Wildberries cuts FBS late-dispatch fines: 0.2% per hour at 48–52 hour…

On 7 October Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with members of the Russian Security Council by video conference, discussing current domestic and foreign policy issues. The Kremlin press service said participants included Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev, SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin and Defence Minister Andrei Belousov.

The Russian government has allocated another 10.7 billion roubles from its reserve fund to support closed airports in the central and southern parts of the country. The money will partially cover the airports' routine operating expenses and interest payments on credit or loan agreements for July 2025 – June 2026. Airports in Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Anapa, Gelendzhik, Elista, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, Simferopol and Lipetsk have been closed to civil flights since February 2022; Elista resumed in May 2024, Gelendzhik in July 2025 and Krasnodar in September.

On 7 October, the foreign ministers of the CIS member states adopted a statement on preventing an arms race in outer space.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Washington has shown understanding of Moscow's position on resuming talks with Ukraine after large-scale Ukrainian attacks during the State Duma election; Moscow wants to know what Kiev intends to bring back to the table. He recalled that the US proposed trilateral talks and Russia agreed on the understanding that the election would be held first, with timing, venue and agenda agreed afterwards. He said Kiev did everything to disrupt the Duma vote with an unprecedented number of attacks on civilian targets, including polling stations.

The Turkish presidency said Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin discussed by phone the safety of navigation in the Black Sea and the Ukraine settlement. The readout said the call also covered regional and global issues; Erdogan stressed the importance of initiatives to ensure safe shipping in the Black Sea and expressed readiness to help arrange direct contacts between Russia and Ukraine. He also congratulated Putin on his birthday and on the September State Duma election.

On 7 October US President Donald Trump spoke about a planned phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and mentioned Putin's birthday. Interfax reported the same day that, answering reporters at the White House, Trump said a telephone conversation was on his schedule.

Rosstat data show consumer prices in Russia rose 0.96% between 29 September and 5 October, after 0.12% the previous week; utility tariffs were indexed on 1 October, with wastewater +17.1%, cold water +15.3%, hot water +14.2%, heating +12.7% and electricity +12%. Annual inflation stood at 7.17% on 5 October by the Ministry of Economic Development's estimate, against 6.26% on 28 September. The ministry put the contribution of tariff indexation to weekly inflation at 0.75 pp; excluding utilities, prices changed 0.21% on the week. The Central Bank kept its key rate at 14% on 11 September, with a 2026 inflation forecast of 6–7%.

According to data on the Bank of Russia website, Russia's international reserves fell by $37.262bn, or 4.8%, in September 2026, to $731.760bn from $769.022bn. Over January–September reserves declined $23.093bn, or 3.1%. The value of monetary gold fell $31.877bn, or 9.6%, to $301.607bn, with gold's share dropping to 41.2% on 1 October from 43.4% on 1 September.

According to Kommersant, exchange trading volume in the Chinese yuan rose 43% in September. No further detail was given in the feed headline and subheading.

The administration of the Evenki district said a 'high alert' regime has been introduced in the settlement of Tura and the Ilimpiya group of localities in northern Krasnoyarsk Krai due to food shortages. The cause is the halt of navigation on the Nizhnyaya Tunguska river and limited stocks of vegetables, fruit, milk and eggs. Shops still stock canned vegetables, fish and meat, cereals, flour, sugar, salt, pasta and meat products. Five flights from Krasnoyarsk delivered food in September; five more cargo flights are planned for 7–12 October, three for social institutions and two for sale in shops.

Tatyana Skvortsova, director of the digital identity technology department at the Ministry of Digital Development, said at the Digital Solutions forum that Russian telecom operators and banks will send digital platforms information about customers' deaths so that inactive accounts can be blocked promptly and fraud curbed. She said the exchange of data on fraudsters and victims is already being launched without legislative amendments, and that responsibility for failure to act on signals sent to the state Anti-Fraud system, as well as connecting digital platforms to it, is under discussion. She noted several platforms including Yandex are already connected, with Avito expected to join.

On 7 October foreign leaders sent birthday greetings to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lists of those who congratulated him were published by Gazeta.Ru and Kommersant. According to Interfax, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Iranian president combined their greetings with discussions of bilateral issues.

