The German concern BASF, which owns a 15.5 percent stake in Nord Stream , and the Russian monopoly Gazprom , which is implementing the gas pipeline project, have agreed to exchange assets. This was reported in a BASF press release . The legally binding basic agreement on the exchange of assets was signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of BASF, Kurt Bock, and the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller .

The Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Tajikistan (FFT) disqualified for a year the players of the Energetik team from Dushanbe, Mirali Murodov and Safarkhon Mirzoev, for beating the chief referee of the national championship match with Istaravshan. The official website of the FFT reports this. The match between Istaravshan and Energetik took place on November 8 and was interrupted in the 81st minute with the score 1:1.

In Lobnya, 228 people were evacuated from an apartment building where a fire started, reports the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Moscow Region. Residents of the house located at 4 Aeroportovskaya Street are temporarily housed at a local school. As a result of the fire, one person was injured and was hospitalized with burns and carbon monoxide poisoning. 88 people and 20 pieces of equipment are involved in extinguishing the fire.

A resident of the Belarusian Novopolotsk, Andrei Gaidukov, suspected of high treason, was detained “at the time of planting a cache with information of interest to foreign intelligence services.” This was reported on November 13 at the center of information and public relations of the KGB of Belarus, ITAR-TASS agency reports .

The NET (New European Theatre) festival, curated by theater critics Marina Davydova and Roman Dolzhansky, will open in Moscow on November 14. As reported in a press release received by Lenta.ru, on the first day of the theater marathon there will be a performance of “Octopus” by the famous French choreographer Philippe Decouflé, known as the director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the XVI Olympic Games in Albertville.

14.11.2012, 16:53:06 version Print | PDA/PDA Parade of the National Guard. Photo from nasha.lv Empty place Latvia recognized as the “weak link” of NATO’s eastern border In mid-October, the report “Security and Defense Capacity of the Baltic States”, prepared by a group of experts commissioned by the local Ministry of Defense, was published in Sweden.

In Lithuania, the composition of the Central Election Commission will be replaced, Delfi.lt reports. The parliament of the republic adopted a corresponding resolution on November 13. Members of the current Central Election Commission will be dismissed due to violations committed during the recent parliamentary elections. The authors of the resolution refer to the decision of the Constitutional Court adopted after the elections.

Military prosecutors have sought the death penalty for 39-year-old Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of premeditated murder of 16 Afghan civilians and attempted murder of six others. reports Associated Press . On November 13, the “Article 32 Hearing” of the Code of Military Justice, the equivalent of a preliminary hearing in civilian courts, ended at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state.

The Russian national football team played a draw with the US national team in a friendly match, which took place on November 14 in Krasnodar. The game ended with the score 2:2, and Fedor Smolov and Roman Shirokov scored the goals for the Russians. The Russia-US meeting was broadcast live by the Rossiya 1 TV channel. Lenta.ru broadcast the match online . Smolov opened the scoring in the ninth minute of the match, sending the ball into the goal after going one-on-one with the goalkeeper.

The technical break in currency trading on the Moscow Exchange has been extended until at least 18:00 Moscow time. This was reported in the official press release of the stock exchange. As noted in the message, the resumption of trading will be announced later. At 15:58 Moscow time, the currency session was suspended due to an emergency situation. The break was expected to last an hour. It is not yet known why there was a disruption in trading.

The boxes with the PC version of the shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 mistakenly included the game Mass Effect 2. On November 13, immediately after the release of the new CoD, complaints appeared on the Internet from players who discovered that the contents of one of the two discs in the box were not matches the name. Complaints appeared on the official CoD website , on the Steam service forum , as well as on Reddit .

UK resident Alan Stoughton was sentenced to 56 days in prison for putting a cat in a dryer and turning it on for 12 seconds. This was reported by Agence France-Presse with reference to the British Royal Animal Welfare Service. The incident with the cat named Princess occurred in July 2012. Then a resident of eastern England posted a video on a local online forum about how he dried out his pet. User Nitroazza asked forum visitors to watch the video and comment on what they saw.

14.11.2012, 19:25:22 version Print | PDA/PDA Photo by ITAR-TASS, Vladimir Smirnov Statistics only The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported an increase in road deaths In Russia, over the nine months of 2012, over 150 thousand road accidents occurred, killing more than 20 thousand people. Moreover, both the number of accidents and the mortality rate on Russian roads continue to grow from year to year. The government is ready to spend tens of billions of rubles on improving road safety.

14.11.2012, 18:35:20 version Print | PDA/PDA Sergei Shoigu. Photo by RIA Novosti, Vladimir Astapkovich General Satan Sergei Shoigu became the most influential security official in Russia The resignation of Anatoly Serdyukov from the post of head of the Ministry of Defense and the appointment of Sergei Shoigu in his place led to the emergence of a new, unusually powerful center of power in the Russian government.

The ProfMedia media holding will change its president: instead of Rafael Akopov, the company will be headed by Vladimir Ryabokon from VimpelCom. This was reported on the website of the Interros company, which owns the ProfMedia holding. Rafael Akopov's contract with ProfMedia expires in January 2013. The top manager notified the company's board of directors in advance that he was not going to renew it. Akopov has led the holding since 2004.