The High Court of London refused to consider TNK-BP's claim against its former top manager Igor Lazurenko. Judge Andrew Sutcliffe's ruling states that the case is within the jurisdiction of Russian courts, Bloomberg writes. At the same time, Sutcliffe called TNK-BP's accusations weak, and also ordered the unfreezing of assets worth $39 million, which, as the company claimed, were related to Lazurenko's fraud.

On November 21, 1783, chemist Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis Francois d'Arlandes made the first hot air balloon flight. The balloonists used the Montgolfier brothers' flying machine - a balloon 22.7 m high and 15 m in diameter. In its lower part, the inventors attached a ring gallery for two people. The Montgolfier brothers were going to take part in the first flight themselves, but King Louis XVI of France forbade them to do so.

Animation film director Alexander Davydov died in Moscow at the age of 76, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Animated Film Association. Alexander Davydov was born in Moscow on January 25, 1937. In 1958, he graduated from animator courses at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio.

New York prosecutors are preparing to file a civil lawsuit against Credit Suisse. He is accused of misleading investors into losing billions in mortgage-backed securities. wrote on Tuesday, The total damage suffered by investors is estimated at $11.2 billion, Reuters citing informed sources. The lawsuit will be filed on Wednesday. According to prosecutors, Credit Suisse did not provide investors with complete information about mortgage-backed securities.

A conditionally released member of the punk band Pussy Riot, Ekaterina Samutsevich, may send a request to the bar association with a demand to debar the group’s former defenders Mark Feigin, Nikolai Polozov and Violetta Volkova, Kommersant reports , citing Samutsevich’s official letter sent to the lawyers.

The oil and gas company Itera will close the deal to sell its oil assets to TNK-BP by the end of November. “The buyer has been found - this is TNK-BP,” the company’s general director, Vladimir Makeev, said in an interview with the Prime agency on Tuesday . The deal will be completed by the end of November. Makeev has so far refused to disclose other details of the deal. NGK Itera (No.

The Israeli leadership has decided to delay the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip in order to give peace talks with representatives of the Hamas movement a chance to succeed. At the same time, Israel set a deadline for the completion of negotiations organized by Egypt - until Thursday. this on Tuesday .

On November 20, 1811, Friedrich Krupp founded the company “Friedrich Krupp for the Defense of English Cast Steel and Products from It,” which was destined to become the largest industrial concern in German history. The new company was supposed to produce a material in great demand, which, due to Napoleon's blockade of Great Britain, had ceased to reach Europe.

The Moscow City Hall sold the Budapest Hotel it owned for 1.036 billion rubles. The winner of the auction held on Tuesday was Novostroy+ CJSC, RIA Novosti reported . The starting price of the auction was 941.7 million rubles, and its increment was 47 million rubles. The Budapest Hotel is located in Moscow at the address Petrovskie Lines, building 2.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images In a conversation with Forbes, Rubin admits: “My hobby is my job.” Michael Rubin is lucky. Damn lucky. Last year, eBay offered $2.4 billion for its money-losing company GSI Commerce, which develops online stores for major retailers like Toys "R" Us and Timberland. The price eBay paid was 51% higher than GSI's market capitalization. What is the reason for this award? It's all about the war between eBay and Amazon for the e-commerce market.

At a meeting on Tuesday, the State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a law on a new procedure for forming the Federation Council. During the voting, 240 deputies spoke in favor of the document. Against - 92. One more deputy abstained from voting. To pass the law, it was necessary to get 226 votes, RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday . Russian President Vladimir Putin made a proposal to change the procedure for forming the Federation Council.

The Accounts Chamber has identified serious violations in the activities of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet). The audit showed that in 2010-2011, Roshydromet did not effectively control how the institutions under its control spent budget funds. More than 8 billion rubles were used in violation of current legislation, of which 7.9 billion rubles were funds from the federal budget.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said that the Israeli army's operation in the Gaza Strip will end on Tuesday, the BBC reports , citing local news agency Mena. “The aggression against Gaza will end today. Without concessions or capitulations,” the Egyptian leader said during the funeral of his sister, who died the day before. According to him, intense negotiations on a truce between the Palestinian and Israeli sides will bear fruit within the next few hours.

The Russian government transferred the right to use two subsoil blocks to the largest Russian oil company, Rosneft. These are the North Pomorsky-2 and Pomorsky subsoil areas (Pechora Sea). The areas were transferred to the company for geological study, exploration and production of hydrocarbons. The corresponding order of the Cabinet of Ministers is posted in the bank of normative and administrative acts.

Former Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov confirmed that law enforcement agencies are interrogating his son Dmitry as part of a criminal case regarding fraud with a VTB loan worth $225 million. On the morning of Tuesday, November 20, searches began in the country cottages of the founder of the Marshal Capital investment fund, Konstantin Malofeev, and the president of Rostelecom, Alexander Provotorov.