Mriya Resort & Spa. Photo from the company's website The US authorities have expanded the list of persons and companies against which sanctions were imposed on Ukraine and Crimea. In total, three individuals and nine organizations were included in the list.

Yandex.Taxi will enter the Finnish market under the new Yango brand. Work under the Russian brand in the EU has already led to problems for the company Source: Yandex.Taxi press service The Yandex.Taxi service first enters the European market outside the borders of the former USSR - to Finland. In the local market, he will work under a new brand - Yango. Representatives of the company explain the new name with language features.

The Chinese state agency Xinhua unveiled the first robot hosts. Details In total, two versions have been created - one announcer speaks Chinese, the other speaks English. In both cases, real presenters are taken as models, whose facial expressions, pronunciation and manner of speech are transferred to robots with the help of artificial intelligence.

Source: Yandex.Taxi press service The Yandex.Taxi service will enter the Finnish market under the new brand - Yango. The Russian company does not exclude what will be developed under this name and other services in the country. Details The launch of the service in Helsinki is scheduled for November 9, Natalia Zhuravleva, spokesman for Yandex.Taxi, told The Bell.

In October, the flight of private depositors from Sberbank stopped, the consulting company Frank RG calculated , citing the state bank's financial statements. The increase in deposit rates and the absence of new sanctions helped to stabilize the situation.

Tesla has appointed a new chairman of the board of directors to replace Elon Musk - he will be an independent director of the company, Robin Denholm, the company said . Denholm is not very famous in the US, but has extensive experience in financial management in companies in Silicon Valley and Australia, writes WSJ. Now she will have to keep an eye on a businessman whose eccentric actions often have a bad effect on Tesla's capitalization.

Russia will become the main beneficiary of sanctions against Iran, writes The Wall Street Journal. Russian oil companies are taking over the traditional buyers of Iranian oil, while the country is helping the Islamic republic bypass US sanctions. Iran has a lot of experience in this: it has many ways to circumvent restrictions in its arsenal, from turning off transponders on its oil tankers to barter deals with oil.

Oil jackets promised not to increase gasoline prices - but they have already found ways to get around the ban Until March 2019, oil industry workers, by agreement with the government, cannot increase gasoline prices - but there will always be methods of partisan war. The first way to hide the cost of fuel has already been found, Kommersant found out .

Until March 2019, oil workers, by agreement with the government, cannot increase gasoline prices - but there will always be methods of guerrilla warfare. The first way to secretly increase the cost of fuel has already been found, Kommersant found out . In recent months, oil companies have been actively worsening conditions for corporate clients using fuel cards - discounts are being canceled, and businesses are promised a “service fee” for using the card.

The end of the year turned out to be successful for the founder of Mail.Ru Group and the owner of the venture fund Grishin Robotics, Dmitry Grishin - in just a week, the second startup in which he invested receives large checks and serious partners. Last night, it became known that the Ford automaker is buying a start-up Spin for $40 million, which provides users with electric scooter rentals without being tied to rental stations.

Jeff Sessnes. Photo by the US Ministry of Justice US President Donald Trump achieved the resignation of Prosecutor General Jeff Sehns, who repeatedly criticized his position to investigate the possible intervention of Russia in the US election. This personnel rearrangement can lead to the dismissal of the head of the special prosecutor Robert Muller and even the complete folding of the investigation himself.