A friend of the dictator of Zimbabwe and Angolan oil workers, “secret billionaire” Sam Pa, for the time being, enjoyed the special favor of state-owned companies of the PRC. Now Chinese law enforcement officers are interested in him On the afternoon of October 8, 2015, Hong Kong businessman Sam Pa was arrested in a Beijing hotel. His detention became known only a week later from a report in the Chinese business publication Caixin. The businessman's current location is not disclosed.

Gazprom will transfer unwelded pipes intended for South Stream to the needs of Nord Stream 2. Pipes welded and laid in trenches for 18 billion rubles. It will no longer be possible to use it, Vedomosti writes. Photo: "RIA Novosti" Sources of the publication close to pipe companies said that in total Gazprom managed to weld and lay in trenches about 240 km of pipes out of the planned 1625 km of the Eastern route of the Southern Corridor.

The first video from the scene of the accident, which occurred in the south of France, has been published. Material provided TV channel by TF1 . The footage shows a helicopter flying around the scene of the incident. Rescuers carry the victim away from the scene of the tragedy (Photo: REUTERS 2015) The accident occurred on Friday morning on the highway connecting Puisseguin and the commune of Saint-Emilion in the Gironde department. A truck and a bus collided in a dangerous area.

The Board of Directors of Transaero has elected a new CEO of the airline. Instead of Dmitry Saprykin, appointed by Aeroflot, Transaero was headed by the company’s deputy flight director, current pilot Valery Zaitsev, Kommersant writes , citing sources. The decision was made at an absentee meeting of the board of directors, which took place the day before, interlocutors familiar with the situation clarified.

Sberbank is one of three banks that did not fulfill its obligations at the Ministry of Finance auction for the placement of OFZ. This is the first refusal of a deal in the history of government securities placements. View of the building of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation (Photo: Anton Belitsky/TASS) The Moscow Exchange on Friday, October 23, revealed banks that did not fulfill orders to purchase OFZ at the Ministry of Finance auction on October 21.

The company will increase profits by 75% in a year Photo: portspb.ru Based on the results of 2015, JSC “Passenger Port of St. Petersburg “Marine Facade” can pay dividends to St. Petersburg for the first time in the amount of 25 million rubles. writes about this Kommersant with reference to the president of the port, Serik Zhusupov.

The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a draft federal budget for 2016 and a number of related bills, Interfax reports. In accordance with the document, budget revenues for 2016 are planned at 13.738 trillion rubles, expenses - 16.098 trillion rubles, the budget deficit will be 2.36 trillion rubles, or 3% of GDP.

More than 40 people have died in a car accident in the south of France. According to preliminary information, there were elderly people on the bus that collided with the truck. After an accident, a bus and a truck caught fire The collision between a bus and a truck occurred on the road from the city of Puisseguin to the commune of Saint-Emilion, about 60 km from Bordeaux in the south of France. According to Reuters , 42 people died as a result of the accident, all of them French citizens.

US President Barack Obama vetoed the country's military budget bill, previously approved by Congress. Among other things, the document authorized the supply of weapons to Ukraine in the amount of $300 million. US President Barack Obama (Photo: RIA Novosti) reports that United States President Barack Obama vetoed the country's $612 billion military budget bill for 2016 Reuters . This document, among other things, authorizes the supply of weapons to Ukraine in the amount of $300 million.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to French leader Francois Hollande over the death of 42 people in a collision between a bus and a truck in the south of France. This is stated in a statement from the Kremlin press service. Putin conveyed words of sympathy and support to the families and friends of the victims and wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured, the statement said. A car accident in the south of France occurred on Friday morning.

South African President Jacob Zuma has canceled a planned increase in university tuition fees for next year. This is stated in the presidential statement . The decision was made after Zuma met with representatives of the university community, including student leaders. “At the meeting, a number of problems were raised, the solution of which needs to be completed.

The leader of the Moldovan opposition “Our Party” Renato Usatii was detained for 72 hours, the press secretary of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Moldova Maria Vieru told reporters, TASS reports . This information was previously announced by the chairman of the Socialist Party, Igor Dodon, who, as Notepad Moldova writes , spoke with Usatii’s lawyers and with the politician himself. “We agreed with his lawyers that once every half hour or hour I will go there and see what the situation is.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will transfer 1% of the company's shares, which is almost a third of his stake. this He announced on his Twitter account. “I will transfer 1/3 of my shares (exactly 1% of all company shares) to employee shareholders in order to invest directly in our employees,” he wrote. He later added: “For me, I would rather have a smaller part of something big than a large part of something small.

Republican Party representative Paul Ryan has announced his candidacy for the post of Speaker of the US House of Representatives, reports Reuters . “I believe that we are ready to move forward as one, united team. And I am ready to be Speaker,” Ryan said in a letter sent to fellow party members in the lower house of Congress. As the agency notes, Republicans intend to present a candidate for speaker on October 28 and hold a vote in the House of Representatives on October 29.

The man who killed two people at a school in the Swedish city of Trollhättan had racist motives. reports this with reference to the police Associated Press . Law enforcement called the attack in the city of Trollhättan a “hate crime.” This conclusion was influenced by a search of the attacker's apartment, as well as the results of an analysis of how he dressed, how he behaved at the crime scene and how he chose his victims.