11:43 // 10/23/2008 The third international film festival opened the night before in Rome. According to the Associated Press , the first award of this festival for acting was awarded to the famous Hollywood actor of Italian origin Al Pacino. “This is a great honor for me to be invited to this festival,” said Oscar laureate for the film “The Woman's Small” (1992).

10:57 // 10/23/2008 The workers of the Lobvinsky Biochemistry (LBHZ) in the Sverdlovsk region picked the building of the regional government with a request to pay wage arrears, RIA Novosti reports. The participants in the action launched the banners of the "owners of the plant - to the answer" with the image of barbed wire, "give honestly earned money", "Governor! Pay attention to us!".

13:16 // 23.10.2008 The Ministry of Defense of Russia is abolished by the Institute of Warrant Officers and Michmanov, and in the future they will be replaced by professional contractions sergeants, a source in the Russian military department told RIA Novosti . The Institute of Warrant Officers and midshipmen was created at the end of 1971.

19:59 // 10/23/2008 The decrease in the Standard & Poor´s (S&P) forecast for the sovereign credit ratings of Russia will not affect the movement of capital or on serving external debts, the director of the financial policy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Savatyugin told RIA Novosti . "I believe that in calm conditions, the opinions of rating agencies listen much more than in crisis. This is generally in the world, not only in Russia.

14:57 // 10/23/2008 The Russian Foreign Ministry asked the Somali government to provide the Russian Federation with the status of a "cooperating state" in order to more effectively fight the pirates, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Policy Department.

14:02 // 10/23/2008 The poor Muscovites and veterans will be able to buy vegetables with a 10-percent discount in a number of stores since December, RIA Novosti reports citing the deputy head of the Moscow Food Resources Department Nikolai Korobeinik in Mosgordum.

The European Commissioner arrived in Havana for negotiations today the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Assistance Luis Michelle arrived in Havana. Within two days he will meet with representatives of the Cuban authorities. Negotiations will be devoted primarily to the resumption of cooperation between Cuba and the EU, which was suspended in 2003. Today, Michelle will meet with Felipe Perez Rock, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the island.

18:43 // 10/23/2008 The RTS index lost more than 4% of the trading results on Thursday, the negative impact on its dynamics was had, among other things, a decrease in the rating agency S&P forecasts for the sovereign ratings of Russia to "negative" and weak statda for unemployment in the United States. At 18.00 Moscow time, the RTS index decreased by 4.39% - to the mark of 636.54 points, RIA Novosti reports. Starting a trading day with a decline, a few hours later the index went out into a plus.

20:50 // 23.10.2008 The Supervisory Board of the Development Bank (VEB) appointed the former deputy governor - Deputy Prime Minister of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Anatoly Tikhonov as a member of the board - the first deputy chairman of the VEB, RIA Novosti reports citing the press service of the state corporation. This is not the first appointment of Krasnoyarsk officials to high posts in Moscow in the last weeks.

21:11 // 23.10.2008 The European Court of Human Rights granted the lawsuit of four residents of Chechnya who accused the Russian authorities of disappearance of three of their relatives in 2000, and also that the authorities could not properly investigate the case of their abduction, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the decree published on the official court of the court.

10:26 // 10/23/2008 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation reduced the maximum amount of funds provided to credit organizations for Operations "Mastery" to 15 billion from 25 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the regulator materials. On October 17, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation distributed a message that it would be daily set by October 20, 2008 the maximum amount of funds provided under the operations of the VAMP. Source: gzt.ru

The social adaptation of prisoners was with difficulty under threat of the breakdown, the deadlines for the creation of public commissions designed to control the observance of human rights in the places of detention of prisoners.

The patrol machines of the Russian police in the future will be equipped with a GLONASS system in the arsenal of Russian law enforcement agencies can soon appear new models of firearms, armored vehicles and other security protection products. In particular, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be able to protect order during mass demonstrations using the new storm water products, the main advantage of which is their more compact, compared with the currently used dimensions.

14:53 // 23.10.2008 The Abkhaz border post in the settlement of the Taglan of the Galsky district was fired in the morning from the Georgian side of automatic weapons, the head of the border security service of the State Security Service of Abkhazia Zurab Margania told reporters. "The shelling stopped after the return fire from the Abkhaz side," he said, RIA Novosti reports.

16:49 // 10/23/2008 The Supreme Council of Crimea intends to appeal to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine with a request to determine whether the Constitution corresponds to the decision of the National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting, obliging cable television operators to stop the retranding of a number of television channels, including Russian ones, RIA Novosti reports.