Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree renaming IDGC Holding to Russian Grids. At the same time, a 79.55% stake in the FSK company, which is federally owned, will be included in the authorized capital of the holding, reports .

Russia's largest oil company, Rosneft, said it is at an advanced stage of negotiations to complete a deal to purchase the AAR consortium's 50% stake in TNK-BP. "Rosneft is at an advanced stage of negotiations with the AAR consortium to sign a definitive agreement to acquire AAR's 50 percent stake in TNK-BP in accordance with the basic terms of the transaction, which were announced on October 22, 2012," the company reports.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk declared the arrest of the controversial artist Artem Loskutov, who is accused of insulting a government official, illegal. At the same time, the decision that he was put on the wanted list was recognized as legal. “The judge recognized the decision to put me on the wanted list as legal, and it remains in force. And the arrest was canceled due to the fact that I was not hiding.

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov rejected accusations of window dressing and the construction of “Potemkin villages” for the 2012 APEC summit in Vladivostok. “I have not built a single “Potemkin village” or “Potemkin village” object,” Interfax quotes Shuvalov’s answer to a listener’s question on air on a number of Primorye radio stations on Thursday. According to Shuvalov, window dressing and “Potemkin villages” are when there is nothing behind the external façade.

The editor-in-chief and marketing director of Yandex, Elena Kolmanovskaya, left her post. This happened last week. The Marketing Department was divided into the Advertising and Marketing Department and the Public Relations Department. The first was headed by Svetlana Kondrashova, the second by Ochir Mandzhikov. Kolmanovskaya will continue to work in the company and remains a minority shareholder of Yandex.

photo by RIA Novosti After the last elections, the federal government may try to repeat its success by launching the process of re-election of governors in dozens of regions at once. What does this give her and what are the risks? Experts close to the Kremlin propose holding early elections next year for governors of 31 regions of Russia, whose powers expire in 2016-2017. This will avoid the difficult three-year election cycle: Duma - governors - president in 2016-2018.

The Medeussky District Court of Almaty suspended the distribution of the products of the “single media outlet “Respublika” on the territory of Kazakhstan. Earlier, the Almaty prosecutor's office appealed to the court with a request to recognize eight newspapers and 23 Internet resources as a single media outlet "Respublika" and to stop its publication.

Photo by Fotobank / Getty Images In Russia, where there are no common values, it is especially important to properly build relationships between employees In Russia, corporate culture is perceived as a toy. Rarely in any organization is it as much a business tool as financial planning or sales management. Most often, culture is attributed exclusively to the HR department. But in most companies, HR managers do not think about business results and do not participate in making key decisions.

photo from personal archive From December 1, the register of “black sites” will be able to be compiled by “cyber vigilantes” mobilized by Konstantin Malofeev’s organization, and a special program will soon search the Internet not only for pedophilia, drugs and suicide The Safe Internet League is a non-profit partnership whose stated goal is “total eradication of dangerous content on the Internet through self-regulation to avoid censorship.” The organization was created in February 2011 by the

The Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, former commander of the Black Sea Fleet Vladimir Komoyedov called for increasing the service life in the army again - to one and a half years. “Reducing the service to one year was a political decision, and it is bad for the combat readiness of the army. Moreover, we have come close to a demographic hole,” Komoyedov told the Izvestia newspaper. - Apart from the period of study, the personnel serve for six months and leave.

Israeli troops detained 55 suspected Palestinian militants in the West Bank. The IDF said in a statement that this was done to restore order and prevent terrorists from infiltrating Israeli communities. Much of the West Bank is governed by the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas, but many local residents support Hamas, Reuters notes .

Drybar hair salons, created by a 37-year-old mother of two, provide women with just one service - hair styling. Eleven in the morning. Tuesday. Drybar hair salon in the basement of Manhattan's Le Parker Meridien hotel. Adele's singing blares over the speakers, drowning out the roar of nine hairdryers turned on full blast, used to smooth or curl the hair of women aged 21 to 62. Stylists take turns turning their clients to the mirror so they can evaluate the results.

International rating agency Fitch on Thursday downgraded the ratings of Sony Corp., two of Japan's largest electronics and household appliances makers. and Panasonic Corp. The rating was lowered by two steps at once - to a speculative level, reports the Reuters news agency . Sony's long-term rating was downgraded from BBB- to BB-, and Panasonic's was downgraded from BBB- to BB, with the outlook for both ratings being negative.

The Tverskoy District Court of the capital arrested the general director of the Rusagroprom company, Evgenia Kremneva, as part of an investigation into the theft of a VTB loan in the amount of $255 million, issued for the purchase of dairy plants from Nutritek. Kremneva was charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale). The court made the decision to arrest on the evening of Wednesday, November 21, RAPSI reports.

A large gambling club was closed by the police on Novy Arbat in Moscow. Information about this was published on Thursday on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.