The first lawsuit was filed against the American court against the US Treasury from the Russian billionaire demanding to exclude it from the Kremlin List. The plaintiff, the owner of the American IPG Photonics company and a participant in the Russian Forbes list, Valentin Gaponsev, complains that due to undeserved inclusion in the list, he lost American business partners.

The Russian billionaire first disputed the inclusion of the US Department of Finance in the “List of Oligarchs” in the American court. Because of him, the entrepreneur began serious problems with the American business IPG Photonics owner Valentin Gaponsev The first lawsuit was filed against the American court against the US Treasury from the Russian billionaire demanding to exclude it from the Kremlin List.

The United States is now discussing the imposition of sanctions against only one or two Russian banks, and these are not market leaders, said the head of Sberbank German Gref at a meeting with wealthy clients. However, he admitted that in the future the situation may change. Read more . Gref expressed confidence that early next year the United States would adopt the sanctions they had promised.

On the air of the 60 Minutes program on the Russia 1 TV channel (VGTRK), the results of the Great Names of Russia contest were announced , during which Russians chose names for 47 airports. Details. In total, 47 Russian airports took part in the project, 5 million people voted.

The goal of poverty in Russia, which was set in the “May decree” of Vladimir Putin, can be doubled in theory by the theory by the World Bank report on the prospects of the Russian economy for the next ten years. But she will not be able to reach the growth rate above the world, experts say. Details.

At the G20 summit in Argentina, US President Donald Trump personally approached Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict over the Kerch Strait with Ukraine, Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said . Details. The conversation took place "on the move" during a reception in honor of the G20 leaders and lasted 10-15 minutes. According to Ushakov, the presidents discussed exclusively the conflict in the Kerch Strait and the general situation in Ukraine.

Almost 2% of Moscow streets will set a new parking tariff - 380 rubles per hour. Details . The tariff will be installed on the streets near Moscow City, on Tverskaya, Arbat and Patriarchal Ponds, as well as on Petrovka, Neblin and other streets. On these streets, parking will be paid even on Sunday. Only during the holidays, cars can be left for free. On the streets inside the Boulevard Ring, tariffs will amount to 100 and 200 rubles per hour.

in the futures market for Brent oil has formed A “death cross” , a technical indicator of the future decline of an asset when the 50-day moving average price of its futures falls below the long-term (200-day) one. This situation often occurs before the start of a long-term market decline, but does not mean that the fall is inevitable. Details.

OPEC and its allies are working on an agreement to cut production by at least 1.3 million barrels a day, four sources told Reuters. According to them, the main obstacle to the deal is the position of Russia, which opposes a significant reduction in production. Details. According to the agency, Russia is ready to cut supplies by 140 thousand barrels per day, but OPEC insists on withdrawing 250-300 thousand barrels of Russian oil from the market.

Tatyana Navka, Russian figure skater and wife of Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, turned out to be the owner of 16.67% of the Crimean salt producer, the Galit production cooperative. Details. According to SPARK-Interfax, Navka became the owner of this package at the end of November 2018. At about the same time, the company received a major contract for the supply of technical salt for Krymavtodor State Unitary Enterprise as the only supplier to apply.

The American magazine Forbes has published its annual ranking of the highest paid bloggers in 2018, leading their YouTube channels. It can be used to understand which formats are now the most “selling” on the platform. Unpacking toys. The first place is taken by the seven-year-old boy Ryan from the Ryan Toys Review channel : in 2018, his earnings amounted to $ 22 million. Ryan's parents shoot review videos, allowing the child to unpack and play with new toys.

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky supported the idea of ​​the head of Mosfilm, Karen Shakhnazarov, to impose restrictions on the distribution of American films in Russia.

In 2019, Moscow authorities will deploy a full-fledged system of cameras with facial recognition in the city, on which they will spend 7.5 billion rubles. 1.5 thousand cameras with this function are already working. After testing the system at Navalny's rallies in 2017, personal data of their participants appeared in the public domain on the Internet. Sergei Sobyanin spoke about plans to build a new Moscow video surveillance system yesterday, and Kommersant found out the details.

The ruble could strengthen to around 65 rubles/$ in January, economists polled by Bloomberg predict . This will not be prevented even by the Central Bank’s resumption of currency purchases, which contributed to the depreciation of the exchange rate this year and were stopped in August until the end of the year. Details. In January, the Central Bank will purchase about $201 million daily, below the 2018 average due to falling oil prices, Bloomberg economist Scott Johnson estimated.

In 2019, a full -fledged system of cameras with person recognition will work in Moscow. The first experiments were conducted at protest rallies The Moscow authorities in 2019 deployed in the city a full -fledged system of cameras with recognition of persons on which 7.5 billion rubles will be spent. 1.5 thousand cameras with this function are already working.