Signs of a recession in the United States, an exacerbation in the trade war and a decrease in the Fed’s rate: what all this means for the ruble Already traditionally for this summer, Friday is the day of aggravation of hostilities in the US trade war with China. Today, the parties exchanged new promises of duties and prohibitions, the stock markets have traditionally collapsed, and the American government bonds again show a sign of an early onset of the economic crisis.

One of the richest people in the world died in the United States, who forever changed American politics - co-owner of the industrial conglomerate Koch Industries and sponsor of the Republican Party, David Koch. He was 79 years old, his brother Charles Koch announced his death, writes Bloomberg. David Koch died from numerous diseases, the most severe of which was prostate cancer, which he was diagnosed with almost 30 years ago - then doctors gave him no more than two years of life.

In Russia, a quarter of tenders for the purchase of vital drugs such as insulin are disrupted - the regions charge too low a price for them, and suppliers are not ready to work at a loss. In some regions, almost half of the necessary medicines have not been purchased, RBC calculated . Details. In total, in Russia for the first six months of 2019, almost 47 thousand tenders of state institutions for the purchase of medicines were left without applications.

China introduces mirror measures against the United States: on September 1 and December 15, import duties on some goods from the United States will be increased by 10% and 5%, the Committee on Tariffs and Duties under the State Council of China said in a statement. About 5 thousand commodity items from the United States with a total volume of $75 billion will fall under the new rules.

The richest businessman of Ukraine Rinat Akhmetov may have problems: an investigation is being conducted regarding the leadership of his energy company DTEK, Bloomberg writes . Relations with Akhmetov are most clearly showed whether Zelensky will manage to fulfill the promise not to give the oligarchs preferences and to assign responsibility for the solution of specific issues. Photo from the official website of the Humanitarian Staff Rinat Akhmetov What's happened.

The owner of the cartoon character "Peppa Pig" is being bought for $ 4 billion - a deal between Entertainment One and the American toy manufacturer Hasbro should take place before the end of the year, Reuters reports . On this information, the shares of the manufacturer of the popular cartoon jumped by 30% - a record for the London mid-cap index. Peppa Pig's popularity skyrocketed this summer when the show's titular character became the subject of popular memes.

RBC analyzed Rosstat data on the salaries of municipal officials - there were 468,000 of them in the country at the end of 2018. It turned out that only in 14 out of 85 regions the salary of such an official (mostly employees of local administrations) exceeds the average for the region. Read also Officials returned pre-crisis salaries Municipal officials of the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansiysk districts turned out to be the highest paid - 133.5 thousand rubles. and 97.5 thousand rubles.

Radioactive cesium-137, found in a Severodvinsk doctor, entered the body not because of the explosion in Nenoksa on August 8, but "through products," the government of the Arkhangelsk region said . The Kremlin also denies that the radioactive contamination affected anyone other than the direct participants in the incident. Quote.

President Vladimir Putin has ordered a symmetrical response to the launch of the land-based version of the Tomahawk cruise missile, produced by the United States shortly after the termination of the INF Treaty. If, as the US claimed, Russia had already deployed a missile that violated the INF Treaty, it shouldn't take long. What happened.

Online retailer AliExpress has launched an unconditional return of goods in Russia - without justifying the reasons for the refusal. Until now, the option was only valid in China. The return policy is published on the system website. You can request a return within 15 days of receiving your order. To do this, open a "dispute" on the platform, get a free return label and present it at the Russian Post office along with the goods.

The Nizhny Novgorod automobile plant GAZ (part of Oleg Deripaska's Russian Machines holding) is preparing to switch to a four-day work week, write . local media The letter to the employees says that the four-day period may last six months - from October 21, 2019 to April 20, 2020 "under the US government's anti-Russian sanctions", due to problems with the supply of imported components and market conditions.

The last foreign operator abandons Superjet The Mexican low-cost airline Interjet has put up for sale all of its Sukhoi Superjet 100, after which this airliner will become 100% Russian - in the sense that it will not have a single foreign commercial operator, Vedomosti writes . Probable buyers are also Russian leasing companies, so Mexican Superjet will also compete with new aircraft of this type in the domestic market.

The Mexican low-cost airline Interjet has put up for sale all of its Sukhoi Superjet 100, after which this airliner will become 100% Russian - in the sense that it will not have a single foreign commercial operator, Vedomosti writes . Probable buyers are also Russian leasing companies, so Mexican Superjet will also compete with new aircraft of this type in the domestic market. What happened.

There has been a rift between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church over Ukraine, writes the Financial Times . Its latest manifestation is last year's transfer of "Putin's confessor" Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) from the post of abbot of the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow to the provincial Pskov Metropolis and Putin's demonstrative pilgrimage to Pskov that followed, FT notes.