The village of Printsevka in the Valuyki district of Belgorod region came under rocket fire. The regional task force said an 11-year-old girl was killed and four civilians wounded, including another child; an 11-year-old girl with a closed chest injury was taken to Valuyki district hospital and will be transferred to the regional children's clinical hospital. Women aged 72 and 47 and a 60-year-old man were hospitalised with shrapnel wounds to the legs, arms and shoulder. The task force said two private houses and a car were damaged. In the village of Kazinka a car was damaged by a drone detonation and another drone hit an enterprise, breaking windows; in Dolgoye a drone struck a private house, damaging the roof.

The Russian Defence Ministry said that on Wednesday a dry cargo ship was hit while underway at sea. The ministry said the vessel was delivering cargo intended for the Ukrainian armed forces to the port of Odessa. No further details were given.

On the evening of 7 October temporary restrictions were imposed at Penza and Saratov airports; Gelendzhik airport was also placed under temporary restrictions the same day. RIA Novosti and Interfax both cite Rosaviatsia.

According to RIA Novosti, three civilians were killed in the Donetsk People's Republic over 24 hours.

Rosatom confirmed on 7 October the closing of its buyout of Sergei Shishkarev's 51% stake in Delo Group. The corporation's press service told Interfax that the price did not change and borrowed funds were used, with financial terms undisclosed. Under the 'Russian roulette' procedure the buyout price for the 51% stake was set at 77 billion roubles. Rosatom previously held 49% of Delo Group. Director General Alexei Likhachev said the final consolidation of all Rosatom logistics assets is beginning, which will create the largest national logistics company.

According to Kommersant, Russian exports of leather and fur grew by almost 60%. The comparison period and absolute figures were not given in the feed headline and subheading.

According to Kommersant, the use of artificial intelligence made it possible to identify 48% more confirmed vulnerabilities in infrastructure. The methodology and sample scope were not given in the feed headline and subheading.

According to Kommersant, Lionel Messi scored a goal in his final match for the Argentina national team. The opponent and score were not given in the feed headline.

Wildberries has cut late-dispatch fines for sellers operating under the FBS model (shipping from the seller's own warehouse); the new rules took effect on 7 October and run until the end of the year. The fine is calculated on the item price including the seller's discount: for delays of 48 to 52 hours it accrues at 0.2% of the price for each hour from the 48th hour; for delays of 52 hours or more the fine is fixed at 1% of the price regardless of how long the delay lasts. According to the E-Commerce Market Participants Association, under severe delays the fine could previously reach 9% of the item value, with an hourly rate of 0.3%. FBS bonuses remain in place: commission reduced by 5 percentage points for dispatch within 13 hours and by 3.5 points for 13–42 hours; the auto-cancellation window has been extended to 192 hours.

Yevgeny Etin, director of innovation and ecosystem development at RWB (the combined company that includes Wildberries), said at the Digital Solutions forum that Wildberries will launch, in pilot mode, its own digital procurement platform for state educational organisations, with a maximum of 5 million rubles per purchase. State kindergartens, schools, colleges and technical schools will be able to buy stationery, household goods, equipment and machinery, with orders fulfilable through the Wildberries logistics network. The service opens first to a test group of sellers, after which the company plans to open registration to all partners meeting public-procurement requirements; sellers must register in the unified procurement participant register in the unified information system, and connection is free. The marketplace public-procurement experiment started on 1 October 2026 under Federal Law No. 278.

The report describes how patent trolls first watch which goods sellers buy most often at wholesale markets, then check buyer demand and study the manufacturer: if a product sells well and comes from a little-known Chinese brand, they register the trademark in their own name and then claim compensation from sellers, ranging from tens of thousands to 1 million rubles. Sellers are typically offered a choice: pay the rights holder 150,000 rubles a month, or pay 1 million rubles once and get two months to clear stock; refusal means the product card is frozen and the seller pays to retrieve goods from the warehouse. A second scheme buys exclusive rights to card images from the photographers and designers who produced them, then claims around 20,000–30,000 rubles per card. Lawyers interviewed name only two protections: sign licence agreements and secure rights in your own name before listing, and work directly with the manufacturer; once in court, the only option is to argue the compensation down. The Federal Antimonopoly Service is aware of the practice and trademark registration now requires proof of intent to run a real business, but the problem remains unresolved.

