Russian poet Andrei Shiryaev committed suicide in San Rafael in Ecuador, having previously published a suicide note on his Facebook page. In a message published on a social network on Friday morning, Shiryaev wrote that he had finished writing his last book, submitted it for layout, and now it was “time for him.” He explained that he suffers from diabetes and has recently suffered two heart attacks and a stroke, which led to partial paralysis.

The American division of the British bank HSBC is required to pay $2.46 billion in fines and compensation in an 11-year-old securities fraud case, Reuters reports . The company has already announced that they are going to appeal the court decision. As noted by the law firm Ronald Guzman of Federal District Court, which represents the interests of the plaintiffs, this fine was a record for proceedings of this kind. Almost all securities fraud class actions are typically settled out of court.

photo Corbis/FOTO SA Survival instructions from entrepreneurs who survived the dot-com crash and are successfully growing their businesses today After just two weeks on the job, Stamps.com CFO Ken McBride fired the first of 485 employees—the manager was soon to cut his workforce by 87%.

Orkhan Zeynalov, detained on suspicion of murdering a young man in the Moscow district of Biryulyovo Zapadnoe, has been charged, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official representative of the capital's Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee Sergei Stukalov. “Investigators have charged the man with murder,” the agency’s source said.

Four bank employees in Paris who were taken hostage by an armed man have been released, reports French newspaper Le Monde . The criminal himself surrendered to the police. The incident occurred in one of the branches of the CIC bank in the 13th arrondissement of the French capital. At about 16:45 local time, an unknown man armed with a firearm burst into the bank office. He demanded that the authorities provide him and his son with social housing.

China's Lenovo Group, the world's largest personal computer maker, is considering acquiring Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing knowledgeable sources. According to one of the publication's interlocutors, representatives of the two companies signed a non-disclosure agreement, which allows Lenovo to study internal financial documents and find out the actual state of BlackBerry. Representatives for BlackBerry and Lenovo declined to comment.

Photo by Reuters More often than not, such leaders fight for power until death, ill health, or revolution take over. At the end of the last episode of the film “The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed,” Captain Gleb Zheglov suggested that the bandits holed up in the basement of a grocery store surrender “in an amicable way.” The alternative option - “in a bad way” - meant a shootout and the destruction of the surrounded gang.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova (No. 22 in the “Rating of the highest paid athletes in the world” according to the American Forbes, net worth: $28 million) is expecting a child with her boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov, the first racket of Bulgaria, reports the Bulgarian portal Novini .

The Netherlands will not punish the police officer who detained Russian diplomat Dmitry Borodin, Dutch said on Friday in an interview with the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf . Prime Minister Mark Rutte “This will not happen. The police will not have any grounds for this,” the Prime Minister said. Earlier, the Netherlands apologized for the incident with Russian diplomat Dmitry Borodin.

The leasing company Gaztekhlizing, controlled by the largest contractor of Gazprom Ziyad Manasir (No. 41 in the list of 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , fortune - $2.5 billion), will invest almost 180 billion rubles in the construction of transport interchange hubs (TPU) in Moscow, wrote on Friday. Vedomosti newspaper Gaztekhleasing signed a corresponding agreement on Thursday with the subsidiary of Russian Railways, the Directorate of Railway Stations (DZhV).

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes To create remote video surveillance technology, a programmer and banker from Moscow had to sell their apartments. But now they have 200,000 customers and a global contract with Philips Every day, the founder of the Dodo Pizza chain, Fyodor Ovchinnikov, looks into the establishments of his chain, scattered across regional and district centers.

The Russian fuel company TVEL, controlled by the state corporation Rosatom, may sign a long-term contract with China for $1 billion on Saturday, October 19, for the supply of nuclear fuel and components for the second stage of the Tianwan NPP, RIA Novosti reports , citing informed sources.

The Ministry of Finance does not consider it possible to introduce a single tax on real estate for individuals in 2014, as previously assumed, and proposes to shift the entry into force of the tax to 2015, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov told reporters on Friday. He also said that it was also decided to move the deadline for introducing the tax from 2018 to 2020, the Prime agency reports . According to him, this is due to comments from the presidential administration.

Member of the punk group Pussy Riot Maria Alekhina, sentenced to two years in prison for an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, on Friday at a meeting of the Avtozavodsky Court of Nizhny Novgorod withdrew her petition to replace her remaining sentence with a more lenient sentence not related to imprisonment, reports "Interfax" . Alekhina explained her decision by moral principles.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a convicted member of the punk group Pussy Riot, who returned from medical institution No. 21 back to colony No. 14 on Friday and resumed her hunger strike, will be transferred to another colony, the press . bureau of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia reported . The corresponding decision was made in connection with the appeal of the convict received by the Federal Penitentiary Service to ensure her personal safety, the report notes.