The European Union has created a special mechanism for trade with Iran, bypassing US sanctions. True, this scheme will still not be able to protect against possible US restrictions - European companies will have to act at their own peril and risk. More. For trade with Iran, a special company called INSTEX (The Instrument In Support Of Trade Exchanges) was registered in Paris. It will be headed by former Commerzbank director Per Fischer.

The Central Bank promised to revise the black list of customers in which hundreds of thousands of people got The black list of bank customers, which could not be found in, but quickly managed to get out, would be revised. Because of him, in the middle of last year, accounts of hundreds of thousands of customers were blocked, which banks suspected of violating “anti-missile” laws.

The Bell talked with Alex Leslie and Nastya a fish after they returned from Thailand and liberation in Russia. Both go through the criminal case suspects and gave a non-disclosure subscription, and the name of Oleg Deripaska, because of which they were in the center of one of the most high-profile scandals of recent years, try not to pronounce at all. Main: There was no order for Deripaska. But Leslie and his team tried to compromise Alexei Navalny.

Now applicants who have at least a master's degree from an American university will be more likely to receive an H1-B visa, which allows you to work in the United States and is issued to highly qualified specialists, follows from changes in the country's immigration laws . More.

The Central Bank intends to revise the black list of clients who were denied service by banks on the basis of the anti-money laundering law (115-FZ), said Elvira Nabiullina at a meeting with the heads of commercial banks. The goal is to eliminate "excessive pressure on honest business." What will change? They plan to leave only those who performed “the most risky operations” on the black list, Nabiullina promised. But there are no specifics yet.

Two Russian aircraft at once suspected of transferring Venezuelan gold from state reserves of the country. The first to say this was the Venezuelan parliamentarian Jose Gerra, who was quoted by Bloomberg. According to Herra, the Russian Boeing 777 (apparently, the Nordwind airline could transfer 20 tons of Venezuelan gold from the country.

Apple has revoked Facebook's corporate certificate after a TechCrunch article reported that the company provided users with a special internal application that collects data about them. A corporate certificate allows you to distribute and test internal versions of products among company employees. Issuing corporate applications to external users is expressly prohibited by Apple policy. At the end of 2018, over 35,000 people worked on Facebook.

The lifting of US sanctions on the structures of Oleg Deripaska was a relief for the main owner of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, writes Bloomberg. Deripaska's relinquishment of a controlling stake in Rusal, Norilsk Nickel's second-largest shareholder after Potanin's Interros, means that a decade-long battle between businessmen for influence over the operations of the steel giant may be over. More.

On Thursday, January 31, amendments to the law "On credit histories" came into force, according to which citizens will be assigned a personal credit rating . More. The rating will be calculated automatically based on your credit history. It will be a score, the value of which will be influenced by various factors: for example, the presence of delinquency on loans and the debt burden of a citizen. What does it affect? If your rating is high, banks will have less reason to refuse you a loan.

Central Bank walked along the main points of confrontation with Sberbank Photo: City News Agency "Moscow" / Kirill Zykov Disagreements of the Central Bank and Sberbank are already discussed in the Kremlin and in the government. And today the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova gave a large interview to Vedomosti - the main part of the conversation is devoted to the confrontation between the regulator with Sberbank, although she never mentioned its name.

First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova gave a long interview to Vedomosti - the main part of the conversation was devoted to the confrontation between the regulator and Sberbank, although she never mentioned its name. The Central Bank never comments on existing banks, so Sberbank for Skorobogatova, who is on its supervisory board, is like Voldemort, whose name also cannot be mentioned, teasing the publication.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is trying to prevent Yevgeny Prigozhin's company from gaining access to classified material about an investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. More. Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed objections to the petition of Yevgeny Prigozhin's company Concord Management and Consulting to the District Court of Columbia in Washington.