Uzbekistan's Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade signed an investment agreement with Wildberries to build a class-A logistics complex in Tashkent region, covering 180,000 sq m at an estimated project cost of $140 million, to be delivered in 2027–2028. The agreement was signed following the Uzbekistan–Russia Regional Council meeting held in Fergana on 6 October; four agreements were signed in total, the other three being inter-regional cooperation deals between Fergana and Omsk regions, Surkhandarya region and Krasnoyarsk Krai, and Namangan region and Dagestan. The company had earlier said it was doing planned work on facilities in other countries and that efforts were focused on redistributing goods across warehouses for partner resilience, including shifting capacity to Kazakhstan.

Interfax, citing Iran's FARS news agency, reports that IRGC adviser Mohammad Reza Naghdi said Iran fully controls the Strait of Hormuz and plans to close routes not coordinated with Tehran. He said the small number of routes created by violators would soon be blocked, and that this would continue until Tehran's legitimate demands were met. The report provides no list of routes, timeline or traffic data, and does not mention any impact on Chinese sellers' shipments to Russia.

Acting director of the Economic Development Ministry's digital development and data economy department Gleb Turkanov said at the Digital Solutions forum that the ministry plans to abolish the criteria required for platforms to be listed in the intermediary digital platform registry. The current criteria are an average daily audience of more than 100,000 people plus one of two conditions: more than 10,000 active partners, or partner turnover through the platform above 50 billion rubles over the preceding year. He explained that the first stage was meant to cover large platforms that adapt quickly, but many platforms that do not meet the criteria also want to join the registry and comply, so the criteria requirements are to be scrapped in response to market demand. The ministry press service added that scrapping the criteria will be part of a package of amendments to the law; the second package of measures published in mid-September proposes an effective date of 1 March 2027. The registry currently lists 13 resources, including Wildberries, Ozon, Avito, Lamoda, AliExpress and several Yandex services. The digital platform legislation governing relations between platform operators, partners and users took effect on 1 October.

The association of household appliance and computer equipment traders and manufacturers, the Russian Textile Association, the Leonardo chain and operators of several regional shopping centres sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asking for tighter tax oversight of marketplaces to level trading conditions; the government executive office confirmed receipt. The letter proposes restricting or banning agency and commission models for online sales where the scheme is used for tax evasion, limiting use of the simplified tax system, and considering either requiring pickup points to use the general tax system or introducing a compensatory levy of 5% of the turnover of goods handed out. Wildberries said the claim that the agency model lets platforms cut their tax burden is untrue: sellers pay tax on goods sales and the platform pays tax on income from its own services. Ozon and Yandex Market declined to comment. Yulia Orlova, partner in the tax and law department at DRT, argues that moving pickup points to the general system effectively cancels the partnership model, with pickup-point margins typically at 3–8%, so an extra 5% levy could push a large share of points into loss. The piece also cites an earlier estimate that forgone budget revenue in 2026 could reach 440–690 billion rubles.

Deputy Prime Minister and chief of the government executive office Dmitry Grigorenko said at the Digital Solutions forum that legal entities will be able to register using an address in the state electronic postal system created under recent amendments to the postal communications law instead of a physical address; the relevant bill will be published for public discussion. For tax registration the proposal is to use the head's home address, which will not be shown in the unified state register of legal entities; Russian Post will operate the system. The government resolution is expected to take effect on 1 March 2027, with the provisions on use of electronic mailboxes from 1 September. Later the same day the Finance Ministry published two bills (amending part one of the Civil Code and the law on state registration of legal entities and sole proprietors) with an effective date of 1 January 2028: using an email address for contact with third parties will be voluntary and reversible at any time, and available to limited liability companies that are SME entities, carry out non-licensable activities and do not provide professional financial-market services, provided the head resides in Russia.

Aleksey Fedorov, head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry's e-commerce council, calculated for Vedomosti that Russia's power-tool rental market reached 1.6 billion rubles in the first half of 2026, up 33% year on year (January–June 2025: 1.2 billion rubles, up 20%). Mikhail Burmistrov, CEO of Infoline-Analytics, gives a different reading: the market grew 15% in money terms over the six months (25% a year earlier), with the combined revenue of the largest specialist retailers in this area, including repair and garden equipment, exceeding 2.3 billion rubles. The article notes that in the current economic situation consumers find it cheaper to rent such equipment than to buy it.

