A spokesman for the British government called “speculation” reports that London has secured concessions from the European Union that would allow the UK to temporarily remain in the customs union after Brexit. “The Prime Minister [Theresa May] has made it clear that we are making progress in negotiations on the future relationship [with the European Union] and that an agreement on the terms of withdrawal from the EU is 95% ready.

A group of Australian and Indonesian experts managed to download information from the flight recorder that was on board the Lion Air Boeing that crashed in Indonesia. This was reported by the local portal Detik. The experts admitted that the data could be lost, the portal notes. Experts received information about the last 19 flights of the airliner - a total of 69 hours.

The majority of Russians (69%) have not heard anything about torture in the Yaroslavl colony, showed a Levada Center survey . Almost a quarter of respondents (23%) said “they heard something, but I don’t know what it is,” 2% found it difficult to answer, and only 7% of respondents answered that they had heard a lot about it. At the same time, 40% of respondents believe that torture of prisoners in Russian colonies is “only isolated violations,” while 33% called it a widespread practice.

04 November 2018, 11:28 / Business Naftogaz began work on “Plan B” due to Nord Stream 2 It provides for the recovery of damages from Russia for downtime of the Ukrainian gas transportation system Daria Korzhova After the launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, gas transit through the territory of Ukraine may be stopped, Vitrenko believes / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti Naftogaz of Ukraine has begun working on “Plan B” in connection with the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, said

On Sunday, the website of the Center for Strategic Conjuncture, with which expert Vladimir Neelov, who was arrested on suspicion of treason, collaborated , was unavailable . Interfax was the first to draw attention to this. When trying to go to http://conjuncture.ru, a message appears that such a website does not exist. According to the agency, the website was available on Saturday and information about Neelov and his materials could be found on it.

04 November 2018, 18:25 / Economics The acting governor of Transbaikalia explained the benefits of transferring the region to another district undefined Vedomosti Acting Governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory Alexander Osipov positively assessed the transfer of the region from the Siberian to the Far Eastern Federal District (FED). According to him, at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, he raised the issue of extending to Transbaikalia the preferences that apply in the Far East.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the transfer of the Republic of Buryatia and the Zabaikalsky Krai from the Siberian to the Far Eastern Federal District. The document was published on the official portal of regulatory legal acts. There are ten regions left in the Siberian Federal District: the republics of Altai, Tyva, Khakassia, Altai and Krasnoyarsk Krais, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk Oblasts.

November 04, 2018, 12:20 / Business / News Gazprom spoke about eliminating the consequences of an accident on a gas pipeline near Ryazan undefined Vedomosti Gazprom , plans to complete restoration work on the damaged section of the Central Asia - Center-3 gas pipeline in the Ryazan region by Sunday evening, TASS reports citing the company. 52 people and 15 pieces of equipment are involved in repairing the gas pipeline. Gas supply to consumers is provided through parallel gas pipelines.

Investigators have begun an investigation into the emergency landing of a Boeing 737 in Krasnoyarsk. The plane, operating a charter flight from Novosibirsk to the Chinese island of Hainan, made an emergency landing on Sunday at Yemelyanovo airport due to a crack in the glass. There were 167 passengers and seven crew members on board.

Yakutia, due to high prices and low-quality gasoline at gas stations in the region, will begin its own production of motor fuel, the head of the republic, Aisen Nikolaev, told RIA Novosti. He noted that in Yakutia there are no gas stations of vertically integrated companies, and at independent stations the issue of rising gasoline prices can only be resolved by regulating wholesale prices.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the transfer of the Republic of Buryatia and the Trans-Baikal Territory from the Siberian to the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD). The document was published on the official portal of regulatory legal acts. The President gave the government three months to bring its acts into compliance with this decree.

Not far from the Bratislavskaya metro station in the southeast of Moscow, a procession of nationalists “Russian March” began. Participants of the action will march from Veterans Square along Pererva and Lyublinskaya streets. The action was agreed upon with the Moscow authorities; during the procession, vehicle traffic on these streets will be blocked. At the time of publication, it was known that five left-wing activists were detained at the rally.