Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov and Forest City Enterprises Inc. reached an agreement as a result of which Prokhorov will receive 100% of the Brooklyn Nets basketball club and its Barclays Center sports arena in New York, Bloomberg writes , citing sources familiar with the negotiations. According to the agency, the National Basketball Association is studying the deal, the terms of which were not disclosed.

A 9-year-old boy drowned in one of the fitness centers located on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street in the north of Moscow. This was reported by the press service of the capital's department of the Investigative Committee. According to the department, the cause of the child’s death was the negligence of the coach, who did not pay attention to the boy remaining in the pool. After some time, center staff discovered the body of a drowned child in the pool.

On the sidelines of the OSCE summit in Belgrade, a meeting began between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Reuters reports . The ministerial talks were the first since the Turkish Air Force attacked a Russian Su-24 bomber on November 24. After the incident with the military plane, Lavrov canceled his trip to Istanbul, scheduled for November 25. As part of this visit, the ministers were also supposed to hold negotiations .

The Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) has sent a directive to Russian airlines and airports to immediately introduce additional aviation security measures when operating regular flights to Turkey. This is stated in a message on the department's website. As noted in the message, airlines and airports have already taken these measures to implement. The essence of the measures is not specified in the Federal Air Transport Agency.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov explained the words of Vladimir Putin, who said that the Russian military, in fact, leads the military units of the Syrian army Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin that the participants in the air operation in Syria, in fact, “lead the Syrian armed units.” The head of state made this statement on Thursday during the presentation of state awards to the Russian

The plot of Putin's Address to the Federal Assembly On December 3, President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly. Today's message will be Putin's 12th. The head of state’s speech will take place in the St. George Hall of the Moscow Kremlin, where not only members of the Federation Council and the State Duma, but also heads of regions, public figures and representatives of religious denominations gathered.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed exempting individuals from tax on coupon income on bonds. He stated this during his address to the Federal Assembly. “Individuals should be exempt from tax on coupon income on bonds,” the president said.

Photo: AR Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg celebrated the birth of his daughter with a post on the social network, where he promised to give 99% of his stake to charity. In a message that Zuckerberg posted on Tuesday evening, he said he had decided to give 99% of his Facebook stake to charity and social causes during his lifetime.

Swiss authorities have made a new series of arrests in connection with FIFA corruption. More than ten people were arrested, including two presidents of football federations, The New Yourk Times reports, citing a source. Photo: REUTERS 2015 In Switzerland on Thursday morning, a new series of arrests took place in connection with corruption in the International Football Federation (FIFA), The New Yourk Times writes , citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

They were traveling to work from the Novgorod region Photo: RBC Four employees of the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (UFSIN) died in an accident that occurred in the morning in the Tosnensky district of the Leningrad region. reports this TASS with reference to a representative of the department. “As a result of the accident, three employees of correctional colony No. 3 and one employee of correctional colony No. 4 died.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed to the State Duma with a request to support the decriminalization of a number of articles of the Criminal Code. He stated this during his address to the Federal Assembly. “I ask the State Duma to support the Supreme Court’s proposal to decriminalize a number of articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and transfer crimes that do not pose a great public danger to the category of administrative offenses,” Putin said.

US President Barack Obama admitted that the shooting that occurred the day before in California could be related to terrorism. He expressed this opinion to journalists, reports Reuters . “There is a possibility that this [shooting in California] was related to terrorism. But we don't know. There is also a possibility that this is due to a work conflict,” said the American president.

Due to the cancellation of four performances in Istanbul, the theater will lose about 26.5 million rubles Photo: facebook.com/Irina-Kolesnikova The Konstantin Tachkin Ballet Theater St Petersburg Ballet Theater cancels its planned tour to Istanbul “due to the aggravated political situation.” The press service of the theater informed the RBC St. Petersburg correspondent about this.

Police arrived at the gathering place of protesting truck drivers in the Moscow region. Journalist of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” Arseny Vesnin reported this on his Twitter . According to him, at first they offered truckers to go to a special parking lot, where “a meeting with the Ministry of Transport is possible,” but they refused. Then traffic police officers began drawing up reports for illegal parking and installed a sign prohibiting parking.

Three streets of St. Petersburg collected 2.3 million rubles from paid parking Photo: RBC The most popular paid parking place in St. Petersburg was the beginning of Vosstaniya Street. As follows from the results of a study of citizens’ activity conducted by VTB24, the main acquiring bank of the parking meter system, this street alone has collected 970 thousand rubles since September 2015.