The Russian skater Anna Pogorilalai took second place at the stage of the Cup of Russia Grand Prix, which takes place in Moscow. According to the results of a short and arbitrary programs, a 16-year-old athlete scored 173.43 points. "After Lutz, I caught myself thinking that I needed to act. I remember last season, although I was not so worried, but at one Russian tournament I wanted to star in front of an arbitrary program, but I went out and rolled it off purely except Flip.

The current world champion Norwegian Magnus Karlsen with white figures defeated the applicant for the title of Indian Vishwanatan Ananda in the sixth batch of a match for the world chess crown. The meeting ended at the 38th move. The score of intellectual confrontation was 3.5: 2.5 in favor of Scandinava. The match in Sochi takes place according to the classic system of 12 parties, if one of the rivals scores 6.5 points, the match ends, and a tie-break will be played with a score of 6: 6.

Representatives of the joint center for control and coordination (behind the ceasefire) agreed on the draft schedule for the withdrawal of troops from the region of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. This is stated in the daily report of the OSCE observation mission for November 13th.

The Russian government is working on options for the introduction of restrictions on oil export, although the Minister of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev does not think that sanctions against the Russian Federation will be tightened. The Minister himself spoke about this in an interview with the British television and radio broadcasting corporation BBC , while recognizing that a decrease in energy prices can seriously affect ordinary citizens and companies.

On Saturday in the Australian Brisbene, the Twenty -RF President took part in official and informal events on Saturday, and also held a number of bilateral and multilateral meetings, TASS agency betrayed. One of the main events "in the fields", according to the agency, was the meeting of the leaders of the BRICS countries.

The head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Elvira Nabiullina said that the ruble has a "great potential for strengthening" in the absence of external shocks. According to her, sharp fluctuations in the national currency will subside as they get used to the regime of a free ruble. “If there are no negative external additional phenomena, then the ruble has a great potential for strengthening,” said the head of the Central Bank in an interview with Russia 1 .

The Party of the RPR-Parnas offers opposition parties and moves the coalition "For European Choice". The proposal, as Interfax reports, contains a statement on the need to consolidate the pro -European forces of Russia, widespread on Saturday, November 15, at the party conference.

The State Duma on Friday adopted in the third, final, reading, the presidential draft law on toughening liability for violation of financing of political parties in Russia, TASS reports. The document provides for amendments to the Law "On Political Parties in the Russian Federation". So, a ban is introduced for Russian parties to accept donations from NPO - “foreign agents” and concluding transactions with them.

The host of the analytical program "However" on Channel One, Mikhail Leontyev doubted the existence of an aviation expert, who allegedly provided a photograph, which captures the moment of launching a rocket from MiG-29 to the Boeing 777 Malaysian aircraft. “We honestly said that we don’t know if there is such a person,” Leontiev said on November 15 on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

The leader of the unregistered party "Another Russia" Eduard Limonov on November 15 announced the searches in the apartment of the head of the Latvian party "For the native language" of Vladimir Linderman. As Limonov wrote in the “Live Journal”, in relation to Linderman, whom the leader of “another Russia” calls his “old comrade”, they opened a criminal case under Article 88 (“recruiting volunteers to conduct terrorist attacks”) of the Criminal Code of Latvia.

The net profit of Gazprom for 9 months of 2014 amounted to 35.8 billion rubles, which is 13 times less than net profit for January-September 2013 (466.6 billion rubles). This is stated in the financial report of the company quoted by the "New Gazeta" . Although the total revenue of the company, compared with last year, increased by 1.5% - this year Gazprom earned 2.861 billion rubles.

The research module of Philae, located on the surface of the comet Churumov-Gerasimenko, stopped transmitting a signal to the ground. However, the data obtained using the apparatus, scientists are sure, will help to verify the hypothesis of the origin of water on the ground. "The loss of the signal. There are no more communications with Philae. All scientific data from the first communication session are successfully transmitted," TASS quoted the ECA flight control center as saying.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko demanded to bring from those territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions that are not controlled by Kiev, all state institutions and stop banking operations there, UNIAN agency reports.

On Saturday, November 15, it became known about the spy scandal, which has already complicated the already difficult relations of Moscow and Berlin, the German edition of Der Spiegel with reference to a source in the Government of Germany. “An employee of the German Embassy in Moscow left the country at the request of the Russian authorities,” the unnamed official said.

The chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom-Media, Mikhail Lesin, recognized in an interview with Novaya Gazeta that the order to dismiss Alexander Plyushchev from the Echo of Moscow radio station was illegal. Lesin explained that he understood this when he gave the command to the general director of the radio station, however, he added: he cannot do not do not care about shareholders. Lesin also said that he was ready to meet with radio station staff to explain his position.