photo Itar-TASS The intrigue in the presidential elections in South Ossetia is twisted to the limit. The Supreme Court of the Republic declared their results invalid due to numerous violations. The complaint about election violations was filed by the ruling party, whose representative is the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic, Anatoly Bibilov.

photo REUTERS 2011 Nobody knows how many bad assets banks have, the bankruptcy of a broker showed The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has so far led to only one corporate bankruptcy. But this is a very remarkable story. In November, MF Global, an American broker in the bond, complex instruments and futures markets with assets of about $40 billion, went bankrupt. It was ruined by excessive trust in the policies of the southern eurozone countries.

Aeroflot - Russian Airlines OJSC increased the number of passengers carried in January-October by 23.9% compared to the same period in 2010, to 11.794 million people, the company said in a statement. The company's passenger turnover over ten months increased by 20% - to 35.221 billion passenger-kilometers. The passenger occupancy rate was 78.5%, which is 0.3 percentage points higher than last year. In October, traffic increased by 27.3%, to 1.254 million people.

photo Itar-TASS Former co-owner of X5 Retail Group - about how he saved Perekrestok and why he sacrificed retail trade for the sake of an old low-power thermal power plant Alexander Kosyanenko created one of the largest Russian retail chains, Perekrestok. He was its CEO from 1994 to 2006 and remained on the supervisory board of X5 Retail Group until February 2008. Six years ago, Kosyanenko and his partners bought an old low-power thermal power plant near St.

The Parliament of South Ossetia at an emergency meeting on Tuesday approved the date of repeat presidential elections - March 25, 2012. A new voting day was set just a few hours after the scandalous decision of the Supreme Court of the Republic was announced. The Supreme Court invalidated the results of the second round of elections held on Sunday, November 27. According to the Central Election Commission’s calculations, the victory was won by the opposition candidate Alla Dzhioeva.

The brother of the wife of former capital mayor Yuri Luzhkov is suspected of selling counterfeit bills On the evening of Monday, November 28, businessman Viktor Baturin, brother-in-law of former capital mayor Yuri Luzhkov, was detained in Moscow. reports this RIA Novosti . newspaper The Izvestia clarifies that Baturin is suspected of selling counterfeit promissory notes to the companies Inteko-Agro and Inteko in the amount of more than 5.7 billion rubles.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law on the procedure for applying preferences for participants in the Skolkovo innovation center project. this on Tuesday . reported The Kremlin press service The Federal Law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” was adopted by the State Duma on November 17 and approved by the Federation Council on November 25, Interfax recalls .

The investigation officially charged businessman Viktor Baturin with attempted fraud. This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow. The brother-in-law of the former mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov , was detained as part of a criminal case initiated under Part 3 of Art. 30 and part 4 art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Economic Development forecasts Russian GDP growth in 2011 by 4.2%, industrial production – by 4.7%. Such data was presented on Tuesday by the head of the department, Elvira Nabiullina, during a speech at the Federation Council. Inflation, according to her, in 2011 will be below 7%. “The Russian economy is completing a year of recovery from the crisis. And now the main question is how we can tap into internal sources of development,” Interfax quotes the minister .

On Tuesday morning, the Central Election Commission of South Ossetia approved the protocol on the results of the presidential elections in the republic. this to RIA Novosti . Representatives of the headquarters of the candidate for the post of head of state Alla Dzhioeva reported It was Dzhioeva, according to preliminary data from the Central Election Commission, who won the elections.

The Moscow City Court on Tuesday commuted the sentence in a high-profile criminal case - Russian Transport Ministry employee Vladimir Makarov, previously sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexual abuse of his own daughter, will spend only five years in prison. The cassation court found an opportunity to sharply reduce the term by reclassifying the charge.

The Supreme Court (SC) of South Ossetia invalidated the results of the second round of presidential elections in the republic, which, according to the Central Election Commission, was won by opposition candidate Alla Dzhioeva. As a representative of the Supreme Court told RIA Novosti , the voting results were canceled due to violations.

The governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Misharin, asked Dmitry Medvedev to intervene in the situation around the Bogoslovsky Aluminum Plant (BAZ), controlled by UC Rusal. According to Interfax , during a meeting with the President of the Russian Federation on Monday, the head of the region handed over a letter.

photo by Evgeny Dudin for Forbes Recipe by Vyacheslav Pivovarov In the summer of 2003, the president of the American hedge fund Third Point, Dan Loeb, entered the workshop of the Verkhnesaldinsky Metallurgical Production Association (180 km from Yekaterinburg) and lost consciousness.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday, during a visit to Kaliningrad, gave the order to put into service the missile attack warning system of the new Voronezh-DM class radar system. The head of state emphasized that the open station is not directed against Russia’s Western partners and can be used to counter common threats. “In itself, of course, it does not pose a threat to our neighbors.