01.11.2012, 18:52:42 version Print | PDA/PDA Victor Vekselberg. Photo Kommersant, Alexander Miridonov Out to cache The richest Russian said goodbye to the oil business At the end of October, Bloomberg reported that Viktor Vekselberg will soon take first place in the Russian ranking of billionaires. Vekselberg was helped to overtake the leader of the list, Alisher Usmanov, by the sale of shares in TNK-BP, thanks to which his fortune grew to $18 billion.

The prosecutor, during the re-examination of the issue of reducing the sentence of the former head of "MENATEP" Platon Lebedev, asked to reduce the sentence from 13 years to 11 years and three months. reported this on November 1 RIA Novosti . If the court agrees with this position, the former businessman will be released in October 2014.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko has been released from prison in California, where he was serving an eight-year sentence on charges of fraud and money laundering, Ukrayinska Pravda reports, citing its own correspondent. Lazarenko was released on November 1 at 4:00 local time (15:00 Moscow time). The journalists expected Lazarenko’s release later and arrived at the prison building only at 8:00 am, so they did not have time to talk with the ex-prime minister.

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation published on its website a report (.pdf) on monitoring Russian universities in terms of the effectiveness of their activities. In a number of regions, for example in the Chechen Republic, all universities are recognized as ineffective.

New York authorities have canceled the parade, which was supposed to take place on the evening of October 31 in connection with the Halloween holiday. According to the official website of the event, the annual street procession will not take place for the first time in the last 39 years. "We hope that no one planning to attend the parade was injured, and that those who can are helping at emergency centers nearby," the statement said.

The Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA regular season. The official website of the NBA reports this. The game ended with a score of 116:106 (30:26, 32:31, 30:19, 24:30) in favor of the Portland basketball players. The most productive player of the match was Lakers center Dwight Howard, who had a double-double (33 points + 14 rebounds). Kobe Bryant scored 30 points. For Portland, the most productive player was forward Nicolas Batum, who scored 26 points.

On November 1, near Belgorod, a drunk driver hit two traffic police officers. reports this Interfax . The incident occurred around 8 pm Moscow time, 30 km from Belgorod. The injured traffic police officers were on the road registering an accident when a car drove into them. There were four men in it; all of them, including the driver, were drunk. As the press center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs informed the agency, the offender tried to escape, but was detained.

At the Christie's auction, held on October 31 in London, a table clock was sold that, according to the owners' family tradition, belonged to Tsar Paul I. As reported on the auction house's website, the final price was more than ten times higher than experts' expectations and amounted to 601,250 pounds sterling, then there are about 967 thousand dollars. The buyer's name has not been disclosed.

The nationalists asked the Prosecutor General's Office to check the statements of Senator Ruslan Gattarov about the "Russian March", Interfax reports with reference to Ivan Mironov , one of the organizers of the action. The day before, on October 31, Ruslan Gattarov spoke out against holding a nationalist march in the center of Moscow and asked the capital's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, to refuse to approve this action.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that six Russian and one Estonian sailor from the Bourbon Liberty 249, captured by Nigerian pirates, are at large. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, their health is not in danger and they will be taken home soon. Earlier, the fact of release was confirmed by the head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry, Urmas Paet .

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications did not initiate changes in the field of online trading of foreign companies on the Russian market. this The head of the department, Nikolai Nikiforov, announced on his Twitter. Earlier, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Denis Sverdlov said that the department plans to review the rules by which Russians buy goods in foreign online stores.

The next presentation of the independent “Runet Anti-Award 2012” took place in Moscow. This year awards were presented in 10 categories. The winner of the “Runet Anti-Award” was the site “Lurkomorye”, which won a total of five awards: one from the expert council, four more - based on the results of the “popular vote”.

London's Chelsea beat Manchester United in the 1/8 finals of the English League Cup. The meeting, which took place at the Stamford Bridge stadium late in the evening of October 31, ended with the hosts winning in extra time with a score of 5:4, reports Agence France-Presse . During normal time of the match, Manchester United took the lead three times, but Chelsea fought back each time.

A new film about the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, will be shot in the United States, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti and Jacki Weaver agreed to star in the film. What exact roles they will play is not specified. One of the producers of the film will be Tom Hanks. The film is about the Kennedy assassination and the events that followed it. The working title of the film was Parkland.

A group of baby traffickers has been exposed in the Caucasus, reported on November 1 on the website of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The defendants in the criminal case are a 60-year-old woman (a medical worker at the central city hospital of Khasavyurt) and her 61-year-old friend. The health worker was detained in the hospital, and her friend was detained in the Yellow Sea restaurant in Grozny.