Overview
- Top chains including Detsky Mir, M.Video‑Eldorado, DNS and others asked the government to restrict what they call unilateral price cuts by dominant platforms such as Wildberries and Ozon.
- The retailers proposed capping how much marketplaces can spend from their own funds to reduce prices, arguing platform subsidies distort competition and raise seller fees and penalties.
- They also urged separating marketplaces’ financial services from commerce or barring ownership links, and called to accelerate VAT collection on online imports from 2026 and push the EAEU to eliminate the duty‑free threshold.
- State Duma deputy Kaplan Panesh said updated marketplace legislation should explicitly ensure enforcement online of statutory price reductions and compensations for defective goods, benefits for vulnerable groups, regional programs, Tax Free refunds and penalties for late delivery.
- Regulatory pressure has built with Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina proposing a ban on marketplaces selling their own financial products and on payment‑method price differences, banks earlier urging a single price without direct promos, and the Economic Development Ministry confirming it is reviewing the proposals as Wildberries&Russ publicly objected to a financial‑product ban.