Sberbank will open a credit line with a limit of 14 billion rubles for the development company Augur Estate. This is stated in the bank's message . The credit line will be open for a period of 60 months. The borrowed funds are intended to finance the construction of 1.054 million square meters of housing as part of the A101 project.

movement The Taliban has announced a moratorium on military operations and terrorist attacks throughout Pakistan as a sign of support for peace negotiations with the country's government. This was reported by the Associated Press , citing a statement by one of the senior Taliban field commanders. According to the commander, who wished to remain anonymous, the Taliban truce has been in force for about a month.

The Egyptian Stock Exchange suspended trading on November 22, reports the Associated Press. This comes amid a growing political crisis in the country, and after the main EGX30 exchange index fell by five percent. The EGX30 index has been declining over the past three days (on November 21 it fell by four percent). As the news agency notes, over the past year EGX30 has decreased by more than 47 percent. It has not been announced exactly when trading will resume.

Scientists from the University of Washington and Aalto University in Finland have presented a prototype of contact lenses with a built-in LED screen, reports New Scientist. The prototype was tested on rabbits, and tests showed that the lenses did not cause eye irritation in animals. In the test sample, only one LED was used to display information on the screen. The circuit was powered wirelessly through an external source, which was located at a distance of ten centimeters from the lens.

The State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine has denied information about Yulia Tymoshenko’s extremely serious health condition , calling it “distorted and untrue.” reported this on November 21 Interfax . A special press release notes that the leadership of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where Tymoshenko is being held, is trying to provide medical assistance to the ex-prime minister, taking into account her complaints about her health.

Roscosmos intends to switch to lunar exploration. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the words of Deputy Head of Roscosmos Vitaly Davydov. “We’ll think again about how to further distribute forces here. It might make sense to move on to making more clear steps towards the Moon, and as for Mars, rely on cooperation with our partners, for example, Europe is offering us participation in the ExoMars project,” - the agency quotes Davydov as saying.

22.11.2011, 16:13:46 version Print | PDA/PDA Illustration from vassar.edu Through food to knowledge How nutrition studies help scientists What unites scientific works devoted to the habitat of four-winged microraptors, the reasons for the extinction of cave lions and the problem of compatibility of products for the needs of the US Army? Answer: not some kind of genome, quasar or Pauli principle, but banal food.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation refused to initiate a criminal case against the mayor of Rostov-on-Don, Mikhail Chernyshev. This was reported on November 22 on the website "News of the RF IC". Previously, a prosecutor's audit showed that in 1994 the city administration seized a plot of land with an area of ​​5.66 hectares located on the territory of the Botanical Garden of the Southern Federal University (then called Rostov State University).

Based on the results of nine months of 2011, the roads in the Belgorod region became the safest in Russia. Specialists of the Interregional Public Center “For the Safety of Russian Roads” came to these conclusions after studying the statistics of road accidents in the 30 most densely populated regions of the country, according to a press release.

The European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has delivered the first C-295 military transport aircraft to Ghana, Defense Aerospace reports. In total, the country's air force should receive two transport aircraft, the second of which will be delivered to the customer in the first quarter of 2012. Ghana plans to use the C-295 for troop transport, medical evacuation and cargo transport.

Former head coach of Spartak Moscow and the Russian national football team Oleg Romantsev said that he will not return to coaching. According to Romantsev, who holds the post of coach-consultant for Spartak, he used to be able to tell and show the players how to play, but now he can only tell them, Sovetsky Sport reports. Romantsev added that the current head coach of Spartak, Valery Karpin, is very suitable for the team. “I won’t return to coaching,” Romantsev said.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and his wife Anne Sinclair will sue five French publications and French President Nicolas Sarkozy 's adviser Henri Guaino for reporting Strauss-Kahn's involvement in a prostitution case. reported this on Tuesday, November 22, Agence France-Presse citing the couple’s lawyers. The couple accuses Gueno and the French media of interfering with their privacy, which is a crime under French law.

A robbery was committed against a businessman in the center of Moscow. A bag containing about 900 thousand dollars was stolen from him, Interfax reports . The victim of the attack was 50-year-old businessman Alexander Dzabiev. According to the agency's source, the incident occurred at approximately 13:30 in Bolshoy Poluyaroslavsky Lane, near the Kursky railway station. A man was walking down the street when they tried to snatch his bag with money.

A resident of Zaporozhye, Sergei Pyankov, pulled out an ancient sword from the bottom while fishing on the Dnieper, reports UNN with reference to Channel 5 of Ukrainian television. According to the source, the sword was “picked up by a spinning rod” and lifted from a depth of over 20 meters. The find was transferred to the Khortytsya Museum-Reserve. According to information from the Zaporozhye website 061.ua, it has been established that the sword was made around the 10th century.

UC Davis President Linda Katehi has placed UC Davis Chief of Police Annette Spicuzza on administrative leave over the violent crackdown on student demonstrations. This is reported on the university website. Lt. Matt Carmichael has been named interim university police chief. According to Katekha, in this way the university management intends to regain the trust of students. “I take full responsibility for what happened on Friday,” the rector explained.