December 04, 2019, 22:22 / Society “We have become a nation that has forgotten how to love.” Yegor Zhukov's last word at trial A student at the Higher School of Economics faces up to four years in prison Vedomosti HSE student Egor Zhukov in the Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow / Sergey Bobylev / TASS The Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow held the final hearing before the sentencing in the case of Higher School of Economics student Yegor Zhukov.

Former NTV CEO Boris Jordan has been included in Bloomberg's annual list of the 50 most influential people in the world. The agency calls him the "king of marijuana": the businessman owns 34% of the shares of the American company that produces medical marijuana, Curaleaf. Jordan headed the NTV channel in 2001-2003. He has a business in Russia: his Sputnik group of companies controls 52.12% of the shares of Renaissance Insurance.

16 hours ago / Auto Hyundai plans to invest $52 billion in developing electric vehicles Vedomosti Vedomosti automaker Hyundai plans to invest about 61.1 trillion won (almost $52 billion) in the development of electric vehicles over the next five years, the company said in a press release. Such plans are contained in the published road map “Strategy 2025”. The automotive industry's transition to zero-emission technologies and autonomous driving requires huge investments, the document says.

December 04, 2019, 11:02 / Updated December 04, 2019, 23:16 / Technologies Group-IB spoke about a method for intercepting correspondence in Telegram Attackers gained access to messages and files using authorization via SMS Ekaterina Kinyakina Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti Group-IB specialists reported a number of hacks into the personal accounts of users of the Telegram messenger in order to gain illegal access to correspondence.

Evan Vucci / AP US President Donald Trump put “his personal and political interests above the national interests” in trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate his potential rival in the 2020 presidential election. He also abused his power to obstruct the investigation into the scandal, according to a report by the Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Committee. The scandal began with a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25.

The real estate market is extremely conservative. But today in Russia it is experiencing global changes that are increasing the already high competition among developers. These changes are provoked, on the one hand, by legislative changes in the development sphere, and on the other hand, by the rapid development and penetration of IT technologies into the real estate sphere.

04 December 2019, 18:12 / Finance Sovcombank continues to buy banks This time he absorbs the Volga-Caspian Joint Stock Bank Anna Mikheeva Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti According to an extract from the register of securities owners (Vedomosti has it, the authenticity of the extract was confirmed by Sovcombank) Sovcombank became a shareholder of VKA-Bank on December 2, purchasing about 20% of the shares, but less than a blocking stake.

December 04, 2019, 05:10 / Business / News Paul Gauguin's painting "Te Bоurao II" was sold at auction for €9.5 million undefined Vedomosti The painting by French artist Paul Gauguin “Te Bоurao II” was sold at auction in Paris on Tuesday for €9.5 million, the Artcurial auction house reported this on its Twitter account. “The Tahitian masterpiece “Te Bourao II” by Paul Gauguin, created in 1897, was sold ... for €9.5 million euros / $10.5 million including premium!” said a tweet about the auction.

December 04, 2019, 00:00 / Politics Only three parties can enter the next State Duma Experts assessed the party's potential based on the regional elections of the last two years Elena Mukhametshina United Russia may have only two opponents left in the next Duma / Ruslan Shamukov / TASS If elections to the State Duma were held now, then United Russia could claim 42–45% of the votes in the party list voting. This is stated in the report “The Long Road to the Duma.

December 05, 2019, 00:53 / Business Exclusively by subscription Decathlon enters the marketplace The retailer's online store opened on Tmall Ksenia Virchenko The French Decathlon in Russia will be sold on a Russian-Chinese platform / Maxim Shemetov / TASS The French chain of sports hypermarkets Decathlon has opened an online store on Tmall, part of AliExpress Russia, a joint venture of the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group, Mail.ru Group, Megafon and RDIF.

Konstantin Styrin has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of Rosselkhozbank ( RSHB ), the company's press service reports. He will oversee strategic planning and financial management. Konstantin graduated from the State Academy of Management named after. S. Ordzhonikidze, majoring in world economics. He came to the Russian Agricultural Bank in 2010.

04 December 2019, 17:01 / Business FAS: the quality of Persil, Ariel and Lindt in Europe is better than in Russia undefined Vedomosti The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) issued warnings to Russian manufacturers of Ariel and Persil washing powders, as well as Lindt chocolate, due to the fact that the products they produce in Russia differ in composition and quality from their foreign analogues. This is stated in the department's message.

According to a study conducted in the fall by the Superjob.ru portal, the average Muscovite gets from work to home in no less than 45 minutes by private transport, and 64 minutes by public transport. This is inconvenient for city residents: they would like to spend on average no more than half an hour on the road, said respondents to Superjob.ru.

December 04, 2019, 18:00 / Business / News Only Mordashov’s company is applying for a subsidy for a large gas turbine undefined Vedomosti “Power Machines” of Alexey Mordashov again became the only participant in the repeated competition for a subsidy for the development of high-power gas turbines, a representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade told Vedomosti.

The Documentary Film Center has released the film “Meeting with Gorbachev” by German director Werner Herzog and British documentary filmmaker Andre Singer. The film is based on three interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev, the only president of the USSR and one of the greatest political leaders of the 20th century.