Oleg Mikhasenko. Photo from the BCS account on Facebook A new name may appear in the list of richest Russians. As Bloomberg writes , according to the results of 2017, the state of the president and the only owner of the financial group of the BCS Oleg Mikhasenko grew to $ 630 million.

Hearing on sanctions in the US Senate. The frame of the official broadcast At a meeting of the US Banking Committee, the US Senate Banking Committee, almost unanimously, experts advocated the introduction of sanctions against the new issues of Russian government bonds and the expansion of the list of oligarchs, which should be punished for Russian foreign policy.

The ruble falls again, investors sell OFZ, and the outer background is getting worse. Details - in the mailing of The Bell Kremlin. Photo: Agency "Moscow" In the middle of the day, the ruble exchange rate began to fall sharply.

Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma an amendment to the draft law on raising the retirement age, which introduces criminal liability for refusing to hire people of pre-retirement age. Details According to the document , for refusal to hire or dismissal from work of citizens of pre-retirement age, the violator faces a fine of up to 200 thousand rubles (or in the amount of a salary for a period of up to 18 months), as well as compulsory work for up to 360 hours .

Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau are "very confident" that the UK-named suspects in the Skripal assassination attempt served in the GRU. This is stated in their joint statement.

On Thursday afternoon, the Russian currency weakened sharply, with the euro rising above 80 rubles and the dollar above 69 rubles. Market participants say that someone sold $1 billion worth of rubles on the Russian market. In their opinion, a large fund could have left Russia because of the Skripal case. Details The sharp weakening of the ruble began after 15:00. By 16:10, the euro rose to 80.52 rubles (+1.13 rubles to the close of the previous day).

The new press secretary of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, instead of Natalia Timakova, will be Oleg Osipov, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency Margarita Simonyan. According to a source in the government of The Bell, there were other candidates for this position, including Vyacheslav Lashchevsky, chairman of the board of directors of the AGT communications group. What is known about the new press secretary of Medvedev?

Long-term press secretary and close associate of Dmitry Medvedev, Natalia Timakova, officially announced that she was leaving the government and moving to a new job at Vnesheconombank. Oleg Osipov, deputy editor-in-chief of the state information agency Rossiya Segodnya (former RIA Novosti), will head the government's press service instead. Details “At the moment, I am finishing negotiations with VEB, where I intend to move,” Interfax quotes Timakova.

There is a new scandal in the White House that could upset Donald Trump more than revelations from the book of journalist Bob Woodward. The New York Times ran an op-ed by an anonymous senior Trump administration official on Wednesday night about the "resistance movement" in the White House.

Congress adopted a new sanctions law against Russia. There are few dangers in it. The US Congress adopted a new bill, actually directed against Russia, about sanctions for cyber attacks. Good news: the whole set of sanctions that the new project involves is already in the law on non -proliferation of chemical weapons, according to which sanctions will be imposed on Russia at the end of November.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a bill requiring the president to impose sanctions against foreign countries that commit cyber attacks on the United States, the said in a statement House Foreign Affairs Committee . Congressmen emphasize that in this way they warn countries like Russia, Iran and North Korea that the United States is ready to take tough measures in response to hacker attacks.