EU countries failed to agree on the 9th package of sanctions against Russia, and Russian banks recorded growth of deposits in yuan by “hundreds of percent” – these and other important news for Monday morning, December 12, in our daily review.

Head of Eurodiplomacy Josep Borrell said that EU countries failed to agree on the next package of sanctions against Russia before the meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels. According to him, the discussion on sanctions will be complicated.

Russian banks have recorded a multiple growth of deposits in Chinese yuan, but the share of such products in their portfolios is still insignificant. About it writes RBC with reference to the answers of credit organizations and analysts of the financial market. Deposits in yuan today open 49 banks in Russia (as recently as January 30, there were only 13), most of the proposals – short deposits for a period of three to six months, said an expert of the analytical center “Banki.ru” Oksana Danilenko. According to her, interest rates on such deposits average 1-1.5%.

A group of 12 EU countries demanded to significantly reduce the ceiling of gas exchange prices proposed by the alliance. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to unnamed European diplomats. According to the agency, the relevant proposal was sent, in particular, by Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia, Belgium and Italy. The coalition has enough votes to block the EU agreement on limiting gas prices, Bloomberg’s interlocutors noted.

In Russia began to identify and prosecute miners who illegally mine cryptocurrency in residential buildings. They are found by the growth of energy consumption and changes in the load profile. This, in particular, is done by power engineers in Irkutsk, assessing the load at substations, Pavel Snikkars, deputy head of the Ministry of Energy, told Izvestia.

Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) will relaunch its paid Twitter Blue subscription for users who want a verification sign. This is according to a post on Twitter’s official account. Starting December 12, a blue check mark will be given to Twitter Blue subscribers, but only after verifying the account. “Subscribers will be able to change their login, display name and profile picture, but in this case they will lose the blue checkmark until their account is verified again,” Twitter said.