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ad market to grow by 15% in 2023. OMD OM Group has the most conservative outlook of 5-7% growth in 2023.
Russia’s government spending on purchases of software increased by 15% in 2022 to 58.3bn rubles and the number of such deals rose by 7.8%, according to a research by service Kontur.Torgi seen by PRIME on Thursday. “The growth in the sum and the number of software purchases in 2022 points to a rise of importance of this industry for the government,” Kontur.Torgi expert Vasily Danilchik said. The number of tenders for software, including delivery, maintenance, and support of services and programs, rose by 7.8% to 29,674 in 2022. The number of failed deals increased by 21% to 1.498, which shows that import replacement of Web services and programs is not smooth. “
Russia’s Digital Development Ministry will decide on cancellation of the corporate profit tax for IT companies after consideration of the July–September results of the industry’s health, Minister Maksut Shadayev said on March 15.
9.1.9 Tourism sector news
9.1.10 Utilities & Renewables sector news
The tourist flow in Russia may rise by up to 10% in 2023 compared with the previous year, while the outbound tourist flow may increase by 25-30%, President of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Ilya Umansky told reporters on Monday. Turkey, Thailand, the UAE, Egypt and CIS countries are the most demanded foreign destinations among Russian tourists in summer, Umansky added.
The EU aims to reduce energy consumption by 2030. EU leadership reached a political agreement on a sharp reduction in energy consumption, and by 2030 it should be 11.7% less than had been previously planned, according to the Council of the EU. The final energy consumption limit established by the EU should not exceed the equivalent of 763 million tons in oil and 993 million tons of primary energy. Primary energy is the sum of all energy resources in an unprocessed form, which includes coal, gas, crude oil, nuclear energy, and renewable sources. From 2024 to 2030, EU countries must reduce their total energy consumption by an average of 1.49% each year and gradually reach a figure of 1.9% by the end of 2030. The new agreement also places greater responsibility on the public sector for improving energy efficiency. A new annual goal of reducing consumption by 1.9% will be introduced to accomplish this.
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