The director of the Orelenergo branch of IDGC of Center, JSC, Alexander Letyagin, said in an interview with Oryol media that the company is considering the possibility of purchasing shares of Orelenergo, JSC. According to him, a working group has already been created in the regional government, which is working on the issue of creating a unified network company in the region. So far, as Mr.

According to Marge Randmaa, a representative of the Eesti Gaas concern, European Commission officials are checking compliance with EU antitrust laws at the company's Tallinn office. The largest shareholder of Eesti Gaas is the Russian Gazprom. Representatives of the European Commission have already carried out similar checks in gas companies in 10 countries.

Context Law enforcement agencies have made significant progress in solving the murder of the deputy head of the administration of the city of Podolsk, Vera Sviridova, who was shot dead on the morning of September 19 in her home in the Moscow region, in the village of Svitino. Yesterday, the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) distributed a photograph of the main suspect through the media. As it turned out, the criminal gave himself away.

Greece has been a member of the European Union since 1981. It joined the Schengen Agreement back in 1992, but border controls were abolished only in March 2000. In 2001, the single European currency was officially introduced into circulation in Greece. And almost all these years, that is, since the transition from the drachma to the euro, the Greek government has been balancing between the need to reduce the budget deficit and taking unpopular measures.

Political scientist about Vladimir Putin’s meeting with writers One must be talented in criticizing the authorities, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in response to Mikhail Weller’s question whether it is acceptable for a writer in Russia to have a point of view that does not coincide with the authorities. General Director of the Center for Political Information Alexey Mukhin discussed the topic with Kommersant FM host Roman Karlov.

They ask the State Duma to toughen punishment for false rumors on the Internet Deputies of the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo Region adopted an “Appeal to the Chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov on strengthening responsibility for the dissemination of deliberately false information on the Internet. The reason was information spread online about the death of the head of Kuzbass Aman Tuleyev, which law enforcement agencies are now dealing with.

In Bashkiria, Muslims who seized a mosque were subject to criminal proceedings The FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bashkiria yesterday announced the initiation of a criminal case against a group of young Muslims in Baymak, who seized a local mosque in early September and expelled imam-khatib Khurmatulla Buranbaev. Nine people are suspected of “arbitrariness,” and some of them are also suspected of illegal possession of weapons.

Fishermen left the nuclear submarine without casing The Pacific Fleet (PF) will seek compensation from Rybnoye LLC, the owner of the fishing seiner Donets, which collided with the nuclear submarine cruiser St. George the Victorious off the coast of Kamchatka. Although the submarine remains in service, the rubber lining of the light hull was damaged, according to the fleet headquarters.

1K 3 min. ... The international jury of the Kandinsky Prize named three finalists in each of the three award categories. The intrigue will be resolved on December 14, when, immediately before the award ceremony, the jury will select a winner from these top three. Yuri Albert, Ivan Chuikov and Irina Korina are vying for a prize of €40 thousand in the main nomination “Project of the Year”.

Context 190 1 min. ... The government has refused to introduce an export duty on gas supplied via the Blue Stream gas pipeline, said Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Shatalov. According to him, the ministries will look for “other solutions” on how to increase the tax burden on Gazprom. The gas pipeline is not subject to export duty (30%) according to the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Turkey.

The electoral law is ready to be submitted to the President Yesterday, the presidential administration held a final meeting of the working group on improving election legislation, dedicated to finalizing the bill on elections of people's deputies. The key provisions of the document—on the electoral system and the entry barrier—were not discussed.

The Russian national team goalkeeper won the Lev Yashin “Goalkeeper of the Year” award. The football player came to the ceremony at the Kommersant Publishing House on crutches. Due to the injury, doctors predict that he will not return to the field until the spring of 2012. Akinfeev tried not to discuss questions about the future at all, observers say. Footballer Igor Akinfeev was awarded the Goalkeeper of the Year award named after Lev Yashin.

2K 2 minutes. ... Representatives of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP) of the Russian Federation announced that during the fall 2011 conscription, even fewer recruits will be recruited into the armed forces than in the spring. Then 218 thousand conscripts entered the army, which is 60 thousand less than the army recruitment in the fall of 2010.

The Federation Council will consider a bill on the right of parliamentarians to move to the upper house. The initiative has already caused a lot of criticism. The communists believe that in this way EdRo is trying to employ its personnel. But the author of the document, United Russia member Vladimir Pligin, argues that the law is needed to reduce the distance between senators and the population. The bill on transforming deputies into senators has reached the Federation Council.

12-time world champion in arm wrestling Dzhambul Vibliani, wanted for more than 20 years on suspicion of murder, was detained at Sheremetyevo airport. He was deported from the United States for violating immigration laws. “Vibliani was wanted on suspicion of committing murder in Tbilisi in 1990.