22:19 // 23.10.2007 Yesterday, the Union of Participants in the Alcohol Market (SUAR) officially announced the names of nine Moldovan companies that confirmed their participation in the metropolitan exhibition Interdrink 2007 and, thus, will be the first to return to the Russian market. Among them: “Mileshtiy Michi”, “Vinur Yalovin”, “Leggy Vin”, “Moldavian Standard”, “MIGIDAL-P”, “KOLUSVIN”, “Suvorov Vin”, “Quint” and “Lyon-Gri”.

13:44 // 10/23/2007 In Russia, it is necessary to approve the standard of the Russian language similar to the English TOEFL, said First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. According to him, this is a “useful thing, we do not have such a standard yet,” reports Echo of Moscow . Medvedev says that the federal standard of the Russian language is needed, in particular, to test the knowledge of foreigners when hiring. Source: gzt.ru

This year, state pharmacy networks will occupy half the market pharmacy chains to develop actively due to expansion to the regions where they buy regional players. Large players do not fight with each other: they are still very free in the market. However, serious battles between the players of the segment are just around the corner. The obvious favorite of the beginning race is the state, more precisely, state unitary enterprises.

20:16 // 23.10.2007 Glavexpertiza under the Gosstroy of Russia agreed on the reconstruction of part of the building of the Main Staff on the Palace Square of St. Petersburg for the needs of the State Hermitage. We are talking about the eastern wing of the historical monument of the beginning of the 19th century, on several floors of which there will be exhibition halls and utility rooms, ITAR-TASS reported in the museum.

19:04 // 23.10.2007 The court verdict of the court in relation to officials whose fault two years ago an accident occurred and four miners at the Angerskaya Kuzbass mine were killed, the representative of the prosecutor's office of the Kemerovo region told RIA Novosti .

20:29 // 23.10.2007 The famous Russian entrepreneur German Sterligov, who has been in Afghanistan in the last two weeks in order to buy tribal rams, returned to Moscow. With him, he brought only one of the two purchased animals. However, the air carrier lost the elite ram. Sterligov was taking him from Kabul to Moscow in transit through Dubai. At the moment, the businessman draws up documents on the loss of cargo.

The British Embassy in Russia introduces from November 8, 2007 the issuance of biometric visas starting on November 8, the procedure for issuing visas to Russians who want to visit the foggy Albion is radically changing.

17:31 // 23.10.2007 The incidence of influenza above epidemic thresholds was registered in 7 Russian cities - Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Vladikavkaz, Norilsk, Novosibirsk, Ryazan and Khabarovsk. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the National Influenza Center for the World Health Organization (WHO) in St. Petersburg.

The explosion in Dagestan is investigated by a group of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Southern Federal District according to the latest data, a group of operational employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District to investigate the circumstances of the explosion in a route taxi arrived in Dagestan, the representative of the press service of the Glavka said.

16:32 // 10/23/2007 The officer of the military registration and enlistment office for the city of Podolsk and the Podolsk municipal district of the Moscow region was detained for extortion from a local resident of 15 thousand rubles. According to ITAR-TASS in the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, "the employee of the military registration and enlistment office promised him not to send materials to the prosecutor’s office to evade the draft.

“Our Ukraine” stands on the verge of a split of passion around the so far only on paper of the orange coalition is heated every day. Yesterday, one of the founders of our Ukraine, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuri Yehanurov announced his possible exit from the People’s Union party of our Ukraine, if his proposals regarding the coordination of some positions with the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT) will not support the presidium of the party.

The head of the paintings Vyacheslav Fetisov in an interview with Gazeta recently in Saransk (Mordovia), several sports facilities of republican significance were opened at once as part of the federal target program. The ceremonies were attended by the head of the Russian Office Vyacheslav Fetisov.

The draft city law “On Fire Safety” has been developed by the Moscow government approved yesterday the draft city law “On Fire Safety”. Now he will be sent to the Moscow City Duma. The discussion turned out to be very relevant: a recently terrible fire in the building of the Moscow Institute of State and Corporate Directorate took 11 people (see the “newspaper” of October 3).

10:12 // 10/23/2007 On the fact of poisoning of 17 children in the sanatorium "Krasnoyarsk Zagori", a criminal case was opened under the article "Violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules, which entailed by negligence the massive disease of people" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The French inventor is confident that the secrets of the creation of Leonardo da Vinci have revealed for many centuries the riddle of “Mona Lisa” exciting the minds of connoisseurs of art, intrigued by conversations about the origin and true sense of the picture. And now the French inventor stated that he can give answers to some questions of exciting art historians - including an urgent question about the fate of a mysterious woman without eyebrows and eyelashes depicted in the picture.