Andrey Klishas wants to limit access to information about the company The conflict between the shareholders of MMC Norilsk Nickel - Oleg Deripaska's RUSAL and Vladimir Potanin's Interros - provoked the company's management to initiate changes to a number of Russian legislation.

Festival "Unknown Siberia" in Lyon The cult book of the French structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault “Words and Things” (archeology of the humanities) talks about the fundamental role played by the category of similarity and resemblance in the European civilization of the Renaissance period.

The two Koreas entered into armed confrontation North Korea has once again given the international community a serious reason to talk about it as a state whose actions run counter to the fundamental principles of the United Nations. Yesterday, between 80 and 200 North Korean shells fell on the South Korean island of Yeonphendo, located in the Yellow Sea. Two South Korean Marines were killed, 15 soldiers were wounded, five of them seriously, and three civilians were injured.

The government has determined the procedure for the privatization of Rosneft According to the plan for the sale of state assets published on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development, the privatization of a blocking stake in Rosneft, the country's largest oil company, will be carried out in two stages. 15% will be offered to buyers on the open market, and for the remaining 10% minus one share it is planned to find a strategic investor.

For ten years, Russia and the EU have become entangled in “flows” and “corridors” In October 2000, at the Russian-European summit in Paris, European Commission President Romano Prodi proposed that newly elected Russian President Vladimir Putin create a mechanism for discussing cooperation, coordinating interests and preparing joint projects in the energy sector.

The European Youth Championship has ended The number “seven” for the second time this month became lucky for Russian judoists - in early November, the St. Petersburg club “Yavara-Neva” became the seven-time European champion, and in the middle, seven domestic athletes achieved awards at the European Youth Championship in Bosnia. Denis Lavrentiev (66 kg), representing Chelyabinsk and Kurgan, and Murat Khabachirov (81 kg) from Nalchik became European champions in Sarajevo.

Spartak remained third in Group D of the Champions League Moscow Spartak exchanged the Champions League for the Europa League. After the defeat that Marseille inflicted on the “red-whites” at Luzhniki - 0:3, Valery Karpin’s team lost even its theoretical chances for second place in group “D”, and third place gives the right to continue the fight in the spring only in less prestigious Europa League. So now the outgoing year for Spartak can be considered lost.

Russia continues to explore the Arctic with increasing intensity. The drifting station "North Pole-38", delivered into the ice by the icebreaker "Russia", has just been opened. A specialized expedition on the vessel “Akademik Fedorov” continues to prove Russia’s ownership of the Arctic shelf.

Georgia promised Russia not to fight with it The warming of Russia's relations with the United States and NATO may also bear fruit in the Georgian direction. Tbilisi previously threatened to cause diplomatic trouble for Moscow at the OSCE summit in Astana in early December. But after the Lisbon Forum of the North Atlantic Alliance and the meeting within its framework with American President Barack Obama, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili decided to “extend a hand” to Russia.

Sergei Lavrov was engaged in a specific case in Minsk The visit to Minsk of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (pictured) yesterday again confirmed the presence of serious problems in Belarusian-Russian relations. The minister never met with President Alexander Lukashenko. This became the subject of heated debate in the media of both countries, which offered different explanations for this fact. According to one version, the Belarusian president refused negotiations with Lavrov.

The President fired the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Russian President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Dmitry Medvedev yesterday dismissed a group of senior military personnel from the Ministry of Defense.

From Russia's experience it follows that there is life after default. Ireland could really use this lesson right now. Of course, the Irish do not deserve the fate that awaits them due to the fact that Brian Cowen's government at one time thoughtlessly promised to provide government guarantees for almost all the obligations of Irish banks.

In the next 24 hours, a cyclone will attack European Russian territory from the west. In the North-Western region, in the sphere of influence of the cyclone, there will be snow, in some places strong, gusty winds can increase to 15-20 m/s, the temperature during the day will be -3...-8oC. In the Central region of Russia and the Upper Volga during the day the temperature will rise to 0...+7оС.

Scandals with the purchase of imported medical equipment will be extinguished by injecting money into our own production The Russian government sets the task of not only creating a national innovative pharmaceutical industry by 2020, but also intends to build its own production of medical equipment literally from scratch by the same date.

Ramzan Kadyrov found money to implement a large tourism project in Chechnya. The construction of the Veduchi ski center in the Argun Gorge will be financed by his fellow countryman Ruslan Baysarov. Baysarov turned out to be the first businessman who agreed to finance a large project in his native place. The layout of the complex is impressive. It will occupy 800 hectares, and 12 thousand skiers will descend from the mountain every hour.