A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced five people accused of murdering Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi to death, Bloomberg reports , citing a statement from the local prosecutor's office. Three other defendants in the case have been sentenced to a total of 24 years in prison. The names of the defendants are not disclosed. Saudi Khashoggi lived in the United States and often criticized the Saudi government in his publications.

December 23, 2019, 19:02 / Updated December 24, 2019, 00:14 / Finance Interfax: The Investigative Committee reclassified the charge against Michael Calvey Instead of fraud, the businessman is now accused of embezzlement Anna Kholyavko Ekaterina Litova Artem Girsh Alexey Nikolsky Svetlana Yastrebova Founder and managing partner of the investment fund Baring Vostok Michael Calvey / Sergey Karpukhin / TASS The Investigative Committee (ICR) reclassified the charge against the founder of Baring

Swiss Allseas recalled vessels from laying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Bloomberg reported this with reference to a company representative. According to him, the ships left the Baltic waters. The company refused to name the timing of the resumption of their work. Read also: Energy without politics On the night of Saturday, December 21, Washington imposed sanctions against companies involved in construction off the Baltic coast and demanded that it stop.

On Monday, December 23, the Federation Council approved amendments to the law on consumer credit, which give the borrower the right to a refund of the fee for connecting to a group insurance program paid to the lender. "For such insurance, a "cooling-off period" will apply, similar to individual insurance contracts: within 14 calendar days, the borrower will be able to cancel the contract by writing a statement excluding him from the list of insured persons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will address the Federal Assembly on January 15. This was reported to journalists by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports . He noted that the substantive work on the content of the address is just beginning. Last year, Putin delivered his address to the Federal Assembly on February 20. It turned out to be the least popular with Moscow TV viewers in the last five years.

The presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the shooting in the center of Moscow on Bolshaya Lubyanka a tragic event, Interfax reports . Peskov doubts that the Kremlin should comment on this emergency. "No one is immune from any manifestations of madness with tragic consequences," he noted. Peskov also confirmed that at the time of the shooting, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov and head of state Vladimir Putin were at a festive concert in the Kremlin.

December 23, 2019, 10:18 pm / Updated December 24, 2019, 11:33 am / Business The government approved the modernization of Zainskaya GRES President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov previously asked President Vladimir Putin about this Elena Vavina Sergey Elashgin / Business Online Tatenergo is modernizing the 800 MW Zainskaya GRES with the installation of a Siemens 593 MW gas turbine.

Almost half of Russians (43%) believe that in 2019 the standard of living of the "main part of the population" became lower than in the previous year, according to the results of a Levada Center survey. The same number of respondents are sure that the life of Russians has not changed over the year. Another 13% noted an improvement in the situation. 1% of respondents found it difficult to answer.

Viktor Basargin has been appointed as Russia’s representative on the governing board of the International Bureau for the Investigation of Aircraft Accidents and Serious Incidents in the EAEU. The corresponding order was published on the legal information portal. Viktor Basargin graduated from the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute named after. V.V.

December 23, 2019, 02:03 / Business / News Tesco has suspended the production of cards in China due to suspicions of prison labor undefined Vedomosti British Tesco has suspended the production of Christmas cards at a factory in China due to suspicions of the use of prison labor in their production. This is stated in a company statement published on Sunday on its website.

December 23, 2019, 15:06 / Politics Azerbaijan is interested in purchasing fifth-generation fighters Su-57 This could be a retaliatory measure for Armenia’s acquisition of Russian aircraft Ivan Safronov Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti As two top managers of defense industry enterprises told Vedomosti, Azerbaijan has become interested in purchasing the latest Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters, and the green light for the start of the negotiation process was given at the highest political level.

Project partner: MegaFon Pixabay “Of all the emerging technologies, it is the Internet of Things (IoT) that will have the most profound impact on the prosperity of cities of the future. As digital technologies become ubiquitous, the greatest benefits to city infrastructure will come from connecting it to the IoT,” wrote Dan Higgins, EY Global Technology Advisory Leader, in his study, The Internet of Things for Smart Cities.

PIK is the largest housing developer in Russia / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti The PIK Group has acquired a plot of land in the south of Moscow from the structure of the former vice president of the oil and gas company Itera, Alexander Udovov. Two consultants who worked with the parties to the transaction told Vedomosti about this.

The musicians sit inside the plywood structure as if in the deck of a huge instrument / Stas Levshin / BDT "Architectons" is what Kazimir Malevich called his drawings of rectangular parallelepipeds, who came up with them in 1923, at the time of the birth of architectural constructivism. A little earlier, in 1919, the Bolshoi Drama Theatre was founded in Petrograd – the first of those to open after the revolution.

December 23, 2019, 15:55 / Business Shares of “Surgutneftegaz” reached a historical high The company has been rising in price abnormally since September Alexandra Chunova Ramil Sitdikov/RIA Novosti Ordinary shares of Surgutneftegaz rose to 50.8 rubles by 14:50 Moscow time. per piece, according to Moscow Exchange data. This is a new record; the previous maximum was recorded in May 2006 – 50.47 rubles. for paper.