December 22, 2019, 11:31 pm / Technology Russia's neighbors criticized the law on pre-installation of Russian software Representatives of Kazakhstan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan said that the new law violates the treaty on the EAEU Ekaterina Kinyakina Kristina Zhukova Representatives of countries belonging to the EAEU spoke out against the amendments obliging the pre-installation of Russian software on mobile devices, computers and smart TVs / Yaroslav Chingaev for Vedomosti Representatives of the

December 22, 2019, 11:58 pm / Business Nisanov and Iliev will open the first Japanese entertainment center in Russia, Round One Round One will replace the Kosmik entertainment center Anton Filatov Tatyana Romanova The Kievskaya Ploshchad group of companies will open the Round One entertainment center in the European shopping center (pictured) / Round One The Kyiv Ploshchad group of companies will open a Round One entertainment center in the European shopping center, its chairman of the board of

The Ministry of Defense plans to conclude a new contract for the supply of military transport aircraft Il-76MD-90A (pictured – Il-76MD) / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The Ministry of Defense plans to conclude a new long-term contract (until the end of the state armament program in 2027) for the supply of Il-76MD-90A military transport aircraft, Deputy Minister for Armaments Alexey Krivoruchko told the publication "Defense of Russia".

The focus should be on the return on investment, and not on the role of the state as an intermediary or administrator of cash flows. Vedomosti's authors write a lot about the need to improve the investment climate in the country, develop private initiative, and attract foreign direct investment. They also write that financing should be smart, i.e., related to the attraction of new technologies and increased labor productivity.

Jim Walden, the lawyer for the former head of the Anti-Doping Center Grigory Rodchenkov, believes that his client had no opportunity to enter the Moscow laboratory database. He called the accusations of the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) a farce. "Rodchenkov could not and did not log into the LIMS database. We don't know if anyone else could have logged into the system. This whole thing looks like a farce," Walden told The Associated Press.

December 22, 2019, 11:22 pm / Business Who benefits from the gas agreement between Russia and Ukraine Both countries will benefit from the new agreement, experts say Artur Toporkov Both countries will benefit from the new agreement, says Alexey Miller (pictured) / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti After two days of active negotiations - in total, meetings in Berlin (December 19) and Minsk (December 20) lasted about 15 hours - Russia and Ukraine agreed to continue the transit of Russian gas through

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has appointed Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as the country's first prime minister since 1976, the Associated Press reports . The politician's candidacy was approved by the Cuban parliament. Marrero Cruz, 56, served as tourism minister for 16 years. The president, when nominating him for prime minister, cited Marrero's experience in negotiating with foreign investors.

Of the 1,067 Russian cities for which statistical data on population size for the period 1989–2018 are available, 758 experienced depopulation. But city authorities and urban planners are not ready to acknowledge this fact and formulate new approaches to urban planning that would allow cities to develop sustainably in the new conditions. The scale of the decline of Russian cities is unprecedented: Russia today is perhaps the most depopulated urban system in the world.

The shooting outside the main FSB building in Moscow on December 19, which resulted in the death of two FSB officers and the wounding of five people, is being investigated as an attempt on the lives of security officials, but not as a terrorist attack, which would have looked like a failure of the special services during Vladimir Putin's speech in the Kremlin at a concert in honor of his professional holiday.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) adheres to the decisions made by the organization's executive committee on December 9. This is how the WADA press service commented on the statement of the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) that the former head of the Anti-Doping Center Grigory Rodchenkov made changes to the database of the Moscow laboratory.

December 22, 2019, 11:28 pm / Economics Exclusively by subscription Most EU countries are ready to monitor tax-advantaged company transactions Russian tax authorities can also receive their reports Svetlana Yastrebova In the summer of 2020, new rules for disclosing information on transactions with signs of “aggressive tax planning” will come into force in the European Union / Virginia Mayo / AP In the summer of 2020, new rules for disclosing information about transactions with signs of

A new gas war between Russia and Ukraine seems to be off the table: Gazprom and Naftogaz will meet 2020 with a new gas transit contract and settled legal claims (total amount – about $22 billion).

December 22, 2019, 23:47 / Finance / Interview Exclusively by subscription Sergey Monin: “Raiffeisenbank wants to achieve the same as Tinkoff, but cheaper” The Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisenbank explains why the bank is not afraid to reduce its network and what the “pain index” is Anna Eremina Sergey Monin, Chairman of the Board of Raiffeisenbank / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Many people think that Raiffeisenbank is German and not Austrian (in terms of the origin of capital), says its chairman

Guy Debord, author of the legendary book “The Society of the Spectacle,” from Diana Machulina’s series “The Betrayal of Intellectuals” at the exhibition This Is Not a Book / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The exhibitions "This Is Not a Book. The Collection of Dmitry Volkov.

December 22, 2019, 10:45 pm / Business The Nord Stream 2 contractor stopped laying the pipe due to US sanctions Both pipe-laying vessels of the Swiss Allseas left the construction site Galina Starinskaya Artur Toporkov Two pipelaying vessels, Pioneering Spirit (pictured) and Solitaire, owned by the Swiss company Allseas, left Danish waters / Allseas Two pipelaying vessels, Pioneering Spirit and Solitaire, owned by the Swiss company Allseas, have left Danish waters and are heading to the German