19:32 // 01.11.2007 One of the largest American automakers Chrysler intends to reduce 12 thousand jobs by 2008, RIA Novosti reports. According to the company’s statement, the management is forced to go to such measures in order to avoid raising prices for the cars manufactured, as well as due to a fall in the level of sales. In this regard, staff will be reduced in five American plants, and four cars will be removed from the production.

15:36 // 01.11.2007 The City Hall of Voronezh recommended that the Russian march organizers not to hold a rally and march on the day of popular unity, but transfer it to November 5, the representative of the city hall informed RIA Novosti told RIA Novosti, but the organizers of the action intend to hold it on November 4.

14:21 // 01.11.2007 The small birthplace of the Kuzma Minin militia leader, the Volga village of Balakhna, spent the STO Nizhny Novgorod people today - our contemporaries will pass and travel 800 kilometers on the route of folk warriors in 1612. It is reported by RIA Novosti . The holiday was established in 1649 by Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, commanding "in all cities, all years" to celebrate on November 4 as the day of assault by the militias of Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky China Gorod.

16:14 // 01.11.2007 Attacks on Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia are unfounded and aimed at preparing law enforcement scenarios from the Georgian side, RIA Novosti was told by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Mikhail Kamynin. "The attacks on our peacekeepers are unfounded and directed, first of all, at the conscious escalation of tension and the preparation of various kinds of power scenarios from the Georgian side.

22:11 // 01.11.2007 Tatneft OJSC does not expect financial losses due to the cessation of oil supplies at Ukrtatanft CJSC (Kremenchug refinery). This was reported by representatives of Tatneft during a television conference for investors on Thursday.

The lawyer of the Opposition Party argues that the ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia was sent on the eve of the protest of the ex-Minister of Defense of Georgia Irakli Okabashvili forced to leave the country before the opposition rally planned for Friday, November 2, the lawyer of the Okabavili, a representative of the Opposition Party, Movement for Unified Georgia, said at Tbilisi.

The Georgian opposition has been entering the ICS hour, which the representatives of all 10 leading opposition parties in Georgia have been talking about for a month now. On Friday, in the center of Tbilisi, at least 100 thousand residents of the republic should gather in front of the parliament building in order to protest against the internal policy of the authorities and vote for parliamentary Georgia (the main slogan of the action is “Georgia without the President”).

14:18 // 01.11.2007 From citizens from different regions of Russia to the Association of the NPO "Civil Control" and the Russian Free Elections Fund that monitor the progress of the election campaign to identify violations of the electoral legislation, 144 complaints were received, the member of the Public Chamber, co -chair of the Civil Control Association Alexander Brod.

13:45 // 01.11.2007 During 2007, military personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense will receive 42.7 thousand apartments from various sources. This was announced today by the I.O. Head of the Department for the implementation of the housing programs of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Valentin Nikolaev.

15:22 // 01.11.2007 Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi, accused by the UK of the murder of the ex-employee of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko, intends to prove his innocence. “I think that justice will triumph. We will prove that we have nothing to do with this matter. The British will have to admit it, maybe not now, but later,” Lugovoi told at a press conference in RIA Novosti .

19:01 // 01.11.2007 Georgian Foreign Minister Georgy Mandzhgaladze turned to the OSCE with a request to make an unambiguous and adequate assessment of the events in the village of Ganmukhuri, where on Tuesday there was an incident between Russian peacekeepers and the Georgian police. It is reported by RIA Novosti .

The Ministry of Industry and Trade, METARO and Gazprom diverging in the views on the electric worshiping long -term development plan of the Russian electric power industry is almost ready. It remains to coordinate only technical details to relevant departments. This was announced on Thursday after a meeting of the Government by the head of the Ministry of Industry, Viktor Khristenko, referring to the finalization of the general scheme for the placement of energy facilities until 2020.

21:19 // 01.11.2007 The gas explosion in Dnepropetrovsk received about 150 million hryvnias of compensation for the lost housing in Dnepropetrovsk, and the state is still fully paid for the residence of the victims in the hotels, their food, provides clothes. This was reported to President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko V.I. O. The heads of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Viktor Bondar, - Prua informed the press service of the head of state.

The RTS index remained in a small minus after the announcement of the decision of the US Federal Reserve to reduce the base interest rate yesterday's auction in the domestic stock market opened upward. During the session, the RTS index even reached a new peak - 2240 points, but could not stay on it. The holiday did not last long: sales resumed already in the afternoon. And according to the results of the session, the RTS index even remained 0.21%in the minus, stopping at a mark of 2218 points.

22:09 // 01.11.2007 The largest in Ukraine operator of fixed communications of Ukrtelecom OJSC announced the launch of the UMTS/WCDMA mobile network network (third -generation network, 3G). According to the head of the company's board, Georgy Dzekon at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday, services will be provided under the UTEL brand.