mayor of Moscow did not disclose specific figures on the number of people who came for the injection. On May 21, Mayor Sobyanin announced that about 1.3 million of the more than 12 million people in the capital had received one dose, Reuters news. Russia was the first country in the world to approve a COVID-19 vaccine for domestic use, before the start of large-scale trials.

These word-of-mouth statements are almost consistent with information from the US Senate hearing on a request to fund NASA with a figure of $ 585 million to invest in nuclear-powered propulsion technology in the fiscal year 2022. and other American efforts in this area. This means that Russia’s space nuclear energy program is not only for technical purposes, but also for geopolitical purposes. Russia’s current program has its roots in the Soviet era. The Soviet Union launched a total of 33 military satellites with the function of spying and targeting targets equipped with nuclear reactors into low orbit around the Earth from 1969 to 1988. Most of these satellites used reactors. Buk type nuclear power generation reactor, only 2 of them using advanced thermal electron furnace NPP Topaz with generating capacity from 4.5 to 5.5 kW, however, this project was suspended in 1986 . In the early 1990s, a Russian-American cooperation project aimed at continuing the development of the Topaz furnace, but this project was suspended in 1995. In the period 2000-2007, Russia also tried to find ways to cooperate with China. Nation in this field. Despite the economic decline for a long time, Moscow has been trying to continue its independent efforts in the field of the use of nuclear energy in space since 1998, and during the time of President Dmitry Medvedev in power, the This effort has been identified as a key priority for the Kremlin. The budget for this program of Russia for the period 2010-2018 is 17 billion rubles, divided between Roscosmos 9.8 billion rubles and Rosatom 7.2 billion rubles, equivalent to $560 million in 2010 exchange rates. However, the actual disbursement figure is much smaller. In 2010, only 500 million rubles ($16.5 million) were allocated for this purpose. Over the next decade, total disbursements reached nearly 10 billion rubles ($213 million), according to public information from Roscosmos and Rosatom. The results of these efforts have not been as successful as they initially suggested. For example, the technical requirements of the proposed product are an outer space nuclear reactor with a capacity of 1 MW of electricity and an ion thruster with a capacity of 50 kW. However, the reality shows that Russia is currently only developing nuclear power generation systems YaEU-25M, YaEU-25 and YaEU-50 with a generating capacity of 10-40 kW and propulsion using ionic force. 25 kW. At present, perhaps Russia is just stopping at the computational model run for more powerful reactors and engines. For comparison, NASA is still trying to design a 10 kW outer space nuclear reactor with a Stirling engine for the purpose of increasing efficiency, currently Russia is still revolving around the thermal electron model, and the problem of using Using engines or turbines in combination with reactors is still only a theory. It is hard to believe that Russia will design a nuclear reactor in space with a generating capacity of 1 MW or ion propulsion engines with a larger capacity in the near future. Anyway, Moscow is still trying to turn the results achieved into advanced applications in long-distance space travel or foreign politics. Due to a decline in space research activities in other sub-sectors, coupled with economic weakness, these problems have prompted the Kremlin to look for another trump card. While the development of nuclear reactors for space exploration is far from complete, the Russian government as well as industry is currently looking for the application of nuclear reactors to satellites. military. These satellites can be used for radar reconnaissance or electronic warfare (for example jamming) when they are deployed in low, mid or geostationary orbits. However, no tests of such satellites have yet been conducted, meaning Moscow is not ready to field such satellites in the near future. In addition, the promotion of nuclear-powered spacecraft could be used by Russian space and nuclear industry units as a tool to apply for funding, to promote a slow and risky research program. this. For its part, the Kremlin is still trying to blur its true purpose. They came up with the “Strategy for the development of nuclear energy in space by 2030 in 2019, and issued relevant policies for the first time in 1998. Even if Russian military satellites are used by Russian military satellites. Nuclear power appeared in 2030, it also did not bring about significant changes in the technical and military fields. However, Moscow is still trying to polish it as a tool to help shift political supremacy. First, Russia has consistently supported the ban on placing weapons in outer space. Second, Russia will not be able to stand in the forefront of space technology without cooperating with other countries in the field, so Russian leaders see nuclear technology in space as a way to develop. cooperation, even in times of growing hostility in the West. The Russian SPT-100 series Ion Thruster has been used on satellites since 1994.

According to the developers, the tugboat weighs 80 kg, carrying 16 kg of liquid fuel. The tugboat is designed to pull a number of satellites into different orbits. That is seen as a competitive advantage over missiles without tugs. Russia is ambitious in future tugboat development projects. Russia is popularizing the use of the accelerator decks, in fact the tugboats put satellites in different orbits. On March 22, the Fregat stage used in the Soyuz rocket carried 38 foreign satellites to different orbits. By the end of 2020, Russian media reported that Roskosmos State Space Group would spend 4.2 billion rubles on the development of nuclear space tugs for flights to other planets of the solar system. Accordingly, the state corporation plans to develop a preliminary project on creating a space complex with an energy-transport module based on a nuclear electric motor. Expressing confidence in this program, Mr. Alexander Bloshenko – chief executive officer “Roskosmos” said the nuclear space tugboat will be launched to one of the satellites of Jupiter by 2030.