Kommersant calculated from Rosstat's August report on the country's socio-economic situation that in January–July 2026 exports of raw hides, fur and fur goods rose 59.1% year on year and imports 20.1%, amounting to $2 million and $8 million respectively. Overall Russian exports over January–July grew 16.5% to $271.8 billion and imports 15% to $192.8 billion. Experts attribute the export growth to recovering foreign demand for natural fur and a spring rise in raw material prices: according to the Soyuzpushnina association, the average auction price of a wild sable pelt reached about $340 in March 2026 versus about $135 a year earlier, easing to $240 by September. Captive fur output is falling: 107 thousand pelts in May 2026, 138 thousand in June and 80.24 thousand in July, against monthly averages of 200–290 thousand in 2023–2025; more than 80% of the fur produced in the country is exported to Asian countries, mainly China, Cambodia and Vietnam. Russia lacks capacity for high-quality dressing, dyeing and sewing, so companies buy finished materials and goods mainly from China and Turkey. According to Avito, sales of fur coats on resale rose 39% year on year in January–July and new ones 59%; faux-fur coats were bought 67% more often on resale and 2.1 times more often new.

Interfax reports that from 8 October the Central Bank lowered its official dollar rate by 23.05 kopecks to 85.4811 rubles and raised the euro rate by 29.74 kopecks to 96.3287 rubles; the official yuan rate for the same rate day is 12.7516 rubles. On the exchange, the yuan rose 4.5 kopecks to 12.75 rubles by 19:00; trading took place in thin market conditions because of the Chinese holiday period (1–7 October) when the country's exchanges were closed. From that day the Central Bank buys foreign currency under the budget rule at 12.1 billion rubles a day, against 1.9 billion in September, an increase of more than 6.3 times; last month this was about 1% of daily exchange turnover, this month about 7%. Because of low turnover in the ruble/euro pair, since 8 June the Central Bank has set the official euro rate from the ruble/dollar rate and the ECB euro/dollar rate as of 15:30 on the current business day. An analyst noted that the Chinese holidays end the next day and volatility may persist.

The Kyrgyz government has liquidated the state stablecoin USDKG launched last November, according to a notice published on the token's website. The token was pegged one-to-one to the US dollar and holders can exchange it for fiat currency or USDT. Bishkek had positioned the token as the world's first state stablecoin backed by physical gold. On 20 August the government ordered the liquidation of the organisations managing the token, to optimise state participation in companies and improve management of state assets. Three months earlier, in May 2026, the UK imposed sanctions on USDKG, accusing it along with other companies of helping Russia circumvent British sanctions.

Rosstat data: inflation from 29 September to 5 October was 0.96%, after 0.12%, 0.06%, 0.02% and 0.05% in the previous four weeks; prices rose 0.9% from the start of the month to 5 October and 5.94% since the start of the year. Annual inflation on 5 October accelerated to 7.08% on the Central Bank methodology and 7.17% on the Economic Development Ministry methodology, both above the upper bound of the Central Bank's 6–7% forecast range for 2026. The ministry estimates the 1 October utility tariff indexation contributed 0.75 percentage points to weekly inflation; excluding utilities, consumer-market prices rose 0.21% over the week. By ministry breakdown: wastewater +17.1%, cold water +15.3%, hot water +14.2%, heating +12.7%, electricity +12%; food +0.17% (including fruit and vegetables −0.57%); non-food +0.13% (smartphones +1.1%, televisions +1.0%); services +5.14%. Chicken eggs rose 2.2% and buckwheat 1%; petrol +0.3% (+21.5% since the start of the year), diesel −0.1% (+14.0% since the start of the year). The Central Bank kept its key rate at 14% on 11 September; Rosstat will publish exact end-September annual figures on 9 October.

Interfax reports from the Digital Solutions 2026 forum: Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin cited figures showing that the combined turnover of Russian digital companies exceeded 21 trillion rubles last year, up almost 20%, and said that on the president's instruction the government has begun preparing strategies for autonomous systems and digital platforms. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko said exports of Russian IT solutions would grow by at least 15% over the previous year by year-end, and that the Russian software registry holds more than 30 thousand domestic solutions, five times more than six years ago. Ivan Kozlov, head of the Federal Customs Service's analytical centre, said foreign-trade participants from the EAEU, the CIS, major South-East Asian economies and the Global South were all pressing for faster cross-border deliveries, and proposed moving from exchanging electronic documents to migrating data between systems. The forum was organised by the Ministry of Digital Development and drew around 20 thousand guests from more than 100 countries.