President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko discussed issues of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine by telephone, reports . the press service of the head of state Barroso, in particular, said that the total amount of aid that will arrive in Ukraine by the end of this year will be €760 million.

At a train station in east Jerusalem, an unknown man drove a car into a crowd of passengers, the BBC reports. As a result of the collision, a child was killed and eight other people were injured. The man tried to run away from the scene but was shot dead by security personnel at the station. Police said they are classifying the attack on the crowd as a terrorist attack. The incident was the most serious to occur in east Jerusalem in recent months.

The son of the president of the French company Total, Christophe de Margerie, who died in Moscow, Christophe, will come to Moscow to pick up his body. This was reported by the Le Figaro newspaper together with AFP, citing Bernard Sorr, the mayor of the Norman commune of Saint-Père-sur-Mer, where De Margerie will be buried. It is reported that De Margerie's funeral service will be held in Paris, after which his body will be transported to Normandy and buried.

The Ministry of Economic Development (MED) of the Russian Federation has received an application from Rosneft to receive funds from the National Welfare Fund, a department representative told Interfax . The document was received on October 21. The period for its consideration is 20 days. Today it became known that the Ministry of Energy has approved Rosneft’s application to receive funds from the National Welfare Fund.

The Bank of Russia reported that Monday, October 20, 2014, became the first working day in the last two weeks when the Central Bank did not intervene on the foreign exchange market of the Moscow Exchange Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC According to officially published data, over the previous 11 trading sessions (from October 3 to October 19), the Bank of Russia sold $13.354 billion during currency interventions. Another $4 million was sold by the Central Bank on October 1.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation will hold the first foreign currency deposit auction to place temporarily free funds of the Treasury in early November, said the head of the department, Anton Siluanov.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation will hold the first currency deposit auction to place temporarily free funds of the Treasury in early November 2014, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters. According to TASS , the amount that will be offered to banks at the first auction was not discussed. However, the currency must be returned to the Treasury by the end of the year. So far, two categories of auctions are planned, the minister added.

State Duma deputies Joseph Kobzon and Vladimir Pligin (both members of the United Russia faction) submitted to the lower house a bill establishing parliamentary pensions for members of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of the 1989-1991 convocation. The text of the bill is posted on the official website of the State Duma.

On the afternoon of October 21, the name of the company involved in removing snow from the runway was changed on the Vnukovo Airport website. This happened shortly after a plane crash when a plane carrying the president of the French oil company Total, Christophe de Margerie, collided with a snowplow Snow removal equipment on the territory of Vnukovo-3 airport (Photo: TASS) attention to the change in the company's name drew Journalists from the Izvestia newspaper .

The lawyer for the driver of the snowplow, Vladimir Martynenko, believes that the airport dispatcher could be to blame for the crash of the Falcon 50 plane at Vnukovo: he probably did not notice that the car remained on the runway Lawyer Alexander Karabanov and snowplow driver Vladimir Martynenko (from left to right) during interrogation by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (Photo: TASS) Alexander Karabanov said live on the Ekho Moskvy radio station that his client was sober

In Saudi Arabia, a court sentenced 13 al-Qaeda members suspected of preparing a terrorist attack against American soldiers stationed in Qatar, Reuters reports, citing a report by the Saudi news agency SPA. The terrorists received sentences, the harshest of which included 30 years in prison. Among those convicted were 11 Saudis, one Afghan and one Qatari.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu highly appreciated the Vostok-2014 command and staff exercises, the press service of the ministry reports. Sergei Shoigu The Vostok-2014 exercises took place on September 19-26, and involved more than 155 thousand military personnel, about 8 thousand units of weapons and military equipment, including 4 thousand armored combat vehicles, 632 aircraft and 84 ships.

Standards for the provision of medical care in Moscow are not met, and free medicine is being replaced by paid medicine, the Accounts Chamber has found out. The capital's mayor's office explained the increase in the volume of paid services by the growing demand for medical care from visitors and the legalization of the market. Photo: TASS The audit of the capital's free healthcare for 2013 was carried out in March 2014.

The former Minister of Defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Igor Girkin (Strelkov), asked to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin about Kyiv’s plans to “defeat Novorossiya.” He made his request public on YouTube. “I am receiving a continuous stream of information about the preparation of an offensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and gangs of the so-called National Guard on Donetsk,” Strelkov said.

Big business was unable to defend relief in the bill on controlled foreign companies, the main document in the fight against offshore companies. It was submitted to the State Duma on behalf of the deputies and with the support of all four factions and does not take into account the majority of proposals from entrepreneurs.