01 November 2010, 11:53 Politics Elections against Muscovites Local elections in Ukraine showed an increase in sympathy for anti-Russian nationalists Sergey Sidorenko (Kommersant-Ukraine , specially for Gazeta.Ru) Local elections took place in Ukraine. The party in power won in most regions; supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko gained only 13% on average across the country. The “orange” electorate drifted towards obvious nationalists or joined the ranks of those who voted “against everyone”.

01 November 2010, 13:30 The Pontiac brand has ceased to exist One of the legendary brands of the auto industry, Pontiac, ceased to exist a year after General Motors announced the winding down of its production, reports the agency Auto Evolition . Pontiac cars often appeared in Hollywood films of the 1960s and 70s. But since the 1980s, their sales have steadily declined. Let us remember that the brand, which was on the verge of bankruptcy at the end of the 20th century, was saved by GM.

Disqualified Russian athletes must return $204 thousand Russian athletes Elena Soboleva , Daria Pishchalnikova , Tatyana Tomasheva, Yulia Chizhenko, Gulfiya Khanafeeva , Svetlana Cherkasova, who are serving a two-year disqualification for changing doping samples, must return the prize money in the amount of 204 thousand dollars, after which they will be able to return to competitions, reports GZT.ru . At these three starts, runner Elena Soboleva earned the most money—$140 thousand.

01 November 2010, 17:50 Sobyanin will create a trade department Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin decided to create a large unified city structure that will deal with the city’s consumer market, as well as wholesale purchases of food for city needs.

01 November 2010, 13:02 Politics President Kennedy's speechwriter dies "Gazeta.Ru" Ted Sorensen, one of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's closest associates, died Sunday in New York of heart failure at the age of 82. Sorensen is believed to have been the author of Kennedy's most famous dictum: “Ask not what your country can do for you.

On Monday, the ATP published a new ranking of the best tennis players in the world. The top ten remained unchanged: Rafael Nadal is first, Roger Federer is second, and Novak Djokovic is third, Mikhail Youzhny is still 10th, and Nikolay Davydenko is 11th. Also in the top 100 are Igor Andreev , who occupies the 82nd position, and Teimarz Gabashvili, who returned to the top hundred. 1. (1) Rafael Nadal (Spain) 2. (2) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 3. (3) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 10.

01 November 2010, 21:02 Culture Moscow's heritage has a federal purpose Alexander Kibovsky, who headed Rosokhrankultura, was appointed head of the Moscow Heritage Committee. Igor Karev , Irina Reznik Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin named the new head of the Moscow Committee for Cultural Heritage: Alexander Kibovsky, the former head of the federal Rosokhrankultura.

01 November 2010, 10:34 The MICEX index increased by 0.50%; trading opened with growth Russian stock trading opened with growth. index The MICEX rose by 0.50% to 1,530.98 points at the opening of trading on Monday. Earlier it was reported that the RTS index rose by 0.18%.

01 November 2010, 14:49 The Georgian Foreign Ministry has no information about the detention of 20 citizens for spying for Russia The Georgian Foreign Ministry does not have information about the detention of several citizens in Georgia on suspicion of spying for Russia, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said at a briefing on Monday. This was reported by the Novosti-Georgia agency .

01 November 2010, 06:52 Kommersant: Russian plant may lose production of An-124 Ruslan The Ulyanovsk aircraft plant Aviastar-SP has problems with renewing permission from the Ukrainian Antonov company to repair An-124 Ruslan aircraft, the Kommersant newspaper writes . The draft agreement was supposed to either define new terms of interaction or extend the validity of the current document. The current agreement, signed in 1999, expires on December 31.

01 November 2010, 11:49 Khodorkovsky: Russia will face another crisis in 2015 According to the former head of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in 2015 Russia will face another crisis point. The cause of the crisis, Khodorkovsky said in an interview with Novaya Gazeta , will be the growing contradiction between the declining potential of the unmodernized economy, on the one hand, the greed of the bureaucracy, on the other, and the expectations of the population, on the third.

01 November 2010, 10:29 Clijsters climbs to third place in the WTA title race is still in the lead in the updated WTA championship race Danish Caroline Wozniacki . Russian tennis player Vera Zvonareva retained second place. The winner of the final tournament, Kim Clijsters from Belgium, displaced American Serena Williams from third place .

01 November 2010, 13:00 Bloomberg introduced a subscription to “news letters” costing $2 thousand per year Business agency Bloomberg has decided to expand its financial advice services by introducing a subscription to a new product: newsletters, the annual mailing of which will cost $2,000, the Financial Times reports . According to the FT, in this way the publication hopes to increase the number of corporate readers.

01 November 2010, 06:42 More than 10 Russian tourists cannot return from Vietnam Thirteen Russian tourists turned to the Russian Embassy in Hanoi for help due to the fact that they cannot return to their homeland from Vietnam. Russians, residents of Primorye, including three children, missed the plane to Vladivostok due to the cancellation of the domestic flight Nha Trang - Hanoi due to heavy rain. Tourists report that the next flight from Hanoi to Vladivostok will take place only in two weeks.

01 November 2010, 10:08 The RTS index rose 0.18% at the opening of trading The RTS index rose by 0.18% to 1,590.04 points at the opening of trading on Monday. The total volume of transactions amounted to $619,397,102.