US President Barack Obama won his second presidential election on Tuesday. The voting results caused rejoicing among American Democrats, but disappointed 48% of voters - this is exactly the percentage of ballots cast for Republican Mitt Romney. Thus, in order to become the “president of all Americans,” Mr. Obama will have to seriously take into account the position of the Republicans when choosing the future strategy for the country’s development

The Investigative Committee has charged the former head of the Expert legal support center, Ekaterina Smetanova (pictured on the right), with fraud with allegedly non-core property of the Ministry of Defense, the damage from which amounted to more than 3 billion rubles. Ms. Smetanova has already expressed a desire to conclude a pre-trial cooperation agreement, within the framework of which she is ready to help the investigation expose the organizers of the fraud.

Google said its search engine and other internet services are down in large parts of China while the ruling party chooses new leaders. Data posted on the company's website shows that Google's services became unavailable on November 8. A company spokesman said Google had not identified any problems with its network that would prevent it from being used in China. This raises the possibility that the government has decided to block Google's services at a politically sensitive time.

A Su-24 plane caught fire in the Morozovsky district of the Rostov region on the night of November 10, the pilots managed to escape, a representative of the Southern Regional Center of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry told RIA Novosti . After a Su-24 front-line bomber crashed on Tuesday 67 km southeast of the Shagol airfield in the Chelyabinsk region, flights of aircraft of this type were suspended. “The plane was performing a training flight. It skidded off the runway and caught fire.

Bargaining Next week, Christie's auction house will sell a huge diamond in Geneva, which could become one of the most expensive in the world. This is a 76.02 carat stone from the famous Golconda mines; For more than a century and a half, the diamond belonged to the House of Habsburg.

Sports business London football club Chelsea showed a profit for the first time since the club was owned by Roman Abramovich. The Russian entrepreneur bought Chelsea in 2003 and immediately began pouring serious funds into the team. During the first four years of ownership of the club, Mr Abramovich spent an average of about £700,000 a day on strengthening the team. As a result, Chelsea, which was unprofitable before the transfer of control over it to Roman Abramovich, began to set anti-records.

The primary organization "Sayat Nova 2" of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia unanimously nominated the current head of state and chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan as a candidate for the presidency of the country.

The State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin said on Saturday about his intention to join "United Russia." Mr. Naryshkin remained non -partisan, despite the fact that since May 2012 he was part of the governing bodies of United Russia. “Until today, I was a non -partisan member of the faction, I decided to join the United Russia party,” said Sergey Naryshkin at the Saturday meeting of the party faction.

The head of the Far Eastern Directorate of the Ministry of Regional Development, Oleg Bukalov, is another suspect in the case of theft of funds allocated for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok, RIA Novosti reports. The judge, listing the documents that were presented by the investigation as part of the case, said that the materials contained a protocol of the interrogation of Mr. Bukalov as a suspect.

OJSC "KRK "Uralets"" can become completely owned by the Sverdlovsk region. The general director of the Avtomobilist ice arena, Vyacheslav Potekhin, convenes a meeting of shareholders to resolve the issue of transferring the functions of the sole executive body of the HC Avtomobilist to a special management company. “This is due to the systematic transition of Uralets into the ownership of the region,” Mr. Potekhin briefly explained.

Dossier 679 1 min. ... Vladivostok was announced as the venue for the summit back in January 2007. Initially, the costs of preparing for the summit were estimated at 100 billion rubles. However, in the end, the event cost almost seven times more - 679 billion rubles. The federal budget allocated 219 billion rubles; region and city - a total of 116 billion rubles; another 344 billion rubles are extra-budgetary funds.

According to the research service of the company HeadHunter Southern District, every tenth applicant in the Rostov region, at the first opportunity during an interview, seeks the best conditions for themselves from the employer. Every second person voices their claims if something is fundamentally dissatisfying and goes against expectations, and 37% always agree to the initial offer.

US President Barack Obama made his first speech after being re-elected as president. He announced the need to increase taxes on the rich in order to reduce the budget deficit. The President called for discussion of the possibility of reducing the budget deficit and announced his intention to hold negotiations with Congressional leaders in the near future. Based on materials from RIA Novosti

Tokyo is trying to protect itself from Chinese expansion Japanese authorities called on the United States to review a number of provisions of the bilateral security treaty in force since 1960 and develop an action plan in the event of aggression from China. This statement came after Chinese President Hu Jintao promised to make China a maritime power.

George Sabra has been appointed president of the opposition bloc in the Syrian National Council. This decision was made on November 9 at a meeting of the Syrian opposition in Doha, France Presse reports. The Secretariat of the National Council elected Mr. Sabra as president in order to unite efforts to overthrow the Assad regime. Based on materials from Kommersant.ru