Lukoil invested more than $ 1 billion in the construction of the diamond enterprise. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the company Vagit Alekperov. Now the construction is at the final stage. Alekperov invited President Vladimir Putin in November to take part in the opening of the factory and “get the first diamonds”. The plant will work 3.5 thousand people. The company will cooperate with Alrosa, whose production is nearby.

The first test launch of the Soyuz-2.1V launch vehicle was scheduled for December 24. This was announced by the CEO of the Central Construction Center of the Central Executive Committee, Alexander Kirilin, Interfax reports. Earlier, the Start "Soyuz-2.1V" was postponed due to the accident, which occurred during ground testing of the rocket engine.

The fire of the gas pipe that occurred on the patriarchal ponds in Moscow during repair work was completely eliminated, the consequences of the accident were eliminated, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow. The fire was completely eliminated at 20:02, and at 20:22 - the consequences of the accident were eliminated, the department explained. The pit was covered with sand.

A resident of West Virginia Jack Lamar Roberson opened fire on the court building. He was killed by the police, reports AP . Before the police shot the attacker, he managed to make about 20 shots. His relatives said that before his death he tried to surrender to the police. The wife of the murdered reported that a day earlier, her husband took sedative pills, drinking them with alcohol, and then stated that he wanted to commit suicide. After that, the woman turned to the rescue service.

Two people were injured as a result of a collision of a car with a bus on the Nagatinskaya embankment in Moscow, Mosgortrans reports . The incident occurred at 14:40. The passenger car collided at a stop with a bus of route No. 724. As a result, two women born in 1951 and 1960, who were at that time at the stop, were hospitalized. The cause of the accident, according to the Department of Transport, was a gross violation of the rules of the road by the driver of the car.

The All -Russian Popular Front does not plan to create factions in parliaments, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the co -chair of the Central Staff Olga Timofeev. She clarified that we are talking about parliaments of both the federal and regional level. Timofeeva noted that in each region there are many forces with which the ONF representatives need to work. Earlier, the coordinator of the Buryat branch, Boris Bazarov, propose to organize the People’s Deputy group in the local parliament.

Deputies of the State Duma do not plan to take disciplinary measures in relation to a member of United Russia and the head of the labor committee of Andrei Isaev, who became a participant in a major scandal at the St. Petersburg airport Pulkovo. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in all four parliamentary parties.

Human rights activists of the organization “For Human Rights” published an appeal on their website , in a cat are asked to expand the amnesty for the 20th anniversary of the Constitution on the defendants of the “swamp business”, ecologists with Arctic Sunrise and Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The DPRK authorities built a missile base near Mount Pectusan near the Chinese border, Joongang writes with reference to a source in the government of South Korea. The base is equipped with a significant amount of launch mines located 2 kilometers from the southern slope of the mountain. They began to be built back in the middle of the last decade, and soon the construction will be completed. According to the source, the mines are designed for launches of medium and high -range missiles.

The Boeing Dreamliner aircraft, which made the Moscow-Tokyo flight, sat in emergency at the Domodedovo airport due to a faulty water descent in the liner toilets, Reuters reports. Jal reports that the toilets have broken due to problems with the electrician. At the same time, there were also problems with heating food. Recall that flights of this type of aircraft were suspended in January 2013 after a fire of batteries.

Among the products that Nokia presented on October 22 in Abu Dhabi, perhaps there will be a laptop developed by the company, reports Chiploco . In the photograph, which was published on the Conversations by Nokia website, the journalists of the publication found the Nokia Lumia smartphone, the Window was based and a laptop, which, in their opinion, will be presented at the conference.

The health status of schoolchildren who felt bad after the tuberculin sample in the Primorsky village of Novosysoevka was stabilized, Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the Department of Health of Primorye. According to him, 29 children remain under the supervision of specialists, one child is released home.

The man took two people hostage in Norilsk, threatening explosives, Interfax reports with reference to the senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigation Department of the IC of Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Territory Olga Shamanskaya. According to her, the man called the police on Thursday morning and announced the hostages and explosives. Police officers left for the scene.

In one of the hotels of the Admiralty district of St. Petersburg, the body of a 67-year-old citizen of Brazil was discovered, the press service of the Investigative Committee reports. According to the agency, the man arrived in the northern capital in early October on a tourist visa. Presumably, the Brazilian died of heart failure. His name is not reported. A pre -investigation check was organized.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko said that on Friday negotiations were scheduled with the Lithuanian delegation to resume dairy products, Interfax reports. He noted that the Prime Minister of the Baltic Republic had already addressed him earlier. According to Onishchenko, the former ambassador of Lithuania to Moscow, who became an adviser to the prime minister, played a positive role for starting negotiations. The delegation will arrive on Thursday.