21:49 // 11.11.2007 The main cause of the accident in Dnepropetrovsk is the irresponsible attitude of "Dneprogaz" towards networks. This was announced by the Chairman of the State Committee of Ukraine for Industrial Safety, Labor Protection and Mining Sergey Storchak, reports " Prua ". The commission, which conducted the investigation, notes that the personnel of the enterprise that serves the gas farm was more than doubled (from 1,500 to 690 people).

20:00 // 11.11.2007 France trade unions decided to extend the two -day strike, despite the government’s readiness for negotiations on pension reform. The France railway company said that today the number of striking workers has decreased, but the strike will last tomorrow, by decision of the trade union. Workers of other trade unions also voted in extending protest shares. In France, many for the second day cannot get to work due to a strike.

19:36 // 11.11.2007 Perevez Musharraf appointed the speaker of the upper house of the Mohammadmian parliament to be the acting prime minister. According to Reuters , his duties will also be monitoring the upcoming elections. According to the sources close to the President, Oyamro will be swore tomorrow. Source: gzt.ru

22:05 // 11.11.2007 The Italian ENEL SPA offered Small shares in the company's power plants in Italy OJSC, said the chief executive director of ENEL Fulvio Conti, Bloomberg reports. According to Conti, he made Gazprom this proposal as part of a meeting with the deputy chairman of the board of the Russian company Alexander Medvedev in Rome. During the meeting, the issue of the possibility of joint activities of two companies in Russia was also discussed, the head of ENEL noted. Source: gzt.ru

19:13 // 11.11.2007 The first state children's channel "Bibigon", which began broadcasting on September 1, summed up the results of the All -Russian contest "Narisui Bibigon!" And he chose with his symbol of the red-haired “boy-to-finger”, a character of the work of the same name by Korney Chukovsky. According to the television channel, the winner of the competition, who sent the drawing of a tiny red-haired boy, was 34-year-old Sonya Karamelkin from Moscow.

11:36 // 11.11.2007 The court of the Magadan region sentenced the former deputy chairman of the Magadan City Hall Committee Vladimir Serbinov to five years in prison in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty of a large -scale bribe, an assistant to the prosecutor of the Magadan region Anna Stovba told RIA Novosti .

11:02 // 11.11.2007 The Georgian Parliament at an extraordinary plenary session will consider amendments to the Constitution. The changes relate to the deadlines for the presidential and parliamentary elections, REGNUM reports. Recall, on November 8, after the dispersal of opposition manifestations, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili introduced a state of emergency in the country for 15 days.

Russia completely withdrawn military bases from the territory of Georgia a train with Russian military and property of the former 12th Russian military base in the city of Batumi (Georgia) arrived at 14.00 at the border of Armenia and Georgia, said the assistant commander of the Ground Forces for information support, Colonel Igor Konashenkov.

The Federation Council proposes to re -provide a stab fund’s money. The size of the stab fund approached $ 150 billion, amounting to 3.65 trillion rubles on October 1, 2007. On February 1, 2008, most of its money - more than 3 trillion rubles - will transfer to the reserve fund, almost 500 billion will be in the National Welfare Fund.

13:14 // 15.11.2007 From January 1, 2008, a new scheme of additional drug support (DLOs) of the preferential categories of Russian citizens will begin to operate, Tatyana Golikova, head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, said at a meeting with Vladimir Putin. She explained that from next year the DLO will be divided into two components, one of which will be carried out by the federal center, and the second - the subjects of the Federation.

When the Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev died 25 years ago, the country was divided into those who sincerely grieved (most obviously because of fear of an unclear future), and those who for some reason were waiting for changes for the better. The new Secretary General Yuri Andropov really began in a new way.

17:56 // 15.11.2007 The European Union will consider the possibility of reforming a computerized airline booking system. According to Reuters , this will reduce ticket prices. According to the new proposal, it is possible to reduce airport fees, as well as a fee for preliminary booking tickets.

13:33 // 11.11.2007 Two flights from Samara to Moscow on Thursday were detained due to the fog, the dispatcher of the Saratov air terminal on duty told RIA Novosti . "The reason for the delay in the departure of two morning flights to the Moscow Domodedovo airport was a thick fog in Saratov. In such conditions, flights are closed," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Ukrainian president believes that a new agreement on the conditions for using the Kerch Strait Viktor Yushchenko was needed to conclude a new agreement with Russia on the use of the Kerch Strait, where several shipwrecks occurred last week, which caused significant environmental damage to the water area.

On the Cote d'Azur, the IX festival of Russian art in Nice opened a festival, which since 1998 has been holding the French public in the know what has been happening today with Russian culture. There can be no question of the full picture, due to the scarcity of the budget, but the producers of the festival Oleg Chesnokov and Melania Milbert all these years did not forget about the Russian archaic or the Russian avant -garde and tried to present the most important trends in recent years.