The Kalininsky court of St. Petersburg on Tuesday decided to release on bail another person involved in the Arctic Sunrise case, Greenpeace activist from France Francesco Pisanya. The Greenpeace organization reported this on its Twitter microblog. Read about the change in the preventive measure for three people detained during the action at the Prirazlomnaya platform in the Pechora Sea in the Kommersant article “The Arctic Sunrise case has reached bail.”

Today, deputies of the Perm City Duma reviewed the report on budget execution for 9 months of this year. According to Deputy Head of Administration Viktor Ageev, budget expenditures amounted to 16.5 billion rubles, which is 102.3% of the planned indicators, expenses - 17.2 billion rubles. The deficit is about 700 million rubles. covered with remnants of previous years.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine will not yet consider laws that would allow the imprisoned ex-prime minister to receive treatment abroad, RIA Novosti reports, citing Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Rybak. Previously, a working group was created in parliament, which is working on developing a law on the treatment of convicts abroad that is acceptable to the authorities and the opposition, since the previously proposed versions of the laws did not suit the deputies.

The transition to advance payments for housing and communal services and residential premises may not be as tough as expected. Chairman of the consumer rights protection society "Public Control" Mikhail Anshakov answered questions from presenters Daria Polygaeva and Alexey Korneev.

Astrakhan's budget deficit for 2014 is projected at 6.9% The draft budget of Astrakhan for 2014 and the planning period for 2015 and 2016 was discussed at a meeting of the City Duma, which took place last week. The head of the financial and treasury department, Galina Borodina, in her report spoke about the components of the draft city budget, emphasizing that the main task is to approve the main parameters of the main financial document of Astrakhan for the next year.

The Verkhovna Rada intends to consider bills on the prosecutor's office, on improving electoral legislation and on the treatment of those convicted abroad at a plenary session on November 21. “The faction leaders and I agreed that on Thursday the first items on the agenda will be the consideration of European integration bills,” said Parliament Chairman Vladimir Rybak.

Matches of the 17th round of the Russian football championship will begin with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the plane crash in Kazan. This was reported on the official website of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). “All matches of the 17th round in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Kazan will begin with a minute of silence. We express our deepest condolences to the family and friends,” the RFPL said in a statement . Eight matches will take place November 22-25.

Relations between Ukraine and the CU will change regardless of the signing of an agreement with the European Union Preparations for concluding an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union worsened the already difficult trade and economic relations between Kyiv and Moscow. The customs union threatens Ukraine with sanctions, and even if its European integration slows down, relations between Ukraine and Russia will not be fully restored.

Ukraine exported 118.24 thousand tons of poultry meat and offal in January-October 2013, which is 2 times more than in the same period in 2012, reports the Ministry of Revenue and Duties. According to him, in monetary terms, exports of these products increased by 82.6%, to $192.48 million. At the same time, imports of poultry meat and offal during this period decreased by 37.4%, to 60.85 thousand tons, and in monetary terms - by 38.6%, to $82.7 million.

Bashkiria entered the Top 10 in terms of the market volume of new passenger cars for nine months of 2013, reports the analytical agency Autostat. The Republic took sixth place in the ranking of regions with a result of 71 thousand cars, which is 4.1% more than last year’s figure (68.2 thousand). The leading positions are traditionally held by Moscow and the Moscow region, where a total of 431.8 thousand new cars were sold.

The Industrial District Court of Stavropol issued a verdict in a criminal case against the former deputy head of the 4th department of the investigative service of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia for the Stavropol Territory, Alexey Shlyakhov, and the senior investigator for especially important cases of the same department, Oleg Stadnik, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reported. The defendants were found guilty of committing a crime under Part 3 of Art.

But CNPC is in no hurry to spend the not-cheap advance Rosneft will pay for the advance payment received from CNPC for oil supplies to China at a rate of 2.645% per annum. It is lower than the average cost of borrowing for Rosneft, but CNPC funds will cost Rosneft more than those raised from a syndicate of international banks for the acquisition of TNK-BP. Meanwhile, Chinese money was supposed to be used to refinance these loans, which Rosneft has not yet begun to choose.

The parliamentary working group, which is preparing a bill concerning the treatment of ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, has announced a break until tomorrow, November 20. According to preliminary information, the group will continue working tomorrow at 14.00. Based on materials from RBC-Ukraine

Acting Egyptian President Adly Mansour does not intend to stand as a candidate in the 2014 presidential elections. Mr. Mansour plans to return to work at the Constitutional Court of Egypt, Interfax reports, citing the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa.

Finnish telecommunications manufacturer Nokia today announced that the company's shareholders have approved a deal with Microsoft, under which Nokia will sell its mobile phone business to Microsoft for €5.44 billion and also license a number of Nokia patents related to mobile devices. According to Nokia, the deal was approved by 99.7% of the company's voting shareholders, which was more than enough to approve the agreement.