The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation on Friday held a draw for the serial numbers of parties that will take part in the Duma elections on December 4, 2011. reports this . RIA Novosti Lottotron determined the following sequence of parties on the ballot: “A Just Russia”, LDPR, “Patriots of Russia”, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, “Yabloko”, “United Russia” and “Right Cause”.

The kingdom's Interior Minister, Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, has been appointed the new heir to the Saudi throne. In addition, Naif was approved as first deputy chairman of the government. reported this on Thursday, October 28, RIA Novosti with reference to the Al-Arabiya TV channel. The appointment of Prince Nayef followed a meeting of a commission consisting of 35 of the country's most influential princes, at which they swore allegiance to the new heir.

photo East News / AFP / ImageForum Amazon shares fell nearly 15% after announcing its latest quarter results. Wikimart creator Maxim Faldin believes that this is market myopia Investors have repeatedly proven to the world their short-sightedness. Most often, this manifested itself in an inability to see underlying deterioration in the economics of the companies in which they invested. The year 2008 alone gives us many such examples.

In the third quarter of 2011, the AFK Sistema holding company received a net loss under RAS in the amount of 52.865 billion rubles against profit for the same period in 2010, according to the company’s materials. At the end of the third quarter of 2010, net profit amounted to 50.784 billion rubles. As previously reported, in the first half of the year according to RAS, the net profit of AFK amounted to 19.055 billion rubles.

Gazprom and Wintershall entered into a framework agreement on a possible exchange of assets, under which the Russian holding could receive 50% in the German company’s oil and gas projects in the North Sea, and the latter could receive 25% plus one share in the development of two sections of the Achimov deposits of the Urengoy field.

Hewlett-Packard decided not to spin off its computer business as a separate company. This is stated in a press release published on Friday, October 28. “After careful analysis, we have concluded that keeping the computer division part of HP will benefit everyone - the company and its employees, partners, customers and investors,” CEO Meg Whitman said in a press release.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on Friday officially charged another person involved in the criminal case for the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. We are talking about the alleged organizer of the crime, Lom-Ali Gaitukaev. According to investigators, he received the order to kill the Novaya Gazeta journalist from an as yet unidentified person living abroad.

The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on Friday issued a new statement regarding the invitation to question Yuri Luzhkov in the Bank of Moscow case. The former mayor of the capital will have to testify regarding the decision of the city government to purchase an additional stake in a credit institution in 2009 in the amount of 15 billion rubles. Luzhkov is currently on a trip abroad.

photo by RIA Novosti Senator Alexander Pochinok about his always busy wife Natalya Gribkova, director of the department for work with branches of Sberbank A minute ago she sat down on a chair on the stage, David Copperfield covered her with a cloth, then she disappeared and appeared at the end of the hall with a flashlight in her hands. A miracle happened.

Film premiere The painting by Andrei Zvyagintsev easily reveals distant but noble ancestors. In "Elena" two related archetypes are crossed. This is the story of a servant replacing his master (“The Servant” by Joseph Losey) or destroying all masters at once (“Ceremony” by Claude Chabrol), combined with the story of a humiliated wife who kills her husband (“Tristan” by Luis Buñuel).

Dellawood Holdings Limited acquired the rights to 49.98% of the shares of SIBUR Holding CJSC from Gazprombank, which, together with the stake owned by Dellawood's 100th subsidiary, Miracle CJSC, constitutes 100% of the company's authorized capital. As stated in the Dellawood report, as of October 27, 57.5% in this company belonged to Leonid Mikhelson, and 37.5% to Gennady Timchenko.

photo REUTERS 2011 Brussels decided that €1 trillion would be enough for Europe to defeat the crisis, although €2 trillion is needed Financial markets reacted to the news from Brussels as if the European crisis was over once and for all. By Thursday evening, the euro/dollar exchange rate exceeded 1.40, the German DAX stock market index was up 4.9% at the time of writing, and the French CAC 40 was up 5.4%. Yields on Italian and Spanish bonds fell significantly.

Vladimir Yakovlev confirmed the information about the existence of a letter addressed to him from the management of the Onexim group. The editor-in-chief of “Snob” announced this in his blog on the project’s website. Onexim has made a number of claims against Yakovlev as a leader, which could lead to his dismissal.

Executive Director of the Onexim Group Sergei Lavrukhin about Snob, the dismissal of Vladimir Yakovlev and the purchase of Dozhd The founder of the Kommersant publishing house, Vladimir Yakovlev, president of the Onexim-owned Zhivi media group and editor-in-chief of the Snob project, resigned from both posts. He spoke about the reasons for this step in an interview with Forbes ( “Journalism has a dark side - journalistic arbitrariness” ).

photo provided Founder of the airline ticket search service Aviasales.ru Konstantin Kalinov on how to create a successful business on the island of Phuket Forbes continues to publish interviews with famous Russian Internet entrepreneurs and specialists. This time, the founder of Aviasales.ru, Konstantin Kalinov, talks about how to make money by selling air tickets on the Internet, without selling them, how the experience of porn sites helps such a business and how airlines hinder it .