Lawyers spoke in the debate on the case of the foundation activist In the Berezovsky City Court, the debate between the parties in the criminal case of Igor Shabalin, who was responsible for rehabilitation at the women's center of the City Without Drugs Foundation, ended. According to investigators, the defendant unlawfully deprived nine patients of their liberty, one of whom died. Today, the defendant's lawyers spoke and insisted on his full acquittal.

Kazakhs take control of another 50% of the Ukrainian subsidiary Kazakh BTA Bank has begun to establish control over its Ukrainian subsidiary. As part of the execution of the decision of the High Court of London, almost 50% of the shares of the Ukrainian BTA Bank will be seized from six companies previously owned by the former owner of the Kazakh bank Mukhtar Ablyazov, and transferred to the Kazakh BTA Bank.

Ural Airlines will begin operating regular flights from Ufa to Baku from the end of the year, the airline’s press service reported. The first flight on an Airbus A320 aircraft to the capital of Azerbaijan will take place on December 25. The cost of a one-way ticket will be from 6.5 thousand rubles. Flights will operate weekly on Wednesdays. Today, Taimyr Airlines operates flights to Baku on Tuesdays. Ural Airlines is one of the largest air carriers in Russia.

IES-Holding proposed to the Perm mayor's office to merge network assets IES-Holding may gain control of another utility sector in Perm: the company has proposed to the administration to merge heating network assets. Now the city leases about 100 km of heating networks to private companies, and also manages their maintenance through the MUZHREP Motorostroitel.

Technologies Russian IT companies Parallels and Axiomatika offer banks software and infrastructure to provide small and medium-sized businesses with services such as accounting, legal advice, tax reporting, etc. via the Internet.

Anonymous Internet currency is increasingly easier to exchange for regular money, but its future is threatened on many fronts The Internet has become a fertile environment for the emergence of various alternative means of payment. The most popular payments on the Internet are, of course, payments from regular credit cards, but “Internet money” is also notably popular, among the largest operators of which are PayPal or Yandex.

Rosaviatsia adjusts the rules of the game for carriers in the Volga Federal District Rosaviatsia is introducing a mechanism for assessing the performance of airlines participating in the program for subsidizing interregional transportation in the Volga Federal District. It is assumed that the new coefficient, which allows us to estimate the fullness of a flight, will force airlines to more actively “roll out” routes.

The representative office of the international anti-corruption non-governmental organization Transparency International in Ukraine notes that Russian companies doing business in Ukraine have a low degree of disclosure of information about financial transactions to government agencies, the press service of Transparency International said in a statement.

The Silk Road website, which was closed by the FBI and specialized in the sale of prohibited substances, resumed its work on November 6 under a different URL and with a new name Silk Road 2.0. In just a few hours of operation of the illegal online store, almost 500 products were put up for sale, including drugs from marijuana to cocaine and ecstasy.

Today a march took place on Red Square in honor of the legendary 1941 parade. About 8 thousand people came to the walls of the Kremlin, including veterans who took part in the parade 72 years ago. Similar marches were held in the USSR every year. How Moscow greeted the parade then and now - in the Kommersant photo gallery.

Rashid Rakhimov became the head coach of the Grozny football club “Terek”, taking over the post of Yuri Krasnozhan. “Today Rashid Mamatkulovich started working at Terek. All organizational issues were resolved by us during negotiations. Rakhimov is a well-known specialist with a reputation as an ambitious, demanding coach. We hope he can turn things around and lift the team up from the bottom of the table.

One of the main issues at the negotiations between the “six” (Russia, USA, China, France, Great Britain, Germany) international mediators and Iran is the lifting of sanctions against Tehran previously imposed in connection with the nuclear issue, a source familiar with the situation said. “The talk was about forming a package of mutual concessions, so that later a deal would take place leading to Iran’s withdrawal from the current isolation,” RIA Novosti quotes an informed source.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the lower house of parliament for ratification an agreement with Kazakhstan on the creation of a unified regional air defense system for the two countries. Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov has been appointed as a representative when considering the bill in parliament, Interfax reports. The agreement on the creation of a unified regional air defense system was signed by the defense ministers of the two countries on January 30, 2013.

State Duma deputy on loans to political parties The government proposes to limit the maximum loan amount for political parties to five times the annual donation. The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, Alexander Ageev, and the director of the Institute of Political Sociology, Vyacheslav Smirnov, commented on the situation to host Andrei Norkin.

The Olympic flame went into space The Olympic relay reached the ISS. The fire was delivered to the ISS. However, for safety reasons, the torch will not burn. All the details of the upcoming action were tested and rehearsed in advance, radio news interlocutors say. Photo: Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant The Olympic torch was launched into space for the first time. The Soyuz launch vehicle delivered the symbol of the Olympics to the International Space Station.