The police opened a criminal case under the article “ hooliganism” against the instigators of a mass brawl between construction workers from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan on the territory of the Mountain Carousel sports and tourist complex in Sochi , the press service of the city’s Internal Affairs Directorate reported on Wednesday. A case has been opened against five instigators of the conflict. Administrative protocols have been drawn up for the rest.

Here are collected articles, essays, notes written at different times and for different reasons. Some are obviously commissioned, others are just as obviously written at the call of the heart. Although usually the two coincide: without loving the artist, photographer, author, whose preface to a collection or album she had to write, Ulitskaya would never have picked up the pen.

S. Nikolaev / Vedomosti Over the past month, 8,556 apartments were sold in the capital, according to statistics published by the territorial administration of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) for Moscow. Compared to the same month last year, the market grew by almost 13%, by 12% compared to October 2010, by almost 55% compared to October 2009, and by 50% compared to October 2008.

In 2011, 1,600 businesses were confiscated from the Italian mafia – construction companies, medical institutions, mines, villas, vineyards, castles, hotels and supermarkets. However, it turned out that confiscation is only half the battle; it is also necessary to find managers who will be able to effectively manage the assets, which requires specific skills. “If there is no training, you can kill the enterprise,” admits Andrea Dara, a manager of such assets.

The largest private oil producing company in Russia, OJSC Lukoil, announced the purchase of a quarter of the offshore project in Sierra Leone. The seller of a 25% stake in the project to develop block SL-4B-10 in the Gulf of Guinea was its operator, the Canadian Talisman Energy. The transaction amount is not disclosed, and the block's reserves are also not provided. Other participants in the project are Malaysian Petronas, which owns 25%, and British Prontinal, which owns 20%.

07 November 2012, 16:01 Rigla lawyer shot his colleagues out of hatred for humanity An employee of the Rigla pharmaceutical company, environmental activist Dmitry Vinogradov, opened fire in an office in the north-east of Moscow, shooting five colleagues on the spot and seriously wounding two more; a few hours before the crime, the shooter left a “manifesto” on the social network “VKontakte”, in which he declared hatred of humanity, which is exhausting the resources of the planet Yulia Kotova

07 November 2012, 17:16 Shopping center collapses in Ghana, 200 people may be trapped under rubble Yulia Kotova A multi-storey shopping center building collapsed in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, killing three people and about 200 more may be trapped under the rubble, the British broadcasting corporation BBC reported on Wednesday. According to the latest data, rescuers recovered the bodies of three victims from under the rubble. A BBC reporter witnessed rescuers lifting at least one person alive.

The Moscow police conducted searches at a company to whose accounts more than half a billion rubles allocated for the federal target program "GLONASS" were transferred, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reported.

Secret Tenerife Last year, Mercadona SA suddenly hired 6,500 new employees - the most hired by any Spanish company for a long time. At the same time, the chain's sales soared by 8% and remain high to this day. German recipe The secret to success is not so complicated. The company used German productivity-boosting technologies. It introduced flexible working hours, launched large-scale staff training, and tied the size of the annual bonus to performance.

Democrats will retain the majority in the Senate following the congressional elections, American media outlets that are counting the votes predict. On Tuesday, Americans, in addition to the president, elected the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate. Democrats won Senate seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and retained Missouri, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Republicans won a seat in Nebraska. Democrats currently have 49 seats in the Senate, while Republicans have 44.

In the article "Aerohotel for Krasnodar" (No. 207 of 10/31/2012, page 08, "South of Russia" issue) the name of the entrepreneur Evgeny Taravkov is incorrectly indicated. The editors apologize.

Participants in the Sea Launch project may move their base port from Long Beach (USA) to Cam Ranh (Vietnam), where a Russian naval base was previously located, a source in the Russian rocket and space industry said on Wednesday. "Sea Launch" is an international project to launch geostationary communications satellites from a sea launch platform that can be installed in the most energy-efficient (close to the equator) points of the World Ocean.

The defense of Pussy Riot punk band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who was sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism after an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, filed a petition with the court on Wednesday to defer the execution of the sentence due to the presence of a young child, said Tolokonnikova’s lawyer Mark Feigin.

The editor-in-chief of the Ura.ru news agency, Aksana Panova, wrote on her Facebook page that she is at the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region, where she is being charged. "The charges have begun to be brought. Then - a preventive measure," Panova wrote. The press service of the Main Investigation Department promises to comment on this information later.

07 November 2012, 14:36 ​​/ Politics Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Vietnam want to trade without duties Negotiations on the creation of a free trade zone will begin in 2013; Medvedev promised to prevent a sharp increase in imports of light industry products Maxim Tovkaylo Prime Ministers of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung and Russia Dmitry Medvedev / A.