The head of the Astrakhan branch of the A Just Russia (SR) party, regional Duma deputy Oleg Shein was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday and immediately flew to Astrakhan, where he intends to hold a rally next Sunday for holding elections for the mayor of the city, ITAR-TASS reports . “I feel good, I just have difficulty moving,” the deputy told the agency in a telephone interview. Shein noted that he was going to leave the N.V. Research Institute of Emergency Medicine.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region on Tuesday satisfied the application of the Bank of Russia and declared Pushkino Bank bankrupt, RAPSI reported . The bank has opened bankruptcy proceedings for a period of one year, and the Deposit Insurance Agency has been appointed as the bankruptcy manager of the bank.

The US Embassy in Moscow received instructions from Washington to address the situation surrounding the ban on Russian singer Grigory Leps entering the country after a petition in his support on the White House website collected more than 100,000 signatures , ITAR-TASS reports, citing the US Ambassador to Russia. “This morning the embassy received a paper on this matter from Washington,” said US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul during a speech at the International University in Moscow.

Photo by Alexey Mayshev for Forbes The parties plan to close the deal in early 2014 On November 25, Gazprom -Media Holding reached an agreement in principle to purchase the ProfMedia holding from the Interros group of Vladimir Potanin ( No. 7 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, fortune - $14.3 billion ). The parties plan to obtain regulatory approval and complete the transaction in early 2014, according to a joint press release.

The FSB Directorate for the Chelyabinsk Region opened a criminal case on illegal trafficking of precious stones based on the sale by the ChelProm-Diamond company of diamonds worth 40 million rubles to the foreign company DUNDELA LIMITED, the regional prosecutor's office reported on Tuesday.

The Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science, together with the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, conducted inspections at a number of Russian universities and revoked the licenses of 69 educational organizations, the reported on Tuesday. press service of Rosobrnadzor “In total, 69 licenses of educational organizations were excluded from the register,” the press release says.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will give a traditional live interview on television on December 6, 2013, in which he will sum up the results of the outgoing year, Natalya Timakova, press secretary of the head of government, said on Tuesday. “The interview will be held in a traditional format,” RIA Novosti quotes her statement .

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR), Alexander Bastrykin, sent an official request to US Attorney General Eric Holder to verify violations of the rights of 26 adopted Russian children, which were reported as part of a journalistic investigation by Reuters and the NBC television channel, said on Tuesday.

Ukraine does not have any agreements with Russia on the provision of new loans after the suspension of preparations for signing an agreement with the European Union, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said at a briefing on Tuesday. When asked whether Kyiv had reached a final agreement with Moscow, Azarov replied: “Of course not.” The head of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers also stressed that Ukraine does not want to become a “battlefield” between the EU and Russia, Reuters reports .

The founder of the world's most famous torrent resource Pirate Bay, Gottfried Svartholm and his hosting provider PRQ became defendants in several lawsuits about Internet piracy in the Moscow City Court, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday . In Russia, Svartholm, who is serving a two-year sentence in Sweden for participating in a hacker attack, is accused, in particular, of distributing the film “Stalingrad” and the TV series “Interns” on the Rutor.org and Kinozal.tv resources.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has not received a request from Gazprom-Media to purchase 100% of the ProfMedia holding, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the FAS press service. “The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has not received such a request,” the department told the agency. Earlier on Tuesday it became known that Gazprom Media agreed to purchase ProfMedia from the Interros holding of Vladimir Potanin (No.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergei Obukhov said that the communists are outraged by the Louis Vuitton pavilion-suitcase built on Red Square and intend to send a request to law enforcement agencies demanding to understand how the authorities could give permission for this, RIA Novosti reports . "Red Square has a special status. This is a sacred place of the Russian state.

AFK Sistema of Vladimir Yevtushenkov (No. 23 in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes, net worth $6.7 billion) is negotiating the purchase of a stake in the Ozon Internet holding with its main owner, Baring Vostok Private Equity, the wrote newspaper on Tuesday. Vedomosti" citing sources close to both sides of these negotiations. A source close to Baring told the publication that the fund is planning to exit the company's business.

Billionaire Suleiman Kerimov (No. 20 in the ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes , fortune - $7.1 billion) is selling his stake in the PIK development group to former senator Sergei Gordeev, the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Tuesday, citing sources. According to one of the sources, Gordeev is negotiating with Kerimov’s Nafta Moscow and with Otkritie Securities, a structure of Otkritie FC, which in July bought PIK shares in the interests of Nafta Moscow.

Exactly ten years ago, the legendary plane made its last flight Exactly ten years ago, on November 26, 2003, the supersonic passenger plane Concorde made its final flight. During its 27 years of operation, it transported more than 3 million people. Speeding up to 2,440 km/h, Concorde covered the distance between London and New York in 3 hours 20 minutes - twice as fast as a conventional plane. A round-trip ticket cost $10,500.