French businessman Bernard Tapie is “absolutely ruined” after a court ordered him to return €404 million to a consortium managed by the Credit Lyonnais bank.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced criminal prosecution of 16 more FIFA officials - they are accused of a corruption scheme that operated for 24 years, reports the Associated Press and CNN . “The message of this announcement should be clear to all those who remain in the shadows and hope to avoid investigation: you will not be able to “wait it out”, you will not escape our attention,” Lynch said.

Two weeks before the release of the new episode of Star Wars, at least 15 thousand tickets for the premiere screenings have already been booked in Russian cinemas.

Traffic along the Moscow Ring Road near the intersection with the Leningradskoye Shosse, where the truckers' protest is taking place, has been restored, eyewitnesses report.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to name one of the Navy ships under construction after Yevgeny Primakov. This is stated in the decree of the head of state. In addition, starting from 2016, the government should establish ten personal scholarships named after Primakov for students of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, as well as 10 scholarships for students studying at MGIMO.

The Ministry of Transport is ready to meet and discuss the Platon system within the framework of a working group, which includes representatives of Rosavtodor, freight carriers, the retail market, trade unions and associations of road carriers. An official representative of the ministry reported this to RBC. “The chairman of the working group is First Deputy Minister of Transport Evgeniy Dietrich,” he said.

A lawsuit has been filed in Oregon federal court on behalf of 23 beer lovers who are trying to block the merger of brewers InBev and SABMiller, which together control nearly half the global beer market by value. this reports Bloomberg . The plaintiffs argue that the deal, which is valued at $110 billion, will force them to pay more for inferior products.

From December 14, Russia will suspend the import of fish entering the country in transit through Lithuania. Rosselkhoznadzor has identified illegal supplies of such products to Russia, passing through Lithuania from third countries Photo: Lori Rosselkhoznadzor has suspended the transit of fish through the territory of Lithuania to Russia since December 14. This is stated in a message published on Friday, December 4, on the website of the supervisory agency.

All companies that sell software, e-books and music, including foreign ones, must pay VAT, the State Duma believes.

Governor of the Odessa region Mikheil Saakashvili called the decision of the Georgian authorities to deprive him of his citizenship political. He made this statement on Radio Liberty. “The fact that this is a political decision can be determined for several reasons. Firstly, there is a two-year transition period in Ukraine, which provides for Ukrainian legislation for exiting another citizenship. The Georgian authorities were well aware of this.

The ECHR recognized the high probability of abuse when wiretapping mobile phones by Russian law enforcement agencies.

The movement of trucks onto the Moscow Ring Road, which led to a partial restriction of traffic, caused a mixed reaction from car owners. RBC collected responses from drivers left on the Yandex.Maps service Protest of truckers against the Platon system on the Moscow Ring Road (Photo: Sergey Bobylev/TASS) A column of trucks appeared on Friday afternoon on the Moscow Ring Road at the intersection with Leningradskoe Highway. Trucks occupied four of the five traffic lanes .

As of October 31, the Oppenheimer Developing Markets fund owned 0.6% of Sberbank shares, writes Vedomosti newspaper , citing data from Morningstar and Bloomberg . Together with one of the CollegeAmerica funds (owns 0.6% of Sberbank shares), at the end of October they were the largest holders of state bank shares among foreign funds.

The State Duma proposed to the presidential administration to remove the highest bodies from the requirements for rationing purchases, which, in particular, prevent the acquisition of luxury, Kommersant reports.

The EU authorities have begun discussing the possibility of suspending the Schengen agreement on visa-free borders due to the migration crisis. The initiative will be discussed by European ministers on Friday Construction of a fence on the border of Slovenia and Croatia (Photo: REUTERS 2015) The proposal to suspend the Schengen agreement is contained in materials for the meeting of EU interior ministers, which will be held on Friday, December 4, writes the Financial Times (FT).