Commenting on the information that the shares of the Yukos oil company in the amount of $ 12 billion transferred to the trustees of Lord Jacob Rothschild, the company spokesman Alexander Shadrin said to RBC : "We are not commenting on, including anecdotic and exotic." Thus, the company's press service indirectly denied information on the transfer of shares to the British billionaire, which was published on Sunday by the British newspaper The Sunday Times.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived in Moscow on a working visit. The plane of the Israeli prime minister has just landed at the Vnukovo-2 airport. According to RIA Novosti, the press attache of the Israeli Embassy in Moscow, Michael Brodsky, is expected to accept Sharon, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Meetings of the head of the Israeli government with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov are also planned.

On Sunday, when approaching the Baghdad airport, the American military helicopter Chinook is shot down. According to the representative of the US Army, 15 American troops died, 21 were injured, reports Reuters. These are the largest losses that American troops suffered in one day in Iraq from May 1, when US President George Bush proclaimed the end of large -scale hostilities. The representative of the American command said that the cause of the helicopter crash is being investigated.

In Moscow, a teenager was detained for the abduction and rape of a 13-year-old girl. This was reported on Sunday to RIA "Novosti" by a source in the Moscow criminal investigation department. "On the eve of 3 o’clock in the morning, employees of the Moscow criminal investigation department released the 13-year-old student of the 8th grade of one of the schools near Moscow, which was stolen by 15-year-old students of the vocational school on October 31 at about 20:00," said the employee of Moore.

On Saturday evening, five US troops died on Saturday night, Al-Arabia satellite channel said. The patrol car, in which the soldiers were located, was ambushed in the village of Hit in the area of ​​the city of Falluja to the west of Baghdad. Meanwhile, the head of the US occupation administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer said that the organizers of the last explosions in Baghdad could have time to make new attacks before the coalition forces can be caught.

After several weeks of autumn cold, accompanied by drizzling rains and light snow, today in the capital of Serbia the weather set an absolute record for the second of November for all the time of meteorological observations, ITAR-TASS reports. At noon in Belgrade, the air temperature was 25 degrees of heat Celsius.

Roman Abramovich headed the list of the highest paid people in the UK, compiled by The Sunday Times . Over the year, he earned 564 million pounds ($ 954 million, 821 million euros). The second place on this list is John Kaudwell, the founder of Phones 4U. His income was a little more than 397 million pounds. In third place - businessman Michael Kornish with 203 million. The famous writer Joan Rowling was recognized as a rich woman.

Evenkia prosecutor Nikolai Zveranov confirmed to RBC information about his resignation. Commenting on his decision, he stated that it was not related to the proceedings in the case of the election of the ex-president of the Yukos-Moscow company by the Federation Council from Saglan Evenkia. Zvelynov said that he was resigned voluntarily, he did not turn out to be pressure.

On Saturday evening, at the 91st year of life, the head of the Department of the fuel and energy economy of Moscow Moses Lapir, one of the oldest employees of the city administration system, died. On Sunday, Interfax reported this by the press secretary of the metropolitan mayor Sergei Tsoi. According to him, on Saturday afternoon, Lapir took part in the workshop for the construction of the first light metro line in the Butovo area, and returning home, he died suddenly.

The rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin is still high. This week, 73% approved his activities as the head of state, 24% did not approve (74% and 23% last week). This is evidenced by the data that Interfax provided by sociologists of the autonomous non-profit organization VTsIOM-A under the leadership of Yuri Levada. They were obtained during a representative survey conducted in 40 regions of Russia from October 24 to 28 among 1600 people (40 regions, 100 settlements).

On November 5, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court plans to consider the protest of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation regarding the election of the head of the company "Yukos-Moscow" by Vasily Shakhnovsky as a member of the Federation Council from Evenkia. This was reported to "Interfax" by a source in court. On October 27, the Legislative Assembly of the Evenki Autonomous Okrug decided to elect a member of the Federation Council from the district.

The strike of British mail workers continues. The trade union requires increasing wages and improving working conditions. The dispute between the postal union and the management of Royal Mail has been stretching for the second year. However, this time, the strike was dragged on, threatening the pre -science joyful bustle to turn into postal chaos, the Air Force reports Now, spy passions and mutual accusations of incitement were added to all the disagreements.

In the elections to the Georgian parliament that began on Sunday, there is a high activity of voters. Along with the elections in the republic, a referendum is held on the issue of reducing the deputy corps from 235 to 150 parliamentarians. Two hours after the opening of the polling stations, the first incident occurred.

The next championship of Russia approached its completion. The Moscow CSKA won gold medals, and Lokomotiv did not even fall into the three winners. Is this true, because Loko plays quite successfully in the Champions League, and CSKA lost to no one "Vardar"? CSKA For the second year in a row, Russia receives a new champion, and CSKA could become so last year, do not lose the team of Valery Gazzaev in the "Golden Match" "Lokomotiv".

Employees of the Ministry of State Security of Georgia discovered and seized today a large number of weapons, explosives and mines not far from Tbilisi. This was announced to reporters by the head of the MGB Valery Haburzania. According to him, a cache, found near Mtskhet, 15 kilometers from the capital, was laid about a month ago, ITAR-TASS reports.