Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov and Oleg Deripaski's aluminum holding agreed on new conditions for the restructuring of the company's debt to the entrepreneur. As a result, the share of Prokhorov in the company will increase to 19.2% instead of the planned 18.5%, Vedomosti write. The previous transaction was agreed in March 2009.

The Russian authorities associate the future of a loss -making AvtoVAZ with the sale of control to a strategic investor, most likely Renault, reports Reuters with reference to a source in the government. AvtoVAZ cannot return 62 billion rubles to the main creditors - state -owned banks (Sberbank, VTB and Veb's Daughters). If the debt is not restructured, it is threatened by bankruptcy.

In Ingushetia, the court began in the case of the murder of the owner of the website of Ingushetia.ru Magomed Evloev. The opposition family refused to participate in the process. The case of the murder of Magomed Evloev is essentially considered for the third time. At first it was listened to in the Nazran district court. However, before the sentence, the judge, at the request of the victim, refused to participate in the process. The case for objectivity was sent to the Karabulak court.

The raider seizures must be punished criminally, once again said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. “As long as the responsibility for such actions will be in a different plane-at best it is civilian responsibility, there will be no sense,” Medvedev said at a meeting with members of the Council of the Chamber of Council of the Federation. “I don’t remember something that someone was put in prison for raiding,” the president complained.

In recent years, Russian-American relations have increasingly been assessed as the beginning of a new Cold War, or at least an increase in tension. With the coming to power of Barack Obama, there was reason to hope for changes in relations between the two countries. However, it still remains unknown what strategy Obama intends to follow in relations with Russia and what goals are his priority in this dialogue.

Emil Dabagyan On October 25, in the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (the official name of the country), clamped between two continental giants - Brazil and Argentina, general elections were held (presidential and parliamentary). The intrigue of the competition for the highest post was whether the nominee for the ruling left -centric coalition will be able to achieve unconditional success in the first round. This did not happen. Now, to determine the winner, you will have to wait another month.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Vashadze refuses Russian citizenship, and sent his Russian passport to Moscow. “I have already sent my petition to the President of Russia to withdraw from Russian citizenship and attached my Russian passport to it,” said Vashadze on Wednesday the day before before the meeting of the Georgian government.

Several recent events at the UN, to everyone's delight, have served to confirm the importance of international diplomacy. On September 23, 2009, Barack Obama gave a speech to the General Assembly; the next day, the UN Security Council unanimously decided in favor of nuclear disarmament; and these are just two examples of all the events indicating that the UN can play a central mediating role in the interaction of states. But there is a reasonable fear that these changes have come too late.

On October 25, general elections (presidential and parliamentary) were held in the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (the official name of the country), sandwiched between two continental giants - Brazil and Argentina. The intrigue of the competition for the top post was whether the nominee of the ruling center-left coalition, the Broad Front (BF), would be able to achieve unconditional success in the first round. That did not happen. Now we will have to wait another month to determine the winner.

The idea of ​​Russia's attack on Poland, as well as the scenario of the Russia -NATO war, is crazy and unthinkable, said Alexei Arbatov, head of the Center for International Security of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), in an interview with Polit.ru. According to him, the Russian-Belarusian exercises “West 2009” were the reason for the next campaign for the Russian military threat.

The government is ready to support AvtoVAZ in the amount of 54.8 billion rubles, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on November 3. The state, according to the refinancing of AvtoVAZ debt for 38 billion rubles, as well as support the investment program of the plant. In particular, the launch of the program for updating the lineup (12 billion rubles) and the program of subsidies to create new jobs in Togliatti (4.8 billion rubles), the prime minister said.

We publish a complete decryption of the lecture of the famous specialist in the history and modern state of Eastern and Central Europe, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexei Miller, read on October 22, 2009 in the Club - the literary cafe Bingua as part of the Public Lectures Polit.ru. The lecture is a kind of continuation of the lecture “ Historical Policy” in Eastern Europe: the fruits of the observation involved. ” See also: Empire and nation in the imagination of Russian nationalism.

Sweden and Finland, it seems, reconciled with the construction of the gas pipeline along the bottom of the Baltic Sea and removed environmental claims to the North Stream project. Gazprom can celebrate victory, although, as before, the belief that the project will be economically justified. The Government of Finland at a meeting on Thursday decided to allow the laying of the North Stream gas pipeline in its marine economic zone in the Baltic.

The Prosecutor General’s Office did not approve the indictment in the case of the Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Sergei Storchak, who is charged with an attempt to theft $ 43.4 million. The case was returned to the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP) for the subsequence. Sergey Storchak was detained on November 15, 2007.

Rospotrebnadzor considers it inappropriate to laboratory examination of each case of the disease A/H1N1, due to the "intensive transmission of the virus", especially "in organized groups of children and adolescents." The diagnosis in people in contact with patients is considered in the department "is possible on the basis of a similar clinical picture." "In order to increase the efficiency of the analysis of the epidemic situation and adopting adequate measures, I ask you to provide from