President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting of the Russian Security Council on Friday, at which agreements with Kiev on gas were discussed, press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said. He said that Putin informed members of the Security Council about the details of the telephone conversation that took place last night in the so-called “Normandy format” - with the President of France Francois Hollande and Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (No.

Photo by Dina Zhuravleva/DR Diana Arbenina about politics, concerts and her fortieth birthday in an interview with Forbes Woman Having performed an anniversary concert in Kyiv, Diana Arbenina turned out to be one of the “friends of the junta” - the subject of a documentary film on the NTV channel, exposing Russians who, according to the authors, sympathize with Ukraine. The result is an almost complete disruption of the tour, a block on the federal channel and a banner on the House of Books.

First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said that he does not believe that the Russian banking system has encountered unexpected difficulties, TASS reports on Friday, October 31 . Thus, he refuted information that had previously appeared on the Internet that the Secretariat of the Deputy Prime Minister regarded the situation in the banking sector as pre-crisis. “The situation is exactly as the Bank of Russia explains it.

The state company Rosneft will finance the construction of a multifunctional sports complex CSKA with an ice palace in the Mnevnikovskaya floodplain, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction Marat Khusnullin said on Friday. “We are now transferring the sports part to Rosneft. Rosneft will finance the development of the CSKA complex,” RIA Novosti agency quotes him as saying.

The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, threatened on his Facebook page to open a case against the Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov (in 2009, he was included in the Forbes “50 Russian Stars” rating, his income was then estimated at $0.5 million), who visited the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) with the premiere of the film "Poddubny" and shooting with the "militia" from a heavy machine gun at the Donetsk airport “Tomorrow we will initiate

The head of the Russian Ministry of Energy, Alexander Novak, the Minister of Energy of Ukraine, Yuriy Prodan, and the Vice-President of the European Commission, Günter Oettinger, signed a legally binding protocol on gas supplies until March 31, 2015, Interfax reported on Friday. In addition, Gazprom and Naftogaz of Ukraine signed an additional agreement to the gas contract.

Android co-founder Andy Rubin is leaving Google to create an incubator for startups specializing in hardware development, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing a company statement. Rubin, who led Google's robotics group, will be replaced by fellow scientist and team member James Kuffner, a Google spokesman said. He emphasized that the Internet company remains interested in the development of robotics and will continue to invest in this sector.

Ukraine will transfer the first tranche to Gazprom to pay off the debt for Russian gas in early November, said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel on Friday. Gazprom head Alexey Miller “It is understood that this will be done by the end of next week,” Miller said. He also said that on Saturday the government could approve a resolution to provide Kyiv with a discount of $100 per 1,000 cubic meters. m. “Accordingly, there will be a new price - $378.

A meeting on the division of property between the head of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin and his ex-wife Natalia will take place on December 3, Potanina’s lawyer Philip Ryabchenko told Forbes on Friday, October 31. "The court interviewed the parties and scheduled a meeting on the division of property between Vladimir and Natalia Potanin for December 3.

Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev believes that sanctions against Russia require solving issues of increasing the efficiency of the oil and gas industry and its decriminalization by increasing the transparency of economic relations, RIA Novosti reports on Friday, October 31, citing the press service of the Security Council. Patrushev recalled that today the oil and gas industry provides about 50% of federal budget revenues.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) filed a petition for the arrest of Vladimir Ashikhmin, former chief accountant of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise GUSS Dalspetsstroy, in the case of theft of funds allocated for the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, follows from a statement by ICR representative Vladimir Markin, published on Friday, October 31, on the committee website.

The representative of Ukraine to the European Union, Konstantin Eliseev, sent a letter to the leadership of the European External Action Service on Friday, in which he stated that the actions of the Russian actor Mikhail Porechenkov (included in the “50 stars-2009” rating according to Forbes, his income was then estimated at $0.5 million) fall under the criteria for the introduction by the European Union of personal sanctions in the form of an entry ban and seizure of assets, according to the

reports on Friday, October 31 The vehicles of the Russian humanitarian convoy, which delivered cargo to Lugansk and Donetsk, crossed the border with Ukraine and entered the Rostov region, Interfax . At the moment, the trucks are inspected by Russian customs officers and border guards at the Donetsk and Izvarino checkpoints in the presence of Ukrainian colleagues and two observers from the OSCE mission.

The ruble exchange rate for “tomorrow” settlements fell at the beginning of trading on the Moscow Exchange on Friday by 30 kopecks to the dollar and by 32 kopecks to the euro, according to exchange data. As of 10:55 Moscow time, the dollar exchange rate was 41.9495 rubles, and the euro exchange rate was 52.7495 rubles. The cost of the bi-currency basket (€0.45 and $0.55) increased by 27 kopecks to 46.7915 rubles.

photo Getty Images Officials from the financial and economic bloc of the Russian government asked American manager Ray Dalio how to attract investors to Russia. What did the American billionaire advise them? In the spring and summer, the US and EU authorities imposed sanctions against Gazprom, Novatek, Rosneft, Russian state banks and Rosoboronexport due to the annexation of Crimea to Russia and Russian intervention in the conflict in Ukraine.