New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on television that a suspected terrorist who was preparing a series of explosions in the city had been arrested. According to AP, the suspect is 27-year-old New Yorker Jose Pimentel, a US citizen of Dominican descent. Bloomberg said that the detainee sympathizes with Al-Qaeda. According to the mayor, Pimentel was planning to blow up police cars, post offices and military units returning to the US from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Index RTS ( main session): 1495.87 ( -1.11%), MICEX Index : 1460.56 ( -1.00%). On Friday, quotations of highly liquid securities fell on average under the pressure of concerns regarding the European debt sector. Shares of ( Rosneft ROSN ) and Gazprom TATN GAZP ( , FSK UES ( Tatneft FEES) - by 2.0%, ( ) ) fell by - by 1.8%, Lukoil 2.2 % » ( LKOH) and VTB ( VTBR) - by 1.6%.

Following Standard & Poor's, Moody's downgraded Italy's government bond rating to A2 from Aa2 with a negative outlook; one of the reasons is political instability in the country on Fitch Ratings Monday upgraded Kazakhstan's long-term sovereign credit rating to BBB from BBB- with a positive outlook, citing the country's strengthening balance sheet. Fitch forecasts that government net foreign assets will reach 49% of GDP by the end of 2013, up from 37% of GDP at the end of 2010.

RBI investment and construction holding. owners: president Eduard Tiktinsky (75.01%) and Morgan Stanley (24.99%). revenue – $67 million (2010, company data). net profit – $9 million. The company acquired 1.2 hectares in the Frunzensky District on Zaozernaya St., 3A, as well as 0.5 hectares on Savushkina St., 7A, RBI President Eduard Tiktinsky said on Friday.

Kinopoisk The average budget for a Hollywood project of $40 million does not prevent us from calling "Time" an auteur film: Andrew Niccol is the screenwriter, director and one of the producers of the film. In the late 90s, he became famous for two science fiction films: "Gattaca", which he directed himself, and "The Truman Show", for which he wrote the script. As they like to repeat in the new film, this means that "time is in the right hands".

A special operation against suspected members of a gang has been underway in Nalchik since 6:00 Moscow time, a counter-terrorist operation regime has been introduced in a number of districts, and a shootout is underway. A group of militants was blocked on Khmelnitsky Street, and they opened fire on security forces, a source in Nalchik law enforcement told the agency. There is no information yet on casualties or deaths.

It is difficult to coordinate large projects with the Moscow authorities, whose policy is aimed at combating traffic jams and improving the transport situation in the city, because the construction of new districts does not contribute to solving these problems, explains Artem Tsogoev, project manager of the Trinfico Property Management company.

After Medvedev returned from the APEC summit in Honolulu, the presidential administration decided to postpone the announcement of his address. The original date, November 23, was reported on November 9 by RIA Novosti and Interfax, noting that due to the gathering in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the last session of the State Duma was postponed to Thursday; the Duma Committee on Rules has already prepared a draft of such a resolution.

November 21, 2011, 16:38 / Finance The ECB must act to save the eurozone George Soros This article was written jointly with Peter Bofinger, Professor of Economics at Würzburg University, and published in the Financial Times The current crisis in the eurozone bond market is strongly reminiscent of the situation in the fall of 2008.

On November 21, a bipartisan commission of the US Congress will officially announce that its members have failed to agree on a plan to reduce the budget deficit. This was reported to the television company CNN by aides to congressmen from the Democratic and Republican parties. They note that a final decision has not yet been made, but they consider the most likely announcement that there is no agreement.

Arena of Ambition. 2006 Construction of the stadium has begun 84000 The maximum number of spectators that the stadium can accommodate 370% Increase in construction cost estimates over five years The construction estimate for the new stadium on Krestovsky Island may be adjusted, Vyacheslav Semenenko, chairman of the construction committee, said on Friday.

The housing and construction cooperative (ZhSK) of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia "Kino-7" won a lawsuit against the prefecture of the Central District of Moscow to recognize the ban on the construction of a residential building in 1st Samotechny Lane as illegal. This was reported by the company "Inteko", which is a co-investor in the project and the general contractor for the construction. A residential building with underground parking with a total area of ​​11,630 sq. m.

In the article “To Berlin from Vnukovo” (No. 218 from 18.11.2011, p. 08), due to incorrect simultaneous translation, the words of Lufthansa Director in Russia and the CIS Ronald Schulz are incorrectly quoted. His quote should read: “Moscow is such a big city that theoretically it would be possible to fly to even three airports.”

M. Stulov The starting price for the privatization of state-owned companies should not be lower than the price at which their initial public offering was conducted – Sechin proposed including this condition in the privatization program for 2011-2013 (Vedomosti has his letter to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dated November 16).