Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who once said he was willing to "take a bullet" for the president, has been sentenced to three years in prison. For crimes committed, including at the direction of his former boss, he will have to pay the state a total of $ 2 million in various fines. Read more . The verdict was the result of a gross miscalculation that Cohen made, writes Bloomberg. Cohen agreed to speak with the investigation without making a formal deal with justice.

For 9 months of 2018, the Russians transferred more than 19 trillion rubles from the card to the card. Data on these payments is a great temptation for the state Photo: The Blue Diamond Gallery / CC By-SA 3.0 Nick Youngson / Alpha Stock Images The volume of money transfers from the card to the card demonstrates record growth - for the nine months of 2018 it amounted to 19.3 trillion rubles, the Central Bank said.

For the first time, Rosneft managed to force a foreign company to share its sanctions risks. in the oil company's agreement with PwC A clause appeared obliging the consultant to pay a fine to Rosneft if the performance of the contract becomes impossible due to sanctions. Earlier, Rosneft demanded similar conditions from foreign buyers of its oil. More. This is the first time that the consent of the Rosneft counterparty to the “anti-sanction clause” has been officially confirmed.

Senators Andrey Klishas, ​​Lyudmila Bokova and deputy Dmitry Vyatkin submitted a package of bills to the State Duma imposing fines for disseminating deliberately false information online, as well as equating materials with “obvious disrespect” to state authorities to petty hooliganism. In an explanatory note, the authors of the bill explained it by their desire to keep up with world practice in general and European laws in particular. Fake news penalty.

says. investigation The main contender for the creation of a cloud storage of secret data of the Pentagon, the largest cloud service Amazon Web Services (AWS, Amazon's subsidiary) is cooperating with a company that has a connection with Viktor Vekselberg, the BBC What creates the Pentagon.

On December 5, Yandex presented its own mobile phone. This is a smartphone on Android, where the company's services and the voice assistant Alice are preinstalled. Sales of a device that builds 17,990 rubles began on December 7th. The Bell tested Yandex.Terephone within a week. We talk about the main disadvantages and pluses. What will you get with a smartphone? The phone suggests that you are actively using Yandex, but does not emphasize the search.

The Moscow Mayor's Office has decided to raise the property tax in stages: next year it may rise from 1.5% to 1.6% instead of the planned 2%. Read more . We are talking about additional payments of tens of billions - in the first nine months of 2018, Moscow collected 107.4 billion rubles with the help of this tax. the plans of the mayor's office to set the rate at 1.6%.

If Google does not begin to exclude banned sites from search results, the law may be amended to block the search engine, said Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of Roskomnadzor. Quote: “The current law now does not imply blocking, it implies an administrative fine. But you understand that if we reach a dead end, then at the legislative level we have every opportunity to resolve this issue.

The head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Oreshkin, at a meeting with the Association of European Businesses, said that relations between Russia and the EU "are in many ways experiencing a kind of renaissance." Quote: “If we look at trade, then for the second year in a row there are tens of percent growth in mutual trade.

On Wednesday, December 12, MPs of the Conservative Party of Great Britain will vote on the issue of a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May. What's happened. The vote was initiated by 48 members of parliament from the Conservative Party, who wrote letters in support of a vote of no confidence. This corresponds to 15% of the entire Tory faction in parliament, which is needed in order to initiate a vote of no confidence in the party leader.

Sberbank has worsened the forecast for the Russian currency exchange rate for 2019-2020, TASS reports with reference to the presentation of the bank. The bank expects that in the next two years the dollar will cost 65-70 rubles. Previously, Sberbank expected a rate of 66.5 rubles/$ in 2019 and 67 rubles/$ in 2020. Other predictions. Inflation in 2019–2020 is 4–5%, the price of Urals oil is $60–65 per barrel (previously expected $62), GDP growth is within 1.4–2%. Context.

Japanese bank Nomura has published its top gray swans for 2019. After a year of chaos , he had to work hard to identify new possible shocks for the global economy, writes Bloomberg. Read more .

has been submitted to the State Duma A draft law , tightening control over online payment aggregators (Yandex.Kassa, Robokassa, etc.). Banks and non-bank credit organizations (NPOs, for example, Yandex.Money) will be instructed to monitor them, writes RBC. The new rules are directed against money laundering and illegal transactions, experts point out.

Alarm news from the USA: Congress requires Donald Trump sanctions against the Russian gas pipeline North Stream The House of Representatives adopted a two-party resolution against the construction of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline. In it, American parliamentarians express their disagreement with the Gazprom project, urge Europeans to abandon it, and Donald Trump demand to fight him through sanctions.

Sberbank has connected Sovcombank to its card-to-card transfer system using a phone number, agreements have been signed with several more banks, said German Gref. Currently, a Sberbank client can only transfer money using a phone number to a Tinkoff Bank card. Read more.