A deputy prosecutor of one of the Moscow districts was detained on suspicion of mediation in the transfer of a large bribe to an official, RIA Novosti reports citing the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. The deputy prosecutor was detained by employees of the Prosecutor General's Office and the FSB. The official, according to the department, was caught red-handed. The name of the detainee, his area of ​​work and the amount of the bribe were not specified.

Aeroflot issued funds for the transportation of Transaero passengers as airline loans. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aeroflot Kirill Androsov told RIA Novosti. He added that the company is making every effort to return these funds and protect its interests. Since the beginning of September, Transaero has been under the operational management of Aeroflot. In addition, until December 15, Aeroflot will organize the transportation of Transaero passengers.

At the beginning of November, the bike lane on the Boulevard Ring will be opened to cars. Deputy Mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov told reporters about this on Tuesday, TASS reports . He noted that the cycling season ends from November 1 to 15. Signs for cyclists on the Boulevard Ring will be removed. At the beginning of July, markings for a dedicated bicycle lane appeared on the Boulevard Ring of Moscow.

Russia filed a lawsuit in the District of Columbia court in the United States demanding to reject the application of ex-YUKOS shareholders to enforce the Hague arbitration decision to pay them $50 billion in compensation. The corresponding document is posted in the court database. “The Russian Federation requests that the applicants’ appeal for recognition of the arbitration court’s decision be rejected in full due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction,” the Russian lawsuit says.

Former general director of NTV Vladimir Kulistikov will take the post of adviser to the general director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev, the VGTRK press service told RIA Novosti. “He is a brilliant journalist and, as an adviser, will deal with journalism, those topics that will be interesting to him,” said the press service of VGTRK, adding that he will do something that he could not devote enough time to doing administrative work. previously said that Kulistikov could become Dobrodeev’s advisor .

Transaero canceled 99 flights scheduled for Thursday, October 22. This was reported on Aeroflot's Facebook page . The remaining Transaero flights on this day will be operated as scheduled, but if they are cancelled, passengers will be notified by the company's call center, the statement said. The canceled flights (except for codeshare flights) will be carried out by Aeroflot, which, along with other companies, will carry Transaero passengers until December 15 .

A woman who broke her leg with a turnstile at the Savelovskaya station filed a lawsuit to recover 600 thousand rubles from the Moscow Metro. as compensation, reports the Moscow City News Agency , citing a statement by the press secretary of the Meshchansky Court, Yulia Bocharova. According to her, the lawsuit filed by Galina Danilova states that at the Savelovskaya metro station, the turnstile doors suddenly closed and crushed her leg.

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.3 occurred in the area of ​​the island state of Vanuatu, located in the South Pacific Ocean, SBS TV channel reported, citing the US Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 131 km on Wednesday morning local time. Its epicenter was 80 km from Vanuatu. There were no reports of damage or casualties as a result of the disaster. No tsunami threat was declared.

The general director of the Russian Bayer CJSC and the general representative of Bayer in the CIS, Nils Hessmann, told RBC about the consequences of the devaluation of the ruble for the pharmaceutical business and the agreement with Polisan “If we grow to €1.3 billion, we will drink champagne” — About four months ago, on March 1, you were appointed general director of the Russian Bayer CJSC and general representative of Bayer in the CIS. Are you going to change something in the company?

Retail lending will begin to grow next year, growth will continue for three years Photo: Ekaterina Kuzmina / RBC Retail loans will begin to grow next year; at the end of 2016, retail banking will show growth, according to the Frank Research review “Retail banking services market: horses are not changed in midstream.” In 2016, mortgages will perform best of all, with lending volumes growing by 36% at the end of the year.

The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region opened a bankruptcy case against Transaero based on a claim from Sberbank received on October 19. This is evidenced by court materials, RIA Novosti reports. A hearing to consider the validity of this application is scheduled for November 25. The court also accepted Alfa Bank's application for bankruptcy of Transaero as an application to join the bankruptcy case.

Oil price at $50 per barrel. - this is for years. This opinion was expressed by the Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, speaking at the conference “Russian non-resource exports”. “We have entered a period of long low commodity prices, a long commodity cycle in which we are now and will be for a number of years, on a downward branch.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a government bill that regulates the procedure for using force and special means against prisoners, Interfax reports. Amendments were introduced for consideration by the State Duma in May 2015 . On October 8, the document was supported by the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption. At the same time, as RBC wrote , the relevant committee voted “for”, provided that the authors finalize the bill for the second reading.

Photo: Evgeny Kurskov/TASS In the 2016 budget, the army received 259 billion rubles. additional allocations. The government is going to pay for the increase in defense spending by increasing oil exports by 5 million tons and the budget deficit to 3%. Money for the military The main beneficiary of budget discussions in the government - a few days before the budget was submitted to the State Duma - turned out to be the Ministry of Defense, it follows from government materials available to RBC.

London refused to provide Moscow with the coordinates of the location of terrorists in Syria. This was stated in the UK by Alexander Yakovenko on Rossiya 24. “We posed two questions: the first is that the British actively cooperate with us, indicate the targets to hit in Syria in order to destroy ISIS. Unfortunately, I received a negative response to this. The British said that they would not cooperate with us on this issue,” he said (quoted by Interfax).