The Bell found the text of the new US sanctions against Russia. The list of Russian state banks disappeared from it, against which it is proposed to impose sanctions. Donald Trump will have to determine the new list Donald Trump. Photo: Flickr The Bell managed to get acquainted with the full text of the new DASKA 2019 Senators Graham and Menendes. The tightening of the project compared to the first version looks insignificant.

The Japanese restaurant chain Tanuki published an advertising poster on its Facebook page by February 14, which was immediately noticed by users, and the founder of DoDo Pizza, Fyodor Ovchinnikov, devoted a whole post to this and announced a flash mob. More.

The Bell managed to get acquainted with the full text of the new DASKA 2019 Senators Graham and Menendes. The tightening of the project compared to the first version looks insignificant. The most important change: a list of specific banks in which VTB and Sberbank appeared from the key point on the sanctions against state banks. Now it is proposed to determine the list of banks for the introduction of sanctions. Read more.

Sergei Fedotov, who is associated with the departure of the Skripals, turned out to be GRU officer Denis Sergeev. This was told by Insider journalists and the Bellingcat research group. Earlier, they revealed the names of GRU officers Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. More. Sergeev, according to researchers, was born in 1973 in Kazakhstan. Served in Novorossiysk.

The main topic of the first day of the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi was unwittingly the bill on tough sanctions against Russia, which was introduced by five US senators the day before. It includes sanctions against the new Russian public debt, Russian banks and foreign LNG projects of Russian companies. This is how the main participants of the forum assessed the threat of new sanctions.

Surprising many experts and officials, the record high estimate by Rosstat of Russia's GDP growth in 2018 - 2.3% - was most likely a statistical focus and will be revised in the future. In reality, the economy has hardly accelerated noticeably, according to the bulletin of the Central Bank's Research and Forecasting Department, released today. More.

The Bell found the owner of dozens of apartments in St. Petersburg, which could be recorded by the property of the Arashukov family. It turned out to be a Petersburger (name is not disclosed according to the law on the protection of personal data) , through which about 80 real estate objects in the city passed in different years. How we were looking.

Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not find anything incriminating in the video in which four former officials, led by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, drink and sing to Nadezhda Kadysheva on board a business jet. Quote. “There is nothing wrong with this, the main thing is not to break any rules,” Peskov answered a question from RBC. He added that employees of the apparatus, including former ones, are not prohibited from meeting together in an informal setting.

The European Commission has approved a copyright reform project that has been discussed for more than two years. The reform should force content aggregators such as Facebook and Google to pay royalties to copyright holders for their use. But the Internet giants will not give up so easily. For example, when the same law was passed in Spain, Google simply disabled its Google News aggregator in the country. More.

The chairman of the board of the FC Otkritie bank, Mikhail Zadornov, believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin was misled: there is no three percent commission for accepting cards in stores. Last week, Putin was publicly indignant at this figure, called it a "quasi-tax" and called for a reduction in the commission to 0.2-0.3%. This threatens the business of issuing banks that develop loyalty programs on commission, including cashback, and the interests of people using these programs.

Apple's self-driving cars turned out to be many times worse than competitors in a key parameter - mileage per human intervention. about this Bloomberg writes with reference to the annual report sent by the company to the California Department of Motor Vehicles. More. Drivers of an autonomous Apple car have to intervene every 1.77 kilometers. This is a very low figure. For comparison: Alphabet's Waymo drones are capable of traveling over 17,730 kilometers without human intervention.

The General Designer of the Khimkinsky NGO "Energomash" Peter Levochkin this week argued in absentia with Ilon Mask, which rocket engine is better-the Russian RD-180 or the Raptor production of SpaceX. The American billionaire said that his engine surpassed the RD-180 record in terms of pressure, the Russian designer replied that this was not entirely true.

The Foundation for the Protection of the Rights of Prisoners, founded by human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva and human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, who died in December last year, has been recognized as a foreign agent by the Russian Ministry of Justice. More. The Foundation for the Protection of the Rights of Prisoners was included in the register of NGOs acting as foreign agents on February 13.

US sanctions against Russian government debt will hit investors — foreigners will “shoot themselves in the foot” — but Russia is ready for them, First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at an investment forum that opened today in Sochi. This is how he commented on the bill on tough anti-Russian sanctions , introduced the day before in the US Congress. Read also The US Senate told the details about the new sanctions against Russia More.

The new bill on US sanctions has already brought down the ruble. We have sorted out the most important new and old offers Meeting of the US Congress. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The US Senate includes a new version of the draft law on sanctions against Russia. Yesterday he had already managed to bring down the ruble.