On Friday, the final match of the Davis Cup of Argentina and Spain will finish the ten tennis season this year. The South American team plays in the final for the second time in the last three seasons, which emphasizes its stability. Moreover, the wards of Alberto Mansini became the obvious favorites of the Davis Cup final, after their rivals lost their main star, the first racket of the world of Rafael Nadal, forced to abandon the long-awaited match due to injury.

16:48 // 11.11.2008 Norilskiyi Nickel does not plan to pay dividends by the results of 2008, the company general, the company director Vladimir Strelkovsky, said, RIA Novosti reports. “There will be no dividends, and for the year too,” he said. Earlier, the Norilsk Nickel management spoke out against the payment of intermediate dividends for nine months that the company traditionally paid.

The speaker of the Federation Council called on the President of Russia to make the USE not mandatory the speaker of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov on Thursday held a meeting following the results of the Unified State Examan (USE). During the meeting, the chairman of the upper house of the parliament collapsed with criticism of the Ministry of Education and Science. Mironov said that if the exam will be carried out without fail next year, this will become a strategic mistake.

12:48 // 11.11.2008 The General Motors (GM) largest American auto -concern does not intend to sell the German Opel automobile company, which belongs to GM since 1931, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the European publication Automotive News Europe. “Opel is not for sale,” the representative of GM Europe Nelson Silweira told the publication. With a proposal to redeem the famous automobile brand at GM was the German company Solarworld, operating in the field of solar energy.

The ghost of the economic crisis visited the 10th Congress of United Russia in Gostiny Dvor on Thursday, the X Congress of United Russia (EP) was held. For the first time, the Prime Minister and part-time, party chairman Vladimir Putin. The central theme of all performances was the question of how to protect the Russian economy from the global financial crisis. This was spoke about both Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, and the chairman of the Supreme Council of United Russia Boris Gryzlov.

The Congress of United Russia approved the amendments to the party charter that cancel the mandatory payment of membership fees that change the procedure for admission to the party and introduce the rotation of the party leadership, as well as changing the full name of the party ..

Experts warn that the removal of Andrei Rublev’s icon from the Tretyakov Gallery can destroy the news that the leadership of the Tretyakov Gallery is preparing to convey a masterpiece of ancient Russian painting - Andrei Rublev’s icon “Trinity” - for temporary use of the Moscow Patriarchate for the Feast of the Trinity and special boxes -capsules are already being prepared for its transportation for its transportation for its transportation Trinity-Sergius Lavra, excited the cultural community.

The capital’s authorities are ready to increase the number of subsidies for novice entrepreneurs in 2008 in the competition program to support novice entrepreneurs, declared by the capital's government, expressed their willingness to participate 110 small businesses. True, as the newspaper was informed at the Agency for the Development of Innovation Entrepreneurship, on November 1, 50 participants presented a full set of documents. 15 applications have already been supported (last year - 20).

The new chairman of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) Patrick Robinson, who took office on November 17, said that he was taking off his authority of the judge in the proceedings in the case of the ex-leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radova Karadzhich. He will be replaced by German Christoph Fliger. The fact is that Robinson, according to the charter of the tribunal, has no right to combine the posts of a judge and chairman.

The special project of the newspaper continues the traditional section of the "newspaper" "Sports Stavka" is released in a new format. Each observer makes forecasts for any events, not limited to only one championship or sport, in the amount of 1 thousand conventional units (W.E.). He distributes this money at his own discretion.

People's USSR artist Alexei Batalov on Thursday celebrates his 80-year-old anniversary.. People's USSR artist Alexei Batalov on Thursday celebrates his 80-year-old anniversary. He does not really love lush celebrations and panegyrics in his honor-he is always in work: if he does not remove, then he writes something radio, writes articles and books, and most importantly, is engaged in his students - future actors.

In Kamchatka, a driver who offended the blind passenger was fined boorish behavior against a passenger cost a driver working in one of the Kamchatka carriers, a fine. He unceremoniously exposed a blind disabled person with a guide dog from the salon, because he simply did not want to carry a beneficiary who enjoy the right to travel free. The incident occurred on September 22. At the bus station Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a blind man with a dog in a muzzle entered the bus.

There is no reason to consider the issue of transferring the 2014 Olympics, said Dmitry Chernyshenko, president of the Sochi-2014 Organizing Committee .. There is no reason to consider the issue of transferring the 2014 Olympics, said Dmitry Chernyshenko, president of the Sochi-2014 Organizing Committee. That is how he commented on the attacks of the Austrian media about the fact that Salzburg, who claimed the white Olympics, again wants to offer his candidacy.

The sensational film by Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskoy, “Bunt. Litvinenko,”, which premiered at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, will be shown for the first time in Russia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official website of the Cinema without Borders. After the premiere in Cannes, the film went around the world and television screens of the world, and finally reached Russia, where the picture will be shown in the evening in the center named after A.D. Sakharov.

Despite the crisis, Vladimir Strelkovsky does not believe that Norikel is at risk of its 100-day term as the general director of the Norilsk Nickel GMC Vladimir Strelkovsky timed to the press conference of Russian and foreign media, during which he spoke about the plans for the further development of the company. Despite the crisis, Mr. Strelkovsky does not believe that Norilsk Nickel is in jeopardy. “The company is in a normal stable financial situation.