The International Monetary Fund may suspend the issuance of another tranche from the loan to Ukraine. The Ukrainian side does not fulfill the obligations to reduce the budget deficit NAK Naftogaz Ukraine, said independent energy expert Alexander Narbut. The reduction in the budget deficit "Naftogaz" is one of the conditions for the provision of the next tranche of the IMF.

Law enforcement agencies of the Irkutsk region are investigating the impudent robbery of air passengers who arrived from the Russian capital. Directly at the airport, they became victims of criminals with the “special forces of the special forces”: the victims under the muzzle of machine guns laid on the ground and took away several tens of millions of rubles from them. An unprecedented robbery was committed on Sunday, November 7, at eight in the morning.

Sberbank shot most restrictions on issuing credit cards. Previously, Sberbank credit card could only receive customer-holders of salary cards and borrowers on consumer loans. Now, any citizen of Russia can submit documents for receiving a credit card, "complies with the minimum requirements for age, work experience and the term of work in the current place," the largest Russian bank said.

The famous rock musician, the leader of the DDT group, Yuri Shevchuk, said about whether he has presidential plans, which is ready to be at least an astronaut, "if the homeland orders." “A joke, of course,” the musician explained at a press conference in Moscow on Monday. “I think that I am able to be a sponsor of a small partisan detachment. Sponsorship is different - spiritual nourishing, ideological,” Interfax quotes the musician quoted.

The best singer and the best pop singer according to the European MTV (European Music Awards) this year was Lady Gaga. Her composition Bad Romance also received the award as the best song of the year, according to the website of the TV channel. In total, Lady Gaga claimed five awards, writes The Daily Telegraph . The award ceremony was held on the night of Sunday to Monday in Madrid. Personally, the singer could not get her prizes, as she was on a tour in Budapest.

Rockmelt began limited beta testing of the same browser, created as a tool for interacting with social web services, primarily with Facebook and Twitter, Vesti.ru report. The founders of the company are Eric Vishria and Tim Haus, ex-heads of OPSware, sold in 2007 by the Hewlett-Packard corporation for $ 1.6 billion.

Former French President Jacques Shirak will appear before the trial not only for embezzlement of public funds, but also for corruption. On Monday, a bailiff of the city, Nanter Jacques, signed an order to transfer the case to a correctional court on charges of bribery, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the French media.

Former Minister of Communications and presidential adviser Leonid Reiman for the first time admitted that he is a businessman, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. Reiman became the founder of Rosa and the NGI Foundation Soinvestor, his representative said. The company will develop free software (a paid license is not required to use it), he indicates.

The American space agency NASA intends to build a hypersonic aircraft, which will not only go beyond the globe atmosphere, but also fly around the globe in a matter of hours. On such a aircraft, the flight from New York to Sydney will not take 21 hours, as it is now, but only 2.5 hours, reports The Daily Mail . In such tasks, the plane should fly with a five -time sound speed. This project will be allocated annually for five million dollars. Financing is provided for the next three years.

The Australian airline Qantas, who decided to expose part of its audit fleet after one of its liners last week made an emergency landing due to the refusal of the engine , discovered “small deviations” in the engines, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Australian ABC channel.

The auction for the sale of the legendary St. Petersburg hotel "Astoria" is scheduled for November 19. However, the starting price seems too high for the building's tenant, Vedomosti writes. CJSC Hotel Complex Astoria, which leases the building of the Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg until 2046, is interested in buying out the building and the land underneath it, the company's press service reported. But the tenant is not satisfied with the starting price - 2.18 billion rubles .

On Friday, Walt Disney signed an agreement with the Chinese partner on creating Disneyland entertainment Park in the Shanghai Chinese megalopolis, RIA Novosti reports. Representatives of Walt Disney and Shanghai Shendi Group Co. at the corresponding ceremony were signed under the document. LTD, which will be responsible for the implementation of the project. The cost of creating a park is estimated at $ 3.6 billion.

In the fresh issue of the German weekly, Der Spiegel published an article about the "aggressive clericalization of the country" by the Russian Orthodox Church. The reason for this was "unceremoniality, with which the ROC is more and more closely with the state of the Russian Orthodox Church, seeks the possession of property and power," reports inopressa.ru .

In the expanded composition of the national team in hockey, which is preparing to participate in the first stage of the European Chocker Cup, the Cup of the Karian, was amended, the official website of the Russian Hockey Federation (FCH) reports. Instead of Dmitry Kalinin (Salavat Yulaev) and Alexei Tereshchenko (Ak Bars), who were injured, Alexei Morozov, Denis Kaygorodov and Alexander Guskov will join the team.

The most experienced citizens have already chosen a vacation spot and booked cottages for the New Year holidays. But even now, despite the limited supply, you can still find a suitable house at an adequate price. It is worth keeping in mind that the cost of three days of vacation near the capital is equivalent to a week at a European resort, writes Kommersant-Dengi . As the publication points out, as a rule, the best offers in terms of price-quality ratio are booked back in September.