The Latvian company Rigas Kugu Buvetava won the tender for the purchase of a jack-up floating drilling rig (jack-up drilling rig) for the state joint-stock company Chernomorneftegaz for UAH 3.187 billion. With the help of a new jack-up rig, GAO Chernomorneftegaz plans to begin prospecting and exploration drilling in the Riftovaya-Osetrova structure (northwestern part of the Black Sea shelf) in 2013.

Construction and installation work at the regional perinatal center has been completed, the press service of the governor of the Perm Territory reported. The interior decoration of the premises has been completed, the facility is connected to all utilities (heat, water supply, sewerage, electricity), landscaping has been completed, and medical equipment has been purchased and delivered.

South Korean corporation Samsung Electronics has filed a new lawsuit against Apple Inc. In it, the company demands a ban on sales of the iPhone 4S smartphone and the iPad 2 tablet computer in Japan and Australia. Samsung claims that Apple violated the company's patent rights when developing the iPhone 4S and iPad, reports Bloomberg. Previously, the South Korean company had already filed similar lawsuits to ban sales of Apple smartphones in Italy and France.

The anniversary of the UPA was celebrated without incident On Friday in Kyiv, representatives of nationalist organizations celebrated the 69th anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). Political opponents of the nationalists - members of the Communist Party and the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine - also took to the streets. However, contrary to the fears of the police, the day passed without serious incidents.

China increased sales of coal engineering products Ukrainian manufacturers of mining equipment are under pressure from Chinese importers. According to the Ministry of Industrial Policy, since the beginning of the year, China has increased imports of this equipment by 27 times, and next year it may increase it threefold. Market participants accuse Chinese suppliers of dumping.

The Barashka restaurant presented its autumn menu. It contains both unusual dishes for southern cuisine, for example, chestnut cream soup, and traditional ones - lamb pulp with sorrel and spinach, says Daria Tsivina. But it’s strange that the menu didn’t include pilaf with lamb and fruit, the reviewer regrets.

Nine people died in a fire in a residential building in the village of Nizhnyaya Poima in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, said Alexander Yakimov, a representative of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to him, at 00:51 local time (20:51 Moscow time) a message was received from an eyewitness that a residential building in the village at 24 Naberezhnaya Street was on fire. It is known that a family of two adults and five children lived in the house .

85 years ago, in 1926, the regional congress of councils of North Ossetia recognized the need for a merger with South Ossetia. The delegates knew that Stalin had agreed to this a year earlier. Vlast columnist Yevgeny Zhirnov found out why a unified republic did not emerge.

Nevskaya Concession Company, affiliated with United Russia deputy Vitaly Yuzhilin, will receive a shortfall of 3.5 billion rubles Today, the Budget and Finance Committee of the Legislative Assembly will consider the governor’s amendment to the second reading of the draft budget for the upcoming three-year period.

Today, at an extraordinary session, deputies of the Nezhukhiv village council canceled the decision to rename the central street of the village of Railiv (part of this village council) from Mira Street to Voinov Street of the Nachtigal Battalion. Let us remind you that the decision to rename this street was made on October 10 at the proposal of the deputy of the Stryisky district council from the VO "Svoboda" Maryan Berezdetsky.

At the meeting of the Pechersky District Court in the case of ex-Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko, the interrogation as a witness of the former First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Mikhail Klyuev was completed. During the interrogation, Mikhail Klyuev stated that Yuriy Lutsenko personally handed over to him documents to enroll his driver Leonid Pristuplyuk as a civil servant with work experience in the internal affairs bodies.

Canadian activists of the Occupy Wall Street movement are holding actions under the slogan “Occupy all of Canada.” Demonstrations spread across several cities. Kommersant FM correspondent in Canada Dmitry Saltykovsky told Alexey Korneev the details. — Dmitry, hello! - Hello! Yes, in Canada, like in many other cities in the world, there are also protests, which are called “Let’s Occupy All of Canada!” In about 15 cities, people took to the streets: Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto.

On October 17, in Bronnitsy near Moscow, a domestic gas explosion occurred in a five-story residential building. Three floors were engulfed in fire. “At approximately 16.00, in a five-story residential building at 42 Moskvoretskaya Street, according to preliminary data, a household gas explosion occurred, after which a fire started,” a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti . According to him, the third, fourth and fifth floors are now engulfed in flames.

The number of Russians owning villas and apartments on the Côte d'Azur in France increased 40 times from 2003 to 2011 - from 50 to 2 thousand, said Sandrine Carsalad, a representative of the regional committee for tourism and congresses of the Côte d'Azur. “Among Russians who visited the Cote d'Azur in 2010, 9% were property owners, 23% came to visit friends and relatives, 52% stayed in hotels and 5% in apartments,” she said. Ms.

Dmitry Medvedev will not discuss the persecution of Yulia Tymoshenko during negotiations with Viktor Yanukovych, which will take place on Tuesday. On Monday, the Ukrainian Security Service is due to interrogate the former prime minister in a new case against her. The head of the politics department of the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper, Alexander Sviridenko, discussed the topic with Anna Kazakova. — Will Tymoshenko’s interrogation take place today? And if so, what time? - Not yet known.