The Leningrad Regional Court reinstated the former head of the Lomonosov Municipal District Administration, Yevgeny Ustinov, who is in custody on charges of extortion, to his post on September 14. Ustinov was arrested in August, and his term of detention was extended until January 2013. According to the investigation, in February 2012, he and other individuals demanded that a businessman re-register the ownership rights to a company worth over 112 million rubles.

The Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) yesterday approved the volumes of import quotas for meat imports in 2013 for the Customs Union member states.

The ceasefire announced by Israel the day before yesterday expired on Wednesday night, but large-scale military actions are unlikely to resume – the Israeli army’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip has probably been cancelled or postponed indefinitely. High-ranking mediators have joined the talks, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Today, the Agora Association will file a lawsuit with the Zamoskvoretsky Court demanding that the inaction of the Ministry of Justice, which refuses to explain the vaguely formulated provisions of the law on foreign agents to human rights activists, be declared illegal. In the statement (Vedomosti has a copy), the organization insists that such inaction is deliberate and aimed at tightening the punitive policy towards NGOs.

Dmitry Kurakin, who previously served as Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Region Government, has been appointed Director of the Defense Ministry's Department of Property Relations, Defense Minister's press secretary Darya Zatulina reported on Wednesday. "Dmitry Kurakin has been appointed director of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense and has already started work," said Zatulina.

A U.S. district court on Wednesday found United Airlines not guilty of negligence in the September 11, 2001, attacks that allowed gunmen to board an American Airlines flight and fly it into one of the World Trade Center towers, Reuters reports.

Two more suspects were detained in the case of illegal cash withdrawal of more than 2 billion rubles. employees of CB " Master Bank " and JSCB " Zolostbank". According to Kommersant .

Glencore and Xstrata shareholders have approved a $31 billion merger that will create one of the world's largest mining companies. However, Xstrata's co-owners have rejected a £144 million ($228 million) payout to their company's executives. Xstrata chairman John Bond has resigned. . In the morning, shareholders of Glencore, which owns 34% of Xstrata shares, approved the deal with 99.4% of votes.

November 21, 2012, 02:49 / Management In the next decade, the demand for professional managers in Russian medicine will increase by almost a quarter In the next 8–10 years, the demand for professional managers in Russian medicine will increase, according to experts, by at least 20% - otherwise the planned healthcare reform will not be carried out.

14 photos German BMW will present the five-door hatchback 3 Series Gran Turismo at the Geneva Motor Show. This is the third body option for the most popular family of cars from the Bavarian manufacturer after the sedan and Touring station wagon. The hatchback is even larger in size than the station wagon - 200 mm longer, 81 mm higher, the wheelbase is stretched by 110 mm.

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture plans to begin large-scale commodity interventions on the Russian grain market from February 2013, Deputy Minister Ilya Shestakov announced at the conference "Grain Industry in the 21st Century" in Moscow. "We plan to postpone the bulk of grain sales to a more difficult time - February-March, we will submit such a proposal to the government," he said. This calendar year, 1-1.1 million tons of grain may be sold from the intervention fund, Shestakov added.

November 21, 2012, 03:26 / Politics Socialist-Revolutionary Oleg Mikheev may lose parliamentary immunity The next candidate for deprivation of parliamentary immunity may be the Socialist Revolutionary Oleg Mikheev.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow recognized as legal the cancellation of the resolution to initiate a criminal case for the illegal imprisonment of employees of the Groceries store on Novosibirskaya Street due to the lack of evidence of a crime, the press service of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office reported on Wednesday.

Apple may release a television under its own brand during the 2013 holiday season at a price of around $1,500-2,000, the AppleInsider website reported, citing analyst Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray. In addition to the TV release, Munster predicts the release of other Apple products.

More than 100,000 households in Tatarstan have received about 100 million rubles in heating subsidies from the republican Ministry of Labor and Social Protection. In December, the number of recipients will increase to 200,000, Deputy Minister Natalya Butaeva said at a briefing yesterday. Until the end of the year, citizens can still apply to social protection agencies for a subsidy.