The government intends to fight for the interests of the country without outside help Yesterday, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov pointed out that the opposition is unwilling to cooperate with the authorities and give in to “morbid ambitions” for the sake of state interests. This is how he responded to the threat of opposition parties to reset the electoral lists and resign parliamentary mandates in protest against the falsification of the parliamentary election results. According to Mr.

The number of victims of the shooting on November 7 in the north-east of Moscow has reached six people: this morning one of the wounded died in the intensive care unit of the Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Care. The man was admitted to the hospital in serious condition. Doctors operated on him for more than 7 hours, but in the end they were unable to save him. A mass murder was committed yesterday in Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, by decree, dismissed Bashkiri Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Ruslan Sharafutdinov from his post, according to the official Kremlin website. At the ministry, he oversaw personnel and information policy.

About 250 people are rallying against fraud in the Verkhovna Rada elections near the building of the Central Election Commission. They hold the flags of the UDAR, Svoboda and Batkivshchyna parties. There are police detachments and special forces "Berkut" around the protesters. The protesters are chanting: “Get out of Vlad!”, “Ganba!”. From the police car, a loudspeaker is heard saying that the rally is illegal. Law enforcement officers are urging people to disperse.

Christie's auction set a new record for the value of Kandinsky's works. The painting “Sketch for Improvisation No. 8” was sold for $23 million. For more details, see Kommersant FM art columnist Dmitry Butkevich. The auction should be considered very successful. Christie's received total sales of $205 million, which is quite a large sum. This is by far the largest amount received in a single auction this auction season. There were some very impressive results.

Alcoholic drinks are about to go up in price again Strong alcoholic drinks will become more expensive in Ukraine. Yesterday, the Cabinet of Ministers supported the initiative of the Ministry of Finance, which proposed to ban the sale of vodka at retail below 28.5 UAH per 0.5 liter bottle. Ukrainians expect another price increase in the spring of next year - from March 1, the cost of vodka will increase to 30.1 UAH.

In Volgograd, a convict escaped from a colony Police officers and the federal penitentiary service are looking for convict Viktor Shusharin, who yesterday escaped from a penal colony in Volgograd, the regional Federal Penitentiary Service reported. “Shusharin escaped at about 7.00 Moscow time from the site of the colony-settlement PKU IK-9. He can travel by car towards the city of Volzhsky or head to the Rostov region in the city of Azov or Volgodonsk,” the message says.

But they don’t yet consider it an effective way to solve problems 1K 1 min. ... The number of citizens who would like to participate in political activities is growing, Levada Center has found out. This means that “those who fell asleep by the end of the 2000s began to wake up,” sociologists say. True, citizens who are interested in participating in politics are still a minority, and Russians consider public initiatives and protests to be the most ineffective ways to solve their own problems.

Sergei Shoigu yesterday spent his first day as head of the Ministry of Defense. On Tuesday, Vladimir Putin fired Anatoly Serdyukov and appointed the former head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in his place. Journalist Stanislav Kucher is confident that Sergei Shoigu’s next career leap is caused by reasons that have nothing to do with the need to urgently appoint a new defense minister.

The Greek unicameral parliament adopted overnight the medium-term budget program for 2013-2016, which provides for a reduction in spending by 13.5 billion euros in exchange for another 31.5 billion tranche of loans from the EU and the IMF. The law was adopted against the backdrop of a hundred thousand peaceful protest and accompanying riots that took place on Wednesday evening in front of the country's parliament building.

United Russia member Andrei Vorobyov will remain as governor of the Moscow region, according to experts, even after the elections in 2013. On Thursday, Vladimir Putin invited the head of the Duma faction to become the acting head of the region. Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin commented on the situation to presenter Roman Karlov. — Why did the president propose Andrei Vorobyov for this post? — It’s hard to say why, why.

A consortium of Bashneft (70%) and Premier Oil (30%) signed a contract in Baghdad for exploration, development and production (EDPSC) on Block 12 with the South Oil Company, representing the interests of Iraq, reported "Bashneft". According to the contract, within a month from the moment of its signing, the consortium will pay the Iraqi side a bonus in the amount of $15 million in proportion to the participation shares: $10.5 million - Bashneft, $4.5 million - Premier Oil.

It has become known that in 2013, American singer Lana Del Rey will perform in Russia for the first time, whose sensational rise in popularity, thanks to Internet videos in the style of the Instagram application, stimulated platinum sales of the album “Born To Die”. Lana Del Rey presented the public with an unusual image, as sexy, as coldly distant, as modern, as summing up the features of Hollywood divas and pop goddesses of the last century.

Real Madrid snatched a draw at home against Borussia Champions League The first participants in the Champions League play-offs have been determined. In addition to Malaga, which secured its exit from the group in which Zenit plays, Porto also received a ticket to the 1/8 finals, having achieved a completely satisfying goalless draw away from Dynamo Kyiv.

On Wednesday, November 7, Wassily Kandinsky’s “Sketch for Improvisation No. 8” was sold at Christie’s in New York for a record $23 million for this artist’s work. The record could have been expected: even before the auction, the painting “Sketch for Improvisation No. 8” was supposed to be sold for $20–30 million, while the most expensive painting so far was “Fugue,” sold in 1990 for $20.9 million. “Sketch for Improvisations No.