Kyiv refused to hold a new meeting of the contact group on the situation in the Donbass Advisor to the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Markiyan Lubkivsky, said that Kyiv was opposed to a repeated meeting of the trilateral contact group on the situation in the east of Ukraine.

Coal enterprises of the Kemerovo region can immediately arrange coal supplies to Ukraine if the corresponding order is received from the country's leadership, the press service of the regional administration reported yesterday, citing Governor Aman Tuleyev. “The Russian leadership has received no official appeals from the Ukrainian authorities on this issue.

The US will fight both the Islamic State and Bashar al-Assad US President Barack Obama is reviewing his Syria policy due to the need to intensify the fight against the Islamic State. CNN reported this with reference to sources in the White House. According to her, the presidential administration intends to solve the dual task of fighting the Islamic State and changing the regime in Damascus.

The confrontation between the Olympic champions in dancing and their new partners is the highlight of the program of the fourth stage of the Grand Prix of Figure Skating at Luzhniki.

The Ural charitable foundation, whose main donor is Ural-invest LLC, to which AFK Sistema transferred money for the purchase of enterprises of the Bashkir fuel and energy complex, does not rule out defending its interests in court if Sistema demands the return of these funds from " Ural-invest". Representative of the Ural Fund Andrei Ignatenko told Kommersant that the fund’s final position on this issue will be formulated after the fund’s management gets acquainted with Sistema’s claim.

The online bank, at the request of the Bank of Russia, was declared bankrupt by decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court. On October 20, bankruptcy proceedings were opened against the bank and a temporary manager was approved - the Deposit Insurance Agency, which, by court decision, provided a report on the work done on October 19.

A pusher motor ship ran aground on the Volga in Tatarstan, the vessel does not interfere with navigation, the Volga Transport Prosecutor's Office reported on Friday. The pusher motor ship "OTA-873", owned by the Perm LLC "Shipping Company "KamaRechTran-Plus", ran aground on the afternoon of November 13 at 1315 km of the river near the village of Pobedilovo. “There are 10 crew members on board. The reasons for the incident are being established.

While IS strengthens its position in Syria and Iraq 3K 2 minutes. ... Britons fighting in Syria and Iraq for the Islamic State (IS) group will not be able to return to the UK for at least two years. This measure is provided for in the anti-terrorism bill, which was presented by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Japan is also concerned about counteracting Islamists: the upper house of the country's parliament has tightened punishment for their support.

Medicines will save Ilya Pisarev The boy is nine years old. He has severe acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which does not respond to chemotherapy at all. Yesterday, November 13, at the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantology named after. R. M. Gorbacheva Ilya received a haploidentical bone marrow transplant from his father. Now we need to survive.

There are objective reasons that prevent a novice driver from feeling like a full participant in the movement. Lack of experience, uncertainty, extreme weather conditions - these factors neutralize the already low driving skills. And if you manage to cope with the first two over time, then bad weather takes you by surprise, regardless of your experience. What can a driver do against heavy rain, fog and ice? And how do these skills affect road safety?

On Thursday, law enforcement agencies detained the former Minister of Agriculture of the Astrakhan Region, Ivan Nesterenko, sources in law enforcement agencies told Kommersant. The press attache of the regional department of the Investigative Committee confirmed the existence of a criminal case against Ivan Nesterenko. Sources in law enforcement agencies clarified that Ivan Nesterenko was detained by Astrakhan operatives on Thursday under Art.

Private bussiness Born on April 20, 1956 in Tbilisi. Graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Tbilisi State University (1977), and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Biology at Moscow State University (1980). Since 1981 he worked at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1985 to 1990, he headed the laboratory of molecular genetics at the Institute of Biotechnology of the Ministry of Medical Industry.

Taxpayers of the Volgograd region received 81 billion rubles In the Volgograd region, revenues in the amount of 81 billion rubles have been mobilized from taxpayers in the region, including the largest organizations of federal significance. This information was announced at an extended meeting of the board of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the Volgograd Region, at which the results of the work of the region’s tax authorities for the nine months of 2014 were summed up.

JD Power has compiled a rating of customer service quality when buying a car The consulting company JDPower has published an annual index of consumer satisfaction from purchasing cars in the United States - Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI). According to the study, Mercedes-Benz buyers in the premium segment and Mini buyers in the mass market remain the most satisfied with the services of dealerships when purchasing.

Sergey Naryshkin and Anne Brasseur discussed prospects for cooperation Most of the members of the PACE presidential committee (which includes leaders of factions and committees of the parliamentary assembly) consider it advisable that the issue of depriving the Russian delegation of the right to vote in the new year, 2015, should not be raised.