October 30, 2012, 10:04 pm Politics Hurricane blew away candidates "Frankenstorm" reshaped the US election campaign Olga Kuzmenkova (Washington - Tampa , Florida) close 100% Early voting has been canceled in several regions due to Hurricane Sandy. Reuters Hurricane Sandy blows away campaign promises of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. US presidential candidates and their running mates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan have abandoned two dozen meetings with voters in states critical to victory.

The Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office blocked an illegal, in its opinion, deal worth 2 billion rubles between Vnukovo Airport and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Administration of Civil Airports (Airfields), reports the Prosecutor General's Office . A warning has been issued to the head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service ( FAS ) of Russia has allowed Rosneft to increase its share in National Oil Consortium LLC to 40% from 20%, the agency reports . “The Federal Antimonopoly Service considered the request of OJSC NK Rosneft ... to acquire a share in the authorized capital of LLC NNK ...

An employee of the Moscow department of the Federal Bailiff Service seized special equipment belonging to the capital's road construction company Dorstroy, “in payment of a multimillion-dollar debt,” according to the service’s website . In particular, seven units of special equipment and 19 vehicles of the company were seized.

The Board of Directors of Gazprom approved an increase in the volume of the investment program for 2012 to 974.649 billion rubles instead of the previously approved 777 billion rubles, the company said in a statement received by Gazeta.Ru. “In accordance with the investment program for 2012 in the new edition, the total volume of investment development will be 974.649 billion rubles, which is 198 billion rubles.

An alleged member of a terrorist gang will go to trial on charges of a series of crimes, including an attempt to commit a terrorist attack on Red Square in 2010, RIA Novosti reports , citing the official representative of the main supervisory agency, Marina Gridneva. “Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin approved the indictment in the criminal case against armed gang member Ilyas Saidov,” she said.

The investment company Altimo, which unites the telecommunications assets of Alfa Group Mikhail Fridman's , has agreed with Victor Pinchuk's company to purchase 123.6 million preferred shares of Vimpelcom. “Altimo agreed on October 26 with Bertofan Investments Limited to acquire 123.6 million preferred shares within 60 days,” Altimo said in a statement late Monday. The transaction amount will be $217.536 million.

October 30, 2012, 21:35 Business The USA is catching up with Russia Russia took 66th place in the ranking of prosperous countries according to the British analytical center Legatum Institute Ekaterina Bryzgalova close 100% For the first time in six years, the United States is not among the top 10 prosperous countries. Reuters Russia ranked 66th in the ranking of prosperous countries.

October 30, 2012, 11:34 Business Tomorrow: ruble/$ – 31.53 The weighted average dollar exchange rate for tomorrow calculations, at which the official exchange rate of the Central Bank is set, increased by 8.79 kopecks and amounted to 31.5252 rubles. On Monday, the weighted average rate was 31.4373 rubles per dollar.

Syrian Air Force General Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi was killed in the northern part of Damascus, the BBC reports . Security sources said Khalidi was shot dead on Monday evening as the general was returning home while visiting a friend. Khalidi, who was one of the key figures in the Syrian Air Force command, "played a very important role" for the state.

The Moscow government has put the Moskvich Hotel in the southeast of the city up for sale. The starting price for a sixteen-story building with a total area of ​​8.148 thousand square meters. m and a land plot of 3.775 thousand square meters. m was determined at 590.246 million rubles, the Moscow Property Department reported. The auction for the sale of the hotel is scheduled for December 4, 2012. The Moskvich Hotel was built in 1985.

The Russian National Library (RNL) in St. Petersburg has temporarily closed its building on Moskovsky Prospekt to visitors due to heating problems, the library’s website reports. “The administration of the National Library of Russia decided to close the library building at 165 Moskovsky Prospekt to readers from October 30, as the air temperature in the reading rooms has dropped significantly. Currently, new equipment for the heating center of the building is being installed.

October 30, 2012, 20:51 Business Unshakable GOSTs Dmitry Medvedev is ready to transfer part of the regulatory functions in construction to business - officials are doing a poor job Ekaterina Karpenko close 100% Dmitry Medvedev criticized the work of officials in modernizing GOSTs and SNiPs in construction ITAR-TASS Dmitry Medvedev is ready to transfer part of the regulatory functions in construction to business, including the creation of new GOSTs.

02 November 2012, 11:14 Politics Political detention centers Gazeta.Ru found out whether there are political prisoners in Russia Vyacheslav Kozlov , Sergey Smirnov , Maxim Solopov close 100% ITAR-TASS Is it possible to say that a special category of prisoners has again appeared in Russia - political ones? Are Pussy Riot members sent to prison for hooliganism or politics? Are criminal offenses or political protest at the heart of the Bolotnaya case?

The Sovetsky District Court of Lipetsk released the previously unconvicted 37-year-old Nikolai Putin from custody, Kommersant reports . He became involved in a fight on Moskovskaya Street on July 31, 2011, as a result of which five people were stabbed. Two of them died. Among the victims were two police officers who managed to neutralize Putin, a Lipchan citizen armed with a knife, using a traumatic pistol. One of the policemen died from his injuries.