The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), an arm of the US Treasury Department, has imposed a $2 million fine on oil corporation ExxonMobil, including its US subsidiaries ExxonMobil Development and ExxonMobil Oil, for violating sanctions imposed in connection with Russian actions against Ukraine. this on Thursday OFAC announced .

On Thursday, in the TASS building, a face-to-face defense of projects of film companies that are not included in the list of leading film companies took place. They presented their projects to the expert and board of trustees of the Cinema Fund. The companies are applying for government support from the Cinema Fund. This year, the Fund will distribute 1 billion rubles to companies that are not included in the list of leaders.

Valinur Agishev became the new director of the Vostochny cosmodrome; he replaced Igor Svetlov in this post. This is stated in the message of the Center for Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure (TSENKI). Read on vedomosti.ru “Valinur Agishev faces large-scale tasks - TsENKI needs to complete construction work at the launch and technical complexes to ensure the safety of successful launches by the end of 2017.

July 20, 2017, 13:43 / Finance TASS: the interim administration continues to work in Ugra Vedomosti A temporary administration continues to work at Ugra, a source at the bank told TASS. Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the Central Bank's order to introduce a temporary administration and a moratorium on satisfying creditors' claims be cancelled. The Prosecutor General's Office gave the regulator until July 21 to respond in writing to this protest.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told regional leaders today that it is unacceptable to reduce the number of hours for studying Russian in schools in national republics. "Forcing a person to learn a language that is not his native language is just as unacceptable as reducing the level and time of teaching Russian. I draw the special attention of the heads of regions of the Russian Federation to this," Putin said at the Council for Interethnic Relations in Yoshkar-Ola (Mari-El).

ExxonMobil considers the decision of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to impose a fine of $2 million for violating anti-Russian sanctions “unfair.” The company followed “clear guidance from the White House and the U.S. Treasury Department when its representatives signed documents related to its then-Russian activities with Rosneft (an entity not subject to sanctions),” its statement said .

The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) reported on the morning of July 20 that agent banks had begun paying insurance compensation to depositors of the Yugra bank, as planned earlier. A representative of the Prosecutor General's Office declined to comment, a Vedomosti correspondent reported at 2:00 p.m.

The bike accelerates briskly, although a bit noisily, from zero, and you can pedal or not / Maksim Stulov / Vedomosti The domestic startup Eczo bike wants to sell its complete kit for converting almost any bicycle into an electric moped for 88,000 rubles. It seems that its creators know the market and the main competitor: the well-known and very popular in the world kit of the Chinese Bafang BBS03, also with a kilowatt carriage motor, will cost about the same. Is it worth its price?

Markets The article was published in No. 4367 dated July 20, 2017 under the title: Don’t trade without lunch Singapore Exchange will return lunch break Its cancellation did not help increase turnover July 20 01:45 Tatiana Bochkareva / Vedomosti Dear subscriber! This red icon means you can share a paid article with your friends. Just share it on any social network - and then even non-subscribers will be able to read the entire article. {{fb}} {{vk}} {{twitter}} Dear subscriber!

0.1% Inflation in July was the second week in a row after a surge at the beginning of the month due to indexation of housing and communal services tariffs, Rosstat reported. Since the beginning of July, inflation was 0.4%, since the beginning of the year - 2.7%, and in annual terms it decreased to 4.3% after accelerating to 4.4% in June.

Banks Peskov on the conflict around Yugra: Putin has always highly appreciated the work of the Central Bank However, the Kremlin does not have the authority to intervene in the situation, the press secretary said July 20 13:26 Anna Holyavko / Vedomosti {{fb}} {{vk}} {{twitter}} {{fb}} {{vk}} {{twitter}} Elvira Nabiullina and Vladimir Putin Alexey Druzhinin / RIA Novosti Vladimir Putin has always highly appreciated the results of the work of the Central Bank, said the press secretary of the

US President Donald Trump has responded to reports of his secret meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a G20 dinner in an interview with The New York Times. Trump insists the conversation lasted about 15 minutes, was mostly "pleasantries", and the substantive points concerned the adoption of Russian children by American citizens. It has been banned in Russia since 2012.

The nuclear icebreaker "Lider" will need 90 billion rubles. Atomflot and Sovcomflot may invest in the construction of a new type of nuclear-powered icebreaker, said Alexey Rakhmanov, president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation. The technical design of the icebreaker has not yet been completed, but its cost may reach 90 billion rubles, Rakhmanov said. More precise parameters of the project, the cost and construction time will be determined no earlier than in six months.

The Russian Defense Ministry commented on the conclusions of the Yabloko party on the expenses for the operation in Syria. "We tried unsuccessfully to discover at least the outlines of the methodology by which the Yabloko party made its conclusions about the allegedly enormous expenses of Russia on the operation of our Aerospace Forces in Syria," said the official representative of the Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

Yandex.Taxi and Uber to merge businesses in Russia and five other CIS countries Business / Trade and Services Last week saw the deal of the year, at least for now: two of the largest ride-hailing services, Yandex.Taxi and Uber, announced a merger of their businesses in Russia and a number of CIS countries, including Kazakhstan and Belarus. The official reason is that it is easier and more promising to develop together.