The repeated serious violation of anti-doping rules has cost Russia dearly – more than the first, and yet it is not the worst option of those discussed. By voting for serious restrictions for Russia and Russian athletes for the next four years, the WADA Executive Committee intended to deal a sensitive blow primarily to sports officials and to remove “clean” athletes who have not tainted themselves with doping from under it, but the final decision will make life difficult for them as well.

December 09, 2019, 14:44 / Auto AvtoVAZ is reclaiming the Niva brand The company will buy out General Motors' share in GM - AvtoVAZ Vladimir Shtanov The only car produced by the GM-AvtoVAZ joint venture is the Chevrolet Niva SUV / Alexey Sukhorukov / RIA Novosti AvtoVAZ asked permission from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to purchase a 50% stake in GM- AvtoVAZ . This is a joint venture between a Russian company and GM. Each partner has 50% in it.

December 09, 2019, 15:55 / Updated December 09, 2019, 17:30 / Society WADA: Russia will not be able to participate in the World Cup in Qatar under its flag But the team will be able to compete under a neutral flag if Angelina Krechetova passes the qualification Russian football players (in the photo - national team striker Artem Dzyuba) will have to take off their T-shirts with the Russian flag / Sergey Bobylev / TASS Russia will not be able to participate under its flag in the World Cup in

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Lidiya Mikheeva was elected secretary of the Public Chamber of Russia, the department’s press service reports. She previously served as deputy secretary. Mikheeva graduated from the Faculty of Law of Altai State University. Until 2006, she worked as a teacher at a university, then moved to the Research Center for Private Law under the President of Russia. From 2008 to 2010, she was Deputy Chief of Staff of the State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation.

December 10, 2019, 00:36 / Business Pharmacies will begin selling prescription drugs under their own brand They will appear in the networks of the Erkafarm group - Doctor Stoletov, Ozerki and others - next year Ksenia Virchenko In the networks of the Erkafarm group - Doctor Stoletov, Ozerki and others - prescription drugs will appear next year / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti One of the largest pharmacy chains, Erkapharm, will begin selling prescription drugs under its own brand, Anastasia Karpova,

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the Basmanny District Court to seize the assets of the former Minister for Open Government Affairs Mikhail Abyzov, who is under investigation. this reports RBC with reference to its representative. According to him, the arrest has been lifted from 13 million euros (917 million rubles), securities, real estate and the personal account of Abyzov’s minor son.

A court in Seoul has sentenced three Samsung Electronics executives to prison terms for destroying evidence related to alleged accounting fraud at Samsung Biologics, South Korea's Renhap News Agency reported . The vice president of Samsung Electronics, who controlled the company's funds, received two years in prison, and two chairmen of Samsung's task force were sentenced to one year and six months in prison.

Members of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athletes' Committee have called for a complete ban on Russian athletes from participating in the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympics, the BBC reports . The International Olympic Committee said it was prepared to allow "clean" athletes who had not been caught using doping to compete under a neutral flag. However, the athletes' committee considered this measure insufficient.

December 09, 2019, 12:55 / Finance Sberbank refinanced a loan of 110 million euros to the owner of Four Seasons in St. Petersburg Vedomosti Sberbank refinanced VIYM (Venture Investments & Yield Management, owned by Andrey Yakunin, the son of former Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin) loan from another bank secured by the Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace in St. Petersburg, located in the restored “House with Lions.” This was reported by the press service of Sberbank.

09 December 2019, 13:20 / Business WADA disqualifies Russia for four years for doping Russian athletes will not be able to compete under the Russian flag at the Olympics and World Championships Angelina Krechetova Matt Slocum / AP The Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) unanimously supported the sanctions against Russia proposed by the WADA Compliance Committee, TASS reports citing the organization’s press service.

Leonid Chugunov voluntarily resigned from the post of General Director of PJSC Yakut Fuel and Energy Company, the press service of the organization reports. He was appointed to this position in September 2019. Chugunov graduated from the Grozny Oil Institute, the Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after. Gubkin, MINH im. Plekhanov, Duke University Business School in the USA and the Academy of National Economy under the Russian Government.

European diplomats fear that the Normandy summit, which will discuss a ceasefire in Donbas, will be fruitless due to the decline in popularity of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Bloomberg reports , citing two sources familiar with the preparations for the Normandy Four talks in Paris, which are scheduled to take place on December 9. The Ukrainian leader's decline in popularity is linked to economic reforms in the country and his communication with businessman Igor Kolomoisky.

09 December 2019, 13:45 / Economics Heirs of top managers of companies face new risks They may begin to be brought to subsidiary liability more often Svetlana Yastrebova Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti In bankruptcy cases, a new category of people is expected to be held vicariously liable. They may be the heirs of managers who led the company to bankruptcy, but died before the debt was transferred to them.

Journalist and TV presenter Andrey Malakhov is leaving his position as editor-in-chief of StarHit magazine, and the publication itself will be published only in an electronic version from January 2020. This is stated in a message on the magazine's website. "Today, when the Internet is ahead of the printed media market in terms of speed of information delivery, and there are still 24 hours in a day, my ability to check and personally control everything published under the brand name "StarHit.