The International Criminal Court (ICC) may begin an investigation into the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia. This is stated in a statement released by the court. It notes that prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has notified the ICC of her intention to submit a request to open an investigation. It must be reviewed by the Pre-Trial Chamber, which will decide whether there are reasons to open an investigation into the conflict.

The operator of paid parking in Moscow allowed a targeted expansion of the paid parking zone in December. The head of the State Public Institution “Administrator of the Moscow Parking Space” (AMPS) Alexander Grivnyak told reporters about this, the Moscow agency reports . “I do not rule out that in December there may also be a targeted expansion of paid parking space,” Grivnyak said.

Turkey threatens Russia with refusal to purchase gas due to the intrusion of Russian military aircraft into its air zone. It could cost Gazprom $9.2 billion a year Photo: REUTERS 2015 “We are the number one buyer of natural gas from Russia. The loss of Turkey would be a serious loss for Russia. If necessary, Turkey can buy natural gas from a variety of places,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by Reuters .

Alphabet, the parent company and owner of Google, has purchased a domain that includes all 26 letters of the English alphabet, the reports Wall Street Journal . According to the Whois Internet service, the owner of the domain abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, created back in 1999, changed on October 6, 2015. Alphabet confirmed the purchase of the domain.

Photo: Valery Matitsin/TASS Officially, passengers of the Transaero company, which is on the verge of bankruptcy, must either be transported on other flights or receive a refund for their tickets. We used specific examples to figure out what the owners of these tickets should do. Five days after the announcement of the impending bankruptcy, Transaero officially began canceling flights. The carrier canceled its first 28 flights on Tuesday, with another 32 canceled on Wednesday.

The final version of the Bellingcat investigation into the Boeing crash in Donbass confirmed the project’s conclusions about the use of the Russian Buk and refuted alternative versions of events from Almaz-Antey and the Russian Ministry of Defense The wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing plane near Donetsk. Archive photo (Photo: REUTERS 2015) The independent expert group Bellingcat on Thursday published the full version of the report on the investigation into the Boeing crash in Donbass.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov discussed with the diplomatic adviser to the French President Jacques Audibert and the political director of the French Foreign Ministry Nicolas de Riviere the coordination of efforts to combat the terrorist group "Islamic State" (its activities are prohibited in Russia). This was reported on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Investigators from the prosecutor's office of the German state of Lower Saxony, accompanied by police officers, came to search the headquarters of the Volkswagen concern in Wolfsburg. The investigative actions are related to the case against the company’s management, which was initiated on September 28.

Photo: AP The NATO Defense Ministers' Summit opens in Brussels. Participants will discuss the growing tension from Russia's actions in Syria and the doubling of the alliance's response force. NATO representatives spoke about their expectations from the bloc's defense ministers' summit scheduled for Thursday.

Oil prices will not fall lower, Credit Suisse is confident. Demand for oil has stabilized, production in non-OPEC countries is declining, and, most importantly, it is profitable for Saudi Arabia to maintain prices at current levels Saudi oil producers control 13% of oil production and the vast majority of spare capacity.

The government increased the 2016 budget by 175 billion rubles. - mainly due to the restoration of expenditures on the power unit, which the Ministry of Finance proposed to cut. This means that the budget deficit will not be 2.8% of GDP, but 3% Photo: "RIA Novosti" The government decided to spend 175 billion rubles in 2016. more than what the Ministry of Finance offered yesterday.

The number of victims of the landslide that occurred on the night of October 2 in the capital of Guatemala has grown to 215 people, writes Noticias Terra , citing official government information. The disaster killed at least 215 people, with many remains still unidentified, according to government data. About 300 more people are considered missing. was caused by The landslide heavy rainfall. As a result of the tragedy, about 125 houses are buried under the rubble of earth and stones.

The UK will join the deployment of NATO troops in the Baltics to defend against “Russian aggression”. The decision is expected to be announced at today's NATO ministerial summit in Brussels British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon (Photo: AP) The UK will join German and US plans to deploy NATO troops on a long-term basis in the Baltics to deter “Russian aggression” and strengthen the alliance’s eastern borders.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko congratulated writer Svetlana Alexievich on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. this . reported The press service of the head of state “Your creativity did not leave indifferent not only Belarusians, but also readers in many countries of the world,” the president noted. He expressed sincere joy for Alexievich’s success and hope that the award will serve Belarus and the Belarusian people.

The Moscow Arbitration Court registered a claim by Sberbank to recover more than $224 million (more than 14 billion rubles) from the company Southern Kuzbass, which is part of Mechel. Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC From the information on the Arbitration Court website it follows that the claim against the Southern Kuzbass coal company was submitted to the court on October 6. The claim has not yet been accepted for proceedings.