We are used to thinking that the political events that occur in certain countries are associated with the will of politicians, social or religious leaders. However, if you look at the political picture from the perspective of the natural sciences, then the will of specific personalities can be compared with matches. They will help to light a fire or even arrange a fire only if there is a combustible material. And whether this material will be largely associated with natural phenomena.

AliExpress Chinese Retail Plopage plans to launch the sale of Russian merchants from November 11. This was announced by Slon Magazine by the director of the business development director of the Chinese Online Relatel in Russia and the general director of Alibaba.com (RU) Mark Zavadsky. “We have long discussed and tested the mechanism to launch Russian sellers at the AliExpress site,” he explained.

The export of hours from Switzerland in the third quarter of 2015 decreased by 7.2%, follows from the country's customs service . According to Bloomberg, the current quarterly decline in export in this segment was the strongest from the crisis of 2009. In January-September of the current year, according to the Swiss Watch Industry Federation, the exports of the watch decreased by 2% to 15.8 billion francs ($ 16.5 billion).

A large businessman, built into a political elite, in good relations with representatives of the federal authorities, living in a luxurious palace, with ambitious plans in business, comes to the City Hall of Krasnogorsk and personally shoots Deputy Mayor Yuri Karaulov and the head of Krasnogorsk electric networks Georgy Kotlyarenko.

The US military distributed a memorandum of the prevention of air incidents in Syria, the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov said, Interfax reports. “We expect that this document will apply to aviation of all countries of the Antihilov coalition. At least, the Americans pledged to bring the agreed rules to all their partners operating in Syria, ”he added.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation approved in the final third reading a bill on a new cutting of districts to elections mixing urban and rural territories. 303 deputies voted for the document, against 86, there were no abstained. The live broadcast of the meeting is on the State Duma website. According to the bills proposed by the authors, deputies Viktor Kidyev and Vladimir Pligin, everywhere, except for Moscow, St.

The Ukrainian military began the withdrawal of tanks, artillery and mortars from the line of contact of the participants in the armed conflict in the Donetsk region. Interfax reports that the speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Leonid Matyukhin from Kramatorsk said about this. “Today, the implementation of the second stage of tanks, artillery guns with a caliber of less than 100 millimeters and mortars with a caliber up to 120 millimeters begins.

The Board of Directors of Gazprom agreed to increase the company's investment program for 2015 to 1 trillion 43 billion rubles, the company said . The initial volume of the program, which was approved in December 2014, amounted to 804 billion rubles. The change in the parameters of the investment program for 2015 is mainly associated with an increase in the volume of long -term financial investments, Gazprom noted.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation) spoke about the destruction of the Moscow cell of the Hizb Ut-Tahrir al-Islami terrorist organization, whose activities are prohibited in Russia. This was reported on the website of the department.

The French bank Credit Agricole will pay the US authorities $ 787 million as part of the settlement of violations of sanctions against Iran, Cuba and other states, the US Department of Justice said . The bank will pay $ 385 million to the New York financial services department, a fine of $ 90 million in the Federal Reserve System, $ 156 million in the Manhattan Prosecutor's Office and Columbia District.

In the first half of 2015, the oil revenue of Russia decreased by $ 100 billion compared to the same period last year. Such data are given in the report of the US Department of Finance on the situation in the global economy and in the foreign exchange market. The report notes that a drop in oil prices from $ 105 per barrel in the first half of 2014 to $ 55 per barrel in 2015 became an important factor in the balancing of the world economy.

Lithuanian companies and entrepreneurs must reduce exports to Russia and reorient to the West. This was stated by the Minister of Finance of Lithuania Rimantas Shajus, Delfi reports . According to him, the Russian market is too risky, and its purchasing power has decreased. Among the negative factors, Shajyus noted not only the antisanctions of the Russian Federation, introduced in response to the sanctions of the West, but also the general economic recession.

Oleg Navalny, convicted in the Yves Rocher case, was recognized as an malicious violator of order in the Oryol colony No. 5, it is planned to be transferred to strict conditions of detention (SUS), his brother, oppositionist Alexei Navalny, wrote in his blog.

Azerbaijani methanol plant Azmeco suspended gas purchases from the Russian Gazprom. It is reported by Report.az . As the source explains with reference to Azmeco, due to the decrease in world prices for methanol gas purchases at the current contract price (which exactly is not specified), steel for the plant is unprofitable. “According to the current conditions, production was at a loss,” the enterprise noted. Under what conditions the Azerbaijani side can resume purchases, is not specified.

The Russian military operation in Syria has been going on for almost three weeks, and how much more time it will take is difficult to say. Earlier, the Russian authorities stated that the aerospace forces would be in Latakia for no longer than three to four months. According to President Vladimir Putin, the operation will continue all the time while the troops of Bashar al -Assad are offensive on the opposition fighters and the Islamic State prohibited in the Russian Federation.