Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, Victoria Nuland, said that Russia places artillery in the Syrian provinces of Hama and Homs, reports Associated Press .

The Bank of Russia approved the businessman Vladimir Kogan by the investor of the Uralsib bank. To save the bank from bankruptcy, the entrepreneur will redeem at least 75% of Uralsib shares, the Central Bank’s website said .

The shocking musician and poet Stanislav Baretsky burned his BMW car. Confirming video appeared on the official Channel of Baretsky in YouTube. Baretsky declared intention to get rid of the German production machine and transfer to the brainchild of the domestic automobile industry back in September. Earlier, in August, the musician, together with the activists of the Orthodox Union of Cossacks, Irbis participated in the raid to search for sanctions goods in one of the Petersburg Auchanes.

The head of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) of the United States, Janet Yellen said that its department has not yet decided to increase the basic interest rate, CNBC reports. “The Fed has not yet decided to increase the rate,” she said at a hearing in the US Congress. The Fed carries out the functions of the Central Bank. The existing base rate of 0-0.25% per annum has not changed since December 2008. American banks are guided by this rate when providing loans to other banks.

The French prosecutor's office accused the former president of the International Association of athletics federations (IAAF), its honorary head of Lamin Diak, reports AFP . According to the agency, Diak is accused of receiving bribes and laundering of funds under aggravating circumstances. The same charges were brought by the former adviser to Diac on Legal Affairs Habib Sisa. In the case, a doctor who worked in the anti -doping service IAAF also takes place in the case. He was detained.

In the disaster of the passenger liner, the An-12 in South Sudan survived a team member and child, reports Reuters with reference to A atyan ATSI, representative of the press service of the President of South Sudan. At the same time, the official did not specify the citizenship of the rescued. The An-12 with the Russian team fell almost immediately after the departure from the airport of the capital of South Sudan Dzhuba.

Russian Eduard Troyanovsky defended the world champion title according to the version of the International Boxing Organization (IBF) in weight up to 63.5 kg, TASS reports. In Kazan, the athlete defeated Argentinean sesar Rene Kuenky with a technical knockout. The duel lasted 12 rounds. The 34-year-old Trojanovsky has 22 victories in his piggy bank, of which 19 a knockout, and not a single defeat.

November 11 (Wednesday) in the library-reader named after I.S. Turgenev will be a doctor of historical sciences, chief researcher at the Institute of Higher Humanitarian Studies of the RSUSU, professor of the Institute of Eastern Cultures and Antiquity of the RSU Nina Braginskaya.

Russian rescuers discovered during an examination of the fragments of the Airbus A321 aircraft, which crashed on the Sinai Peninsula on October 31, the body of the child and the remains of adults. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the director of the Department of Fire and Rescue Forces and Military Formations of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation Alexander Agafonov.

The militants of the Islamic State (IG, the group is prohibited in Russia) again took responsibility for the collapse of the Russian A321 Airbus in Egypt, reports Reuters. The application was posted on behalf of Vilaiyat Sinai - IS units on the Sinai Peninsula, where the disaster occurred. It states that the attack was committed on the occasion of the anniversary of the oath of Vilaiyat for loyalty to IG.

In the center of Moscow, a festive procession is held on the occasion of the Day of National Unity. The event is attended by about 85 thousand people, the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . The procession is organized from the Mayakovskaya metro station and goes along Tverskaya Street.

As a result of the Creak of the An-12 in the capital of Southern Sudan Dzhuba, members of the crew of the aircraft-Russian and five citizens of Armenia died. In addition to them, nine passengers - citizens of South Sudan lost their lives, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the South Sudan Army, Philip Aguer. According to him, three people survived during the crash, including the child.

During today's survey, readers of Polit.ru chose whether they agree or not with the statement that the most likely cause of the catastrophe of the Russian A321 airbus in Egypt was the explosion. As a result, 60% of readers agreed with this point of view. Experts called an explosion on board the Russian A321 aircraft the most likely cause of the crash. Do you agree with this statement?

On November 4, 1784, the architect Osip Bove was born. Personal business Osip Ivanovich (Giuseppe) Bova (1784-1834) was born in St. Petersburg in the family of Italian painter Vincenzo Giovanni Bow, who worked in the Hermitage. Back in the childhood of the future architect, his family moved to Moscow, where his entire subsequent life passed. In 1802, Osip Bova became a student of the architectural school with an expedition of the Kremlin building, which was headed by Ivan Egotov in those years.

The official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, the head of the Department of Interaction with the Media of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, presented a new song in his performance. Markin announced the release of the composition on the air of the Russian News Service. The song "Party" was written by composer Viktor Drobysh. “Vitya wrote specifically for me, he determined some of my role in this genre.