US President Donald Trump said he would sign the first phase of the trade agreement between the United States and China on January 15. “I will sign our very large -scale and comprehensive first phase of the trading transaction with China on January 15. The ceremony will be held in the White House. There will be high -ranking representatives of China. Then I will go to Beijing, where negotiations in the second phase will begin,” the US president wrote on Twitter.

The Ministry of Health of the Roschelf state corporation has published a bill of state corporation, which will take up the development of the continental shelf in the Arctic and in the Far East. Photo: "Rosneft" The bill provides for the admission of private investors to participate in shelf projects, if they meet established requirements, and subject to the consortium with the participation of Roschelf.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting on December 31 with the leadership of the petrochemical complex of the country instructed to start oil supplies from alternative sources in the coming days, BelTA reported . We are talking about the supply of tanks by rail from the Baltic ports, as well as alternative supplies to the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Inflation in Russia in 2019 (December by December) amounted to 3.0%, follows from the data published on the main page of the Central Bank. This is one percentage point below the regulator target (4.0%). According to Rosstat, inflation in December accelerated to 0.4% after 0.3% in November. The Central Bank expects annual inflation will be 3.5–4.0% in 2020 and will remain near 4% in the future.

Russian Forbes published the TOP-10 of the least successful billionaires of the outgoing decade. Most of all - $ 6.7 billion - Oleg Deripaska, who fell under US sanctions, lost. To lift sanctions from UC Rusal and En+, he was forced to sacrifice control in these companies. Now he is fighting for lifting personal sanctions. The main owner of the AFC System Vladimir Yevtushenkov almost did not yield to Deripaska in losses ($ 6.4 billion).

2020 completes a strange decade, which for Russia began with hopes for rapid growth, and ends with a deep stagnation. In the project “Farewell, 2010s” The Bell sums up its results in the economy, finance, business, politics and other areas. How citizens of Russia were deprived of participation 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.

The former head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance Carlos Gon, released in Japan on a major bail after an arrest in the case of the use of companies for personal purposes, fled to Lebanon. History is overgrown with scandalous details. What happened The flight of the former top manager became known on the night of December 31. His lawyers claim that all the Gona’s passports remained in their hands, and consider the actions of the client “unforgivable”.

The founder of Euroset Yevgeny Chichvarkin left Russia on December 22, 2008 - and has never returned since then. All the 2010s he watched Russia from afar. Elizabeth Ossetian asked the entrepreneur to take the results of this decade. In addition, Chichvarkin told how things are going on at his London projects: Hedonism Wines store and Hide restaurant, shared his sensations from Brexit and explained why he supports the Libertarians in Russia.

The Russian and Ukrainian sides on the last day of the year, after intense negotiations and less than a day before the expiration of the previous 10-year transit gas contract, signed a new period of five years. What happened On Tuesday night, Alexei Miller and Naftogaz of Ukraine were announced almost simultaneously on the signing of gas agreements almost simultaneously. Both sides stated that they made a maximum possible.

2020 will complete a strange decade, which for Russia began with hopes for rapid growth, and ends with a deep stagnation. Everyone suffered from slowing the economy and falling ruble, but the main victim of the 2010s was the Russian middle class. Whom to consider the middle class There is no clear definition, but there are many methods of evaluation. For some, it turns out that the middle class in Russia is 4%, in others-70%, Alfa-Bank economists write .