The founder of VKontakte, Pavel Durov , said that Rostelecom minority shareholder Konstantin Malofeev , who is involved in a case of embezzlement at VTB , “ordered an attack” on the site, thus trying to persuade Durov and his partners to sell him their shares in the social network.

The total amount of cash and valuables seized during operational search activities related to the Oboronservis case is about 700 million rubles. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. “Another safe deposit box was installed where funds and documents were kept. It was registered in the name of citizen Kiselev, who, according to available data, is the nephew of the general director of ZAO Security and Communications, Elkin.

In Germany, there are two “factions” in relation to Russia: those condemning the situation with rights and freedoms and those oriented towards dialogue. Angela Merkel's position combines both approaches, but the second one still wins. There are certain customs that continue to be followed year after year until they become a tradition, which in turn is followed year after year until it becomes a way of behavior. Angela Merkel's visit to Russia fully confirms this pattern.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree introducing a bill on the environmental protection of Lake Baikal to the State Duma. This is reported on the government website .

November 20, 2012, 16:00 Cars The traffic police goes into circulation The traffic police will purchase special printed materials for drivers for 1.35 billion rubles Anatoly Karavaev close 100% The Russian State Traffic Safety Inspectorate has announced a tender for the supply of special printed products. The department plans to spend 1.36 billion rubles in 2013 on the purchase of driver’s license forms, registration certificates, PTS and other documents.

November 20, 2012, 20:51 Society Psychiatrists are waiting for a lawyer Experts will test the sanity of Dmitry Vinogradov, who carried out the massacre at the Rigla office. Maxim Solopov close 100% Experts will test the sanity of Dmitry Vinogradov, who carried out the massacre at the Rigla office. ITAR-TASS Investigators sent Dmitry Vinogradov, who carried out the massacre at the office of the Rigla pharmacy chain, to the center named after.

The Investigative Committee of Russia warned the Ministry of Internal Affairs against disseminating information about the progress of the investigation into criminal cases of Oboronservis. The “clarification” of the TFR was published on the committee’s website . “Official, and therefore true, information on criminal cases can only come from the investigative body in charge of which they are located.

Film "Twilight" Saga. Dawn. Part 2” earned 697.6 million rubles in Russia on its premiere weekend and took first place in the domestic box office, reports the portal FilmPro.Ru . True, the final part of the Twilight saga did not reach the record set by the fourth part of “Pirates of the Caribbean” - the film “On Stranger Tides” collected 749 million rubles a year ago.

Roscosmos proposes to elect the company's deputy general director for economics, Andrei Chimiris, as interim general director of Russian Space Systems OJSC ( RKS ). reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the Federal Property Management Agency . “The documents presented by Roscosmos propose the candidacy of Andrei Viktorovich Chimiris, Urlichich’s deputy for economics, for this elective position,” a representative of the Federal Property Management Agency told the agency.

November 20, 2012, 11:45 Business Samsung filed a patent against Apple again The US International Trade Commission will review the patent decision in the Samsung v. Apple lawsuit issued in September Anastasia Matveeva close 100% The US International Trade Commission will review the September verdict in the patent litigation between Samsung and Apple, according to which the American corporation did not violate the competitor’s patents when creating the iPhone and iPad.

November 20, 2012, 21:44 Politics Were “Soviet”, became “Orthodox” The national inferiority complex among Russians has become “persistent,” sociologists have concluded Olga Kuzmenkova close 100% To be a true Russian, you need to be born in Russia and be Orthodox, believes the overwhelming majority of citizens surveyed by the Levada Center.

UK prosecutors have charged former editor-in-chief of the News of the World newspaper Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks , who served as head of the News International publishing house owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, with bribery of government officials. reports this Reuters . Prosecutors say Coulson plotted to obtain information about the royal family while Brooks paid a Ministry of Defense official £100,000 to gather information for the news.

The Accounts Chamber revealed “ineffective spending of budget funds” in Roshydromet by 7.9 billion rubles. This is stated in the department's message . The Board of the Accounts Chamber reviewed the results of an audit of the use of federal budget funds by Roshydromet and its subordinate institutions in 2010-2011.

Stalin's daughter Lana Peters (Svetlana Alliluyeva) was under close surveillance by the FBI , according to documents declassified by the bureau on Monday, reports the Associated Press . It is noted that in the voluminous file, the possibility that Peters might be interested in KGB agents is mentioned only once - that she informed the FBI in 1967 was concerned about this, the American diplomat George Kennan (author of the “containment strategy”, US Ambassador to the USSR and Yugoslavia) .

Police in Poland have arrested a 45-year-old nationalist academic, saying he was plotting to bomb the parliament building and attempted to assassinate the president, prime minister and other senior politicians. According to the country's law enforcement agencies, a scientist who taught at a university in Krakow and had access to chemical laboratories planned to park a car filled with 4 tons of explosives near the government building. reports this Reuters .