This is reported by “TASS” with reference to the statement of the President of the Russian Federation of Computer Sports Dmitry Smith. According to him, recognition will allow holding official competitions on the territory of the country like the Cup of Russia for games included in the discipline program.

Expected news from data.ai (formerly App Annie). The weekly revenue of mobile games in Eastern Europe has significantly decreased in recent months — from $50 million to $30 million. Of course, because of Russia.

This is reported by “TASS” with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Finance. It is not specified from what moment this rule will take effect.

The Government’s Commission on legislative Activity has already agreed on amendments to the tax Code prepared by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance. This is reported by RBC.

The head of the Ministry of Finance Maksut Shadaev sent a letter with such a proposal to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko at the end of April. But the letter got to the disposal of the media only now, its contents were shared by Kommersant.

This was stated by the Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion, in the program “The Church and the World” on the TV channel “Russia 24”.

Two weeks ago, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation published a list of goods that can be imported into Russia without the permission of the copyright holder. Now the department has officially approved it.

This was announced by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. He clarified that only employees of accredited IT companies will be able to take out such a mortgage. The maximum loan amount in the million-plus regions will be 18 million rubles, in other regions — 9 million rubles.

How much the earnings of top mobile games in Russia have decreased and how significantly the volumes of the domestic mobile entertainment market have fallen since the end of February — I was looking at the AppMagic database App2Top.ru .

Developers from Russia were given back the opportunity to receive payments from Steam. Yesterday, the administration of the platform sent a system message with instructions for the updated payment system.

The Government of the Russian Federation chooses an import substitute for the App Store and Google Play. Earlier, ANO “Digital Platforms” announced the NashStore. Now its competitors can become “Sber”, “Yandex” and VK.

The Russian government has allocated 21.5 billion rubles from the reserve fund to support the IT sector. This became known from the government decree of April 1, 2022.

Almost a quarter of gaming companies with offices/ employees in Russia conducted indexing, or made additional payments to their employees due to rising inflation.

The domestic gaming major MY.GAMES has released a report on the state of the Russian video game market for the past year. According to his estimate, the market volume reached 177.4 billion rubles (or $2.4 billion, based on the average annual dollar exchange rate of 73.6 rubles).

After the sanctions measures, the Russian traffic of digital gaming platforms — primarily Steam and Epic Games Store — has significantly decreased. At the same time, the attendance of domestic services and torrent trackers has increased.

The Ministry of Finance plans to create a Russian equivalent of the App Store and Google Play. The decision was made at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy.

Instagram Facebook Today, March 21, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow recognized the activities of the Meta Platform company as extremist and banned the operation of its Facebook and Instagram services in Russia. We asked a representative of the Semenov & Pevzner law firm to briefly explain what this means.

It has become much more difficult to start a company abroad. According to the new presidential decree, residents of the Russian Federation are now prohibited from paying shares, shares and deposits to foreign legal entities. We talked to legal experts about the new law.

Today, on March 18, developers and authors of content for the Steam workshop began to receive notifications from Valve stating that “due to current events, it is impossible to send bank payments to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.”