Edouard Manet's painting "Spring" was sold on November 5 at Christie's in the United States for $65.1 million, which was almost twice the previous auction price record for the work of this French artist, which was $33.2 million. Portrait of the young Parisian actress Jeanne Demarcy, as and, as predicted by the auction organizers, became the main lot of the auction dedicated to the art of impressionism and modernism. Initially, the painting was valued by Christie's experts at $35 million.

Two companies from Heilongjiang Province will supply 12 thousand tons of frozen pork to meat processing plants of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), said Zhang Chunjiao, Chairman of the Association of Applied Economics of Heilongjiang Province, citing official information. “The contracts were concluded following the visit of the Yakut delegation to the city of Hegang with the Shangpinhe meat company and the Alinda cattle and poultry company.

Surveillance has been introduced at KARZ-1 The Arbitration Court of the Kemerovo Region recognized as justified the application of the First Kemerovo Automobile Repair Plant OJSC (KARZ-1) to declare it bankrupt and introduced a monitoring procedure at the enterprise. The plant’s problems are caused by the fact that orders from coal miners, the main customers for the repair of mining dump trucks, stopped coming in.

The Chelyabinsk OFAS will check the validity of increasing wholesale prices for buckwheat and rice in the region. According to the department's press service, by November 15, major suppliers must provide justification for changes in selling prices for products: Soyuzpischeprom LLC, KHP im. Grigorovich", OJSC "Makfa" and the bakery plant "Zlak".

The State Duma is proposed to push tobacco and alcohol deeper into retail outlets A bill has been introduced to the State Duma to tighten the rules for the retail sale of tobacco and alcohol. In stores with an area of ​​more than 50 sq. It is proposed to remove cigarettes and booze from cash registers, moving these products five meters away from the cashiers. Experts do not see “common sense” in the initiative, saying that current anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol bans are already effective.

NPK Uralvagonzavod for the first time took part in the exhibition of military equipment in Indonesia, which started on November 5. The products of several enterprises of the corporation are presented at INDO DEFENCE 2014. In particular, UVZ (Nizhny Tagil), Omsktransmash, ChTZ-Uraltrak (Chelyabinsk) and Central Research Institute "Burevestnik" (Nizhny Novgorod).

The regulator is ready for state support with an eye on inflation Following the meeting of the European Central Bank, its head, Mario Draghi, announced the regulator’s readiness to resort to additional tools to combat inflation. The euro exchange rate reacted sharply to the regulator's statements, falling to a two-year low against the US dollar - $1.2396/€. In Russia, the euro lost 48 kopecks, falling to 57.26 rubles/€.

In the Mgadan region, investigators are conducting a pre-investigation check on a report of mass unrest in a colony-settlement, which is located in the Khasynsky district of the region. According to the investigation, information about the riots was received on the night of November 6.

The dollar exchange rate today at trading on the Moscow Exchange again reached its historical maximum. Thus, with “tomorrow” calculations at 10:17 Moscow time the dollar exchange rate reached 45.36 rubles. The euro exchange rate also updated its historical maximum, reaching 56.77 rubles, as follows from exchange data .

Two trains collided in Shalinsky district Yesterday morning at the Sabik station (74 km from Pervouralsk) of the Sverdlovsk Railway (SvZhD), a collision occurred between passenger train No. 99 “Vladivostok - Moscow” and a freight locomotive. As a result of the emergency, according to the press service of Sverdlovsk Railways, no one was injured, but traffic on the Sabik-Sarga railway section was paralyzed for almost the entire day.

On November 8, the Moscow Metro will close the Prospekt Vernadskogo and Yugo-Zapadnaya stations of the Sokolnicheskaya line, as well as a section of the Zamoskvoretskaya metro line from the Novokuznetskaya station to the Belorusskaya station. Stations on the Sokolnicheskaya line will be closed due to work to connect the equipment of the new Troparevo station. The closure of stations on the Zamoskvoretskaya metro line is necessary to complete the repair of the track infrastructure.

Background On February 8, 2000, the newspaper St. Petersburg Vedomosti published a statement by the initiative group of St. Petersburg University to nominate Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate, criticizing the program “Dolls” aired on the NTV channel.

Asmik Novikova on the air of "Kommersnat FM" Russians began to trust the police more, experts from the Levada Center and the Public Verdict Foundation came to this conclusion. About 6% are now satisfied with the work of the police. In 2010, there were 1.5% fewer people satisfied with the work of the police. It was then that the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began.

The Supreme Court of Altai refused to appeal his rival's election to the head The only claim to appeal the results of the gubernatorial elections based on the results of a single voting day on September 14 was rejected. The Supreme Court of the Altai Republic refused to satisfy the complaint of the candidate for the head of the region, the ex-head of the government of the subject Vladimir Petrov, who demanded to cancel the voting results.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that the conditions for transferring the first Mistral-class helicopter carrier to Russia have not yet been achieved. He made a corresponding statement at a press conference in Belgrade. “You know France's position. As of today, the conditions for transferring the vessel to Russia have not been achieved,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. Valls as saying.