Trading on the MICEX stock market was suspended on Tuesday morning, the exchange said in a statement. The reasons for the technical failure are currently being investigated. The stock market trading system is available from 10:30 Moscow time. The pre-trading period begins at 10:45 Moscow time. The start of trading in the main mode is 11:00 Moscow time, as specified in the press release of the site.

Pavel Sokolov Author Sherlock Holmes's apartment, Munchausen's estate, Uncle Tom's hut, Little Prince Park and others There are few museums in the world dedicated to one specific literary character, unlike museums of famous writers. Almost any house or apartment where masters of the pen spent at least a few days turns into a memorial, but most literary heroes do not have their own corner. Most - but not all. Some of the famous characters still got their own museum.

The yield on 10-year Italian sovereign bonds jumped to a new euro zone record high of 6.73% in trading on Tuesday. This happened on the eve of the vote of confidence in the government of Silvio Berlusconi. The papers have already set a second record in two days. The day before, the yield on them was 6.58%. For comparison, a month ago the figure was at 5.402%. The yield on 5-year Italian government bonds also increased significantly – to 6.525%.

Photo by Fotobank / Getty Images Lawyer Igor Trunov on new large-scale amendments to legislation A couple of days ago, the Duma adopted in the second reading the draft federal law “On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation,” proposed by the President of Russia. The idea of ​​the amendments is to humanize our Criminal Code. How successful were legislators in implementing it?

Sixth day of interrogation of Roman Abramovich On Friday evening, the interrogation of Roman Abramovich by Berezovsky's lawyer Lawrence Rabinowitz was interrupted at the most interesting point: for the first time in the five previous days, the name of Vladimir Putin, who was the president of Russia at the time of the events discussed, was so clearly heard in court.

Members of the Greek government submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou on Tuesday. reported this on Wednesday Reuters . Papandreou today held another emergency cabinet meeting, during which ministers continued discussions on the composition of the coalition government. An agreement in principle between the main political forces of the country on its formation was reached last Sunday, November 6.

OJSC Megafon acquired a 100% stake in Nakhodka Telecom LLC for 196 million rubles, the company said in a statement. Nakhodka Telecom provides Internet access services in Nakhodka and Vladivostok, rental of local, long-distance and international telephony channels, communication with Inmarsat ships. The company also owns two 34-megabit radio relay communication lines from Nakhodka to Vladivostok.

endoscopic equipment Olympus Corp. Japanese manufacturer of cameras and hid losses from financial transactions for more than 20 years to prevent stock prices from collapsing. This statement was made by the head of the company, Shuichi Takayama, on Tuesday. He formally apologized to investors on behalf of Olympus and said that the manufacturer will make every effort to avoid negative consequences in the form of delisting on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ), reports MarketWatch .

Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Foundation at the end of July-September 2011, invested $23.9 billion in securities of various companies. This amount is a record amount of investments for Berkshire in a quarter over the past 15 years, Bloomberg reported on Monday . Buffett's fund previously surpassed the $20 billion mark in 2008.

The trial of Berezovsky's claim against Abramovich could become the beginning of a series of scandalous trials against entrepreneurs from the Golden Hundred and not only The London trial of Boris Berezovsky's claim against Roman Abramovich may become a precedent for Russian business. It is highly likely that similar trials will follow, but with other actors from the Russian “Golden Hundred”.

Russia is 30-50 years behind advanced countries in industrial development, but there is still a chance to improve the situation. This opinion was expressed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The former head of YUKOS answered questions from listeners of the Ekho Moskvy radio station . In particular, he spoke about his own vision of the situation in Russian industry. “The current state of Russian industry corresponds to the European one 30-50 years ago.

Google Inc. ​ does not abandon the principle of free distribution of the operating system for Android mobile devices . This statement was made on Monday by the chairman of the board of directors of the American corporation, Eric Schmidt. His words are quoted by Bloomberg . Schmidt assured that Android's purchase position will not be affected by Google's of the American Motorola Mobility .

Leaders of participating states and shareholders of the Nord Stream project on Tuesday opened a symbolic shut-off valve for the gas pipeline through which Russian gas will flow to Europe, bypassing transit countries.

The Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow on Tuesday sentenced Matvey Urin to four and a half years in a general regime colony. The disgraced banker was again found guilty of beating Dutch citizen Jorrit Joost Faassen. The Dutchman, according to media reports, was in the past a top manager of one of Gazprom’s subsidiaries. The driver Urin and six of his guards received from 2.5 to 4.5 years in prison on Tuesday.

The Russian authorities plan to attract up to 500 billion rubles of private investment in road construction by 2020. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin provided such data on Tuesday. “We are investing serious budget money in transport, but it is obvious that additional sources of financing are needed; here we expect a lot from public-private partnership mechanisms. Such mechanisms are already working during the modernization of the Pulkovo airport in St.