20:00 // 06.11.2008 In the explosion in the center of Vladikavkaz, nine people were killed and 38 were injured, said the head of the government of North Ossetia Nikolai Khlyntsov, RIA Novosti reports with reference to medical centers and the Ministry of Emergencies. “This figure is from medical centers and the Ministry of Emergencies,” Khlyntsov said.

15:18 // 06.11.2008 The cause of the explosion in a route taxi in the center of Vladikavkaz, according to preliminary data, was gas equipment, but a version of the explosive device is not excluded, a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia told RIA Novosti . “We assume that the gas cylinder exploded, but we do not exclude that it could be an explosive device,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Central Bank signed agreements with three banks on compensation for losses on the interbank today the Central Bank reported that he had signed agreements with Sberbank, MDM Bank and Raffasenbank on compensation for part of losses in the interbank market. Recall that yesterday the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Alexei Ulyukaev, said that the first agreements would be signed before the end of the week, but did not call whom exactly.

16:27 // 06.11.2008 Interpol was involved in the search for the deputy of the Kyrgyz Parliament missing more than a month ago about the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDPK) Ruslan Shabatoev, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Moldomus Kongantiev.

The Ecological map of Moscow "Greenpeace Russia" was published together with Google published an electronic ecological map of Moscow. Capital enterprises have a maximum emission of pollutants into the atmosphere, as well as the zones of their influence, are applied to it. Now every Muscovite can, having driven the address of his house into the search line, find out what danger he is threatening.

11:36 // 06.11.2008 The State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov considers the new US President Barack Obama a lesser evil for Russia than his competitor in John McCain’s elections, RIA Novosti reports. According to the latest data, the Senator-Democrat Obama secured the support of 359 electors (with a minimum of 270 votes for the election) and became the elected president of the United States. His opponent, a republican Senator McCain, can count on the voices of 162 electors.

On Thursday, the fifth round of Russian-Italian interstate consultations was held in Moscow, chaired by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the Italian Council Silvio Berlusconi. The main topic of negotiations in addition to bilateral relations was the global financial crisis. Leaders also discussed the prospects for the construction of a new collective European security system and the current state of Russia's relations with the EC and NATO.

A suspect of the murder of two Catholic priests on Thursday morning, employees of the metropolitan police detained a suspect in the murder of two Catholic priests-46-year-old Otto Messmer and 42-year-old Viktor Betancer, who were members of the Jesuit Order of Jesus. The detained 38-year-old native of the Tver region, whose surname is not called at the request of the investigation, has already admitted the crime.

The fifth King of Butan is 28-year-old Jigma Khassar Namgagal Vangchuk Koronovan in this Himalayan country. Jigma, whose father Jigme Singier Vangchuk handed over the throne to his son two years ago, now officially leads the youngest democracy in the world.

13:55 // 06.11.2008 The quota to attract foreign labor in the Russian Federation in 2009 can be reduced based on the situation in the labor market and the real needs of employers, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy head of the Russian Federal Migration Service Anatoly Kuznetsova.

Both companies are disappointed with such a result on an advertising agreement between Google and Yahoo after Google refused joint plans under pressure from regulatory antimonopoly bodies of the United States and advertisers, Google said in an official statement. Rumors that Google and Yahoo will announce the withdrawal from an advertising agreement, disapprovingly met by antimonopoly regulators, began to circulate a week ago.

Mahmud Ahmadinejad, even in his native village, few people in Iran had such great hopes for the presidency of Mahmud Akhmadinejad as the inhabitants of Aradan - a village with a population of 5 thousand people located at the foot of the Aliborn mountains southeast of Tehran. It was here that in 1956, the one who was destined to become the leader of Iran was born in the family of a blacksmith.

Greenpeace Russia together with Google published an electronic ecological map of Moscow. Capital enterprises have a maximum emission of pollutants into the atmosphere, as well as the zones of their influence, are applied to it. Now every Muscovite can, having driven the address of his house into the search line, find out what danger he is threatening. As stated in the Greenpeace message, the card is based on the data of Roshydromet and Mosecomonitoring.

10:08 // 06.11.2008 In Moscow, car owners with a small engine volume will begin to receive fuel cards for 24 thousand rubles on November 11 at the traffic police at the place of registration of the car, a source in the city administration told RIA Novosti .

Mass dismissals in Russia can lead to a reduction in quotas for foreigners by the Federal Migration Service (FMS) on Thursday responded to the calls of several movements that sounded at the end of last week, including the “Young Guard of United Russia”, and reduce quotas for migrants. As Anatoly Kuznetsov, deputy director of the FMS, told the Gazeta correspondent, in 2009 the authorities were going to invite almost 4 million foreign workers to Russia.