On November 10, State Duma deputies will consider in the first reading the draft amendments to the Labor Code, which provides for changes in the list of weekends and holidays. Among others, the deputies will consider the proposal to cancel the weekend on the day of consent and reconciliation (November 7) and the introduction of it on November 4 (National Unity Day). As it turned out, the vast majority of Russians relate to this initiative negatively.

Japanese Prime Minister Juniitiro Koizumi said on Thursday that he was impressed with the victory of US President George Bush and intends to study his management methods. “He retained leadership, despite massive criticism abroad and within the country, and this is something! I have something to learn,” the head of the Japanese office admitted to reporters, ITAR-TASS reports.

The week of Russian cinema is opened on Thursday in the Parisian Center Pierre Carden. According to RIA Novosti in the organizing committee of this festival, the audience will be able to see ten new works of Russian filmmakers who were released mainly this year. The week will open with a painting by Vladimir Mashkov "Dad", which managed to get a lot of flattering assessments in Russia.

Muscovites Igor Tretyakov and Vera Shipul want to force the Finnish company Nokia to pay them 68,390 rubles for the fact that they exploded the Nokia cell phone. Representatives of the company claim that the fault of fake batteries is guilt, but the plaintiffs insist that the original battery exploded. Actually, this will be the main issue of the proceedings. The fact that batteries can explode is not news. However, Nokia still managed to successfully prove that only Chinese fakes explodes.

The international humanitarian organization "Doctors without Borders" ( MSF ) closes its mission in Iraq and stops activities in this country. "The organization made this decision due to the huge risk, which is currently subjected to humanitarian workers in Iraq.

The mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, signed an order on 50 percent compensation from the city budget to Muscovites disabled for the acquisition of compulsory insurance policies of auto-citizenship liability.

In the third quarter, 6.7 million phones were sold in Russia, while Siemens managed to regain a leading position, and the world leader Nokia was not without difficulty in third place, the IDC international consulting company, received by Newsru.com. Siemens managed to overcome a small gap and overtake Motorola in the Russian mobile phones market.

An unusual gain will be paid on Friday British Bookmaker William Hill. 11 years ago, one Englishwoman put the money that her mother -in -law will live up to 100 years. For the longevity of her mother-in-law Rosalind, the 74-year-old Jennifer Stloe put a modest 100 pounds. The bookmakers determined the winnings coefficient at this rate as 100 to 1. At that moment, Rosalind was 89 years old. A year later, a confident Jennifer made another such bet, however, this time, putting only 50 pounds.

No gross violations of the norms of democratic elections during the presidential campaign in the United States have not yet been noted, the Austrian Austrian, the head of the mission of the organization for security and cooperation in Europe, Christian Strochal, said on Thursday in an interview with Austrian journalists.

A military pensioner, retired colonel Viktor Konorev, died in the Smolensk Regional Hospital. He was the third passenger of the car, in which, as a result of shelling by unknown criminals , the deputy commander of the distant (strategic) aircraft of the Russian Air Force, Major General Konstantin Dementiev and driver Vitaliy Ivanov. "Konorev died in the past at about 14 hours.

IPOC states that the Zurich Arbitration Court has not made a final decision on the dispute with LV Finance regarding the controversial package of Megafon shares, the IPOC report said. According to RIA Novosti , on Thursday, LV Finance Group President Leonid Maevsky, during a press conference, announced that the Zurich Arbitration Court rejected the IPOC lawsuit against the LV Finance Group that IPOC had fulfilled the option.

Vyacheslav Fetisov, the head of the Federal Agency for Physical Education and Sports, said that there was no pressure to the president of the Russian football union Vyacheslav Koloskov when he made a decision. “There was no pressure, I can say this completely responsibly, since my position does not allow you to distort the facts,” Fetisov emphasized.

Singer Irina Allegrova was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Moscow Government. The corresponding order was signed by the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov. As a source in the city administration told Interfax on Thursday, Irina Allegrova was awarded "for merits in the development of domestic pop art and active social activity." Irina Aleksandrovna Allegrova was born on January 20, 1952 in Rostov-on-Don in the family of a theater director and actor and opera singer.

The World Network argues whether electronic voting machines have determined the outcome of the elections. According to recent standards , the victory of George Bush in the 2004 elections was completely not scandalous. Not only did he win the direct elections and voting of the college of electors, but, with some exceptions, the vote was relatively smooth throughout the country. On Thursday, the popular American Internet magazine Slate writes about this.

More and more residents of Western Europe are sent to Poland, as well as to Hungary and Slovakia, to do plastic surgery, to get dental and other medical services. This trend has intensified since Poland entered the EU on May 1, along with nine other countries, most of which were part of the Soviet block, writes The Washington Post . (Translation of the material - on the website inopressa.ru ). In Germany, Ailin Oflas could not afford to do liposuction on hips.