Ukraine offered participants in the Southern Gas Corridor project its gas transportation system and underground storage facilities for gas supplies to Europe from the Caspian Sea, said the country's Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Boyko. Azerbaijan and Turkey signed an intergovernmental agreement on the implementation of the Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project in June this year.

The UK is ready to cooperate with the Syrian National Coalition, an association of the Syrian opposition. British Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC about this.

The Federal Property Management Agency returned DOSAAF buildings to the state The central office of the regional DOSAAF in Perm, privatized by the Federal Property Management Agency in 2008, returned to state ownership. This week, Rosreestr registered with the territorial administration the ownership of a complex of buildings, for which a struggle had previously flared up between DOSAAF in the Perm Territory and the buyer, the capital's Versa LLC.

He asks to check Promsvyazbank for involvement in the raider takeover A Just Russia deputy, Oleg Mikheev, sent parliamentary requests to the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) and the Prosecutor General's Office with a demand to check Promsvyazbank, which, according to Just Russia, is backed by Senator Dmitry Ananyev, for involvement in the “raider takeover” of the deputy’s business .

Russia intends to give an adequate response in connection with the decision of the US House of Representatives, which approved the introduction of sanctions on the so-called Magnitsky list, RIA Novosti reports. The House of Representatives passed on Friday a bill to impose visa sanctions against Russians who, according to the United States, were involved in the death in jail of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and at the same time repeal the restrictive Jackson-Vanik trade amendment.

Egypt's Transport Minister Mohamed Rishad al-Matheni resigned following an accident in Assiut province, where 47 people were killed when a train collided with a school bus. The head of the Egyptian Railway Organization followed his example. The official took responsibility for the tragedy. Police are conducting an investigation to determine the circumstances of the car accident, which killed dozens of children, most of whom were under six years old.

A Tyumen resident accused of stealing money from Konstantin Strukov was detained in Odessa In Odessa, Tyumen businessman Alexey Mikhailovsky was detained, accused of stealing more than 127 million rubles from Konstantin Strukov, a deputy of the Chelyabinsk Legislative Assembly and owner of the Yuzhuralzoloto group.

The Israeli government has given the army the right to call up up to 75 thousand reservists for the needs of the operation against Palestinian militants, which threatens to develop into a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, RIA Novosti reports. The decision to expand the mobilization quota, previously approved at 30 thousand people, was made at the request of Defense Minister Ehud Barak by telephone survey of cabinet members.

The Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gazprom and the government of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug are planning to create the tenth territorial branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Yamal - a scientific center for the study of the Arctic. The press service of the governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reports that the scientific center will consist of four divisions, in accordance with the areas of research.

Egypt's Transport Minister Mohammed Rishad al-Matini resigned in connection with the accident in Assiut province, where, according to the latest data, 47 people were killed and 13 more were injured as a result of a collision between a train and a school bus. The head of the Egyptian Railway Organization also resigned from his post. The police are conducting an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident.

One of the most influential newspapers in Germany, Frankfurter Rundschau, has declared bankruptcy. The owners talk about constant high losses. According to experts, industry problems are only one of the reasons for the decline of the publication. The newspaper could not withstand the extremely expensive “twine”, trying to be an all-German and local publication at the same time, trying to write both about big politics and about petty bicycle thefts.

French "Octopus" at the Theater. Mossovet Festival dance The 14th New European Theater (NET) festival opened in Moscow with the dance performance "Octopus" by the Frenchman Philippe Decouflé and his company. According to TATYANA KUZNETSOVA, the discovery turned out to be life-affirming. Philippe Decoufle is a clown by first training.

The Syrian national coalition, formed from forces opposing Bashar al-Assad, will have diplomatic representation and its own ambassador in France. This was stated by French President Francois Hollande after a meeting with coalition leader Ahmed Muaz al-Khatib. According to the Associated Press, teacher Munzir Mahous became the ambassador from the Syrian coalition.

The Finnish concern YIT announced the start of construction of three more new houses in the Sovremennik residential complex in Kazan. According to company representatives, their construction will be completed in 2015. To date, the amount of investment in the project is about 40 million euros, and before the end of construction it is planned to invest another 85 million euros. The first house was put into operation in 2009, and construction of the second is nearing completion.

The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation has left another person from the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Samara Region On Friday, November 16, a decree was published on the website of the President of the Russian Federation on the dismissal of Galina Babkina, head of the financial and economic department of the Federal Penitentiary Service.