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Wildberries is a major Russian e-commerce marketplace connecting third-party sellers with consumers through an online platform and seller API.
Russia's Finance Ministry paid some staff in digital rubles on Oct. 1, after 2025 budget trials worth nearly 16 million rubles. Payroll transfers are free on the central bank's platform through 2026, so the state carries the cost of moving its wages over.
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Romanian F-16s downed three drones over three consecutive days in late July 2026, according to an account credited to The National Interest. The precedent matters more than the debris.
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The marketplace says security measures added after a DDoS attack can suspend transfers while it is under way, which is how some merchants went unpaid for weeks. The sellers' union counts 20 billion rubles outstanding and doubts the account.
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Two Apify Actors that work fine alone returned a clean bill of health on eleven sellers nobody had checked, because the field the answer depended on was allowed to arrive empty and the row counts matched all the way down.
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Named telecoms and marketplaces begin taking the state's digital ruble on September 1, and a phased law makes acceptance compulsory by 2028, while paying with crypto stays illegal.
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Russia's two dominant marketplaces say they will accept digital rubles from September 1, with wallets opening inside existing bank apps. The mandate for large chains is dated a year later.
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Ozon and Wildberries disagree about identifiers, batch semantics and how failure is signalled. In one Go codebase, the only shared machinery on show is the transport.
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