Nearly a year after being submitted to Congress, the toughest bill on new US sanctions against Russia, the DASKA Act, has reached the vote. It was approved today by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. If the bill goes further and is approved by both chambers, Donald Trump will be forced to introduce at least part of the measures described in it - from sanctions against Russian public debt and energy projects to blocking correspondent accounts of state banks.

The US Senate voted for strict sanctions against Russia. But they are still far from their adoption Almost a year after introducing to Congress, the most stringent bill on the new US sanctions against Russia Daska Act reached the vote. Today he was approved by the Senate International Affairs Committee.

Five -year -old Anastasia Radzinskaya from Krasnodar became the third in the ranking of highly paid YouTube bloggers according to Forbes. Together with his father, Anastasia is maintained by Like Nastya’s main channel and several more YouTube channels with 107 million subscribers and 42 billion views.

The US Senate International Affairs Committee approved a tough anti -Russian DASKA Act. It implies sanctions against Russian public debt, energy projects and banks. The Senate wanted to consider the document on December 11, but transferred to a separate meeting at the request of the co -author of Robert Menendes. One of the authors of the bill Lindsay Graham dubbed the document “sanctions from hell”. The Committee approved him in 17 votes against 5.

The Russians are increasingly using non -cash calculations: the share of the population, which is calculated mainly in cash, from 2014 to 2018, fell exactly twice - from 74% to 37%, and 58% would already be difficult to do without cashless payments, the Central Bank showed a new survey. Back in 2017, there were more than half the cash counting mainly - 59%. In 2012, there were 89%. Nevertheless, 70% of respondents say that they cannot do without cash.

The US authorities admitted that even the sanctions adopted as part of the defense budget will not be able to prevent the completion of the construction and work of the Russian North Stream-2 gas pipeline, Bloomberg sources in the White House said . Instead, the United States will try to impose restrictions on other Russian energy projects. North Stream-2.

In 2018, the debts of “Channel One exceeded 20 billion rubles - almost two -thirds of the annual revenue. Now the fate of the “first button” in the hands of the state, which decides whether to close the debts of the channel, redeem the shares and make the “first” to completely state or bankrupt. We have collected the main thing from the large text of Meduza about how the Internet, propaganda and ambitions of Konstantin Ernst made the channel deeply unprofitable.

Sergei Sobyanin, who played today in the Moscow City Duma with an annual report, emotionally responded to criticism of the export of metropolitan waste to the regions. The question of this was asked by the deputy from “Fair Russia” Alexander Solovyov, “Vedomosti” write . Sergey Sobyanin. Photo: Agency "Moscow" Quote. “I am very amused when they tell me - garbage plants, a nightmare ... colleagues, let's not take anything out and we will not burn anything in the Moscow region. Let's leave.

2020 completes a strange decade, which for Russia began with hopes for rapid growth, and ends with a deep stagnation. In the special project "Farewell, 2010s" The Bell sums up its results. The first material is about what happened in political life. The Russian government met with optimism: the economic crisis is overcome, nothing threatens the stability of the system, the 45-year-old president travels with visits to California.

Fiat Chrysler and Group PSA automobile concerts (produces cars under the brands of Peugeot, Citroen, Opel) signed an merger agreement - the company that has appeared will become the fourth largest car manufacturer in the world. Fiat The completion of the transaction will take from 12 to 15 months, and the synergistic effect of it will be 3.7 billion euros per year. Fiat and PSA shareholders will receive 50% of the shares of a united company.

Gazprom is preparing to build on Yamal a new powerful gas chemical complex worth about 1 trillion rubles: the Sabi Sabic oil and the Saudi oil company can become partners, the Vedomosti writes . What's happened Gazprom is preparing a new megaproject, four people familiar with the plans of the concern told the publication. We are talking about the construction of a gas chemical complex on the Yamal Peninsula and the production of polymers on the basis of the Bovanenkovsky cluster of deposits.

Amazon, the Twitch Streaming Service said that Rambler withdrew a lawsuit about illegal content without paying compensation of 180 billion rubles, writes Reuters. UPD. Rambler confirmed the agreement on the settlement of the dispute, the review of the claim and the fact that compensation was not paid. The head of the sports projects Rambler Group Mikhail Gershkovich thanked Twitch for the constructive dialogue, the streaming press service recalled that any illegal content would be removed.

The shares of the retailer of electronics and household appliances of M. Video by 13.00 Moscow time fell 9% after news about the searches in the companies of billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev. Gutseriev himself called this information a provocation. UPD. The quotes went upward immediately after the statement of the press secretary of President Putin Dmitry Peskov that the Kremlin is “not known” about the situation. UPD2.

Small business began to prefer the placement of loans to the bank on the exchange, although such financing is more expensive. The fact is that this is the simplest way to take money, write “Vedomosti”. Photo: from the site of the Mosbirzhi The amount of bonds that small and medium -sized companies placed on the Moscow Bill from January to November increased from 6 billion rubles in 2018 to 22 billion rubles in 2019.

The Mash telegram channel on Wednesday in the morning announced searches in the house and ten offices of billionaire companies Mikhail Gutseriev. The representative of the company "Safmar" of the businessman refutes this. The capitalization of M. Video controlled by the businessman fell by almost 10%.