Unfinished house. Photo from the site www.midinfo.ru The development company Macromir freezes two large projects with a total area of ​​about 230 thousand square meters in St. Petersburg, Vedomosti reports. According to the President of the construction company LEC Oleg Filippenkov, the company's management also intends to reduce employees by 70 percent.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, if he wins the election, intends to appoint Rahm Emanuel, a member of the House of Representatives of the White House, as the head of the White House administration. According to AP, Obama's campaign headquarters has already established contact with Emanuel, having made him a proposal. Emanuel already worked in the White House during the presidency of Bill Clinton.

Igor Urbansky, Deputy Minister of Transport of Ukraine According to the Security Service of Ukraine, the owner of the company owned by the Faina vessel, captured by Somali pirates, is Igor Urbansky, Deputy Minister of Transport of Ukraine. This was stated by the acting head of the SBU Valentin Nalivaichenko, emphasizing that his department is currently checking this information, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier it was reported that Faina belongs to the businessman from Israel Vadim Alperin.

Svetlana Bakhmina The All -Russian Public Organization of the Voice of Beslan, who suffered from terrorist acts, turned to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a request to have mercy on the former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmin. The text of the appeal is published on the organization’s website. "Mr. President! You are an official who represents our country, and may become an example of a humane attitude to his citizens.

Due to the financial crisis and reducing the ruble exchange rate relative to the dollar, Russians transfer deposits from rubles to currency. The reporting of Russian banks for September shows that the volume of ruble deposits is reduced, and foreign exchange volumes are growing, Kommersant reports. In most of the largest banks, the growth of currency deposits was significantly greater than changing the dollar for the reporting period.

Dagestan map. Frame NTV The human rights activist Mustapa Abdurakhmanov, who was killed the day before, is an action movie and died in a shootout with police officers, says the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". A day earlier, according to the "Caucasian Knot", a member of the human rights organization "Mother of Dagestan for Human Rights" Abdurakhmanov, who disappeared last Wednesday, was found dead.

Ingushetia. Photo from the website ingushetiya.ru The Ingush opposition is ready for cooperation with the temporarily acting President of the Republic Yunus-Buck Evkurov, RIA Novosti reports. According to one of the opposition leaders, Magomed Khazbiev, Yevkurov can cope with the situation. “This is a military man, a decent Ingush. We will stand up with this person if he wants it,” Khazbiev said. According to him, the residents of the republic greeted the appointment of Yevkurov with joy.

Oil production. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' The British company Timan Oil & Gas has opened the largest oil field in Russia in recent years. According to Vedomosti on Friday, the company established the size of the extracted oil reserves of the Nizhnechutinsky field of 100.1 million tons, geological - in 272.9 million tons according to the Russian classification.

Nikolai Vinnichenko, Director of the FSSP. Photo of the newspaper '' Version '' The Federal Bailiff Service intends to deprive malicious defaulters of driver’s license, hunting certificates and write off funds from their mobile phones to pay debt. According to RBC, the director of the FSSP Nikolay Vinnichenko stated this. According to him, the service is in a constant "creative search" of new methods of influence on non -payers.

Alexey Kudrin, Minister of Finance of Russia. Photo by RIA '' News '' The Russian government will fulfill social obligations at any oil prices. Such a statement at the State Duma was made by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, RBC reports. According to him, the task of the government is to ensure stability at any oil prices, even with quite low. “We have prepared well for this situation,” the minister said.

Alexey Cherepanov. Photo from the site RBC Several generals and colonels of the railway troops wrote a dismissal report due to the fact that 19 carriers were illegally sent, including Alexei Cherepanov, to the Avangard hockey club. According to Kommersant with reference to the assistant commander of the railway troops of Colonel Vladimir Karpenko, at the moment the case is currently being considered the dismissal of another general who does not admit his guilt and refuses to write a report.

Yuri Budanov. Photo from the site www.kommersant.ru The prosecutor's office of the Ulyanovsk region introduced the court to the court of the parole, the ex-colonel Yuri Budanov, Kommersant reports. According to the representative of the department for the supervision of compliance with laws in the correctional institutions of the region, the prosecutor’s office believes that there is no legal basis for Budanov to continue to serve his sentence in the colony.

Sergey Ignatiev, Chairman of the Central Bank. RTVI frame Fields on loans of Russian banks cannot be lower than 14-15 percent. This, speaking at a meeting of the State Duma, said the chairman of the Bank of Russia Sergey Ignatiev, RIA Novosti reports. Such bets, however, can be applied to lending to the most reliable customers. For everyone else, they should be higher as risks grow. As Ignatiev explained, such high rates are due to the outflow of capital from the country.

Kirill Rogov is a member of the Institute for the Economy in Transition and an independent columnist. Kirill Rogov. The golden rain is over - Novaya Gazeta, 10/13/2008

Promotion at the FSIN reception. Photo of the press service of Moscow National Bolsheviks In Moscow, unknown people held an action at the FSIN reception of FSIN Vorontsovo Field. According to the National Basic press service, several people were hanged at the entrance to the reception with the inscription "executioners for the castle" and blocked the door to the circuit with the castle. According to the results of the action, no one was detained.