Following a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev after another fall in the Russian stock market, it was decided to provide banks with a loan in the amount of up to 950 billion rubles for no less than five years. Sberbank will receive up to 500 billion rubles from this amount, Vneshtorgbank will receive up to 200, and Rosselkhozbank will receive up to 25.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church finally decided to defrock Bishop Diomede of Chukotka. From now on he becomes an ordinary monk. Thus, the Synod finally approved the decision of the Council of Bishops, which condemned the bishop for disobedience to the hierarchy and attempts to organize a schism in the Church.

The currency is not changing - the entire structure of the world is changing The global financial crisis is only the most capacious expression of a number of multi -level crises, which are superimposed on each other and provoking one another that includes modern humanity. The "information explosion" sharply raised the share of people who are thinking about issues that are not related to their daily lives.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko made it clear that the parliamentary faction “Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense” (NU-NS) that supports him will not create a coalition with the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the Vladimir Lytvyn Bloc. Negotiations on the creation of this coalition have been ongoing in recent weeks, but have not been successful.

The formal decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church regarding bishop. Diomiod, in fact, did not add anything new to the well-known picture. The system rejected the alien member, recognizing that it did not need him. The marginalization of Diomede and his few supporters is almost complete, Diomede himself was deprived of the platform of the “state church”, from which he could only speak, and the bishop did not want to find another platform.

We sat with the wonderful V.V. Zhirinovsky on the air of the “Russian panorama”, and I asked him why on my air it is so liberal, and on the State Academy of Sciences and on the rostrum of the Duma, he looks like a terry reactionary. Why, I asked, he does not defend his liberal glances to the end. Why, when he sits at a meeting with the president, he will not express everything that is boiling. - After all, it was boiling? I asked and winked in understanding. V.V.

The topic related to the events in the Union of Right Forces and its future fate, naturally, arouses increased interest among all people who are not alien to liberal ideology. Therefore, when in my article in “Hedgehog” I did not camouflage my position and even deliberately sharpened it by using such a visual and provocative word as “broth,” I perfectly understood that responses from my colleagues would follow. Glad I wasn't mistaken.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin admitted on October 7 that the state cannot again begin to command the media - “both electronic and print.” This was said at a meeting with teachers of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions (it would be good to know with what intonation). However, there is a way out for state influence on the media, and Putin announced it without any embarrassment. State order - this is the method of the twenty-first century.

On October 7, the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) ordered the suspension of trading on the RTS stock exchange and the MICEX from 10:00 for three hours. The reason is clear: the day before there was another collapse of the Russian stock market, caused by a similar behavior of world markets. Russian stock exchanges suspended trading several times during October 6. Prices of most Russian liquid shares fell by 16-30%.

In Moscow, in Novopushkinsky Square, on October 7, a rally was held in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed exactly two years ago. About 300 people came to honor the memory of the journalist.