118 1 min. ... After a four-year break, the Moscow World Fine Art Fair (MWFAF) will again take place in Moscow. In 2004-2008, MWFAF was the largest event in the art and antique life of Moscow, attracting the largest galleries of the Old World. True, gradually there were fewer and fewer of them, but Russian galleries of modern art and a lot of jewelry houses appeared. All the profits rested on the latter: as soon as they refused to participate in the crisis year of 2008, MWFAF died.

On October 14, on a single voting day, gubernatorial elections were held in five Russian regions, elections to six regional parliaments and elections for the mayor of Kaliningrad. Gleb Cherkasov on low turnout on single voting day The low turnout recorded on the single voting day on October 14, 2012 can be called anything but accidental. Maybe for some discouraged candidates and their supporters the empty polling stations came as a surprise, but at that time they were very naive people.

2K 1 min. ... During the discussion in State Duma committees of a bill on a sharp increase in fines for driving while intoxicated, some deputies and experts proposed repealing the Prohibition Law for drivers and returning the non-zero minimum permitted ppm value as a criterion for the state of intoxication of a motorist.

90 YEARS AGO Materials prepared by Svetlana Kuznetsova and Evgeny Zhirnov Sov. secret Vladimir Ilyich, During my stay in Berlin, the famous engineer-entrepreneur N.V.

96 1 min. ... 15.10 At the "Theatrium on Serpukhovka" the premiere of the musical and dramatic play "I am Edmond Dantes" directed by Yegor Druzhinin. 16.10 At the Theater of Nations, as part of the "Territory-2012" festival, a multimedia performance "Full Moon" by composer Alexei Sysoev and director Philip Grigoryan will be presented. 17.10 The premiere of the ballet Dances of Angels will take place at the Moscow International House of Music. Queen - the ballet to the music of Queen.

The opposition coalition Georgian Dream won the parliamentary elections in Georgia. After October 20, the country will host the first meeting of the new parliament and a new government will emerge. Special correspondent of Kommersant Publishing House Olga Allenova found out what the new government will preserve from the legacy of Mikheil Saakashvili and whether Georgia’s foreign course will now change.

Alexey Slashchev invited journalist Stanislav Kucher to test the Chevrolet Tahoe and asked him to share his feelings. Alexey Slashchev: The Chevrolet Tahoe, with its gigantic dimensions, has stood out from the city traffic for decades. True, the modern version, in my opinion, has somewhat moved away from the traditional look, so to speak, of an escort armored car, and now looks more like the lead vehicle of a motorcade. Stas, please tell me, how do you like these changes?

The turnover of the O'Key chain increased by a quarter The O'Key group of companies increased revenue for the nine months of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011 by 26.3% to 81.07 billion rubles. At the same time, at the end of 2013, the company expects revenue growth to exceed 30%.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Alexei Rusakov, accused of an accident in which the actress Marina Golub and the driver who gave her a lift were victims. Rusakov will be in custody until December 10. “The investigator’s request is satisfied and a preventive measure is chosen against Rusakov in the form of detention until December 10,” Judge Tatyana Neverova announced the verdict. The Tverskoy court decided that the investigation had enough evidence to arrest Alexey Rusakov.

The blue and white have won eight matches in a row KHL Championship Metamorphoses continue to occur at the top of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) summary table. Last weekend, Dynamo Moscow took first place, which, however, could lose it to someone else at any moment. Last week in the KHL was yet another confirmation of how unstable the situation is at the top of the regular season standings, how precarious everything is there. No one manages to stay in first place for a long time.

By October 15, sugar factories in Ukraine produced 678.7 thousand tons of sugar from new harvest beets, which is 21.7% less than the same date in 2011. As reported by the National Association of Sugar Producers "Ukrtsukor", sugar beet processing is currently carried out by 62 enterprises, while as of the same date last year - 75. Sugar factories accepted 6.93 million tons of beets for processing, of which 5.52 million tons were processed. Based on materials from Interfax-Ukraine news agency

In the capital of the Philippines, Manila, a peace agreement is being signed between the country's authorities and the country's largest Islamist organization, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The conflict between these forces lasted more than 40 years and claimed the lives of more than 120 thousand people. According to the agreements reached, by 2016 a new autonomy will be created in the south of the country.

From October 17 to 19, the 17th international exhibition “Health Industry. Kazan". The exhibition will feature the latest advances in medicine. At the Health Industry exhibition, you will be able to obtain up-to-date information about modern methods of maintaining health, the latest methods of treatment and prevention of diseases in children and adults.

BY BIG SCORE 340 1 min. ... It will take the new Chinese high-speed train 3.5 hours to cover the distance between the cities of Dalian and Harbin. The train, the start of testing of which was reported by the Chinese press last week, is considered the first in the world capable of reaching high speeds at very low temperatures. 200 km/h is the speed that the new train can reach at a temperature of -40°C. 917 km is the distance between Dalian and Harbin.

In the elections in Khimki on October 14, the acting mayor of the city, Oleg Shakhov, won with 47.5% of the votes. His main rival Evgenia Chirikova received only 17% of the votes. The candidates' views on the integrity of the elections differ dramatically. Oppositionist Evgenia Chirikova lost the elections in Khimki. The city will be headed by Oleg Shakhov.