The surplus of the federal budget of the Russian Federation for January-October amounted to 1.126 trillion rubles or 1.9% of GDP. This was reported by the first deputy head of the Ministry of Finance Tatyana Nesterenko, reports TASS . According to her, income for 10 months amounted to 11.891 trillion rubles (83.5% of the total revenue approved by the law on the budget for the year), expenses - 10.764 trillion (77.1%).

The term of the investigation in the case of the Bashneft shares, one of the main defendants of which is the head of the AFC System Vladimir Yevtushenkov, was extended until April 28, 2015. It is reported by Interfax . Currently, in the Basmanny court the issue of extending Eugene house arrest until March 16, 2015. According to the investigation, a businessman can destroy evidence in the case, as well as put pressure on witnesses and other production participants.

Maria Blokhina Nagorny Karabakh photo: razm.info On November 12, the Mi-26 military helicopter, which made a training flight, was shot down in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of the Azerbaijani side. As a result, the helicopter crew died - three people. This incident threatens the region with the escalation of the Karabakh conflict.

Andrey Levkin Kakha Bendukidze died. Russian businessman, Georgian reformer. And here is one more, almost the main quality of its quality: he knew how to produce common sense. Absolutely specifically, without introductory words and a glass of wagons. Here we must take into account that there is a trap: a direct presentation of some things with the full conviction that this is common sense - this is a demagogue manner.

On November 13, another event was held in the I. S. Turgenev library named after I. S. Turgenev from the cycle “Public Lectures Polit.ru”. This time it was again dedicated to the book, which included in the short list of the Enlightener Prize of this year. The doctor of historical sciences, professor of the European University in St. Petersburg and the leading researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Viktorovich Yarov spoke about his book.

After then, as on November 12, the descent device PHILAE reached the core of the Cometa Churumov-Gerasimenko, the news coming from the space did not lose drama. It soon became clear that he twice bounced off the surface of the comet and only managed to stay for the third time. The harpoons intended for fixing on the ground could not fulfill their task, the engine did not work, which at the time of landing was supposed to press the apparatus to the ground.

Currently, there are at least two promising vaccines from Ebola's fever in the world. In the case of successful clinical trials of these drugs, their massive use may begin next year. This was reported by TASS with reference to the special envoy of the UN Secretary General to combat the fever of Ebola David Nabarro. “The first phase of testing continues. We have two promising potential vaccines.

The Russian military transport aircraft IL-76, which made a flight from Pskov to the Kaliningrad region on the evening of November 12, did not violate the borders of the airspace of Lithuania and Estonia. This was stated in the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands, thereby refuting his own statement, voiced earlier, reports Reuters .

On the morning of Friday, in Kyrgyzstan, a strong earthquake occurred near the border with Kazakhstan, the magnitude of which is estimated at 6.0. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the seismological experimental and methodological expedition of the Committee for Science of the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan. The epicenter of underground shocks was located 130 kilometers south of the largest city in Kazakhstan Alma-Ata. There, an earthquake was felt with a force of 3-4 points.

The secretary of the Central Committee of the North Korean labor party Tsoi Ren He will arrive in Moscow on November 17. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. According to the message, Tsoi Ren He will discuss with representatives of the Russian authorities pressing issues of bilateral relations, including ways to activate trade and economic interaction and the situation on the Korean peninsula.

On November 21, the Echo of Moscow Board of Directors at absentee vote will consider the issue of the editor -in -chief of the radio station, as well as the editorial office and its format. This is stated in the notification of the head of Gazprom-Media, published on the Echo of Moscow website , Mikhail Lesin. The editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, in an interview with RBC , said that he was regarding the first paragraph of the vote as a threat of his shift from the post.

The deputies are in a hurry to dehrilize the Russian economy. The law on controlled foreign companies, which will oblige foreign companies to pay taxes in Russia, is planned to be fully introduced not from 2017, as previously planned, but from 2016 - in this way the transition period will be halved.

Normally, each of us has two copies of each gene: one from the mother and one from the father. Plants have often more than two to three, four, or even six to eight. This phenomenon, called polyploidia, was known for a long time, but only now it turned out that this allows plants to recover from damage faster. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urban-Shampein found out why plants may need to double the amount of DNA in their cells.

Google rented from NASA the Moffett airfield located directly in Silicon Valley. Google has long looked at this airfield. Initially, the company wanted to rent it for the maintenance of Larry Page and Sergei Brin to reconstruct three airfield buildings, but NASA rejected this proposal and announced a tender for a project for the reconstruction and modernization of the airfield.

The unofficial “number two” in the hierarchy of the North Korean power vertical Cho Ren HE will soon visit Russia as a special envoy of the head of the DPRK Kim Jong -un. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the North Korean Information Agency of TSAC.