Democrat Andrew Gillum missed out on becoming Florida's first African-American governor. The traditionally Republican state opted for an active supporter of President Donald Trump's policies, Ron DeSantis, who won by 1% from 49.8%, CBS News reports . DeSantis is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives.

07 November 2018, 23:26 / Business Exclusively by subscription Billionaire Rybolovlev charged in corruption case The businessman was released after interrogation, but his social circle was limited Galina Starinskaya Dmitry Rybolovlev was released and is at home / BERTRAND LANGLOIS / AFP The owner of the Monaco football club, Dmitry Rybolovlev, whose fortune was estimated by American Forbes at $6.8 billion in 2018, has been charged in a case of “corruption and influence peddling” related to his

The United States did not receive assurances from Russia that it would not use chemical weapons after the incident with former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury. In this regard, in accordance with the Law on the Elimination of Chemical and Biological Weapons, the American authorities will begin to introduce a second round of sanctions against Russia. This was stated in a statement by State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who once recused himself from overseeing the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, has handed his resignation to President Donald Trump. It follows from the statement that Trump himself demanded Sessions' resignation. Trump thanked Sessions for his work, wished him all the best, and appointed the head of Sessions' office at the Justice Department, Matthew Whitaker, as interim attorney general.

07 November 2018, 05:25 / Business A large association of collectors has become interested in debt collection in the housing and communal services sector undefined Vedomosti SRO "National Association of Professional Collection Agencies", which includes more than 40 specialized agencies, intends to more actively involve its members in debt collection in the housing and communal services sector.

07 November 2018, 19:53 / Business The court upheld the claim of State Farm named after. Lenin" to Pavel Grudinin undefined Vedomosti The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region left without movement until November 29 the claim of State Farm named after. Lenin" for 1.09 billion rubles. to the director and shareholder of the enterprise Pavel Grudinin. This follows from the materials of the file of arbitration cases.

Google removes hundreds of millions of pages with pirated content from search results, but refuses to remove pirate sites entirely from search results / Ivan Alvarado/REUTERS Search engines are not the main source of traffic for pirates, Google writes in a new anti-piracy report. The world's largest Internet company cites a study by the American motion picture association MPAA, according to which search engines give pirate sites only 19% of views.

The National Bank of Ukraine revoked the banking and general licenses for foreign exchange transactions from BM Bank, owned by VTB . This was reported on the website of the Ukrainian regulator. The message notes that BM Bank decided to voluntarily terminate its activities without liquidating the legal entity in accordance with the new Ukrainian law. The Ukrainian subsidiary of VTB has fulfilled all obligations to clients and agreed on the termination of its activities with the National Bank.

Search engines are not the main source of traffic for pirates, Google writes in a new anti-piracy report. The largest Internet company in the world cites a study by the American Motion Picture Association MPAA, according to which search engines give only 19% of views to pirated sites.

November 07, 2018, 15:06 / Auto Exclusively by subscription Since the beginning of the year, more than 1.5 million cars have already been sold in Russia But the rush of car buyers will subside in 2019 Anastasia Ivanova Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in Russia in October increased by 8.2% to 160,425 units. This was reported by the Association of European Businesses (AEB). The current figure is higher than September sales by 2%.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region has begun a pre-investigation check of information about possible misuse of budget money by the region’s youth policy department, according to the department’s website. The department is headed by Olga Glatskikh, who was suspended on November 6 for her words about youth policy. According to the Investigative Committee, the day before the media wrote that the department received 131 million rubles in 2018.

07 November 2018, 23:54 / Finance OSAGO will hardly rise in price According to a new estimate by the Central Bank and insurers, the average price of a policy will increase by a maximum of 1.5% Alexandra Astapenko Anna Tretyak After the liberalization of MTPL tariffs, the average cost of a policy for car owners will increase slightly / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti After the liberalization of MTPL tariffs, the average cost of a policy for car owners will increase slightly, said First Deputy Chairman

07 November 2018, 18:19 / Finance The Ministry of Finance placed a little more than half of the OFZ News from the USA forced investors to take a break Anna Tretyak First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti On Wednesday, November 7, the Ministry of Finance held two OFZ auctions - it offered two issues of 10 billion rubles each. with maturity in 2024 and 2029. However, out of 20 billion rubles.

China, as the largest consumer of Russian timber, should help Russia solve the problem of reforestation, including due to the activities of “black loggers,” Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Dmitry Kobylkin said on Wednesday, November 7. Read on vedomosti.ru “I told my Chinese colleagues: let’s build 10-20 seed-growing complexes in Russia for your money,” TASS reported the minister’s words during a speech at the Federation Council.

More than 40% of voters in the US Congressional elections approve of President Donald Trump's performance, three out of 10 strongly approve, while almost half categorically disapprove, CNN reports, citing preliminary data from its voter survey. However, only about a quarter said they voted in the parliamentary elections in a way that expressed support for Trump, and almost 40% said their vote was cast in defiance of the incumbent president.