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The United States first applied secondary sanctions against buyers of Russian weapons. China was the first to suffer

For the first time during the conflict with Russia, the United States applied secondary sanctions to foreign partners in Moscow. The Department of Training and supply of the Central Military Council of China, who purchased the Su-35 aircraft and the S-400 Air Defense Systems from Russia, suffered for transactions with Russia.

• The sanctions were imposed in accordance with the Decree of Donald Trump as part of the law “On Countering the opponents of America” adopted last year through sanctions (Caatsa) and prohibit American citizens with any operations with individuals and legal entities from the sanctions list.
• There are six structures in the sanctions list-Opronogsty LLC, which operates in the Crimea (already under sanctions), Komsomolsky-on-Amur Aviation Plant (produces Sukhoi aircraft; I got into the list for the first time), as well as several structures associated with the restaurateur Evgeny Prigozhin (the media also call it the “Putin’s cook” (previously, only under sanctions he himself fell. Wagner, its head Dmitry Utkin), LLC “The Agency for Internet Research” (is known as “Troll Factory”), Concord Management and Consulting and Concord Catering (the last three structures were already under sanctions ).
• Personal sanctions were introduced against Prigozhin himself and 12 alleged employees of the Troll Factory, accused of interfering in the elections in February 2018, as well as against the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (new name GRU) Igor Korobov and his deputy Sergei Gizunov and 12 GRU employees who were charged as part of the investigation of the Muller special prosecutor.
• The United States also imposed sanctions against the Department of Preparation of Troops and supplying the Central Military Council of the PRC and its head Lee Shanf-for the purchase of Russian Su-35 fighters in 2017 and the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems in 2018 at Rosoboronexport. This is the first case of applying the so -called secondary sanctions against Russia's partners and the first time when the United States imposes sanctions against the Chinese structure with ten billion purchases, Kitasist Vasily Kashin told Vedomosti. “It is obvious that this is a continuation of the same US actions against China as a trade war ,” the expert is sure. Sanctions involve the blocking of all operations in the US financial system and freezing all assets in the country.

What am I to me?

The US readiness is really possible to apply the second sanctions against buyers of Russian weapons is the bad news for the country's trade balance: in 2017, Russia exported weapons for $ 14 billion.

"Russian norms!"

New Hero - David Gorodansky

The video project "Russian norms!" - The new hero , the founder of Anchorfree and the VPN Hotspot Shield service David Gorodansky. In Russia, they know little about him, but in the world it is considered one of the most promising CEO. Hotspot Shield use 650 million people, and Anchorfree at the beginning of September received from the largest funds of Silicon Valley, headed by WNDRCO, funding for $ 295 million. Gorodansky, who left Moscow in Palo-Alto, told Elizabeth Ossetian, as he became an entrepreneur and received the first money in the valley, how a business works based on the idea that works on the idea. free information exchange, and how, living in California, to remain a Russian patriot.

MONEY

Where the first weWork will open

The world's largest WeWork coworking network comes to Russia. The first office for 4.3 thousand square meters. m opens at the Red Rose business center in Khamovniki. In total, according to market participants, Wework in 2019 plans to open five coworking in Moscow with a total area of ​​25-30 thousand square meters. m, and the premises are looking for within the garden ring. Initially, Boris Mintz, the Russian Properties company was supposed to become the Russian partner, but after the businessman left for the businessman abroad and the sale of his assets, the American company decided to develop the network in Russia itself. All the world, WeWork runs 457 coworking and is the largest tenant of office real estate in Manhattan with 5.3 million square meters. m. In the last private round of financing, the company received an estimate of $ 21 billion.

Billions on the Crimea

The Central Bank has not been allocating money to problem banks through the Law Insurance Agency for more than a year, but an exception was made for Crimea, Vedomosti found out . In February of this year, the DIA transferred the problem Genbank working in the Crimea 20 billion rubles so that he could earn profit and restore capital. As a result, however, the bank did not save state money - in August 2018, a temporary administration was appointed in it, the Central Bank approved the Bank’s sanitation strategy on this environment.

PRACTICE

Assign yourself a salary

In the British bookmaker Smarkets, employees themselves decide what salary they will receive. The system is arranged as follows: twice a year, the employee publicly sets the amount, after which his colleagues decide by voting (all salaries are also publicly available). This is a working social consensus, says Jason Trost CEO: you can express dissatisfaction with a stranger and your salary, but only openly, which is great for, for example, small startups. Business Insider talks in detail about the system.

Alexa everywhere

Amazon yesterday showed more than a dozen new or updated devices of its own production - of course, almost all of them with a built -in ALEXA voice assistant. Of the most interesting - microwave with voice commands and the function of automatic food, an accessory that allows you to integrate ALEXA into a car and a plug, which allows using the ECHO column to make any household appliances in the Smart House. You can read about new devices here and here .

Peter Mironenko