The wounded crew member of the Russian tanker NS Spirit, which was attacked by Nigerian pirates on the night of Monday, November 22, was evacuated to the hospital, Interfax reports, citing a message from the shipowner Novoship. Let us remind you that the NS Spirit was attacked near the capital of Nigeria, Lagos. According to the ship's captain, about ten armed people boarded the ship and opened fire with automatic weapons.

The income of the administration of the All-Russian Exhibition Center (VVC) from the illegal rental of cultural heritage sites exceeds 1 billion rubles, according to a statement from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation published on Monday, November 22.

The Federal Tourism Agency published on its website a preliminary list of Russian citizens who died in road accidents in Egypt. According to data received by the agency from insurance companies, as well as from relatives and witnesses, four people died in the accident: Konstantin Stakun, born in 1957; Natalya Rakhmanova born in 1966; Nuria Yakhina born in 1968; Yulia Dunets born in 1996. A little earlier, a list of 17 Russians injured in road accidents was published.

Georgia agreed to allow the head of the Russian interests section at the Swiss Embassy in Georgia to see four Russian citizens accused of espionage. The meeting was scheduled for Monday, November 22, at 13.00 Moscow time. Deputy Head of Georgia Nino Kalandadze stated this to RIA Novosti . “We are talking about those detainees about whom the Russian side requested information in order to establish whether these persons are citizens of Russia.

The motive for the brutal murder in the village of Kushchevskaya was blood feud. This statement was made by the head of the main investigative department for the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts, Ilya Lazutov, at a meeting with residents of the village, RIA Novosti reports. In addition, according to him, the investigation has irrefutable evidence of the participation of all detainees in the crime.

Simplification of registration from January 1, 2011 is the beginning of the destruction of the institution of registration. Lawyers and economists assessed the effectiveness of this measure for Forbes On January 1, 2011, will come into force the new “Rules for registration and deregistration of citizens of the Russian Federation” . Temporary registration will not have a permissive, but a notification nature.

In Moscow, a fire in the basement of the Media-Press publishing house was extinguished, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for Moscow. The fire occurred on Monday, November 22. The fire area was about 20 square meters.

Trust Bank has launched a new advertising campaign featuring actor Bruce Willis “We needed a famous person with a memorable appearance and a good sense of humor, whom Russians treat well,” says Dmitry Chukseev, vice president for communications at the bank. Before this, Trust’s services were advertised by Vladimir Turchinsky, who died suddenly of a heart attack in December last year.

The Federal Air Transport Agency responded to lawyer Alexei Navalny, who asked to clarify the legality of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s flight on a Be-200 amphibious aircraft while fighting fires this summer. As the blogger pointed out, Putin did not have the rights to fly this type of aircraft. Such a violation should be punishable by a fine. digitized correspondence with the department Navalny posted on his LiveJournal .

Does the lack of protection of property rights in Russia mean that it is easier for us to engage in innovation rather than modernization? The author is the rector of the Russian School of Economics, Doctor of Economic Sciences What is modernization and how does it differ from innovative development? Even senior Russian officials understand these terms differently.

The board of directors of AvtoVAZ on Monday approved the decision to conduct an additional share issue of 17.5 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports . By closed subscription in favor of AvtoVAZ shareholders - Renault, Russian Technologies State Corporation and Troika Dialog - 434.2 million shares will be placed at a price of 40.24 rubles.

And about. On Monday, November 22, the head of the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, receives in his office residents of the village of Kushchevskaya in the Krasnodar Territory, where a brutal murder of 12 people took place several weeks ago. The RIA Novosti agency reports this with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin. According to him, about 180 people signed up for an appointment.

UTair Airlines is interested in the assets of Moscow Airlines (formerly Atlant-Soyuz), owned by the Moscow government. “They have some interesting things, interesting appointments, they have something in the fleet,” RIA Novosti agency quotes UTair CEO Andrei Martirosov . In particular, Martirosov noted that UTair was interested in the routes that Moscow has to Central and Central Asia, as well as the contract for the supply of four Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin instructed to speed up the pace of construction of metro stations in the capital and abandon individual projects in favor of standard ones. According to him, this will reduce the cost of construction. “If we move to serial standard construction, prices should be lower by at least 20%,” RIA Novosti agency quotes Sobyanin . In addition, the mayor stated the need to switch to continuous construction.

There are no guarantees that the Irish crisis will be the last in the European Union The author is chief analyst, board member of MK Analytics The financial world breathed a sigh of relief again. Another threat has passed: the European Union and the IMF will jointly provide massive assistance to another euro zone country - Ireland, as they previously helped Greece. Surprisingly, the recent Greek crisis and the current Irish crisis have very little in common with each other .