18:24 // 10/17/2007 Mosgortrans allocated 70 buses for transporting English fans from places of residence to the Luzhniki stadium, sources in Mosgortrans told Interfax . “We did it on purpose so that it was convenient for our guests to get from their places of residence in hotels to the stadium,” the agency’s interlocutor noted.

Russian tourists want to save money, returning them to the line of visa in visa centers contradicts the agreement between Russia and the EU. Such a statement was made yesterday by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation at the EU Vladimir Chizhov during the video Moscow-Brussel video motor. Chizhov, in particular, had in mind an agreement on simplifying the visa regime between Russia and the European Union, which entered into force in June of this year.

Rosneft and Lukoil drilled the first well on the shelf of the Sea of Azov’s seas by drilling the first well on the Azov shelf as part of the Rosneft’s joint venture and Lukoil gave positive results and showed the presence of hydrocarbons. This was announced yesterday by the head of the oil production department Lukoil Yuri Ikonnikov. According to him, as part of the work carried out, an influx of gas -snowflower mixture was obtained.

The situation on world venues does not change yesterday’s trading day in the Russian stock market, in essence, was no different from trading a day earlier. The situation on world venues has not changed. American indices again closed in the negative zone, pulling the Asian markets along with themselves. Oil prices remain record -high, but the market, due to its overheating, reacts to it weaker than it could.

20:49 // 10/17/2007 The Government of the Russian Federation at the meeting is expected to decide on signing an agreement with Denmark to simplify the visa regime. According to RIA Novosti , the document is planned to be signed on the basis of an agreement between Russia and the EU on the simplification of the issuance of visas signed in Sochi on May 25, 2006.

18:21 // 10/17/2007 The leadership of AvtoVAZ OJSC does not exclude the possibility of switching to the production of the new LADA classic model instead of Lada-2105 and Lada-2107 models, Interfax reports. "We are now thinking about the transition to one model under the conditional name" Lada classic "and continue to release only this model. What features will be - the specialists now think," said Boris Aleshin, President of AvtoVAZ Group LLC.

12:57 // 10/17/2007 The Council of the Federation was redeemed by the law on the introduction of higher education levels of undergraduate and graduate, ITAR-TASS reports. 113 senators spoke out for his approval, 12 - against, 7 abstained. A few minutes earlier, senators rejected this law. Source: gzt.ru

The riots in the educational colony led to the death of three people on Wednesday night in the Kirovgrad educational colony No. 2 in the Sverdlovsk region, mass riots occurred, which have grown currently. As a result of a clash of adolescents and security services contained in a correctional institution, three people (two prisoners and one overseer) were killed and almost 20 were injured.

13:30 // 10/17/2007 The Moscow police finds out the reasons for the suicide of a large leader of one of the Russian companies, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. "The body of the head of one of the departments of a large company of security was discovered on Tuesday in his apartment in the house number 2 on the fifth Voikovsky passage. It was established that the man shot his chest from the Saiga -12 smoothbore self -loading carbine," he said.

10 enterprises of the pharmaceutical industry were blacklisted yesterday Roszdravnadzor made an unexpected statement on the preparation of a black list of pharmaceutical enterprises. According to the department, the basis for the formation of anti -rating on the quality of drugs was the results of half -year monitoring of the quality of drugs entering the market from April 1 to September 30, 2007.

"People should work, and controllers - to be near" from February 1, 2008, all supervisory and control bodies of Russia, according to the consolidated plan, will take up the national projects. This was announced yesterday by the First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting in the Kremlin. “The experience that we accumulated in the work on national projects is in demand.

13:13 // 10/17/2007 In the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkov’s prosecution, 9 suspects were brought. This was announced today in the Moscow City Court by the representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office Vyacheslav Smirnov during the consideration of the issue of the legality of the arrest of one of the accused. "9 persons were involved as accused in the criminal case," he said. According to Smirnov, among the accused three Makhmudov brothers.

14:00 // 10/17/2007 Somalia troops broke into the UN building in the capital of the country of Mogadisho and detained the head of the local branch of the UN World Food Program, RIA Novosti reports. "The UN -VPP can confirm that Mr. Idris Osman was detained in Mogadisho," said the representative of the organization Peter Smerdon. "The runway urgently discusses his detention with the authorities," he said.

Moscow deputies gave the good for the construction in the parks of the Moscow City Duma refused to change the metropolitan law “On the regulation of urban planning in the territories of the natural complex of the city of Moscow” yesterday, which allows the capital parks to build up. Deputies of the United Russia faction, which make up the vast majority in the Moscow City Duma, are not the first time refused to close loopholes in urban environmental legislation.

17:17 // 10/17/2007 Only 3% of Russians do not know the current president of Russia Vladimir Putin. This is evidenced by the results of surveys of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) dedicated to the attitude of Russians to the leaders of political parties participating in the elections in the State Duma of the fifth convocation, RIA Novosti reports.