John McCain, candidate of US President from the Republican Party. Photo Times US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Senator John McCain, called his victory in the November 4 elections guaranteed. With such an announcement, he acted on the air of one of the American television channels. “My victory is guaranteed, although the result of voting will not be clear until the deepest night,” McCain promised.

Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, ideologist of the Polish "Solidarity" Adam Michnik speaks at the Moscow club "Bilingua" as part of the "Public Lectures of Polit.Ru" project. October 25, 2008. Photographed by Dmitry Borko. See also: Andrzej Wajda in the Grani-TV project Vladimir Bukovsky on the Polish and Russian resistance movement

Taman division. Frame NTV The 2nd Guards Motor Rifle-Rifle Taman Division will be disbanded in 2009. On the basis of one of the most famous divisions in the country, two motorized rifle brigades of the Moscow Military District will be created, Interfax reports citing a source in the Ministry of Defense. There is no official confirmation of information about the disbandment of the Taman division yet. The source of the agency said "Orgeter measures to disband ...

Fighters of the US Army special forces in Pakistan. Photo Specialoperations.com The US government decided to refuse to conduct ground military operations in Pakistan, reports New York Times. In September, the American leadership allowed armed forces without the permission of the Pakistani authorities to conduct terrestrial operations in Pakistan against Afghan militants.

Hermes 450 unmanned aircraft. Photo from the site www.elbit.co.il 20 militants were destroyed in Pakistan as a result of a missile strike, expected by an American unmanned aircraft, Reuters reports citing Pakistani special services. The blow was inflicted on the militant camp in the Shahai area in the South Vaziristan Province, near the border with Afghanistan. In this area is the headquarters of one of the leaders of the Pakistani Taliban Baitulla Mehsud.

Andrei Panin as a prototype Vladimir Putin in the film '' Kiss is not for the press ''. Frame from the film A supporter of the prohibited National Bolshevik Party was convicted of the case of a protest in the Moscow Cinema "Artistic", Interfax reports. The 20-year-old resident of Murmansk Andrei Nikitin was guilty of participating in the actions of a prohibited organization recognized as extremist. The court sentenced him to a year of imprisonment with a trial period of two years.

US Air Force helicopter, photo Newsru.com As a result of the attack of four US Air Force helicopters, at least eight people died in the Syria and Iraq border, Associated Press reported. As stated in the official statement of the Syrian authorities, four helicopters struck the border city of Abu Kemal. The building under construction was subjected to an attack. Representatives of the American military in Baghdad do not comment on the incident.

Living flowers to the Solovetsky stone. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru On the eve of the day of memory of the victims of political repressions, the Memorial Society holds in Moscow the action “Return of Names”. On Wednesday, October 29, from 10 to 22 hours at Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanka, the rally participants will read the names of people executed in Moscow during the years of Stalinist terror. The purpose of the action is “to give commemorative days a personal character,” the “memorial” says.

South Ossetia. Frame '' Vesti '' The European Union does not fulfill its obligations under the agreements of Medvedev-Sarkozy, the I.O. Minister for Special Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Boris Chopiev on the website of the South Ossetian part of the SCC. In his opinion, withdrawing its troops from buffer zones ahead of schedule, Russia exceeded its obligations. However, no one requires Georgia to fulfill its obligations.

Airunion aircraft. Photo from the site samara-airlines.ru The team of the Krasnoyarsk Airlines Airlines Airlines is most likely to be reduced four times, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the acting general director of the airline Ivan Panenko. This will happen when the air carrier enters the alliance created on the basis of Airunion. "Not all Krasair employees will get into the new company.

Euroset chain store. Photo from the site dvtime.ru Alexander Mamut sold 49.9 percent of the shares of Euroset Vimpelcom, the Vedomosti newspaper reports. According to the source of the publication, the transaction cost Vimpelkom more than 200 million dollars. In total, the company will spend $ 580 million on the purchase and restructuring of the Euroset debt. The duty of the Euroset at the end of 2007 is 850 million.

Rosneft's logo The quotes of shares of leading Russian companies on the London Stock Exchange for the first hour and a half trading on Monday collapsed by about 5-16 percent, RIA Novosti reports. Gazprom Neft adr, by 10.30 of London time, fell by 4.84 percent, Gazprom's paper became 7.58 percent cheaper, Lukoil's quotes lost 12.39 percent. The adr of the Norilsk Nickel collapsed by 13.40 percent, VTB fell by 15.68 percent.

Artem Kaznacheev. Photo '' Rossi newspaper '' The state will pay half a million rubles to the former ordinary Artem Koznacheev for health lost in the army, the Kazan human rights center reports. This decision was made today by the Novo-Savinovsky District Court of Kazan, fully satisfying the claims of the plaintiff. “This decision is unprecedented for judicial practice in the republic,” says Regina Shakirova, lawyer of the CCC, representing Koznacheva's interests.

Eduardo Areliano Felix, head of the drug cartel '' Tihuana ''. Frame of Mexican television. At Mekik, Eduardo Areliano Felix, the head of the drug cartel Tikhuana, is one of the most influential in the world, BBC reports. The drug bacon was detained during a special operation in the Mexican city of Tikhuan on the border with the United States, after the special services managed to calculate the house where he lived.

Andrey Illarionov. Photo ERA The Liberal Charter union distributed a statement in which a fundamental disagreement is expressed with measures taken by the Russian authorities in the context of the financial crisis, as well as the principles of financial policy, which should be followed by the authorities responsible to Russian citizens.