Cuban military specialists have been sent to Syria to train soldiers in Bashar al-Assad’s army and operate Russian tanks. Fox News channel reports this with reference to its sources. Soldiers of the Cuban army. Archive photo (Photo: REUTERS 2015) According to Fox News, citing information from the Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, the commander of the Cuban Armed Forces, General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, recently visited Syria.

USM Holdings of Alisher Usmanov announced plans to invest more than $100 million in esports.

Yuri Saprykin became the editorial director of the MoscowTimes publishing house, according to the publishing house’s Facebook page. He will help “improve existing publications, be responsible for new initiatives and affiliate programs.” Yuri Saprykin (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev/TASS) Former editor-in-chief of the joint editorial office of Rambler - Afisha, Yuri Saprykin, became editorial director at the MoscowTimes publishing house. This is stated in a message on the ID's Facebook page.

According to officials, there are areas where exceeding the altitude is permissible I. Albin (Photo: gov.spb.ru) Residential construction in St. Petersburg, at the proposal of the chief architect, will be limited to 12 floors. The proposal to limit the height of new buildings in St. Petersburg was supported by the governor, said Vice-Governor Igor Albin, answering a question from RBC St. Petersburg.

The court placed under house arrest the co-owner of Mosmetroholding, Alexander Smirnov, who was detained in the case of theft during the construction of a new Moscow metro station Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC The Tverskoy Court of Moscow on Thursday sent co-owner of the Mosmetroholding company Alexander Smirnov under house arrest, an RBC correspondent reports from the courtroom.

Norway plans to return back to Russia some of the Syrian refugees who arrive in the Scandinavian kingdom through the Russian-Norwegian border. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the country's immigration authorities. According to the Norwegian Immigration Office, since the beginning of 2015, about 1.2 thousand Syrian citizens have arrived in Norway from Russia (last year there were no more than ten).

Tatyana Navka commented on the interview with Dmitry Peskov’s daughter on the Dozhd TV channel that there was no wedding with the press secretary of the Russian president. In an interview with Sobesednik, Navka said that Elizaveta Peskova was “just confused and having a hard time.” She called “criminal” the desire of Dozhd host Ksenia Sobchak to take advantage of this situation. “I hope and believe that Lisa will grow up, realize everything herself and figure it out,” Navka said.

An extension of the freeze on pension savings into 2016 will reduce the market for initial placements by 30%, an expert from Sberbank CIB believes. This year, the demand for ruble bonds was supported by non-state pension funds Photo: "RIA Novosti" Freezing pension savings for 2016 will leave the local bond market without support from pension money managers, believes Oksana Klypina, director of capital markets at Sberbank CIB.

Two days were enough for federal customs to change its position on whether Russians can order sanctioned goods through online intermediaries. Back on October 13, the Federal Customs Service wrote to RBC that it was possible, but on Thursday it decided that it was impossible. Photo: Lori that customs officials allow Russians to order sanctioned products in Europe or the United States through delivery services RBC wrote on October 14 .

The Russian military fleet has attracted up to ten civilian vessels to transport Syria, including container ships and tankers that previously sailed under foreign flags, media reports Bulk carrier Alexander Tkachenko in the Bosphorus Strait with military equipment on board, September 6, 2015 (Photo: REUTERS 2015) As a source familiar with the situation told the Interfax agency, civilian vessels had to be used due to the increased intensity of military transport to Syria and the need to support

The Syrian regime has achieved only limited tactical gains in the week it has waged a “broad offensive” backed by Russian air power, analysts at the US Institute for the Study of War conclude.

Russian clients with assets of less than $5 million faced mass closure of accounts in the Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse in the fall, three sources in the private banking market told Forbes. According to the magazine’s interlocutors, the largest Swiss banks UBS and Credit Suisse began to en masse close accounts of Russian clients whose assets amount to less than $5 million.

Reduced prices for mobile devices have made accessories the main profitable category for cellular retail, according to an MTS study. Its competitors say that their profitability of smartphone sales has not decreased Photo: "RIA Novosti" Unprofitable smartphones The decline in the margins of smartphone sales has made accessories for gadgets the main category generating profit for cellular retail, according to a report on this market segment published by MTS on Thursday.

Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said that the reserve of frozen pension savings in the amount of 342 billion rubles. can be used for additional indexation of pensions in 2016, Interfax reports. Golodets did not specify the likelihood of such a scenario. “We will discuss this,” she said at a meeting on the development of children’s tourism at the Artek camp. The volume of indexations will, according to her, depend on the state of the economy.

Pobeda Airlines began selling tickets for flights on the Moscow – Kaliningrad route. Transportation from Moscow to the westernmost region of Russia will begin on November 4, 2015. “The start date of the flights was not chosen by chance: National Unity Day implies the closeness of all residents of Russia. Therefore, on November 4, Pobeda aircraft will connect Kaliningrad, which is a Russian exclave, with the capital,” the airline said in a statement .