As of 8:54 Moscow time, the price of futures for WTI oil increased by 0.04% and amounted to $74.62 per barrel. The price of Brent oil futures rose by 0.16% to $78.26 per barrel, Reuters reports. Read more about the situation on the oil market in the Kommersant article “Oil may fall to $50 per barrel.”

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation proposes to amend the law on media that would expand the concept of must carry (the right of free distribution on cable and satellite TV) and increase the number of mandatory public TV channels.

Conjuncture The decline in the production of fish and fish products in Russia, under the conditions of a ban on the import of fish from a number of countries, accelerated over the ten months of 2014. As Rosstat reported, during this period 3 million tons of fish and fish products were produced, which is 5.2% less than during the same period in 2013. In January-September the fall was 4.4%.

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As Kommersant has learned, in recent months Amurmetal OJSC has been reducing shipments of products to consumers due to a decrease in export opportunities. In October, the only metallurgical plant in the Far East shipped only 18.8 thousand tons to the Far Eastern Railway. This is almost 64% lower than last year’s corresponding figure.

State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said at a meeting of the Council of Legislators that Western countries do not notice the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in southeastern Ukraine, since they themselves were at its origins. “It’s clear why, because they themselves were at the origins of this tragedy. And it seems that some still hope that suffering will force the residents of south-eastern Ukraine to capitulate,” TASS quotes the speaker as saying. Mr.

About 200 foreign companies are interested in the construction project of the Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway, said Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin. “We did a pre-show. So, in my opinion, we had representatives from almost two hundred foreign companies who showed interest in this project and expressed a desire to take part in one way or another,” said Mr. Yakunin. He added that there is also interest from Western companies, despite the sanctions.

The leaders of the self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics are against the transition to the Geneva format of negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine instead of the Minsk format, said the speaker of the Supreme Council of the DPR Andrei Purgin.

An official suspected of theft is in hospital under the supervision of the FSB The Investigative Committee insists on taking into custody a suspect in the theft of about 41 million rubles. during the construction of an oceanarium in Vladivostok, the head of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Directorate for Construction in the Far Eastern Federal District" of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Poplavsky.

A trilateral meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and coordinator of the “six” international mediators Catherine Ashton began in Vienna. RIA Novosti reported this on November 20. “The trilateral meeting of John Kerry, D. Zarif and Baroness Ashton began at the nuclear negotiations in Vienna,” US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf wrote on her Twitter account.

The Swedish Court of Appeal has decided not to revoke the international arrest warrant against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Mr Assange is accused of committing sexual crimes, AFP reports. Previously, Julian Assange had been hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012, when a British court ordered his extradition to Sweden, where he is suspected of sexual crimes.

The Bashkir subsidiary of Gazprom, OJSC Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, is attracting a loan in the form of an overdraft in the amount of 2 billion rubles, as follows from the company’s announcement on the government procurement website. The company expects to decide on the bank on November 26 based on the results of an open request for proposals. As follows from the procurement documents, the State Tax Service intends to raise a loan for a year and a half at a rate of 12.5% ​​per annum.

By the decision of the Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow, the arrest from two apartments of State Duma deputy Alexei Mitrofanov, located on Slavyansky Boulevard in Moscow and in the village of Sosny in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, was lifted. In addition, the deputy was ordered to appear at the court hearing on December 12 and provide samples of handwriting and signature.

The companies approved a new investment program The Ministry of Energy approved the investment program of the Federal Grid Company (FSK, part of Rosseti) for 2015-2019 in the amount of 563.7 billion rubles. FSK expects to receive a significant portion of the funds (for networks for the BAM and Trans-Siberian Railway, connection of new power plants and Crimea) from external sources - the National Welfare Fund, state programs and from energy companies.

Vladimir Yurovsky and new music at the festival "Another Space" At the festival of contemporary music "Another Space" at the Moscow Philharmonic, Vladimir Yurovsky conducted two days of his own programs with two orchestras - the State Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. YULIA BEDEROVA talks about several Russian and one world premiere of music composed at the special request of the conductor and the festival.