The government may introduce restrictions on the export of coking coal from Russia, and the Ministry of Finance has finalized the draft law on the regulation of digital currencies in Russia – these and other important news for Friday morning, April 15, in our daily review.

The Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Industry and Trade will develop restrictions on exports of coking coal from the country. It is used in steel production at metallurgical plants, and export restrictions will help lower prices for it on the Russian market. The government’s instruction was confirmed in the Ministry of Energy, RBC writes, citing a federal official.

The latest version of the bill developed by the Ministry of Finance to regulate the circulation of digital currencies in Russia introduces rules for exchange operators and miners and allows the acceptance of digital assets as a means of payment. This is reported by “Kommersant” with reference to the document, the authenticity of which was confirmed to the publication by two sources close to the industry. According to the draft, digital currency may be accepted “as a means of payment that is not a monetary unit of Russia”, as well as investments, but there must be no obliged person in respect of it.

Sberbank has temporarily stopped hiring new employees for positions not related to ensuring the operation of the bank’s services. This was told to Forbes by a top manager of one of Sberbank’s divisions, a source in Sber’s partner company, three employees of different divisions of the bank and a source close to the company. According to Forbes’ source close to the bank, as well as two employees of the Sberbank group, the hiring of new employees has not yet affected IT specialists – in particular, the hiring of employees at SberTech continues.

Experts of the International Monetary Fund believe that the new taxation rules for multinational companies will be able to reverse the 40-year downward trend in taxation on their profits. Since 1980, the average rate has fallen from 45% to 22% on average, now it may rise to 24.3%, the experts say in a new tax report, writes “Kommersant”. Global income tax revenues will grow by about $150 billion a year.

Armenia has started paying for Russian gas in rubles – it has made several recent payments in Russia’s national currency. This was reported by the Minister of Economy of the Republic Vahan Kerobyan in an interview with RBC. He did not rule out future settlements between the EAEU countries not only in rubles, but also in Armenian or Kazakh national currencies.