Over the past few years, China has been struggling to improve its environmental situation. The country is reforming the metallurgical, coal and energy industries. Since 2015, there has been a gradual reduction in metallurgical capacity. One of the key points of the environmental program is the transfer of housing and communal services and energy enterprises from coal to gas.

The successful test launch of a modernized missile defense system (ABM) was reported by the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. The tests took place at the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. “During the test launch, the missile fully completed the complex flight program and successfully hit the conditional target,” said Major General Andrei Prikhodko, Deputy Commander of the Air and Missile Defense Association of the Aerospace Forces. The anti-missile has a speed of about 4 km/s.

Director of the state farm named after. Lenin and former presidential candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Pavel Grudinin does not take part in the elections for governor of the Moscow region, because he would not pass the municipal filter. this He himself stated in an interview with Vedomosti. “It was clear that if the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated me, I would not pass the municipal filter. That’s why they couldn’t,” Grudinin said.

July 20, 2018, 19:28 / Finance Shuvalov denied plans to transfer almost 15% of VTB shares to VEB Vedomosti Discussions regarding the transfer to Vnesheconombank (VEB) of 14.7% of VTB shares , which are currently owned by FC Otkritie Bank , are not ongoing. This was stated by the chairman of the state corporation Igor Shuvalov, TASS reports . “Yesterday I carefully read the commentary of Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev. I share what he said.

The Board of Directors of Gazprom Neft approved the sale of a 49% stake in Gazprom Neft-Vostok to the RDIF consortium and the Emirati sovereign fund Mubadala. This is stated in the company's materials . As a result of the transaction, the Mubadala Fund will receive 44% of the shares of Gazprom Neft-Vostok for $271.2 million, in turn, RDIF will buy 4.99% of the company’s shares for $30.8 million. Gazprom Neft will continue to own a stake of 51% of the shares.

July 20, 2018, 17:16 / Updated July 23, 2018, 02:48 / Personal account Russians bought a record number of corporate bonds Their interest was spurred by falling deposit rates and tax breaks Lyudmila Koval Alexandra Astapenko Typically, retail investors accounted for about 3% of funds raised in bonds / Sergey Bobylev / TASS Individuals are becoming active players in the corporate bond market.

Mikhail and Alexey Leontyev swapped leather wallets for polyethylene wallets and made a business out of it / PERSONAL ARCHIVE Alexey and Mikhail Leontyev, 31, remember their first wallets well. The brothers bought two identical wallets at a market in their native Nizhnevartovsk before leaving for ITMO University in St. Petersburg. The twins chose large leather wallets to look respectable.

July 20, 2018, 17:16 / Auto What kind of cars do Saudi women buy? After the driving ban was lifted, it turned out that they like fast cars with roaring engines Margherita Stancati Women in Saudi Arabia prefer more masculine car models / Nariman El-Mofty / AP Many car dealers in Saudi Arabia were specially preparing for the June 24 lifting of the ban on women driving.

July 20, 2018, 15:12 / Business / Photo What is shown at the Farnborough International Airshow 2018 Airplanes of the future, robotic cockroaches and other technological innovations

Mosgosstroynadzor issued permission to commission the Letovo international school of billionaire Vadim Moshkovich in the new Moscow. this reports The press service of the department the fortune of the former senator and main owner agricultural holding of the Rusagro . Forbes estimates at $2 billion. “The Letovo school is a complex of buildings and structures for the education and residence of children from 12 to 18 years old (grades 7 to 11) and teachers,” the statement says.

July 20, 2018, 16:41 / Society Putin commented for the first time on raising the retirement age According to the president, he does not like the reform, but he needs to think about the future Daria Korzhova Vladimir Putin called the issue of raising the retirement age sensitive / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Russian President Vladimir Putin called the issue of raising the retirement age sensitive. He stated this at a meeting with volunteers of the World Cup in Kaliningrad.

US President Donald Trump, two months before the election, discussed with lawyer Michael Cohen payments to a former Playboy model who alleged an affair with Trump. about this The New York Times writes , citing several sources: lawyers and other people familiar with the recording. Cohen, who at that time served as Trump's lawyer, secretly recorded the conversation, the NYT clarifies. According to the publication, this recording was seized by the FBI during a raid on the lawyer's office.

As of July 20, the Bank of Russia revoked the license to carry out banking activities from Nizhny Tagil Tagilbank. This is stated in a message on the regulator’s website. The bank ranks 409th in the Russian banking system. The Central Bank explained the decision by saying that the bank used an ineffective development model and also inflated the book value of the property. The reflection of real value revealed a deterioration in financial performance and created risks of bankruptcy.

The government has extended until the end of next year the ban on the supply of agricultural products to Russia from the US, EU and a number of other countries that previously imposed anti-Russian sanctions. A copy of the document is posted on the official legal information portal . In mid-July, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree extending the response to previously imposed anti-Russian sanctions until next year.

Panasonic, the exclusive supplier of batteries for Tesla electric vehicles, could have used cobalt from Cuba, which is subject to US sanctions, in their production. This was reported by Reuters, citing two interlocutors familiar with the matter. Panasonic officials said they could not determine how much of the cobalt used to make Tesla's batteries came from Cuba because resources from different suppliers are shared at multiple stages of the production processes.