After the OPEC decision to maintain oil production at the same level, its price dropped below $ 70 per barrel The OPEC countries on Thursday at the next summit agreed not to change the current quota for oil production, which is now 30 million barrels per day. This decision was expected for many, even on the eve of the Cartel meeting, world oil prices fell to the lowest level in almost five years.

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Ilya Gushchin, Alexander Margolin and Alexei Gaskarov (from left to right) in the Zamoskvoretsky court, August 2014 The Moscow City Court, having examined the appeal of the sentence in the so -called "case of four" in the framework of the "swamp business", left it unchanged.

The speaker of the Verkhovna Rada became Vladimir Groysman, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk remained the Prime Minister. A person who said “no” Kobzon: an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia. The Czech Republic requires canceling the visit of Vladimir Putin, planned for January.

Protest in Yemen in support of Gulrukhor Rafieva, nurses from Tajikistan, stolen by unknown The American special forces and the Yemen special forces unit held a joint raid to shelter al-Qaeda in a remote area of the country near the border with Saudi Arabia, freeing eight hostages. This was reported on Wednesday by Yemen’s authorities, the information was confirmed by the Associated Press by an unexpected American official.

Over the past 40 years, the share of OPEC countries in the global oil production has declined by one and a half times. Oil exporters - before the least predictable solutions in recent years For the first time after the financial crisis of 2008, to the next ministerial meeting of the OPEC countries, which is taking place in Vienna today, so close attention of the oil market is focused.

Russian tanks are included in Chechnya in December 1994 In Moscow on Friday, November 28, the conference “War in Chechnya: political mistakes and war crimes” will be held, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the first and 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Second Chechen War. The conference organizer is the Yabloko party. The war in Chechnya and the war in Ukraine: is there a similarity? Are they extracted from lessons after Chechnya?

Arseniy Yatsenyuk President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko approved the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Earlier, the New Verkhovna Rada supported the candidacy of Yatsenyuk at her first meeting. Vladimir Groysman, a deputy from the Petro Poroshenko bloc, was elected by the speaker. After the meeting of the majority coalition, he said that the composition of the new government will be declared on the future Tuesday.

Hall of meetings of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine The New Verkhovna Rada begins work in Kyiv, supporters of European integration have a constitutional majority in it Almost a month after the election, the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation on Thursday gathered for their first meeting. He was also attended by the head of state Petro Poroshenko and members of the government.

Chairman of the Board of the Society "International Memorial" Arseny Roginsky and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Tourbieern The Secretary of General of the Council of Europe Turbjern Jagland, who arrived in Russia, visited Thursday in the Moscow office of the International Memorial organization.

Hall of meetings of the State Duma of the Russian Federation The deputy of the Just Russia faction in the State Duma Alexander Tarnavsky and the deputy of the LDPR faction Anton Ishchenko introduced the bill "On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation" to the State Duma. This is stated in the report of the Party "Fair Russia". According to Alexander Tarnavsky, the idea of creating a list of unwanted foreign organizations has long been in the air.

Participate Lev Ponomarev, Sergey Sharov-Delone, Nikolai Caucasian Vladimir Kara-Murza: Today, the Moscow City Court rejected the appeals to the defendants of the second wave of "swamp business". And from the Russian consulate in the UK came an unexpected news that the Russian Foreign Ministry did not see the grounds for confirming Russian citizenship of the famous dissident and human rights activist Vladimir Bukovsky.

ECHR building in Strasbourg The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg began considering the claim filed by Ukraine against Russia and regarding events in the Crimea and in the Donbass.

Why the Russian government, constantly and loudly declaring the special, beautiful path of Russia, actively and fiercely limits the rights and deprives the freedom of dissenters - the human rights activists Lev Ponomarev, Sergey Sharov -Delone and convicted in the "swamp case" Nikolai Caucasian