13:39 // 24.10.2008 Re -elected President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has taken office today. The inauguration ceremony of Aliyev took place in the Palace named after Heydar Aliyev. The chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Farhad Abdullaev invited Aliyev to the stage to take the oath of the Constitution of Azerbaijan and the Qur'an. After the oath, the anthem of the country sounded and the newly appointed president made a speech.

12:50 // 10.24.2008 The previously transferred information about the partial collapse of the building of the Novgorod District Prosecutor's Office in Veliky Novgorod was false, RIA Novosti reports from the scene.

What can not be said about cinemas the current financial crisis will not affect the cinema as a cinema as other sectors of the economy, the CEO of Karo Premier, Alexei Ryazantsev, is sure. "The cinema has already become a familiar and democratic type of leisure. Until people have the question of what to buy - bread or a film ticket (and I hope this is not this It will happen) people will not stop going to the cinema, ”Ryazantsev said.

The UN expert calls on the country's leadership to understand the violation of human rights on its territory North Korea should understand the violation of human rights on its territory. According to the Associated Press , this statement was made on the eve of the UN Human Rights Expert, a professor from Thailand hits a mintarbhorn. He said that the North Korean authorities use public punishments of convicts to intimidate their citizens.

Analysts will predict a further decrease in quotes by Russian liquid shares at the beginning of the day decreased by 3-5%. However, the shares of the Norilsk Nickel and Sberbank fell stronger - by 9.3 and 8%, respectively. The preservation of negative conjuncture in world markets led to new sales of Russian "blue chips". Stock analysts do not exclude new suspension of trading shares at the MICEX and RTS.

19:57 // 10/24/2008 Eight people died in the Yemeni Province of Hadramaut as a result of a flood caused by heavy rains, the Saba Yemeni news agency reports. The province is declared a "disaster zone." There are several cities under the threat of flooding. After rainfalls that lasted more than 30 hours, the water level in the province reached three meters.

21:20 // 10.24.2008 The sanctions imposed by the Government of the United States against the Russian company "Rosoboronexport" are illegal, since Washington is trying to apply American national legislation against other countries, the Russian Ambassador to the USA Sergey Kislyak, who takes part in a conference on nuclear issues, said on Friday.

11:04 // 10.24.2008 The accident of the MiG-29 fighter occurred on October 17 under the cheat due to the failure of the aircraft control system. This was announced today by RIA Novosti by the representative of the Air Force information service Dmitry Feofanov. "These are the preliminary data of the commission investigating the circumstances of the MiG -29 accident. At the same time, the pilot did everything possible to rectify the situation. The pilot is well done," Feofanov said.

12:10 // 10.24.2008 In the center of the Great Novorod this morning, ceiling ceiling in the building along Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street, where the service premises of the prosecutor's office of the Novgorod district, the Committee for Social Protection of the Population, and the District Land Committee are located. According to preliminary data, there are no victims, ITAR-TASS reported in the press center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Novgorod region.

16:16 // 10.24.2008 Mikhail Shvydka was elected president of the Academy of Russian Television, which was previously headed by Vladimir Pozner. This was reported to ITAR-TASS today in the press service of the Russian Television Academy (Art) Foundation.

13:25 // 24.10.2008 The RTS stock exchange suspended trading shares for an hour from 13.05 Moscow time due to the fall of Texindex by more than 5%, the representative of the exchange told RIA Novosti . By the time the trading is suspended, a decrease in techindex was 5.53%. Source: gzt.ru

21:56 // 24.10.2008 All flights from the London airport of City are delayed after a suspicious bundle was discovered in one of the women's toilets, RIA Novosti told with reference to the British capital fire department. The passengers who were at the time of the discovery of the bundle at the airport are evacuated. The metropolitan police of London said that this incident is not related to a terrorist threat.

20:42 // 24.10.2008 President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, by his decree, introduced the decision of the Council of National Security and Defense (NSDC) "On Urgent measures to strengthen financial and budget discipline and minimizing the negative impact of the global financial crisis on the Ukrainian economy." According to RIA Novosti with reference to the presidential press service, the decree was signed today. Source: gzt.ru

12:40 // 10.24.2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, by his decree, appointed Alexei Malinin the general director of the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network federal state unitary enterprise. This was reported today by the press service of the President of Russia. By another decree, the President of the Russian Federation dismissed Gennady Sklyar from this position. 48-year-old Alexei Malinin was born on June 4, 1960 in Moscow.

11:15 // 10.24.2008 The Ministry of Finance of Russia on October 29 will hold an auction for the placement of budget funds on weekly deposits of commercial banks, offering them up to 100 billion rubles, the ministry said. The Ministry of Finance will offer banks to place funds from October 30 to November 6, the minimum placement rate is set at 8.00%. Banks can submit up to five applications during each auction, the minimum amount of each application is 200 million rubles.