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.

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”.

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.

In the Novosibirsk Regional Court, a criminal group is judged, which forged bills of Sberbank of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports. There are 10 people in the dock. Fraudsters purchased bills of small denominations in large batches. With the help of chemicals and computer technology, they overshadowed the face value of bills and hundreds of times.

The beginning of the match did not foresee the success of Lokomotiv. A quick goal, clogged with Alexander orch, pouring rain in the stadium and the rostrum roar plunged the Lokomotiv into despondency. The game was not glued. But already in the 13th minute, Marat Izmailov was lucky, who equalized from the penalty area. The goal inspired the team of Yuri Semin, and in the 28th minute Dmitry Sennikov brought the railway workers forward.

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 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.

In the center of Moscow on the evening of October 24, Killer shot a 48-year-old deputy director of ASV LLC Vladimir Krasnoperov, Interfax reports. Having arrived at his house on the Cosmodamian embankment in the Moskvich-2141 car, Krasnoperov, along with his son, got out of the car and headed for the house. At this time, an unknown man ran up to them and fired several shots at the businessman. With severe wounds in the heart area, the victim was hospitalized in the Botkin clinical hospital.

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 Russian Pension Fund is ready to transfer its powers to non -state pension funds (NPFs), however, in order to do without loss, this "privatization" of state pension provision must be extremely careful, the first deputy chairman of the PFR, Alexander Kurtin. According to Interfax, the official drew special attention to the fact that the pension reserves of the NPF is the property of the fund, while the funds of the Pension Fund √ federal property, which is distributed by law.