The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow issued the first verdict in the case of unrest during the opposition “March of Millions” on May 6 on Bolotnaya Square. Businessman Maxim Luzyanin received 4.5 years in a maximum security colony for participating in mass riots and using violence against a government official (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko relieved Lieutenant General Vadim Zaitsev from the post of KGB chairman. The decision was made following a meeting with the head of state, BELTA reports . State Secretary of the Security Council Leonid Maltsev said that at the meeting the Prosecutor General and the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Belarus raised a number of questions about the situation in the State Security Committee.

The Kremlin believes that Russian Space Systems should not question the competence of police officers investigating violations in the development of the GLONASS system. On Friday, November 9, the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the Moscow Metro, Igor Bozhkov, who previously worked in the 4th Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that it had been established that 6.5 billion rubles allocated to Russian Space Systems for the development of GLONASS had been stolen.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Army General Nikolai Makarov, resigned. The resignation report has already been signed by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, now it must be approved by the president, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports , citing its sources.

photo by Dmitry Ternovoy for Forbes Luxembourg funds, “dividends” on $600 million bonds, special tax status for Gunvor in Singapore and spending on charity What did we know until recently about the businessman and “citizen” Timchenko ( No. 12 in the Forbes ranking, $9.1 billion )? Fragmentary information has formed the following image: a mysterious billionaire and eminence grise who is friends with Vladimir Putin and also sells Russian oil and petroleum products abroad.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented to President Vladimir Putin a candidate for the post of new Chief of the General Staff - Commander of the Central Military District, Valery Gerasimov. The head of state approved this candidacy, Interfax reports . According to the Kremlin press service , the president has already signed a decree appointing Gerasimov as chief of the General Staff - first deputy minister of defense.

The person who ordered the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya set out to intimidate society, journalists and the authorities, said the head of the group investigating the murder of the journalist, senior investigator for especially important cases under the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Petros Gharibyan, in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper . “I think that the customer’s goal was not only revenge on Anna Politkovskaya for critical publications.

On November 9, 1911, French chemical engineer Georges Claude received a patent for neon advertising. It was created, one might say, by accident when he was trying to find a method by which oxygen would be released in its pure form. The chemist filled colored tubes inflated with neon with gas, which glowed red under the influence of electric charges.

photo ITAR-TASS Costs for consumers of raw materials are now lower than 30 years ago, but now price dynamics do not help to understand when the world will emerge from the crisis This is a continuation of a series of publications by Russian experts from the Association of Independent Centers for Economic Analysis (ANCEA) on the strategic problems of the country's development. At the beginning of the global crisis, oil prices fell by more than 70% in a matter of months.

The search in the office of the Far Eastern Directorate of the Ministry of Regional Development lasted almost a day, ending only on Friday morning, Interfax reports , citing a representative of the directorate. “The security forces left the office on Friday around 5:00 (22:00 Thursday Moscow time), and the search began on Thursday morning,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

photo East News / AFP / ImageForum "The Pride of the French Police" Mireille Balestrasis will fight crime around the world On November 8, at the 81st Interpol General Assembly held in Rome, the Frenchwoman Mireille Balestrasi was elected head of the organization. Mireille Balestrasi is 58 years old. She became police commissioner in 1975, when she was just 21 years old. In the 1990s, she headed the criminal police in French Corsica.

Vladimir Putin congratulated Barack Obama on his re-election as US President and invited him to visit Russia in 2013. “I know firsthand how exhausting and stressful an election marathon can be. The past election campaign in the United States was no exception in this regard. The more significant is the victory you won, and by a large margin,” says the Russian leader’s congratulatory telegram .

Former Deputy Minister of Regional Development of Russia Roman Panov, who today heads the government of the Perm Territory, was detained in the case of theft of funds allocated for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok. This was announced on Friday, November 9, by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The issue of choosing a preventive measure against the official is being decided.

photo provided Vladimir Lupenko, partner of the Financial Consulting Group, about his business and his wife Dilyara Lupenko (Extended version of material from the November issue of Forbes Woman.

The Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare recommends against purchasing Nesquik chocolate powder due to the possible presence of salmonella. Rospotrebnadzor reports that information has appeared on the website of the US Food and Drug Administration about the voluntary recall of Nestlé NESQUIK powder from circulation, since it may contain pathogens of acute intestinal infections - salmonella. The products were produced in early October.