economy At the beginning of December, the iTunes Store service finally began operating in Russia. The largest online music store, which, according to NPD Group, accounts for 29% of all music sales in the world, entered the Russian market immediately after most other players left it during the year.

Over the 11 months of this year, Vladivostok Air operated 9,647 flights, carrying 1.8 million passengers, including 828 thousand people on domestic Russian routes and 252 thousand people on international routes, the carrier reports. By comparison, over the 11 months of 2011, 1.137 million passengers were transported. Transportation of cargo and mail from January to November 2012 amounted to 6975 tons and 1088 tons, respectively.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Volga-Vyatka District considered legal the decision of the Nizhny Novgorod department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, which challenged the imposition of food services on the Burevestnik branded train. In 2010, Nizhny Novgorod residents contacted the antimonopoly service because when purchasing tickets for luxury cars of the Burevestnik train (Nizhny Novgorod - Moscow service), an additional 170 rubles were included in the fare.

President Viktor Yanukovych intends to decide on a candidate for prime minister by the beginning of next week (December 10), the press service of the head of state said in a statement. “By the end of this week, I will most likely decide on a candidate for prime minister,” Mr. Yanukovych said during a meeting with the newly appointed ambassadors of 10 countries.

He was 104 years old The classic of world architecture, Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer, died in Rio de Janeiro on December 5. Over 70 years of work, the master designed more than 400 buildings in 18 countries, including taking part in the construction of the city of Brasilia. The cause of death of the great architect was a respiratory tract infection, due to which he was hospitalized several days ago. Oscar Niemeyer has been ill a lot lately, but has remained creatively active.

Yesterday signed an agreement to restructure a syndicated pre-export loan in the amount of $1 billion, the company announced yesterday. Signatories include ING Bank, Societe Generale, UniCredit, BNP Paribas SA, ABN AMRO Bank, Commerzbank, Raiffeisen Bank, VTB and others. Borrowers of the loan are the main companies of the holding's mining division: Yakutugol and Southern Kuzbass.

regulations 213 1 min. ... At today's meeting of OSCE foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov will be the fourth speaker out of 67, which is considered very prestigious. And, according to Kommersant, he was supposed to compete only 24th - after Lithuania, Albania, Georgia and Ukraine. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received 13th place by lot. The Russian minister managed to get ahead of her thanks to a multi-stage exchange with Belarus (he was 18th) and Germany (he was fourth).

The GDP of the 17 eurozone countries decreased by 0.1% in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, when a decrease of 0.2% was recorded, according to revised data from the Statistics Office of the European Union. Thus, the European economy contracted for the second quarter in a row, ending up in recession for the second time in the last 4 years. On an annualized basis, the decline in GDP in the third quarter was 0.6%.

Vladimir Putin let Angela Merkel go ahead. The Russian president lost one position in the Forbes list of the most influential people and took third place. The situation of presenter Ksenia Turkova was commented on by the General Director of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications Dmitry Orlov and political scientist Ilya Konstantinov. The German Chancellor, who occupied fourth position last year, moved up two places, displacing Vladimir Putin. K.T.: Mr.

The Moscow Construction Department may receive 122.7 billion rubles in 2013 under the targeted investment program. for the implementation of the program for the reconstruction of the road network and the construction of new roads and road facilities, which is 1.63 times more than the amount of funds allocated for the same purposes in 2012, according to a press release from the department.

The Federal Arbitration Court of the North Caucasus District considered the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia for the Rostov Region to recognize the Rostov branch of Rosgosstrakh LLC as having violated the Federal Law “On the Protection of Competition” and to pay an administrative fine in the amount of 562.5 thousand rubles, the press service of the department reported. .

Director of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of OJSC VimpelCom (Beeline brand), Philipp Sapronov, has been appointed to the position of director of mass market sales in the Volga regional department of the company. The company's press service reports this. VimpelCom explained that for now Philip Sapronov will combine two positions. Mr. Sapronov began his career at VimpelCom in 2005 as a manager for working with corporate clients in the Saratov branch of the company.

In the Poltava region, Hyundai electric train No. 164 running between Kyiv and Kharkov broke down and stood on the stretch for 3 hours and 5 minutes. As reported by the territorial department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Poltava region, a forced stop of the train due to a breakdown of the pantograph occurred on December 5 at 20.27 at 251 km of the Gogolevo-Matyashevka section of the Southern Railway.

The party will challenge differentiated fines for traffic violations in the Constitutional Court The LDPR faction calls on the State Duma to challenge in the Constitutional Court the amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses approved in the last convocation, which were adopted at the proposal of President Dmitry Medvedev and establish different penalties for violating traffic rules (traffic rules) for Moscow and St. Petersburg and other regions.

Forbes magazine placed Russian President Vladimir Putin in third place in its annual ranking of the most powerful people on the planet. US President Barack Obama tops the list for the second year in a row, followed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This year, Vladimir Putin moved from second place in the list of the most influential people on the planet to third.