The United States imposed the first sanctions for interference in the 2018 election. They limited themselves to Evgeny Prigozhin and his employees The US Department of Finance imposed the first sanctions against Russians for interfering in the 2018 intermediate elections. Three planes and yachts, presumably belonging to Evgeny Prigozhin, fell on the sanctions lists.

The US Treasury has added two Russian citizens, Denis Kuzmin and Igor Nesterov, to the sanctions list. Washington connects them with the so-called "troll factory" - the St. Petersburg "Internet Research Agency" of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. The Bell found out some details of their biographies. Denis Kuzmin is 28 years old, he studied at the national institute "Higher School of Management" in St.

A protracted conflict between top managers of the Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse turned into a fight at a party at one of them, writes the Financial Times. As the publication found out, the head of the bank, Tijan Thiam, and the head of asset management of the bank, Iqbal Khan, worked well together for several years.

“To imagine the challenges companies are facing in the face of Brexit, just imagine 24 tons of beets,” writes Bloomberg in an article about British businesses trying to prepare for a tough exit scenario from the European Union. One of the main problems for the local will be a sudden break in the supply chains of the right products. Details. As an example, Bloomberg describes the situation faced by a British fruit and vegetable snack manufacturer called Nim's Fruit Crisps.

On September 30, the Moscow City Court changed the sentence to actor Pavel Ustinov: instead of 3.5 years, the colony for the dislocation of the Rosgvardein shoulder was appointed a year of imprisonment. Ustinov’s case turned out to be the most resonant in the entire “Moscow process”: journalists, cultural figures and even pro -government politicians organized by the artists of the flash mob in his support .

Director Fyodor Bondarchuk and Prisma founder Alexey Moiseyenkov invested in the Must movie and TV series recommendation service, Vedomosti reports . The app has received more than $1.5 million in total. This is one of Bondarchuk's few publicly known investments that is not directly related to his own work. The director hopes that the project will give viewers "a single window of access to all content." According to Moiseyenkov, he financed Must primarily because of his trust in the team.

Fraudsters began to send fake letters on behalf of the Federal Tax Service: citizens are massively receiving fake notifications about the need to pay taxes with the details of individuals, writes RBC. The Federal Tax Service said that Russians receive letters allegedly from the tax service via Russian Post with a request to pay the debt and transfer the amount to the account indicated in the letter. It, of course, does not belong to a government agency, but to scammers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on a single excise tax rate on Russian and imported wines; the document was published on the legal information portal. We are talking about amendments to the Tax Code that increase the amount of excise tax. What's happened? The amendments provide for a gradual increase in excise tax over three years. From January 2020, both Russian and foreign wines will be charged 30 rubles per liter.

It will now be possible to rent an electric car in the Yandex.Drive car sharing service, the company said in a statement received by The Bell. The service's fleet will include 30 Nissan Leaf cars (about 0.3% of the fleet). You can rent a car for a maximum of one and a half hours, and leave it only inside the Garden Ring. Users will not need to charge their cars; Yandex employees will do this. Details. Electric Nissan Leaf cars will appear on Moscow streets on September 30.

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The investigation cannot find convincing evidence in the case against the generals of the Investigative Committee (IC), accused of taking a bribe from kingpin Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy). Kalashov said during interrogation that he “has nothing to do with the criminal hierarchy,” and the investigation did not find any money or expensive apartments from the defendants, General Drymanov and Colonel Kramarenko, Kommersant writes . Case history.

Nikolai Egorov, a classmate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, lawyer and former head of the board of directors of the bankrupt United Financial Capital (OFC) bank, was sued by one of the creditors of the financial organization. He accuses Egorov of siphoning money from the bank. Vedomosti reviewed a copy of the claim sent to Moscow arbitration. The plaintiff, Mordovian LLC Regionstroyinkom (RSI), demands that Egorov be brought to subsidiary liability. Egorov owns 25% of OFK.

By 2024, Roskosmos can receive a reusable returnable transport spacecraft “like Elon Musk”, but four times cheaper - only $ 10 million per launch. The ship is being developed by the private company MTKS, founded by the former CEO of S7 Space, Sergey Sopov. What's happened. Roskosmos is going to sign an agreement on cooperation in the creation of a ship with a private MTKS (Reusable Transport Space Systems), RBC found out from the minutes of the August meeting at the state corporation.

In Russia, they decided to develop a new spaceship - it should become returned, like Ilona Mask The crew of the Ship "Soyuz". Photo from Twitter Roscosmos By 2024, Roscosmos can get a reusable returned transport spacecraft “Like Ilona Mask”, but four times cheaper - only $ 10 million for launch. The ship is being developed by a private company MTKS, founded by the former C7 Space general director Sergei Sopov.

The Ministry of Economic Development will discuss with experts how to change the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes to improve the business climate. Business associations sent proposals to the government, found out . Vedomosti Details. The list includes initiatives to protect entrepreneurs from illegal actions of the security forces.