Oppositionist Leonid Razvozzhayev is in the hospital of pretrial detention center No. 1 in Irkutsk, where he was transferred on Thursday from a general cell, the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Irkutsk Region reported. "The Irkutsk pre-trial detention center has not received a ruling from the investigative authorities to transfer Razvozzhaev to Moscow. He has now been transferred to the hospital of pre-trial detention center No.

At the end of October, the Cyprus government selected partners for the issuance of licenses for mineral exploration in the exclusive economic zone of Cyprus by tender. The 9th block of the shelf was provisionally allocated to a consortium that included Novatek , Total E&P Activities and Gazprombank's GP Global Resources. It then became known that the consortium was not in first place among the contenders for the development of the shelf, but it was chosen for security reasons.

There will be no excitement on the labor market, predicts Kibardina. According to her, if a third of Tatarstan enterprises plan to increase their staff, "about the same number are cutting personnel." In the Tatarstan banking system, support departments are being replaced by sales departments, explains the former director of the Kazan branch of Promsvyazbank, Marsel Zilyaev.

January 24, 2013, 03:39 / Management Knowledge of English can double the “capitalization” of a job seeker Oksana Goncharova Good knowledge of English makes a Russian candidate so self-confident that he can request a salary almost twice as high as a specialist like himself, but with a lower language level, this opinion is widespread in the labor market. They don't trust. 5.4 percent on average is the budget for distance learning in the total budget for employee training.

January 24, 2013, 03:42 / Management How to become a better manager in the coming year At the beginning of the year, many people make plans and think about new ways to improve themselves. But besides trying to lose weight and give up coffee, maybe you should think about how to become a better manager in 2013?

January 24, 2013, 04:10 / Business The case of the minority shareholder of TNK - BP will be put to rest Today the court should terminate the proceedings on the claim of TNK-BP Holding minority shareholder Andrei Prokhorov against BP for more than $3 billion Timofey Dzyadko The Eighth Arbitration Court of Appeal of Omsk should have approved in mid-December the refusal of TNK-BP Holding minority shareholder Andrei Prokhorov to file a claim against BP structures for 100.4 billion rubles.

Two California residents have filed a lawsuit against former cyclist Lance Armstrong and the publishers of his memoirs, in which he denies doping, the Los Angeles Times reports. The plaintiffs, Republican consultant Rob Stutzman and Sacramento chef Jonathan Wheeler, believe they have been deceived because Armstrong's books, marketed as inspiring true-life stories, are actually fiction.

China's factory sector growth accelerated to a two-year high in January, preliminary data showed. The preliminary Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) commissioned by HSBC rose to 51.9 in January, the highest since January 2011. Manufacturers received more domestic and overseas orders, which analysts say is evidence of a steady recovery in China's economy after a two-year slump.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle considers North Korea's statements about its intention to conduct nuclear tests a provocation and warns that such actions will lead to even greater international isolation of Pyongyang. "The threat of further nuclear and missile tests by North Korea is a new provocation. I call on the leadership in Pyongyang to fully comply with the decisions of the UN Security Council and not to aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula with irresponsible actions.

Public organizations that receive foreign aid but whose goals do not contradict state policy should not be registered as foreign agents, the Justice Ministry believes. This follows from the Justice Ministry's explanations released yesterday regarding its refusal to include the Chuvash organization "Shield and Sword" in the register of foreign agents. It was the first NGO to make such a request to the Justice Ministry in December 2012.

In Los Angeles, Superior Court Judge Alan Rosenfeld has ordered director James Cameron to produce a draft of the Avatar script. According to the Los Angeles Times, the script is to be seen by lawyers for Eric Ryder, a former employee of Cameron's company Lightstorm Entertainment Inc. Ryder has accused the director of plagiarism: he claims that during his years at the company from 1996 to 1998, he wrote a script under the working title KRZ 2068.

Rospotrebnadzor will hold talks with the Georgian delegation on the return of wines and mineral water from Georgia to the Russian market on February 4. This was reported by the head of the agency Gennady Onishchenko. According to him, this date was proposed by the Georgian side in order to have time to resolve "possible inconsistencies." This date "is quite satisfactory for Moscow," he added.

The famous circus figure, one of the founders of the Licedei theatre, Vyacheslav Polunin will soon be appointed artistic director of the circus in St. Petersburg, Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky told journalists on Thursday. "We have decided not to hold a competition. Vyacheslav Polunin will be appointed the head of the circus. He has a lot of plans, we will support him," Medinsky said. He added that Polunin will officially hold the position of artistic director of the circus.

State Duma deputies propose to introduce a fine of 3,000 rubles for smoking in unauthorized places. As Deputy Speaker of the Duma, United Russia member Sergei Zheleznyak stated at a press conference, it is proposed to impose such a fine on individuals. "We are looking at the ratio of fines and salaries in other countries," he added. Earlier, the media unofficially named such a sum.

Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko has withdrawn from the European Figure Skating Championships in Zagreb after a poor performance in the short program on Thursday. Plushenko was in sixth place after the short program. In the short program, Plushenko performed a triple lutz with a mistake, fell on a triple axel and did a triple loop-triple toe loop cascade. He received 74.82 points. The first place in the short program was taken by the Frenchman Florent Amodio, who scored 89.82 points.