POLITICS
The new leadership for the next ten years has been elected in China. Xi Jinping has been named general secretary of China’s Communist Party Central Committee. He will formally take over the country’s leadership in March
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Israel’s Operation Pillar of Cloud is likely to grow into a full-scale military conflict. In response to shelling of its southern districts, Israeli troops and tanks moved towards the border of the Gaza Strip and the call-up of reservists began. Experts believe that the ground operation may surpass the 2008 Operation Cast Lead.
(Kommersant, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Izvestia)
The State Duma groupings of the Communist and LDPR parties plan to set up an authority to protect lawmakers’ copyright for drafts that they propose.
(Izvestia)
ECONOMY
Europe’s Q3 economic indicators have shown that the region’s macroeconomic indicators have dropped to a record low since the 2008-2009 crisis. Though the economic downfall slowed in the majority of “problem” states, experts do not expect positive tendencies to prevail in the fourth quarter, due to expected economic downturn in Germany and France.
(Kommersant, Vedomosti)
METALS & MINING
High gold prices pushed down demand for the precious metal even during the current period of financial instability. Global Q3 2012 gold demand totaled 1,084 metric tons, down 11% year-on-year but up 10% from Q2.
(Kommersant)
OIL & GAS
The South Stream project was given green light despite high probability of political risks and Gazprom’s warning that the project’s total cost of 16 billion euro might be revised
(Kommersant, Vedomosti, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
TELECOMS & IT
A United Russia lawmaker proposed a law to encourage Internet providers to buy the DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) computer network packet filtering technology, which raises privacy concerns because it tracks down information sent from one end user to another and traces the user’s Internet activities
(Izvestia)
The Federal Antimonopoly Service authorized a deal by Russian mobile operator MegaFon to buy a 50-percent stake in cellphone retailer Euroset. The retailer, however, should guarantee that it would offer services by other mobile operators
(Vedomosti)
DEFENSE
The offices of Slavyanka, the largest company offering housing and infrastructure services to the Russian Defense Ministry, were search as part of an investigation into a large-scale fraud
(Kommersant)
Yuri Borisov and Ruslan Tsalikov were appointed Russian Deputy Defense Ministers
(Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Russia's state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation's (USC) is seeking to become an independent exporter
(Kommersant)
SOCIETY
Russia received the results of Ukraine’s investigation into the case of Ilya Pyanzin, accused of a plot to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin. The suspect was extradited to Russia on August 25
(Kommersant)
Saturday marks ten days since the deadly shooting in Moscow, in which a 29-year-old lawyer shot seven colleagues, killing six of them. Meanwhile, his manifesto of hatred received some 20,000 likes on Facebook
(Moskovskie Novosti, Rossiiskaya Gazeta)
Russia’s health ministry requested to double state financing into the health sector, saying that 1 million people will die otherwise
(Vedomosti)
EDUCATION
The Russian science and education ministry is studying the possibility of creating a federal database of university students in an attempt to fight fake university diplomas
(Izvestia)
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