76 1 min. ... Prize fund: $2.3 million (men: $1 million; women: $1.3 million) Women. 1/2 finals. Amelie Mauresmo (France, 2)-- Elena Dementieva (Russia, 3) 6:4, 6:1. Anastasia Myskina (Russia, 4)--Anna Pistolesi (Israel) 6:2, 6:0. The final. Myskina --Moresmo 6:2, 6:4. Men. 1/2 finals. Sargis Sargsyan (Armenia)--Vincent Spady (USA) 6:2, 6:2. Taylor Dent (USA) - Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) 6:3, 2:6, 7:6 (7:1). The final. Dent-Sargsyan 7:6 (7:5), 6:4. ATP/WTA tournament in Tokyo.

In Iraq, the elder of the large al-Qaud tribe, Sheikh Hamad Al-Qaud, was killed by a shot from an American tank. The circumstances of the sheikh's death were reported by the newspaper Az-Zaman . According to the newspaper, the sheikh's car did not stop at a roadblock guarded by American troops. After the driver did not obey the order, the American tank opened fire, RIA Novosti reports.

862 7 min. ... Alfa-Eco is re-elected and sued Photo: ALEXEY MYAKISHEV Last week, the Alfa-Eco company, waging a shareholder war for Megafon OJSC, managed to get Megafon's largest shareholders to agree that its board of directors would be re-elected. The second pleasant news for Alfovites came from abroad: the court of the Bahamas overturned its earlier decision to arrest a blocking stake in Megafon.

What are you looking forward to this week? 64 3 min. ... Alexey Gordeev, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture: — I’m looking forward to the opening of the exhibition-fair of domestically produced agricultural products. I hope Vladimir Putin will accept my invitation and visit her. Only the highest quality products will be presented there. And most importantly, I’m waiting for the final results of the harvest to be announced.

789 1 min. ... Recently, Western gurus – “living legends” of marketing and management – ​​have been frequenting Russia. For example, at the end of September, the inventor of direct marketing, Lester Wunderman, came to Moscow for the first time, and at the end of October, the most famous marketer in Russia, Philip Kotler, from whose books most of our marketers studied, will hold his seminar in the capital.

3K 10 min. ... Organizing sponsorship of an event and calculating the possible effect of this is definitely more difficult than doing the same thing when preparing a direct advertising message. However, with the right approach, sponsorship can effectively solve problems of promoting a company or promoting a new brand. According to the agency “R.I.M.

Russian technical oil 49 2 minutes. ... friendship of Peoples On Friday, the supervisory board of OJSC Ukrtransnafta accepted the proposal of the oil company TNK-BP to supply technological oil to fill the Odessa-Brody pipeline. However, the strategic decision to mothball most of this route in Ukraine has many high-ranking opponents.

On October 6, the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced two activists of the National Bolshevik Party of Russia ( NBP ) to 15 days of arrest for a propaganda event held at the election headquarters of gubernatorial candidate Valentina Matvienko. The court regarded the actions of the National Bolsheviks as hooliganism, RIA Novosti reports. The young people will serve their sentence in one of the St. Petersburg pre-trial detention centers.

Several corporate crime trials have begun in the United States. 36 5 minutes. ... arbitrage practice Last week in the United States was marked by the beginning of hearings on several high-profile cases of corporate fraud. It is noteworthy that it was these cases that led to a serious tightening of legislation regulating corporate activities, and now the preventive measure for those involved in these cases will be determined in accordance with the new laws. Punishable by law: concealment...

9 24 min. ... Issuer Demand Supply Min. Max. Last Change (%) Transaction volume (pcs.) Min. in 52 weeks Max. in 52 weeks RTS Stock Exchange ($) AvtoVAZ 28.8 29.1 29.0 29.0 29.0 — 500 19.15 30.45 AvtoVAZ pr 15.6 16.5 — — — — — 11.25 15.75 "Arkhenergo" 0.0342 0.041 — — — — — 0.012 0.04 "Arkhenergo" pr. 0.026 0.027 0.0265 0.027 0.0265 — 1150000 0.006 0.03 "Aeroflot" 0.494 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 — 50000 0.278 0.52 "Baltika" 12.75 13.0 — — — — — 11.9 14.55 "Baltika" pr.

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St. Petersburg residents elected their governor from two women 1K 4 min. ... gubernatorial elections Yesterday the second round of gubernatorial elections took place in St. Petersburg. Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Valentina Matvienko and Vice-Governor Anna Markova were vying for the post of head of the city. Preliminary voting results will be announced only today, but the inauguration of the new governor has already been scheduled for October 15.

On October 6, at the end of a press conference at Valentina Matvienko’s election headquarters dedicated to her victory in the elections for governor of St. Petersburg, an activist of the National Bolshevik Party hit the winner with a bouquet of flowers. The incident occurred in the building of the Mining Institute, where Valentina Matvienko’s election headquarters was located, at 01:30 Moscow time, the radio station “Echo of Moscow” reports with reference to representatives of the NBP .

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi announced his country's withdrawal from the League of Arab States (LAS). The leader of the Jamahiriya also announced his rejection of the ideals of Arab unity. Colonel Gaddafi announced his break with the Arab League while speaking to a group of women at a villa in the city of Sirte. “The Arab League is halfway to finally giving up the ghost, and the Arabs will never be strong even if they unite,” the Libyan leader said.

chess 360 2 minutes. ... From September 28 to October 4, the European Chess Club Cup among men's and women's teams was held on the Greek island of Crete. Almost all the strongest chess players in the world, led by Garry Kasparov, took part in the competition. Grandmaster YURI RAZUVAEV talks about the results of the Cup. The competition formula was as follows: Swiss system, seven rounds, matches played on six boards.