Available data on the direction of winds and air pollution in Moscow suggests that the source of the smell of hydrogen sulfide in the capital on Monday could be the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya, the head of the situation center of Roshydromet, Yuri Varakin, told Interfax on Tuesday. He noted that Roshydromet specialists studied the meteorological situation in the southeast of Moscow for the period from November 1.

Against the backdrop of falling oil prices, after two days of growth, the ruble fell slightly against the dollar and the euro at the opening of trading on the Moscow Exchange on Tuesday, November 11, reports Finanz.ru . As of 10:06 Moscow time, the ruble to dollar exchange rate is decreasing by 4 kopecks - to 45.89 rubles per $1. The ruble against the euro is losing 28 kopecks - to 57.08 rubles per €1. The dollar and euro are strengthening amid falling world oil prices.

From November 12, the Bank of Russia will introduce a limit on the provision of ruble liquidity through currency swap operations, the regulator reported on its website on Tuesday. The value of the limit until November 30 will be $2 billion per day in equivalent, the Central Bank reported. The corresponding decision was made in order to stabilize the situation on the foreign exchange market, the Central Bank noted.

The head of the Synodal Department for Relations between Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, proposed thinking about creating an Orthodox banking system in order to make the Russian economy more independent, Interfax reports .

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called the discussions surrounding the act of the head of state Vladimir Putin, who wrapped the first lady of China Peng Liyuan in a blanket at one of the events within the framework of the APEC summit in Beijing on Monday, “completely absurd” gossip, the radio station “Moscow Speaks” reports . “Tradition is not tradition, a woman is not a woman, but everyone is equally cool,” Peskov said.

Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska is negotiating the sale of the design and construction company Transstroy, part of the Basic Element group, Interfax reported on Tuesday, citing an informed source. The agency's interlocutor said that the buyer could be a large Russian infrastructure company. But he did not name the amount of the transaction being discussed and the size of the stake being sold.

The Moscow Oil Refinery (ORP), owned by Gazprom Neft, did not receive notifications from Rosprirodnadzor about violations established as part of air sampling during an investigation into the appearance of a strong smell of hydrogen sulfide in Moscow on Monday, TASS reported on Tuesday, November 11 with reference to the press service of Gazprom Neft.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, at a meeting of the Moscow government presidium on Tuesday, demanded an objective investigation into the release of pollutants into the atmosphere, which led to the appearance of the smell of hydrogen sulfide in the capital on Monday, Interfax reports .

The Constitutional Court of Russia (CC) prohibited investigative bodies from hiding the circumstances of the death of their loved ones from relatives, citing state secrets, follows from a resolution posted on the court’s website on Tuesday. The court verified the constitutionality of Article 21 of the Law “On State Secrets” at the request of a resident of the Republic of Mari El, Oleg Laptev, whose brother was found hanged in a police cell in Yoshkar-Ola in 2012.

reported The official euro-ruble exchange rate, set by the Bank of Russia for Wednesday, was reduced by 19.24 kopecks (to 57.0494 rubles), and the dollar exchange rate was increased by 5.94 kopecks (to 45.9520 rubles), Finanz.ru . The cost of the bi-currency basket ($0.55 and €0.45), calculated at official rates on Wednesday, decreased by 5 kopecks and amounted to 50.95 rubles. Thus, the value of the ruble, expressed in dollars, decreased by 0.13% compared to the previous day.

The NATO rapid reaction force exercise Trident Juncture, which began in Estonia on November 9, has a “purely anti-Russian orientation,” Sergei Koshelev, head of the Main Directorate for International Military Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Defense, told reporters on Tuesday. Koshelev explained that during the exercises, NATO forces will practice actions in the event of an attack on one of the alliance members by a “hostile large state,” Interfax reports .

Information about an explosion that allegedly occurred on Tuesday near a Russian ship in the Sea of ​​Azov does not correspond to reality, TASS reports , citing a representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Krasnodar Territory. “We contacted this ship. The captain reported that the crew heard something loud, but where it happened is unclear, perhaps even on land,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

The Cyprus company Interros International Investments Ltd, which owned 30.4% of Norilsk Nickel shares, reduced its stake in the company to zero on October 22, according to information published on Tuesday, November 11, on the company’s website. On the same day, another Cypriot structure, Olderfrey Holdings Ltd, received indirect disposal of a similar stake in Norilsk Nickel.

On Tuesday, the Bank of Russia revoked licenses for banking operations from Simbirsk Bank (Ulyanovsk), Payment Service Bank (PSB Bank, Ufa) and Moscow European Express Bank, and appointed temporary administrations to them, follows from the message , published on the regulator’s website.

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Rinat Gizadullin said that the Moscow Oil Refinery, owned by Gazprom Neft, does not have permits issued in accordance with the established procedure for emissions into the atmosphere for 2014 - this was established during an administrative investigation in connection with the appearance of reported on Tuesday, November 11 Moscow on Monday smelled a strong smell of hydrogen sulfide, Interfax .