
AI-generated summary
The Moscow supplier portal was created 13 years ago to automate small-volume procurement and connects government customers and businesses. More than 410 thousand businessmen are registered on the platform, offering more than 3.6 million unique goods, works and services. More than 1.5 thousand contracts are concluded daily.
MOSCOW, September 30 – RIA Novosti. Over the eight months of this year, the capital’s Supplier Portal was visited by 2 million unique users, if we compare this figure with the same period in 2025 – an increase of 60%, said Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Head of the City Department of Economic Policy and Development Maria Bagreeva.
As the deputy mayor noted, the popularity of the Moscow platform among business and government customers is growing.
“Over the eight months of 2026, the resource recorded two million unique visitors, which is 60% more than during the same period in 2025. Over 80% are users from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm Territory, Sverdlovsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions. The most popular among visitors, in addition to the personal account, were sections with quotation sessions and procurement according to needs, a unified procurement register, as well as a catalog of standard commodity units,” said Bagreeva, her words were quoted by the press service of the capital’s economic policy complex.
The Moscow platform is expanding the geography of its presence. Thus, this year five new customer regions joined the portal. Among them: Kursk, Jewish Autonomous, Lipetsk regions, as well as the DPR and Kamchatka Territory.
According to the head of the capital's department for competition policy, Kirill Purtov, the increased number of new users on the portal is due to several factors. The main one is the accession of new customer regions.
“The number of institutions that have the opportunity to purchase goods, works and services on the platform exceeds 60 thousand, and the total number of connected regions this year has reached 48,” Purtov noted, his words were quoted by the department’s press service.
He also added that the growth of users was also influenced by the addition of new services and useful functions, improvement of the structure and ease of navigation, integration with other information systems and resources.
Earlier, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin spoke about the opportunities that the Moscow Supplier Portal opens to entrepreneurs from various regions of Russia.
The supplier portal launched 13 years ago. It was created to automate small-volume procurement and has proven itself as an effective tool for connecting government customers and businesses. Over 410 thousand businessmen from different regions of Russia conduct their activities on the portal. The list of goods, works and services offered by them includes more than 3.6 million unique items. Every day, more than 1.5 thousand contracts are concluded on the Moscow Supplier Portal.
This year, the Supplier Portal won the "Priority: Digital - 2026" award in the "AI in Trade and Retail" category for the development of neural network recognition services for goods based on an uploaded image and generative AI, which automatically creates a summary of procurement documentation.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The number of connected customer regions of the Moscow Supplier Portal will continue to grow in 2027
Likely · Within months

The United States and its allies use sanctions to counter Russia's growing transnational economy and prevent it from becoming a leading global economic player, IMEMO director Fyodor Voitolovsky said at the Valdai Club meeting.

In the second quarter of 2026, the share of the euro in the reserves of world central banks increased by 0.56 percentage points. and reached 20.6% (the maximum since 2014), while the share of the dollar decreased to 56.7%.

At the beginning of October, the dollar exchange rate will consolidate in the range of 83-86 rubles. The ruble will be supported by the tax period and the Central Bank's tough monetary policy.

The Russian stock market opened lower but turned positive by 09:27 a.m. Moscow time, with the MOEX and RTS indices gaining 0.03% each, while the Chinese yuan strengthened against the ruble, rising 4.9 kopecks to 12.517 rubles.

By the fall of 2026, the average term of a car loan in Russia reached six years, a record level, and the average loan amount approached 1.6 million rubles. Experts attribute this to the increase in car prices, which amounted to almost 2.4 times over six years, and the lag in wage growth from car prices. A further rise in transport prices is predicted due to the weakening of the ruble and seasonal adjustments by dealers.

US President Donald Trump held crisis talks with advisers about a possible ban on diesel exports to curb the fuel crisis and reduce domestic prices.