For the first time, European consumers filed a lawsuit demanding that Gazprom be obliged to reduce prices in long-term contracts to the exchange level. Kommersant writes that the Italian Edison filed a lawsuit against the concern's subsidiary, Promgas. Until now, Gazprom has managed to resolve claims from EU consumers outside of court. Edison lawyers filed a claim in connection with the long-term contracts concluded with Promgas in the Stockholm Arbitration Court.

Oracle Corporation on Tuesday, November 2, announced the purchase of online trading software maker Art Technology Group for a billion dollars, reports Agence France-Presse . Under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in early 2011, Art Technology Group shareholders will receive $6 for each share, which is 46 percent more than its stock price as of November 1.

Several Kharkov police officers were reprimanded for inappropriate behavior after the local elections, MediaPort reports , citing law enforcement sources. Police officers were punished for playing cards on bags containing ballot papers. A video featuring gamblers recently appeared on the Internet.

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Former head coach of the Real Madrid football club Manuel Pellegrini has agreed to head Malaga, which ranks 18th in the Spanish Championship. The 57-year-old Chilean specialist will sign a three-year contract with this club. This is reported by DPA. Pellegrini led Villarreal from 2004 to 2009. Under the leadership of the Chilean coach, the team reached the Champions League several times , and in the 2005/06 season reached the semi-finals of this tournament.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has confirmed the appointment of Sergio Batista as the new head coach of the national team. Reuters reports this. Thus, Batista, who has been acting coach of the national team since July 2010 after the resignation of Diego Maradona , has been confirmed in his post. Batista, who turns 48 on November 9, will make his debut as head coach on November 17 in a friendly against Brazil in Qatar. In the past, Batista led Argentina's youth and Olympic teams.

British heavy metal band Iron Maiden will perform in Moscow as part of a world tour in support of their latest album "The Final Frontier". This was reported in a press release received by Lenta.Ru from the organizers of the performance - the SAV Entertainment group of companies and the Russian Show Center. The concert will take place on February 11, 2011 at the Olimpiysky sports complex and will open the second part of the band’s tour.

In Germany, opponents of nuclear energy set fire to the cable of the Berlin S-Bahn, which led to a partial stop and disruption of train traffic on lines S42 and S46, reports Reuters. The incident occurred on the night of Monday, November 1, but only on Wednesday it became clear that anti-nuclear energy activists were behind the arson.

Officials of Moscow prefectures demanded that the owners of kiosks remove them from the streets in one day. newspaper The Vedomosti writes that the stalls are being dismantled near the Shchelkovskaya, Maryino, Bratislavskaya and Belorusskaya metro stations. Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin criticized the previous authorities for the abundance of kiosks and stalls in the capital, including in the historical center.

An earthquake and a volcanic eruption occurred in Indonesia on November 3, reports Agence France-Presse . An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 occurred off the coast in the east of the country, 106 kilometers southeast of the city of Kaimana, West Papua province. The hypocenter was located in the sea at a depth of 50 kilometers, Indonesian seismologists said. The American Seismological Service provides slightly different data: an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 occurred at a depth of 29 kilometers.

DNA testing has confirmed the authenticity of the remains recovered from the grave of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. reported this on November 3 Agence France-Presse . According to the agency, DNA samples extracted from the remains matched materials taken from Ceausescu's brother and son. Thus, the belonging of the remains to the dictator has been proven almost certainly.

The head coach of the Czech national hockey team, Alois Gadamczyk, called up 23 hockey players to prepare for the Karjala Cup - the first stage of the Eurotour. Striker Jaromir Jagr was not included in the team. Like several other leaders of the Czech team, he will miss the Karjala Cup by agreement with the coaching staff. This was reported by the Czech online publication sport.cz. In particular, team captain Tomas Rolinek will not play at the first stage of the Eurotour.

The French company Sagem and the Kazakh company Kazakhstan Engineering signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of creation and production of unmanned aerial vehicles. As reported in a Sagem press release, the document provides for the creation of a joint venture in Kazakhstan for the production and technical support of drones. The terms of participation of the French and Kazakh companies in the joint venture will be determined later.

NASA has postponed the launch of the Discovery shuttle to the International Space Station (ISS) until at least November 4, according to the aerospace agency's website. NASA specialists needed additional time to check the power supply system of the shuttle engines, in which problems were identified on the morning of Tuesday, November 2. Discovery's launch has been postponed for the third time. The shuttle was originally scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on November 1.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych dismissed the country's Prosecutor General Alexander Medvedko by decree . reported this on November 3 RIA Novosti . The reasons for Medvedko’s dismissal have not yet been reported. However, his term of office expired on November 4. In the summer of 2010, unofficial information appeared in the media that after Medvedko, the Prosecutor General’s Office would be headed by his first deputy, Viktor Pshonka .