The cost of Brent and Urals updated the five -year minimum On December 1, the cost of European oil varieties Brent and Urals updated the five -year minimum, decreasing below the level of $ 67 per barrel. The fall of the quotes occurs in connection with the decision of the OPEC not to change quotas for oil production, as well as due to a decrease in business activity in the largest consumers of raw materials-Eurozone and China.

On Friday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the privatization of federally owned shares of four joint-stock companies - Foreign Trade Company GPZ, Mosenergoremont, Russian Lotteries, Experimental Printing House. Economist Sergei Aleksashenko believes that, in fact, the country is undergoing creeping nationalization, and that for sustainable growth of the Russian economy, the government will sooner or later have to engage in real privatization.

Pope Francis expressed a desire to meet with Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'. Aboard a plane from Turkey, where the head of the Roman Catholic Church was on a two-day visit, Francis told reporters he was ready to meet with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church “at any time.” “I said I’ll go anywhere – you call me and I’ll go. He (Kirill) expressed the same desire,” RIA Novosti quotes the Pope. “We want to meet.

A short circuit occurred at the Kotelnaya substation of IDGC of Center in the north-west of Kursk. Because of it, the operation of the thermal power plant of JSC “Quadra - Power Generation” was also suspended, as follows from the generating company’s message. At the moment, the power supply to the North-Western and South-Western regions of Kursk has been restored, and work is underway to restore heat supply. Kommersant-Online

Canadian Nautilus Minerals, in which Metalloinvest owns a 20.89% stake, expects to receive a tranche of $113 million from the government of Papua New Guinea in December, Nautilus reported on Friday. In April 2014, the company and the country's authorities agreed to jointly develop the Solwara 1 project. For this purpose, a joint venture will be created in which Papua New Guinea will receive 15% and an annual option on a similar package.

The Investigative Committee of Russia for St. Petersburg is conducting a pre-investigation check into the disappearance of the director of the St. Petersburg plant of the Coca-Cola company, Dmitry Soshnev, TASS reports, citing a representative of the department. It was previously reported that Mr. Soshnev’s missing person report came from his mother.

The net profit of Aviaagregat OJSC for the nine months of this year amounted to 296 million rubles, which is more than 20 times more than the profit of the same period last year, the press service of the Aviation Equipment holding, which includes the plant, reported on Monday. “Based on the results of work for nine months, the company’s revenue amounted to 1.92 billion rubles, net profit - 296 million rubles.

Pharmacology 604 1 min. ... Brain-enhancing drugs that students take before exams sometimes do exactly the opposite. Unexpected data was received by doctors from the University of Nottingham (UK), who decided to test the drug modafinil on healthy people. This medicine is usually used to treat patients with sleep disorders, but it is often used to stimulate brain function. Scientists gave a group of volunteers standard doses of the drug, while others received a placebo.

1990s Production of the simplest biofuel elements measuring units and even tens of cubic centimeters. In the UK, schools even bought them for laboratory classes. 1999 The father of biosensing, Isao Karube, proposed a new concept for biofuel cells. The microcircuit he developed, measuring ~50 x 50 mm2, contains 25 single biofuel elements connected in series.

The Georgian parliament left the Ministry of Internal Affairs the opportunity to listen to telephone conversations of citizens The ruling Georgian Dream coalition managed to override the president's veto on the high-profile law on wiretapping citizens' telephone conversations, thereby leaving in force the option under which the Ministry of Internal Affairs retains the possibility of technical access to the networks of mobile operators.

The Perm Bears club dropped out of the European Cups. On Sunday, in the return match of the third qualifying round of the EHF Cup, the Perm handball team lost away to the local club Gorenje in the Slovenian city of Vedenje with a score of 29:32. In the first match in Perm, Lev Voronin's team also suffered a defeat with a score of 34:37. It should be noted that the Bears played both meetings with a weakened squad due to injuries to leading players.

Mael Gavet, CEO of Ozon Holdings 490 1 min. ... — How does Ozon treat the Black Friday phenomenon? Is the transfer of this foreign tradition to Russian soil justified? Photo: Evgeny Dudin, Kommersant — Black Friday has every chance of becoming a very popular day of the year in terms of shopping. But the question remains whether this is good for stores. As a rule, almost any sale is associated with pent-up demand, especially when it comes to such global events.

The world's largest shale formation. This relatively thin (20-30 meters) member of rocks is distributed at a depth of more than two kilometers throughout almost the entire Western Siberia, over an area of ​​more than a million square kilometers. According to bold estimates by geologists, reserves in the Bazhenov Formation strata in Western Siberia alone exceed 140 billion tons. However, the oil recovery factor here is still quite low: about 6-7%

Crimean Tatars are offered a new organization The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars may have a backup. The “Unity of Crimea” movement, founded by former member of the Ukrainian Party of Regions Seytumer Nimetullayev, intends to create its own Mejlis. According to the leader of the organization, the current one “takes a pro-Ukrainian position.” The leadership of the Mejlis called the initiative an attempt to split the Crimean Tatar national movement.

In 2015, the Russian Black Sea Fleet intends to focus on combat training of newly formed units, reconstruction of training grounds and construction of infrastructure in Crimea. “The Black Sea sailors will continue to serve in the Mediterranean Sea, in the ocean zone, both independently and in cooperation with ships of other fleets, and will take part in a number of international exercises.