The world famous singer Galina Vishnevskaya today turned 75 years old. Relatives, friends and colleagues of Vishnevskaya will gather in the Higher School of Opera Arts created by her in Moscow on Ostozhenka. There will be the honor of the artist, who embodied on the domestic and foreign scene the unique parties in the operas of classics and modern authors. All the best pages of the biography of Galina Vishnevskaya are associated with the Big Theater.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld said that the United States may not find a terrorist Osama Ben Laden. According to the head of the Pentagon, it will be "very difficult" to find Ben Laden. "There are many countries. He has a lot of money and a lot of people who are ready to support it, and I do not know if we will succeed. Of course, it is extremely desirable to find it," the minister said.

France accused Israel of violating international human rights rules, ITAR-TASS reports. “We want to express serious concern about the position of the Palestinian population, and we consider it unacceptable to block the military forces of the Palestinian territories in violation of international norms,” said Francois Rivasso, official representative of the French Foreign Ministry.

In Moscow, the next premiere, according to the directors, fully corresponding to the spirit of the time. "Satyricon" represents the new work "Gedda Gabbler". According to NTV, in the production of Nina, the Chusova characters of the Norwegian playwright Henry Ibsen were out of time. In the foreground there are emotions. Heroes are constantly in an extreme state and all the time on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The main character every now and then shoots a pistol.

In the Kremlin, a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is taking place in the Kremlin.

The United States does not exclude the possibility of continuing hostilities against Afghan Taliban in the Holy Muslim month of Ramadan and in the winter, Interfax reports. "We hope for the speedy end of the military campaign against Osama Ben Laden , Al-Qaeda and Taliban , but we can not refuse to continue operations later, √ the US Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters before negotiations with British colleague Jack Str. “We respect Ramadan, which begins in mid -November.

The influential newspaper Zyuddeche Tzaitung raised the topic of the so -called "black cash desks" of the Bundesliga football clubs, Dailyfootball reports. With reference to a certain dossier of the main financial department of the city of Münster, the published article refers to the transfer of funds to the accounts of professional football players bypassing the country's fiscal bodies.

The deputy prosecutor of the Amur Region Sergey Boychenko decided to initiate a criminal case under Article 215 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "termination or restriction of electricity supply or disconnection from life support sources". This was reported by regions.ru with reference to the news agency "Vostok-Media" .

The consequences of recent terrorist attacks are felt in all regions and sectors of the US economy. According to ITAR-TASS, this is evidenced by the next economic review prepared by the leadership of the federal reserve system. According to the review, the US economy is now characterized by “weak consumer demand” and “low production and construction activity”.

Police of Norilsk was arrested by an attacker on suspicion of theft of precious metals, RIA Novosti reports. During a search in the garage of a 24-year-old employee of a local nickel plant, operatives found 47 plastic bags with a total weight of 911 kg with a powder mass of black color. The examination found that the abducted contains 2.5 kg of platinum, more than 10 kg of palladium and other precious metals. According to preliminary estimates, the cost of the stolen exceeds 5 million rubles.

Army aviation helicopters inflicted a new series of beaters in the south and southeast of Chechnya tonight. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to representatives of the headquarters of the United Group of Troops in Khankala, in the last day the air strikes were placed in the Vedensky, Nozha-Yurt and Itum-Kalinsky districts of Chechnya, as well as in the Argun Gorge. According to the military, significant damage was caused to the remnants of the infrastructure of the militants.

The Government of the Russian Federation at the current meeting has approved the concept of reforming Vnesheconombank of the USSR, Interfax reports. All basic regulatory documents will be ready until December 1, and the practical implementation will begin in the first quarter of next year, said the head of the VEB Andrei Kostin in an interview with reporters during the break of the government meeting.

Israel confirmed its ultimatum Palestine, nominated after the murder of the Israeli tourism Minister Rakhavam Zeevi, RIA Novosti reports. Israeli troops will be in Palestine until all activists of radical Islamic organizations involved in terrorist activities are detained. The Palestinian leadership must arrest all the commanders included in the list, transferred by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel by Shimon Perez, Yasir Arafat during their last meeting. The list includes 108 names.

The presentation of the new film "Collector" Yuri Grymova will take place today in the capital's cinema "Roland". Grymov, one of the most scandalous representatives of the new generation of Russian filmmakers, gained wide fame already his first full -length work - the adaptation of Turgenev’s novel “Mumu”, and then theatrical productions on the Moscow stage.

Russian Anna Kurnikova reached the 1/4 finals of the tournament of the 4th category of the women's tennis association with a prize fund of 170 thousand dollars. Today, the 20-year-old Kournikova, sown under the 5th number, managed to prevail over the 17-year-old Slovaka Daniela Gantukhova-6: 1, 7: 6 (7: 4), ITAR-TASS reports. For a ticket to the semifinals of Kournikov, he will measure his strength with the winner of the meeting of the Belgian Kim Klesters (1) with Italian Rita Grande.