The Chita Regional Court extended the term of detention of the former head of the international financial organization Menatep Platon Lebedev ... A criminal case was instituted in the Samara region against the former deputy minister of property relations of the region, Alexander Farmanov ... A 22-year-old resident of the Kuninsky district of the Pskov region tried to burn his family ... In Moscow, the arrested on the murder escaped in Moscow.

The Omsk Vanguard won the first match after the death of Alexei Cherepanov a week after the tragic death in the Chekhov near Moscow, 19-year-old Alexei Cherepanov, Omsk Vanguard, returned to the ice of his native arena, which was still farewell to the rising star of Russian hockey. It is clear that the mood of the hawks was not the best, but also the opponent with fate and the calendar was given out: one of the main outsiders of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) - Minsk Dynamo.

The global financial crisis made Russia one of the GDP growth leaders yesterday took place on the 22nd meeting of the advisory council on foreign investment (KSIA), chaired by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The council was created back in 1993 in many respects through the efforts of the well -known consulting company Ernst & Young.

13:41 // 10/20/2008 Russian athletes Elena Soboleva, Daria Pishchalnikova, Gulfiya Hanafeeva, Tatyana Tomashova, Julia Fomenko, Svetlana Cherkasova and Olga Egorova are disqualified for two years. According to RIA Novosti , the president of the All -Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) Valentin Balakhnichev announced the disqualification. Later sanctions should be Approved by the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), which may adjust the sentences.

The United Company Russian Aluminum (OK Rusal) is negotiating with Western creditors ( BNP Paribas, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Royal Bank of Scotland) on the possibility of a payment of a payment of $ 1.8 billion with a total of $ 4.5 4.5 billion. The company attracted it in the spring to pay for a transaction on the acquisition of the Norilsk Nickel GMC package.

11:46 // 10/20/2008 The premium counting began in the morning at the Srikharikot cosmodrome in the Bengal Gulf before launch on October 22 the first Indian lunar mission, RIA Novosti said Representative of the Indian space of space research.

12:55 // 10/20/2008 The British police arrested the Pilot of a passenger aircraft at Khitrovo London Airport. According to Reuters, the basis for the detention was the suspicion of the pilot’s use of a large amount of alcohol before the flight. Details of the incident are not reported. It is known that the 44-year-old pilot, whose name is not called, is an employee of the airline United Airlines. He had to work on a flight flying from London the day before.

17:40 // 10/20/2008 President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko offers to additionally introduce 1 billion hryvnias (approximately $ 200 million) to the bank deposit guaranteeing fund. “It is necessary to ensure that approximately 98% of all population deposits at any bank are guaranteed by the state,” the president said, opening an extraordinary meeting of the National Security and Defense of Ukraine on Monday.

The agency advises to refrain from Safari at the resorts of an unpleasant surprise, the Russian Foreign Ministry made Russian tourists exactly by the high New Year season. According to the Turinfo agency, the other day, the ministry sent a recommendation to tourists to warn their tourists about the danger of various safari, autoralli and other types of extreme relaxation at the resorts of Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.

The VEB remains the last hope of Rusal to maintain a share in the GMC, the United Company “Russian aluminum” (OK Rusal) is negotiating with Western creditors (BNP Paribas, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and Royal Bank of Scotland) $ 1.8 billion on a syndicated loan with a total of $ 4.5 billion. The company attracted it in the spring to pay for a transaction on the acquisition of the Norilsk Nickel GMK package.

10:48 // 10/20/2008 Trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed by increasing quotes by 3.59%, RIA Novosti reports with reference to France Press. The Nikkei index, reflecting the quotes of shares of 225 leading companies in Japan, increased by 311.77 points (3.59%) to the mark of 9005.59 points. According to analysts, investors encouraged the financial statements of a number of large Japanese companies, which turned out to be better than expected.

The court prohibited the transfer of TGK-4 shares to the account of Mikhail Prokhorov’s company Arbitration Court of Moscow, imposed interim measures yesterday to transfer TGK-4 shares to Onexim Holdings LTD. As the Gazeta was informed yesterday in the Central Moscow Depository (CMD), they received a corresponding court ruling.

The colleague shared his observation: while the government forecasts proceeded from clearly underestimated indicators of oil prices, everything went fine. The forecasts were overfulfilled, annoying the few opponents of government budgets that survived in the Duma, and expanding the possibilities of financial maneuvering of the government itself. But as soon as in 2008, the forecast for the growth of oil prices was repeatedly revised towards the increase, everything sprinkled.

The capital’s authorities invented where to place household services, capital stores, cafes and household services will be placed on the territory of the central heating points (CTP). Such a proposal is contained in the draft resolution on improving the integrated service of the population in the field of the consumer market and services, which today will be considered at a meeting of the Moscow Government.

According to the Federal State Statistics Service, there is no crisis in Russia, but it is worth waiting for the Rosstat published yesterday on the economic indicators of Russia for January - September are quite optimistic: in relation to September 2007, the GDP increased by 8%, industrial production - by 6.3%, the growth rate of investment in fixed assets amounted to 11.8%. But they inspire optimism only at first glance.