The European Court of Human Rights has sent a request to the parties in the case of 24-year-old Nailya Rakhmanova, who complained of torture in the Zelenodolsk Department of Internal Affairs, the Kazan Human Rights Center (KHRC) reported yesterday. The Zelenodolsk Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs must submit information on the case to Strasbourg by February 13, 2013. The department's press secretary, Liliana Kulikova, says that they have not yet received documents from the ECHR.

S. Porter / Vedomosti The company hopes to be able to reduce the payments awarded to it, says a source at AFK Sistema , which controls MTS . He believes that yesterday's decision is only "the first step by the regulator and the company towards each other." AFK and MTS will soon try to get their licenses back in order to continue working in the "most densely populated" market in Central Asia, he promises.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered gasoline rationing 10 days after Hurricane Sandy hit the city, the BBC reports. Only a quarter of New York's gas stations are open, with fuel shortages after the storm leading to hours-long queues. Public transportation is still struggling to operate during rush hour. Similar measures have been introduced in New Jersey and are planned for Long Island.

Motorists who regularly fail to pay for parking in the center of Moscow and fines for this will not be allowed to leave the country, said Sergei Marinichev, General Director of the State Institution "Administrator of Moscow Parking Space", in an interview that Komsomolskaya Pravda published on Friday. "If you don't pay (for parking), the fine is 2,500 rubles. Every 15 minutes, special cars - parkons - with photo and video recording systems drive around the paid parking lots.

"Kidburg" will open in the shopping center "Gorizont" on December 1 on an area of ​​2500 sq.m., which is leased for seven years, said the general director of LLC "Kidburg" Maximilian Pivovarov. "The appearance of the children's city will strengthen the status of "Gorizont" as a family shopping and entertainment complex," confirms the general director of "Gorizont" Dan Polonsky.

P. Lisitsyn / RIA Novosti The Chinese sovereign fund Chengdong Investment Corporation and VTB Capital may become new shareholders of the world's largest potash producer, Uralkali, the company reported. Uralkali shareholder structures have issued bonds in favor of the fund and the investment bank, which can be converted into 14.5% of the company's shares. The bonds maturing in 2014 were issued by Wadge Holdings Limited and Fenguard Limited, Uralkali reported.

St. Petersburg-based OAO Levenguk plans to place 19% of its authorized capital in the IPO sector for high-tech companies at Moscow Exchange, said Anton Epifanov, co-owner and CEO of the company. According to him, the company intends to raise about 120 million rubles. The proceeds from the placement will be used to expand the Four Eyes retail chain, produce optical equipment, and expand abroad, Epifanov said.

History of the Jews 15 photos The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opens in the premises of the Bakhmetyevsky garage. The exhibition begins in the cinema, where the history of the emergence of the Jews is shown in 4D format: in ten minutes the viewer is transported from the creation of the world to the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. How the head of the Moscow region made his career 9 photos President Vladimir Putin appointed Andrei Vorobyov as acting governor of the Moscow region.

09 November 2012, 16:19 / Business OECD: The US will lose its status as the world's largest economy to China in 2016. undefined Vedomosti The US will cede its status as the world's largest economy to China in 2016, while over the longer term it will be displaced from second place by India, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study Vision 2060: A global vision for long-term growth ( "Looking to 2060: A Global Vision of Long-term Growth").

Hurricane Sandy, which hit the East Coast of the United States, caused widespread destruction not only in New York in two days. More than 8 million people were left without electricity, and as of Wednesday, 43 people had died. The economic capital of the United States was hit the hardest: the subway, transport tunnels, riverine and seaside areas were partially flooded, and at least 100 houses in Queens burned down.

10 photos During the magnificent celebration of Victory Day, the people who were the authors of this holiday often go into the shadows. Yes, we honor veterans - relatives or acquaintances, we say thank you to them in the public space, but in general the idea of ​​veterans is quite abstract.

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The long-term forecast for Russia's economic development until 2030 assumes a large-scale pension reform while maintaining the deficit of the Russian Pension Fund and without raising the retirement age, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Klepach told journalists, presenting the scenario conditions for Russia's macroeconomic development for the long term prepared by the ministry. "We are not planning to change the retirement age," Klepach said.

09 November 2012, 16:23 / Finance M&A deal of the week: Indian conglomerate buys American company, conquering the machine oil market Gulf Oil Corporation, owned by the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group, announced the purchase of the American Houghton International for $1.045 billion Natalya Lapotko Buyer: Gulf Oil Corporation Object of purchase: Houghton International Inc.

On Friday, the prosecutor demanded a sentence of 6.5 years in prison for the defendant in the "Bolotnaya case" Maxim Luzyanin. Luzyanin admitted his guilt at the investigation stage, and on Friday in the Zamoskvoretsky Court he fully agreed with the prosecutor's indictment. "Your Honor, I agree with the charges brought against me, I fully admit my guilt," Interfax reported Luzyanin as saying.