The Main Directorate of the Russian General Staff (formerly the GRU) not only interfered in the US elections, but also tried to change the attitude of the US Congress towards Ukraine, writes The Washington Post. The publication also found that the military unit involved in the investigation of special prosecutor Robert Muller is involved in the educational process in several metropolitan schools. An attempt to change the attitude towards Ukraine .

Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS Winners who are losing and a big fall: the main thing about 2018 in four schedules The Russian business was waiting for the coming 2018 with cautiously - the main topic of last December was the “Kremlin list” of oligarchs and the new US sanctions. As a result, Oleg Deripaska was the only real victim - but we also meet the new 2019 year in anticipation of new, even more stringent sanctions.

Two tourists were killed and 12 were injured in a bomb explosion near the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, according to the BBC. Read more . The bomb was planted on the road and went off when a bus carrying 14 tourists from Vietnam passed by. Among the wounded are also two Egyptians, including the bus driver. The BBC publishes a photo of the damaged bus.

The world's largest banks are counting on a recovery in oil prices next year, as fears of a recession are groundless, writes Bloomberg. More. Despite the fall in the oil market (since the beginning of October, prices have fallen by 40%), most of the 24 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg see no signs of an impending recession. They expect Brent to average $70 a barrel next year and WTI $61.13 a barrel next year. On Tuesday, Brent is trading around $53, while WTI is trading around $45 per barrel.

The Ukrainian authorities have lifted the entry ban for men from Russia aged 16 to 60, said . Oleg Slobodyan, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Read more . “We continue to guard the border in an enhanced mode. Using the experience of martial law, we carry out increased control of the entry of foreigners into Ukraine. We pay special attention to citizens of 70 countries from the list of migration risk entering Ukraine. Russia is in the first place here.

Dmitry Mikhalchenko. Photo: Agency "Moscow" The court sentenced one of the most influential businessmen of St. Petersburg-the general director of the forum Holding Company Dmitry Mikhalchenko-by four years and seven months of a colony of general regime for the smuggling of elite alcohol. As follows from the message of the Basmanny Court, before the sentence, the prosecution against the entrepreneur was retrained to a less difficult article.

The worst stock market in the world in 2018 turned out to be Chinese: the main local Shanghai Composite index fell by almost a quarter since the beginning of the year, demonstrating the worst result since 2002 (that is, most likely in history). The main reason is the trade war with the United States, which has already cost the Chinese stock market in $ 2.4 trillion. Read more.

Russia and the UK have agreed to gradually restore the composition of diplomatic missions, said . Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko More. “We have reached an agreement in principle that sometime in January the diplomatic staff will be restored both in Moscow and in London,” Yakovenko said on the air of Rossiya 24.

AFK Sistema and VTB bought out the pharmaceutical company Obolenskoye for 15.5 billion rubles from the Alvansa holding, controlled by Gazprombank and UFG Private Equity, according to Sistema's website. The purpose of the deal is to create a large pharmaceutical holding on the basis of Obolensky and the pharmaceutical company Binnopharm, which is part of Sistema. More.

“I better tear off the ligaments than the concert inhibit”: the main cultural characters of 2018 are young musicians. Their concerts-in total more than 40-were canceled, their texts were checked by the prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee, indignant parents and deputies wrote appeals to the state bodies, and Vladimir Putin had to answer questions about rappers at a final press conference.

S&P 500 and Dow Jones set new volatility records. Statistics shows: the markets still have where to fall The American stock market continues to fever. On Thursday, the indices set a new record of volatility, showing the sharpest one from 2010 the fall for the same session: almost the entire day S&P 500 was in the minus almost 3%, and by the end of the trading, he suddenly reached almost 1% plus.

The American stock market continues to fever. On Thursday, the indices set a new record of volatility, showing the sharpest one from 2010, having won down for one session: almost the whole day S&P 500 was in the minus more than 2%, and by the end of the trading, he suddenly reached almost 1% plus.

Everyone is accustomed to considering young people with beards in fashionable T-shirts as the founders of startups. In fact, this is a deep misconception. PicsArt, a photo-editing app used by more than 100 million people and attracted the attention of the world's best investors, was not made by a boy, but by an adult. Hovhannes Avoyan was born in 1965 in Yerevan and this was his fifth company.