Billionaire Alisher Usmanov announced the sale of his stake in the VK group (until October 2021 it was known as Mail.Ru Group) to the Sogaz insurance company, the largest shareholder of which is co-owner of Rossiya Bank Yuri Kovalchuk and his family. Sogaz will share control over VK, which includes Russia’s largest social network VKontakte, equally with Gazprombank.

Alisher Usmanov sold control in the former Mail.Ru Group "Sogaz" Yuri Kovalchuk and Gazprombank A billionaire Alisher Usmanov announced the sale of his package in the VK group (until October 2021 was known as Mail.ru Group) of the Sogaz insurance company, which is the largest shareholder of which is the co -owner of the Bank of Russia Yuri Kovalchuk and his family. The control over VK, which includes the largest social network VKontakte, Sogaz will share equally with Gazprombank.

The US Treasury has added 20 individuals and 12 legal entities to the sanctions list for Belarus. Among individuals are the middle son of President Alexander Lukashenko Dmitry Lukashenko and officials, including the leadership of the border committee of Belarus and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Apple fell 4.2% after it became known that the company had warned suppliers about slowing demand for the iPhone 13 line, reported . Bloomberg In addition to Apple itself, its largest component suppliers, LG Innotek and STMicroelectronics, lost capitalization. “These comments are consistent with our assessment of the iPhone 13 product cycle as weak,” New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu (traditionally betting on Apple’s downfall) told the agency.

On December 2, Brent oil quotes briefly fell from $69 to $66 per barrel on the news following the OPEC+ meeting. The organization will accept Russia's offer to continue the planned recovery of production by 400,000 b/d in January. OPEC+ also approved production quotas for participants for January. For Russia, this is 10.122 million b/d compared to 10.018 million b/d in December. Saudi Arabia has the same quota.

Severstal announced that it is selling Vorkutaugol, one of the main coking coal producers in Russia, to Russkaya Energia. The transaction amount is 15 billion rubles, it is subject to approval by regulators. Severstal writes that it is reducing the consumption of raw coal, and the proceeds from the sale of Vorkutaugol will be used, among other things, for decarbonization. Due to the deal, Severstal expects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ( scopes 1 and 2 ) by 14.3%.

20 years ago, on December 2, 2001, Enron filed for bankruptcy, then the largest in Wall Street history. In many ways, today's corporate norms - rigorous auditing, executive accountability, stressed board independence, and whistleblower protection - are the result of the company's historic collapse that has entered the textbooks and popular culture.

Due to the high risk of infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus, Russians returning from South Africa will have to observe a self-isolation regime for 14 days, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, announced. This requirement also applies to those who have returned from countries bordering South Africa. “Today, Russia has introduced a two-week quarantine, but only for those who return from South Africa and countries that have a direct border with South Africa, and that’s all.

The Simonovsky Court of Moscow has toughened the punishment of Lyubov Sobol, an associate of the imprisoned politician Alexei Navalny, in the case of breaking into the apartment of FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev. A year of corrective labor was conditionally replaced with a real punishment. The decision of the court, which has not yet entered into force and will be appealed, said Sobol's lawyer Vladimir Voronin.

Roskomnadzor intends to limit the operation of six more VPN services. Among them are Betternet, Lantern, X-VPN, Cloudflare WARP, Tachyon VPN, PrivateTunnel. Roskomnadzor turned to companies and departments with a request to notify the regulator how much they need the listed VPN services for uninterrupted operation. Companies should send such information to the Center for Monitoring and Control of the Public Communications Network (CMU SSOP).

USM Alisher Usmanov announced the sale of her stake in the VK group (formerly Mail.ru Group) to the Sogaz group. The largest shareholders of Sogaz are the co-owner of Rossiya Bank Yuri Kovalchuk and his family (32.3%) and Gazprom (21.2%). The amount is not disclosed.

Danish Saxo Bank has released "shocking forecasts" for 2022. The main topic was "revolutionary movements", promising mostly unpleasant consequences. Predictions traditionally range from the weird to the monstrous, but make one wonder if the world is underestimating the likelihood of the events in question.

The first completely private highway in Russia has found a sponsor - the Meridian road, which is planned to be built by the ex-deputy chairman of Gazprom Alexander Ryazanov, will be financed by the EDB. The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) announced its readiness to act as a lender and organizer of financing the construction of the first private highway to China.

The leading Russian company in the field of cybersecurity Group-IB presented the latest Hi-Tech Crime Trends report (available from The Bell) on the main trends in cyber threats. Over the past year, the number of companies targeted by ransomware has increased by a record 10 times, the report says. The number of ransomware attacks increased by 200% in 2021, and nearly 2,400 Russian businesses fell victim to ransomware operators. During the year, their number grew by an unprecedented 935%.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin filed a case of illegal hunting against deprived of parliamentary immunity Valery Rashkin from the Communist Party faction - Part 2 of Art. 258 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The punishment for it is up to five years in prison. Rashkin became a suspect in the case of illegal elk hunting near Saratov, according to the department's website.