Alexei Navalny spoke at a meeting of the European Parliament and asked the European Union to impose sanctions against the "Russian oligarchs" - Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich. Effective sanctions against the Kremlin must be linked to the money that the Russian government lives off of, Navalny said.

For the second month in a row, Russians are withdrawing more than $1 billion from banks from deposits. In October, they withdrew almost $1.18 billion from deposits in foreign currency, Forbes reports citing Maxim Osadchy, head of the analytical department of the BKF. In September, according to him, citizens took $1.3 billion from deposits. VTB became the leader in reducing deposits in foreign currency in October, from which citizens took $246.2 million.

Pobeda Airlines announced the resumption of flights to Germany: they will be operated from the end of December to Berlin and Cologne. At the same time, a nationwide lockdown is in effect in Germany, and a 14-day quarantine has been introduced for Russians upon arrival. In the release, the airline announces that it is resuming the sale of tickets for international flights to the indicated destinations, which will resume in December 2020.

The Fitch rating agency has presented a forecast for the Russian corporate sector in 2021 (available to The Bell): it is stable. According to analysts, at the end of 2020, the median decline in the sector's revenue will slightly exceed 8%, but in 2021 a decrease in revenue is unlikely, but rather there will be an increase.

The launch of the Facebook Libra cryptocurrency will take place in early 2021, but little remains of the previous grandiose plans for a new global currency: it will simply be a dollar token, writes the Financial Times. According to the newspaper, the launch date will depend on the date of approval by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, but it is expected in January. The application was submitted back in May.

United Russia must retain its position in the new State Duma, gaining about the same number of seats in parliament in the 2021 elections as it does now. The party received this directive from the presidential administration, reports Meduza , citing sources. United Russia thus must demonstrate to the outside world (and especially the new US administration) a high level of support for Vladimir Putin and the current government.

Venezuela has resumed direct oil supplies to China after a year-long hiatus due to US sanctions. This is reported by Reuters with reference to data from the analytical company Refinitiv Eikon and official documents of the Venezuelan state-owned company PDVSA. It is possible that Russia is playing a role in this. China's national oil and gas corporation CNPC and oil and gas giant PetroChina, PDVSA's main customers, have stopped picking up cargo at Venezuelan ports since August 2019.

Cash remuneration of the heads of the largest oil companies in Russia, commercial and investment banks, retail chains in 2020 decreased due to the coronavirus crisis, follows from the Forbes rating. The publication compiled a list of industries with the highest incomes of top managers and found that their remuneration fell on average in 8 out of 12 industries. When compiling the rating, data on salaries, bonuses and other types of monetary remuneration of managers were taken into account.

President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference will take place on December 17 via videoconference, the Kremlin said . It was not canceled, unlike the "direct line" with the president. The President will get in touch with journalists from his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. But representatives of the federal and foreign media will be gathered in the same hall of the World Trade Center, where the president's "live" speeches were held.

In Russia, for the second day in a row, a record number of people infected with COVID-19 was detected, a record since the beginning of the pandemic was also set in the capitals, follows from the message of the operational headquarters. Over the past day, 27,543 new cases of the disease and 496 deaths were registered in the country. Most infections were recorded in Moscow (7918) and St. Petersburg (3687) - a new record for the incidence.

Incumbent US President Donald Trump has announced his readiness to step down and hand over power to his Democratic opponent in the election, Joe Biden, if the Electoral College votes for him. At the same time, he admitted that he might never admit defeat and even not attend the inauguration of the new president. The interview with reporters took place on Thursday, November 26, after the traditional address to all American military personnel on Thanksgiving Day.

Getting the company into the "red list" of the Central Bank promises to be as deadly as the "black". And there may be more such cases. Two years after the first news about the development of a new anti-money laundering platform, or “traffic light” of the Central Bank, the regulator decided to legalize it, writes RBC. The fact that the regulator conceived such a platform became known two years ago, and The Bell wrote about its intermediate version last October.

Major insurance companies, together with the Central Bank, have asked to provide them with direct access to video from city cameras in order to more effectively detect fraud and resolve disputed insurance claims, a source familiar with the case told Kommersant. According to the interlocutor of the newspaper, the Central Bank initiated negotiations with the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) of Moscow.

Two years after the first news about the development of a new anti-money laundering platform, or “traffic light” of the Central Bank, the regulator decided to legalize it, writes RBC. Getting into the red zone will be as deadly for the company as the "black list", and the number of such decisions may increase. What's happening The Central Bank, together with Rosfinmonitoring, has prepared amendments corresponding to its new anti-money laundering platform.