Central Bank of Russia. (Source: TASS) Reluctantly “the victim” The Russian local currency has fallen more than 3% in the past month, currently trading at about 76 rubles for 1 USD. The sharp slump took the Ruble hard, in one of the most severe of any emerging market’s leading currency. Analysts expect the ruble to rebound in 2021 after falling 16% last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and falling oil prices. While the Russian economy is reviving, the country’s Ministry of Economy has just revised its growth forecast to 3.8% last week and Russian businesses are rushing to capitalize on the stock boom to sell. stocks, ruble will be an important instrument signaling the health of the economy in the strained relationship with the West which has not seen a stop. Russian economist Sofya Donets at Renaissance Capital said, “Geopolitics is what is driving the movement of money markets – especially concerns about tougher sanctions from Washington, which have caused too much. damage to the Russian economy in recent years, before the situation is “hot” gradually at the border with Ukraine “. Sharing the same view, BlueBay Asset Management strategist Timothy Ash asserted: “Obviously at the moment, geopolitical concerns are having a big impact on the Ruble.” In it, a clear indication of the Ruble’s sensitivity to potential diplomatic changes is the possibility of an immediate upstream rise, following a phone call between US President Biden and his counterpart. Russia Putin. The White House said Biden had expressed “concerns about Russia’s sudden military build-up in Crimea and on the Ukrainian border, and urged Russia to de-escalate tensions.” Recent worries have also aroused in the Russian government bond market – a most likely target as the United States imposes sanctions in response to the international cyberattack SolarWinds, in which Moscow is alleged. to interfere in the 2020 presidential election or the poisoning and imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. “Weapons” counterattack In fact, US sanctions against Russia have already severely affected the Ruble and government bonds. However, analysts said that this new move will not have a significant negative impact on the Russian budget and market in the long term, because Russia has already prepared. In retaliation for the cyber attack, the White House said that President Joe Biden had ordered the expansion of existing restrictions on US banks dealing with the Russian government, expelling 10 diplomats and punish 32 individuals. However, shortly after the sanctions were issued, the Russian Ministry of Finance announced its decision to cut 875 billion Rubles ($ 11.45 billion) in the 2021 loan plan compared to the previous plan of 700 cuts. billion Ruble. Initially, Russia plans to borrow 3,700 billion rubles with OFZ bonds (Russian government bonds issued in rubles) by 2021. In response to the US sanctions, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said the new sanctions mean that US banks will miss opportunities, at the same time, said the demand for bonds Russian government remains at a high level. And Russia will carefully study the market conditions when deciding whether to add more OFZ in the coming weeks. To avoid the risk of being forced to sell bonds by foreign investors, the Russian Ministry of Finance will cut the 2021 loan plan more than expected and will only provide new OFZ bonds from June 14 – the day after US banks will then be banned from buying ruble government bonds directly from Russia. The share of international banks, pension funds and international wealth managers among OFZ bond holders has declined over the past several months. At the end of March, foreigners’ share among OFZ holders fell to 20.2%, the lowest level since August 2015. However, Russian state-owned banks such as Sberbank and VTB have guaranteed to replace foreign investors if necessary and help the Russian Ministry of Finance use OFZ bonds to cover the budget. According to statistics, US investors only hold about 7% of OFZ, with a value of less than 1 trillion rubles, lower than the amount of OFZ worth more than 4 trillion rubles held by Sberbank and VTB. Analysts expect the ruble to rebound in 2021 after falling 16% last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and falling oil prices. Consensus to de-dollarize and reduce dependence Recently, President of the Federal Council (Senate) of Russia, Ms. Valentina Matvienko, noted that the Central Bank of this country and the government “at the behest of President Putin are still pursuing a policy of de-dollarization.” To date, the Russian Federation’s gold and foreign exchange reserves have become less dependent on the US dollar, and Russian investments in US government bonds have also fallen 30 times over the past 10 years. In a recent interview, the President of the Federal Council stated the reason, the dollar, of course, will not disappear anywhere, it is and will be widely circulated, not prohibited from use. . But reducing dependence on a financial center is the right policy and the Russian Parliament supports it in any way possible, since it is a matter of the sovereignty of the country. Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also affirmed that Russia should reduce its dependence on USD, which must be done due to the risk of potential new US sanctions. Recently, Russia has been constantly taking steps to consolidate the ruble, increasing its attraction to businesses and its citizens and this is bringing about significant results, as the Ruble appears more and more in the investment transactions and trade exchanges.