Yesterday 333 2 minutes. ... held the first meeting. A project group to improve financial infrastructure and regulate the financial market was created under the working group on the creation of an international financial center, headed by former head of the presidential administration Alexander Voloshin. As the participants of the meeting said, about 40 people were present. The meeting was of an informational nature; the issue of further coordination was resolved at it.

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The leader of the Left Front movement, Sergei Udaltsov, said that he and another of the organizers of the unauthorized Day of Wrath rally, Konstantin Kosyakin, were detained on the approach to Tverskaya Square. The action on November 12 is dedicated to Kommersant journalist Oleg Kashin and Khimki Forest defender Konstantin Fetisov, who were attacked last week. The police, as usual on the 12th of every month, blocked Tverskaya Square and covered the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky with metal barriers.

Today, November 12, the head of the department of respiratory and other viral infections of the Lev Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Alla Mironenko, reported that during the current influenza epidemic in Ukraine, in addition to viruses A/H1N1, A/H1N3 and type B, a new virus, A/H3N2, will also circulate, but it will become seasonal rather than pandemic.

147 1 min. ... The Russian Relief Fund (Rusfond) was created in the fall of 1996 to help the authors of desperate letters to Kommersant. After checking the letters, we publish them in “Kommersant”, in “Gazeta.Ru”, in “Big City”, on the website of the radio “Echo of Moscow” and on rusfond.ru. Having decided to help, you receive from us the details of the authors and then act on your own or send donations through the electronic payment system.

During the first day, 183 thousand addresses were registered in the .RF zone Open registration of domains in the .RF Internet zone started with a bang. In the first six hours, users registered 183.4 thousand addresses (including priority registration of more than 200 thousand), while the Coordination Center predicted only 100 thousand by the end of this year. Among the first domain names sold were work .RF, video .RF, store .RF, gold .RF, apartment .RF, website .RF.

Today, November 12, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reports that the severe floods that have befallen Italy have caused the production of the world-famous Tuscan mozzarella cheese to be suspended in most regions. Farms in the flooded areas, providing milk from buffaloes and cows to the producers of the famous cheese, were forced to stop supplies. According to entrepreneurs, the water damaged the farms' electrical systems and milking equipment.

Russian duties on timber exports must be agreed upon with the EU by December 7 Maxim Medvedkov, head of the trade negotiations department of the Ministry of Economy, confirmed the aggravation of problems in the negotiations on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and named the time frame for their resolution. During November, Russia must fundamentally resolve the issue of duties on timber exports - according to Mr.

Half of the workers get them for nothing Awards have ceased to be a reward only for special merits and achievements; they have practically turned from a carrot into a stick, according to a survey by HeadHunter. Every third employee receives a bonus regardless of the results of his work, and only 26% receive a bonus for special achievements. The award can be received simply “for beautiful eyes” and for fawning, say 20% of respondents.

The head of the administration of the Balakhninsky district, Andrei Telukhin, wrote a letter of resignation after a vote of no confidence expressed by deputies of the district's zemstvo assembly. This was reported by Alexander Sharonov, deputy of the legislative assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod region, who ran from the Balakhninsky district. According to him, Mr. Telukhin wrote a letter of resignation effective November 22.

Precious metals According to the results of ten months of this year, enterprises of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug produced more than 20 tons of gold. “The Department of Industrial Policy, Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug summed up the results of gold mining for ten months of 2010. As of November 1, the district’s gold mining enterprises produced 20,370 kg of gold,” the district administration’s press service reported yesterday.

617 1 min. ... Yesterday, Dmitry Medvedev took part in the ceremony of handing over the flag of the cruiser "Varyag" to the Russian side, which took place on the territory of the Russian Embassy in Seoul. "Varyag" was scuttled by its crew on January 27, 1904 after a battle with a Japanese squadron near the port of Chemulpo, but in 1905 it was raised by the Japanese and used as a training cruiser. In 1916, Russia bought the ship and returned its name "Varyag".

The lower level of the Kuibyshev reservoir, the largest in Europe, should be kept at least 50 meters according to the Baltic system, Tatarstan scientists believe.

Rene Claire In the 1920s, Rene Clair, who moved in Dadaist circles, was still prone to experimentation. To stage Labiche's vaudeville in the era of silent films so that the audience seems to hear music from the screen is perhaps the most daring of these experiments, although there is nothing radical in the film. But "The Hat" can be called the first retro film.

In Moscow, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with Slovenian President Danilo Turk. In Moscow, the Moscow City Court will consider the complaint of the relatives of a woman who died in an accident on Leninsky Prospekt involving the Mercedes of the vice-president of LUKOIL, regarding the refusal to recognize the termination of the criminal case regarding the accident as illegal.