Oil countries want to extend agreement on production cuts All participants in the monitoring committee meeting spoke in favor of extending the agreement on reducing oil production by countries after March 2018, said Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. The committee includes OPEC and non-OPEC countries (including Russia). "We looked at the results of the agreement's implementation. In general, everyone is satisfied with the result, the agreement is being implemented," Novak noted.

WhatsApp messenger users around the world are complaining on social networks about the application's malfunctions, Reuters reports. According to the Downdetector service, the peak of complaints occurs at 22:00 Moscow time. Failures were recorded on almost all continents. Most were recorded in European countries, Brazil, the United States and Mexico. Failures were also complained about in Panama, Russia, the UAE and other countries.

November 30, 2017, 11:37 pm / Finance FC Otkritie Bank wrote off two issues of subordinated Eurobonds Vedomosti The bank FC Otkritie, which is being rehabilitated , has written off two old issues of subordinated Eurobonds, according to reports on the London Stock Exchange. We are talking about issues of $300 million and $500 million . previously The bank had defaulted on the latest issue: on October 26, the holders of these securities did not receive a coupon.

There are no announcements at this time, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, Reuters reports . US President Donald Trump had earlier evaded the question. "He's here. Rex is here," Trump said. The New York Times previously reported on Tillerson's possible resignation, citing high-ranking sources in the US presidential administration. This information was later confirmed by a source for Associated Press.

Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has made it onto Bloomberg's list / Sergey Porter / Vedomosti Russian trolls (botnet networks) have become some of the most influential people this year, Bloomberg decided. The agency published its traditional list of the 50 most influential people of the year. Bloomberg's list also includes Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. Buterin is 23 years old, was born in Russia in 1994 and moved to Canada in 2000. In 2013, Buterin created a new cryptocurrency - Ethereum.

November 30, 2017, 02:16 / Economics Exclusively by subscription “We need incentives, on the one hand, and a punitive machine, on the other” How to develop a culture of fair competition Igor Shuvalov , First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia The successes of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) have been rated in world rankings; we have modern legislation, but we would like the situation with competition to be better.

MGTS was able to take 3rd place in the number of server racks in Russia by betting on the construction of small data centers / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti By the second half of 2017, MGTS offered 2,834 server racks in its data centers for hosting third-party servers, of which 2,791 were filled. This follows from Comnews Group materials. The analysts' calculations were confirmed by MGTS representative Tatyana Martyanova.

Donations must be voluntary, made without deception, violence or vice of will, says electoral lawyer Garegin Mitin / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow has ordered the head of Alexei Navalny's federal headquarters, Leonid Volkov, to return a donation made to the opposition leader's presidential campaign.

Over the 10 months of 2017, 23.2 million smartphones were sold in Russia compared to 21.1 million a year earlier. This follows from materials from a partner of several electronics manufacturers. The data was confirmed by representatives of M.video and MTS . Svyaznoy representative Sergei Tikhonov speaks of an increase of 9%. Over the ten months of 2016, the year-on-year growth in smartphone sales was 3%, according to the manufacturer’s partner.

November 30, 2017, 02:12 / Economics Exclusively by subscription “My dream is to create a people’s business front against monopoly” How the transfer of tariff regulation powers to the Federal Antimonopoly Service formed a new attitude towards natural monopolies Igor Artemyev , head of FAS After the transfer of powers on tariff regulation and in the field of state defense procurement to the Federal Antimonopoly Service, we began to look at a lot of things completely differently.

November 30, 2017, 01:17 / Business / Auto Exclusively by subscription Automakers will fight for palladium Due to the growth of automobile production and tightening environmental legislation, the demand for metal is growing faster than supply Polina Trifonova Palladium producers should not relax: “a significant increase in prices for the metal could lead to its replacement with platinum, which is used in diesel engines,” notes Khalikov / Wikimedia Global distributor of platinum metals Johnson

November 30, 2017, 01:41 / Business Andrey Filatov will produce gas in Uzbekistan Co-owner of Globaltrans and Global Ports became a member of the consortium to develop a large gas field Artur Toporkov Alexandra Terentyeva Andrey Filatov is optimistic about the prospects for the project in Uzbekistan / Sergey Bobylev / TASS Oddly enough, this story [of participation in the PSA] has chess roots.

November 30, 2017, 16:47 / Business Denmark has passed a law to prevent the construction of Nord Stream 2 undefined Vedomosti The Danish Parliament has passed a law according to which the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs can ban the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline through the kingdom's territorial waters due to a security threat, writes Reuters .

November 30, 2017, 13:46 / Finance / News Stepashin compared cryptocurrencies with MMM undefined Vedomosti Chairman of the Russian Lawyers Association Sergei Stepashin, speaking at the session of the IV BRICS Forum, compared cryptocurrencies with the MMM financial pyramid of Sergei Mavrodi, reports . RIA Novosti According to Stepashin, it is important for the BRICS countries to pay attention to such a topic as cryptocurrencies.

Russian bobsledders Alexander Kasyanov, Alexey Pushkarev, Ilvir Khuzin and skeletonists Alexander Tretyakov and Elena Nikitina have appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to look into their disqualification from international competitions. The letter was published on Instagram by Elena Nikitina.