January 11, 2019, 18:01 / Economics / Finance / Photo The Euro celebrates its 20th anniversary The eurozone story didn't turn out as expected

January 11, 2019, 18:06 / Business The military will clear the blockage on the Bureya River The Ministry of Defense must release the reservoir of the Bureyskaya hydroelectric power station before the flood Elena Vavina View of a landslide on the Bureya River / Ministry of Defense On behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Ministry of Defense joined in clearing the bed of the Bureya River, blocked by a collapsed hill.

Apple plans to introduce three new iPhone models this fall, including a successor to the XR, despite weak sales of its latest smartphones, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing sources. The flagship iPhone, according to the newspaper, will be equipped with a triple main camera. The successor to the budget iPhone XR will receive two instead of one main camera.

January 11, 2019, 05:20 / Business Russian Railways may change its electricity purchase scheme undefined Vedomosti In 2019, JSC Russian Railways plans to obtain the status of a participant in the wholesale energy market, writes Kommersant, citing interlocutors familiar with the initiative.

The United States has begun to remove military ground equipment from Syria, CNN reports , citing a White House official. “Some cargo has already been moved,” said a source familiar with the details of the operation. He clarified that the process has been going on for several days, but did not say from which part of Syria the equipment was removed and what kind of transport was used for this - air or ground. The secrecy is due to security reasons.

January 11, 2019, 17:07 / Business Gazprom's exports hit a record high for the third year in a row The mild European winter did not prevent the company from exporting 200 billion cubic meters, the Ministry of Energy calculated Artur Toporkov There is no single approach to calculating export volumes to non-CIS countries / Alexander Ryumin / TASS The Ministry of Energy summed up the main results of the activities of the fuel and energy sector for 2018.

January 11, 2019, 20:34 / Updated January 13, 2019, 23:59 / Business Gasoline prices have risen sharply on the stock exchange The wholesale price of AI-95 has increased by 14% since the beginning of the year, prices at gas stations increased only by 1.7% Vitaly Petlevoy The increase in prices at gas stations themselves in Russia amounted to up to 1.7% for some companies / Egor Aleev / TASS During the first week of trading in 2019, wholesale gasoline prices rose sharply.

The best director of 2018, according to the Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics, was the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov. It was decided to honor him with the White Elephant Award for the film “Summer” about Mike Naumenko and Viktor Tsoi. The voting results of the award's expert council were announced on Friday at a ceremony at the House of Cinema, Interfax reported.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has decided to clarify the procedure for using weapons against intruder aircraft that have crossed the Russian state border. According to the draft government resolution published by the ministry on the portal of draft administrative legal acts, lethal fire may, under certain conditions, be opened on intruder civilian aircraft.

at one of the Rusagro A case of foot and mouth disease virus infection was detected pig farms in the Primorsky Territory. This was said in a statement. Rusagro notes that the pig farm was not fully occupied. The company will destroy 481 animals and quarantine them. “This event will not affect the timing of the start of commercial production and shipment of products to consumers. Losses for the company are insignificant,” Rusagro said in a statement.

The parliament of Macedonia, a former Yugoslav republic, has adopted an amendment to the constitution that will change the country's name to "Republic of North Macedonia", Reuters reports . 81 out of 120 MPs voted in favor of the change. The opposition party Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) boycotted the vote. The current official name of the country in the UN is "The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".

January 11, 2019, 00:05 / Finance How MTPL rates have changed for major insurers In most regions they raised rates, some to the limit Danis Yumabaev The issue is the reform of the age-experience coefficient (AC): the number of categories of drivers has been increased from 4 to 58 / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Insurers are required to disclose new basic tariffs within three days from January 9, when the tariff corridor was expanded by 20% in both directions to RUB 2,746–4,942.

The White House has begun preparations to declare a state of emergency in the United States in order to be able to direct money from the state budget to build a wall on the border with Mexico, bypassing Congress, The Washington Post writes , citing sources in the administration of President Donald Trump. According to sources, the White House wants to use funds for the construction of the barrier structure that were allocated in 2018 from the state budget for some purpose and were not used.

One of the largest Chinese automobile companies, Geely, is not going to sell its stake in Daimler. This is stated in a statement on the Geely website. “Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd., being a long-term strategic investor and one of the largest shareholders of Daimler, has no plans to reduce its stake,” the statement noted. Geely owns a 9.7% stake in Daimler. The statement by the Chinese company followed a publication by Bloomberg.

Economic adviser to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Liu He will “most likely” visit Washington at the end of January. This was stated by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, CBS reports . This week, the first round of expert-level trade negotiations between the two countries took place in China, and Liu He participated in them, although this was not previously planned.