The revenue of the Sotheby's auction house at auction in New York surpassed expectations. Trading by impressionist and contemporary art brought to organizers over $ 180 million. The most expensive lot of trading was the sculpture of Alberto Dzhakometti, the falling man in 1951, which left the hammer for $ 19.3 million with a preliminary estimate of $ 8-12 million.

The Prime Minister of Vladimir Putin, the St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court made a private determination with a request to eliminate violations in the payment of monetary compensation to the military personnel Vladislav Baleevsky. On the measures adopted by the government, a military court, according to Art. 226 Code of Civil Procedure, asks to notify it within a month.

Investigators conducting the investigation of the murder of businessman Shabtai Kalmanovich, it became known that the order to destroy the entrepreneur was given to the leaders of one of the ethnic diaports of Moscow. This was announced on Thursday by a source in law enforcement agencies of the capital. According to the security forces, the chapters of Bans, which controls most of the markets in Moscow, could have claims to Kalmanovich.

AvtoVAZ lines need French technologies. Photo: AFP The government decided to save the auto giant in Togliatti without the help of foreign shareholders and not to the detriment of The government abandoned plans to change the shares of shareholders in the authorized capital of AvtoVAZ. It will take on the clearing of the debt burden and the social obligations of the enterprise (in the amount of 42.8 billion rubles).

CSKA may lose its not yet built stadium. The Ministry of Defense is going to cancel a contract with a professional football club (PFC) of CSKA for the construction of a new stadium. The main claims to CSKA are the breakdown of the deadlines for the delivery of the sports arena, the inconsistency of the declared project and the lack of financial guarantees from the club.

“It will be a very Sinatrovsky album. It will have six Frank Sinatra Cavers,” Mitch Winehouse said in the show on the LIV television channel. The taxi driver added that his daughter inherited the vocal abilities from him. “We always sang in our family,” said Mitch Winehaus. Amy Winehaus with his taxist dad Mitch himself has already tried himself in show business.

The diagnosis of pork flu will be made without laboratory tests in the case when there is a threat of rapid spread of the virus. Such an order was sent by Rospotrebnadzor. According to experts of the department, pork flu can be identified on the basis of a clinical picture.

After the home defeat from Inter in the Champions League with a score of 1: 2 Dynamo Kyiv, Valery Gazzaev said that his wards would make every effort in Kazan and in the home game with Barcelona in order to solve the problem of leaving the group. “It’s very disappointing that they lost, and lost over the last minutes of the game,” the official website of the Kiev residents quotes the words of Gazzaev, “when we bring a goal in a simple situation, then there is nothing to analyze.

The casino did not disappear, but simply went into the shadow. In Moscow, the police exposed several “deeply conspiracy” casinos. Participants of the legal market in the past of the market talk about dozens of poker clubs and gaming rooms, which are still operating in Moscow underground. On Thursday, November 5, the metropolitan UBEP reported on an operation to identify six large and several more small gambling establishments in different areas of the capital.

The Embassy of Bulgaria is confident that police officers did not have the right to invade the territory of the industrial center, as he has diplomatic status. Representatives of the Bulgarian Embassy said an oral protest in the Russian Foreign Ministry in connection with the search of the Bulgarian Industrial Center in Moscow. The police claim that the audit was carried out as part of a criminal case and exclusively by law.

The butt matches of the qualifying tournament of the World Cup - 2010 between the national teams of Russia and Slovenia will judge the brigades of the Danish and Norwegian arbitrators. The chief referee of the game, which will be held in Moscow on November 14, was appointed by the Dane Klaus Bo Larsen. The response will be held on November 18 in Maribor, and it will be served by the Norwegian brigade led by Terie Haughee, Sport-Express reports.

Austrian concern Strabag defeated a license in confrontation with the capital's authorities The attempt of the metropolitan authorities to introduce the “daughter” of the Austrian construction concern Strabag, found guilty of the collapse of underground parking in September this year, in the list of unreliable suppliers and was unsuccessful of success. FAS refused them, and only the court can solve the question of recalling the license.

Another 5 billion rubles of additional investments are necessary for autovaz for the production of competitive products. This was stated on Thursday by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The prime minister recalled that the government had previously decided to provide an auto -vaiz of financial support in the amount of 38 billion rubles for debt coverage, 12 billion rubles for new production and 4.8 billion rubles for the social sphere of the enterprise, including the creation of temporary jobs.

The director of the FSB of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, learned about the preparations of the accused of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova another loud murder. This was announced by the head of the department at a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev. "In the process of investigative operational measures, the intention of this group was revealed to commit another murder that could become resonant," said Bortnikov, whose words quoted RIA Novosti.

Bernard Kerik. Photo AP The national hero of America Bernard Kerik, who headed the New York police department during the September 11 terrorist attacks, is ready to admit his guilt in corruption, non-payment of taxes and perjury. Recognitions will allow him to reduce the expected conclusion from 20 years to 33 months.