China has imposed sanctions on the United States in response to the US government's adoption of laws on the situation in Hong Kong, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, Reuters reports . The sanctions include a suspension of requests for US military ships and aircraft to enter Hong Kong. Chinese authorities have also imposed restrictions on the human rights organization Human Rights Watch "for supporting extremism and violence" in Hong Kong, the agency notes.

December 02, 2019, 22:10 / Economics Business activity of industrialists reached a ten-year low Business lacks demand for its products Anna Kholyavko The industry remembers the crisis / Maxim Shemetov / Reuters In November, the manufacturing PMI index (calculated by IHS Markit based on a survey of purchasing managers) showed its worst result since May 2009.

December 02, 2019, 16:35 / Updated December 02, 2019, 22:45 / Finance Foreign currency deposits will cost banks more The Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance are preparing to increase insurance premiums for investments with high rates Anna Tretyak Anna Mikheeva The Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance want to lower this threshold for deposits in foreign currency, which will limit the growth of foreign currency deposit rates / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The Central Bank and the Ministry of

December 02, 2019, 22:53 / Business WSJ announced the end date for Brent oil production undefined Vedomosti In 2020, Royal Dutch Shell will stop production at the Brent field, which gave its name to the reference oil mixture of the same name, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). As the publication clarified, sales of the Brent oil mixture will continue, but it will no longer contain oil from the field of the same name.

December 02, 2019, 01:49 / Business German Bild learned details of US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 Vedomosti Sanctions against the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will affect companies involved in its construction. This was reported by the German publication Bild, citing sources. Information about the sanctions was confirmed to the publication by the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Risch, during his speech at the security forum in Halifax (Canada).

The incident occurred during reconnaissance of the route of a joint Russian-Turkish patrol in northern Syria / Sergei Novikov / TASS An explosion of an armored vehicle of the Russian military police occurred on Monday near the Syrian city of Kobani, which borders Turkey, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Three servicemen were slightly wounded.

December 02, 2019, 03:34 / Business Louis Vuitton bought a mansion in the center of Moscow undefined Vedomosti The French group of companies Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) bought a mansion on Stoleshnikov Lane, where the Louis Vuitton flagship store has been located for 16 years. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to participants in the real estate market. The LVMH press service did not respond to the newspaper's request.

December 02, 2019, 16:11 / Business Spending by Russians on Black Friday in online stores increased by 30% Vedomosti During the three days of the Black Friday sale (November 29 – December 1), Russians spent 22.3 billion rubles in online stores this year, which is 30% more than in 2018, TASS reports , citing the president’s statement. Association of Internet Trade Companies Artem Sokolov.

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December 02, 2019, 11:23 / Finance Nabiullina: It should be profitable for Russians to keep their savings in rubles Vedomosti It should be profitable for Russians to keep their savings in rubles, said Central Bank Chairman Elvira Nabiullina in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. “We believe that it should be profitable for the population to keep funds in the national currency, because the population mainly earns and spends in rubles,” she said.

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December 03, 2019, 00:19 / Business Exclusively by subscription TSUM wants to become the largest seller of children's luxury A special space will open on the fifth floor of the department store Tatyana Romanova Luxury children's clothes are in demand, but supply is limited / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The space for children, which will be named later, will occupy the entire fifth floor of the department store - almost 7,000 square meters. m, the TSUM press service told Vedomosti.

The joint venture between Yandex.Market and Sberbank, the marketplace for purchasing goods from abroad Bringly, has stopped accepting orders, the service’s website says . "It is really impossible to make a new order on the website. Now we have decided to focus on developing the Beru marketplace, where we will consider the possibility of conducting an experiment with cross-border goods," a representative of Yandex.Market told Vedomosti.

December 03, 2019, 00:17 / Politics The Kremlin has come up with a new way to help United Russia in the State Duma elections The presidential administration is discussing the idea of ​​allowing as many small parties as possible to the elections Elena Mukhametshina The Kremlin is looking for another relatively honest way to improve the results of United Russia in the State Duma elections / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The presidential administration is discussing the idea of ​​allowing a large

American Forbes has published a rating of the most successful venture investors living in Europe and Israel. The so-called Midas List Europe for the second year in a row is headed by Czech-born businessman Jan Hammer, who lives in London. Successful investments in fintech companies helped him become the leader of the rating, the publication notes. Among the successful companies that Hammer has invested in are several “unicorns” – startups whose capitalization is estimated at over $1 billion.