Interros holding Vladimir Potanin's and Oleg Deripaska's Rusal have returned to negotiations on resolving the shareholder conflict in Norilsk Nickel. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this in its issue dated October 31, citing unnamed sources. Officially, neither side comments on this information.

A British court refused to arrest the former head of the non-profit organization Estonian European Movement, Anna-Maria Galoyan, who was convicted in her homeland of embezzlement. DELFI reports this. The Estonian Ministry of Justice demanded that Galoyan be taken into custody. It issued a European arrest warrant for her, but a British court invalidated it.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation revealed the names of university teachers detained in Moscow - these are Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of World Politics of Moscow State University Mikhail Basharatyan and Head of the Department of Philosophy and Political Science of the Academy of Labor and Social Relations Viktor Baris. The names were published on the UK website on October 31. The teachers are suspected of extorting bribes.

Lyudmila Narusova lost her senatorial seat. Her place in the Federation Council was taken by LDPR member Mikhail Marchenko. According to RIA Novosti , the commission on regulations distributed among senators the decision of the governor of the Bryansk region Nikolai Denin on the appointment of Mikhail Marchenko. Lyudmila Narusova was not present at the meeting on October 31.

A skier was detained in Tatarstan, who on October 28 escaped from a detention center by kicking out the ceiling of an exercise yard. This was reported on October 31 on the website of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. 34-year-old Rustem Farkhutdinov was caught in Naberezhnye Chelny. Details of the arrest have not been disclosed. Farkhutdinov was placed in the detention center of the Leninogorsk District Department of Internal Affairs on suspicion of murder.

Senator Ruslan Gattarov called on the Moscow mayor's office to deny nationalists the right to hold a "Russian March" in the center of Moscow, Interfax reports . According to a member of the Federation Council, his office received several requests from citizens who were dissatisfied with the nationalist march in the center of the capital. “I share the concerns of Muscovites based on the experience of previous 'Russian Marches'.

Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has said that most complaints about voter bribery during recent parliamentary elections have not been substantiated. The corresponding message was posted on the prosecutor's office website. According to the department, out of 94 complaints regarding violations of election legislation (including bribery of citizens), only five were confirmed, and criminal cases were initiated against them.

Bryan Singer will direct a new X-Men film, Heat Vision reports. X-Men: Days of Future Past will be a sequel to the 2011 film X-Men: First Class. That, in turn, was a prequel to the trilogy, released between 2000 and 2006. Singer directed the first two films of the trilogy, X-Men (2000) and X-Men 2 (2003). He worked on "First Class" as a producer and screenwriter. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn.

Activists from several public organizations picketed the Russian Embassy in Kiev on October 31, demanding an investigation into the interference of Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev in the electoral process in Ukraine. This was reported by New Region. 150 people took part in the action. They said Lebedev broke the law by financing the election campaigns of several candidates, including the nationalist Svoboda party.

Russian director Timur Bekmambetov ("Night Watch", "Wanted") joined the jury of the VII International Rome Film Festival, according to the official website of the event. In addition to the Russian, the competition program will be judged by actresses Valentina Cervi (Italy), Leila Hatami (Iran), film critic Chris Fujiwara (USA), director PJ Hogan (Australia) and screenwriter and director Edgardo Kozarinski (Argentina). The jury will be headed by independent American director Jeff Nichols.

Theater director Yuri Lyubimov has emerged from a coma, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to his attending physicians, professors Alexander Shpector and Elena Vasilyeva. “Yuri Petrovich has come out of a coma, he is extubated, breathes on his own, and communicates,” the doctors said. There has been a positive trend in his condition. Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that Lyubimov had fallen into a coma on the evening of October 30.

New York stock exchanges opened in positive territory on October 31 after two days of shutdown due to Hurricane Sandy. As of 18:00 Moscow time, the S&P index increased by 0.33 percent, the Dow Jones - by 0.47 percent, and the Nasdaq - by 0.1 percent. The technology exchange index fluctuates. At the auction on October 31, UBS shares showed strong growth: securities rose in price by more than 13 percent to $15.

The Vedomosti newspaper will switch from A2 to A3 format from January 2013, and the number of notebooks in it will be reduced from two to one. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the editor-in-chief of the publication Tatyana Lysova. Thus, the size of the newspaper sheet will be reduced by approximately half. Due to this, the number of pages will increase from 12 to 24, and each current single-page section will turn into a spread.

Makhachkala's Anzhi reached the quarter finals of the Russian Football Cup. In the 1/8 finals of this tournament, the Makhachkala team beat Krylya Sovetov Samara with a score of 2:1. At the same time, Anzhi scored the winning goal playing with ten men: in the 65th minute, Makhachkala defender Rasim Tagirbekov received a red card for a foul of last resort. The match was broadcast live by the Rossiya 2 TV channel.

Deputy from United Russia Alexei Knyshov, who voluntarily resigned after checking his involvement in business, was replaced in the State Duma by Cossack ataman Viktor Vodolatsky, Interfax reports . The Central Election Commission has already given him a mandate. Viktor Vodolatsky in the State Duma elections in 2011 took ninth place in the regional group for the Rostov region. The first eight applicants were elected, but he did not get a place. Knyshov was number six.