The leader of the rating was the Chairman of the Board of VTB Andrey Kostin, another state banker German Gref - in 4th place Forbes presents a new rating - the 25 highest paid CEOs of the largest Russian companies ( read about the methodology at the link ). Do you want to earn more than $10 million a year? Go to the state bank, Rosneft or Gazprom.

In the village of Sadovy, Belorechensky district, Krasnodar Territory, a Bekas light aircraft crashed, with two people on board. The incident was reported to the rescue control console at about 15:12 Moscow time. A three-member task force went to the scene of the incident. Rescuers discovered that both pilots on board the Bekas were killed, reports . the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region The identities of the deceased pilots are currently being established.

Former Minister of Internal Affairs, former State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov may take the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the state corporation Rosatom. The Deputy Prime Minister, who is currently on the supervisory board, may soon leave his position, told Interfax . two sources The name of the new chairman of the supervisory board may be announced as early as next week. Dmitry Rogozin was appointed chairman of the supervisory board of the state corporation in September 2012.

No one was injured as a result of the incident. In the city of Tolyatti, Samara Region, on the night of November 18, an explosion occurred in the parking lot of a restaurant located on Revolyutsionnaya Street. Fortunately, no one was injured as a result of the incident, reports the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.

An outstanding Russian film director celebrates his anniversary. The outstanding Soviet and Russian film director, writer and TV presenter, People's Artist of the USSR Eldar Ryazanov celebrates his 85th birthday on November 18. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev congratulated the artist on his anniversary.

On the afternoon of November 18, a Boeing-737 aircraft operated by UTair, flying on the Moscow-Ufa route, rolled off the runway upon landing and got stuck in a snowdrift. In this regard, the departure of four flights from Ufa and the landing of five aircraft had to be postponed, RIA Novosti reports , citing a representative of the Bashkir airport. In particular, two flights to Moscow, one to Surgut and an international flight to Dubai are delayed.

As a result of the incident, 11 people were injured. As a result of a traffic accident in the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg on the morning of November 18, 11 people, including children, were injured. The accident occurred at 23 km of the Vyborg highway, according to the official website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for St. Petersburg. At about 11:00 Moscow time, a Ford Transit minibus carrying a children's sports school team and an Audi A6 passenger car collided on the highway.

Rescuers managed to get to the scene of the emergency only 4 hours after the accident. On the evening of November 17, not far from the Markushskoye reservoir in the Komsomolsky district of the Ivanovo region, a Mi-2 helicopter made a hard landing, with a pilot and a passenger on board. As a result of the incident, both people died, reports .

On November 18, 1477, the British pioneer William Caxton published the first English dated printed book, the anthology The Sayings of the Philosophers. A copyist for Edward IV's sister, he set up his printing press near Westminster Abbey in the late 1470s. After the publication of the anthology, Caxton released works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius, Ovid, Virgil and Boccaccio.

The special operation of the Israeli Ministry of Defense claimed the lives of 42 people. Israel, during the shelling of the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Pillar of Cloud, struck the Al-Shawa business center, which houses media offices, BBC reports . In particular, the building houses the office of the Al-Quds television company, the Palestinian bureau of the Italian television channel RAI, the German television and radio company ARD and Kuwait-TV.

The President and members of Congress will continue negotiations after Thanksgiving. US President Barack Obama and congressional party leaders will continue negotiations on budget policy in the week following Thanksgiving. The parties will have to work out a compromise on spending cuts and tax increases, which should save the American economy from falling off the “fiscal cliff,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. reports this Reuters .

But tensions arose over the issue of privatization and cost cutting. The Government of Cyprus and representatives of the so-called “big creditors” have agreed on requirements for supervision in the banking sector. Representatives of Nicosia, the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund held talks the day before, Reuters reports . During the meeting, the approval of new norms for supervision in the banking sector was discussed.

Traffic in the area has been stopped. Traffic along the Gimry road tunnel, which connects nine mountainous regions of the republic with the central part, has been suspended due to a fire. A repair team is currently working in the tunnel, Interfax reports with reference to the duty station of the police department for the Untsukulsky district of Dagestan. A fire occurred in one of the transformers. The incident caused severe smoke in the tunnel.

The accident claimed the lives of two people. Employees of the North-West Department of Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case into the crash of the Mi-2 helicopter.

The consequences of the accident are planned to be eliminated by the evening of November 18. On the evening of November 17, the emergency rescue service control panel received a message about a breakthrough in the Samara-Bryansk main oil product pipeline near the village of Pavlovka, Krasnozorensky district, Oryol region. There was a breakthrough in the oil pipeline with a diameter of 530 mm, according to the official website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region.