The transfer is expected to take place in neutral waters of the Black Sea / Alla Dmitrieva / REUTERS The Ukrainian military ships detained a year ago in the Kerch Strait will soon be returned to Ukraine, Nikolai Polozov, the head of the group of lawyers for the Ukrainian sailors, told Interfax . According to him, two artillery boats and a launch have already left Kerch, where they had been since their arrest. The lawyer has no other information.

November 17, 2019, 20:21 / Media The state will count the users of Internet companies Resistant sites are promised to turn off advertising Ksenia Boletskaya Advertisers and content producers need a universal and transparent system for assessing the Internet audience / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Officials have decided how the state registration system for Internet users will be structured: sites will be required to provide data about their audience to an organization specially authorized for

October marked the 90th anniversary of Black Tuesday. There have been many Black Tuesdays in the past decades, but for an economist, October 29, 1929 is the most important Black Tuesday in world history. The Great Depression began – an economic crisis in the United States and the rest of the world, still the largest economic crisis in peacetime. Not only did the Great Depression have a decisive impact on the course of world history – without it, there might not have been World War II.

The process of returning Ukrainian ships detained last year by Russian border guards in the Kerch Strait is in its final stages, Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak told Novoye Vremya. The Russian side has not yet commented on this information. On the evening of November 16, Ukrainian media reported that two tugboats and a search and rescue ship had left ports in Ukraine to pick up the ships detained by Russia in the Kerch Strait.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced his intention to run in the upcoming presidential elections in 2020 and 2025, Belta reports . At the same time, the politician stressed that he is not clinging to the post of president, but considers himself obliged to offer his candidacy. "I will not hold on to the chair with blue fingers," he told journalists. According to Lukashenko, if he feels that people have stopped supporting him, he will leave politics.

For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, one of the critical moments in his political biography is approaching – he is about to meet in the Normandy format. From the point of view of Russians brought up on anti-Ukrainian federal television, this is normal: they unobtrusively explain that all the world's leaders only dream of meeting with Vladimir Putin. From the bizarrely dressed Africans to the bizarrely gifted Donald Trump. And naturally, Volodymyr Zelensky is no exception.

The names of senior Russians in intercepted telephone conversations released by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) into the 2014 downing of a Boeing 777 in eastern Ukraine raise the stakes ahead of the start of the trial in The Hague but do nothing to change Russia's position, which continues to insist it was not involved in the plane's downing.

The sharp reduction of the Central Bank's key rate at the end of October (by half a percentage point to 6.5%) hit the interests of depositors. After a short pause, banks began to follow the regulator in unison by reducing the yield on ruble deposits. In the three weeks since the October fall of the key rate, 22 of the 30 banks with the largest portfolios of household deposits have already managed to reduce their ruble deposit rates in one way or another.

Correct understanding of tax crimes depends on the Supreme Court's clarifications / Igor Zarembo / RIA Novosti This week, the Supreme Court plenum is expected to settle the issue of whether tax crimes should be considered ongoing. On Thursday, judges plan to discuss a draft resolution on the practice of applying criminal legislation on liability for tax crimes, three people who participated in the discussion of the document told Vedomosti.

The persecution of Russian scientists is forcing the scientific community to unite in order to protect itself from attempts at pressure from the security forces. Academicians insist that the development of science is incompatible with total control over scientists' external contacts and visits by machine gunners to academic institutes - otherwise, scientists may choose to emigrate.

The towing of Ukrainian military ships detained by Russia in November last year has begun in Kerch, Kommersant reports , citing eyewitnesses. According to their data, the tugboat Yany Kapu was the first to leave the Kerch Sea Terminal. Then one of the boats, Berdyansk, was taken in tow. The hole it sustained a year ago has been patched up. The operation is being supervised by Russian border guards, the publication notes. The sea terminal is cordoned off by police.

November 17, 2019, 10:52 am / Business Saudi Aramco announces IPO price range for shares undefined Vedomosti The world's largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, began collecting investor applications for its IPO on November 17 and announced the offering price range of 30–32 riyals per share ($8–8.53). This is stated in the company's materials. In total, Saudi Aramco plans to offer 1.5% of shares on the Saudi Tadawul exchange. The final price will be announced on December 5th.

Participants in the Normandy format meeting expect that Kiev has an action plan regarding the new law on the special status of Donbass, said Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. "This is a cornerstone law, and most importantly, it needs to be agreed upon with the DPR and LPR, but Kiev rules out direct contacts," he said on the air of the Rossiya 1 TV channel. According to Peskov, the question of the format in which this document will be agreed upon remains open.

November 17, 2019, 23:38 / Business Exclusively by subscription Detsky Mir has acquired new risks in the two years since its IPO Sistema and the Russian-Chinese Investment Fund are selling 20% ​​of the retailer on the stock exchange Natalya Ishchenko Anton Filatov Tatyana Romanova Ksenia Virchenko Stories similar to Sistema’s proceedings with Bashneft and Rosneft may repeat themselves, Detsky Mir warns investors / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s Sistema and the Russian-Chinese

17 November 2019, 18:28 / Politics Lukashenko doubted the advisability of a union between Belarus and Russia undefined Vedomosti President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that he will not sign any of the documents on deepening integration with Russia if they contradict the Belarusian constitution or the main principles of the country's life. The head of state named sovereignty and independence as the main principles, reports .