On Thursday, three Russian clubs - Moscow "Lokomotiv" and CSKA, as well as the St. Petersburg Zenit - held guest matches as part of the second round of the group stage of the UEFA Cup. The railway workers on the Italian island of Sicily met with the local Palermo, the army team went to visit the Dutch Herenven, and the Petersburgers played with the English Bolton.

In the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, unknown people shot three citizens of Azerbaijan. According to Interfax, a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital, at about 22:40 Thursday, a signal of shooting in the house N39 on the 15th Parkovaya street on the city on-duty in the city on the city duty.

The former head of the personal apparatus of the vice president of the United States, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on Thursday at about 18:30 Moscow time will appear in the District Court in Washington, where he will be read out accusations on five points, including the giving evidence under the oath and obstacle to obstacles to justice.

On Thursday, Moscow opens the II International Festival "Jazz in the Old City" , after which the festival will go on a tour of the cities of Russia. The festival will be held at the best sites of St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Khanty-Mansiysk. The final concert will be held in Yekaterinburg on November 26.

In the Dzerzhinsky district of Volgograd, as a result of a collision of a bus with a passenger car, according to preliminary data, one person died and 11 were injured. According to the regional traffic police, the accident occurred at about 6:00 Moscow time on Thursday at the intersection of the second longitudinal and Zhukov Street.

The Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine began an investigation into the circumstances of the loud scandal, which ended the other day the match of the 1/8 finals of the Cup of football between the Carpathians and Shakhtar teams.

On Thursday, the media unexpectedly reported that two automobile concerns at once - Daimler Chrysler and Volkswagen - suspended negotiations on the organization of assembly production in Russia. According to Suddeutsche Zeitung , a representative of a concern owning Mercedes, said that typical conditions for production in Russia have not been created.

Five prisoners fled from the colony-settlement, which is located in the village of Novominovo, Kalmansky district of the Altai Territory. All fugitives were convicted under Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft). The oldest of the convicts 24 years old, the youngest-20.

A clear situation in the United States has a famous network of household shops Home Depot. She was filed by a lawsuit on charges of the stale of his staff and the non -ordering of timely assistance to the buyer, who fell victim to an unsuccessful draw.

At least two large European companies intend to decide to leave the Russian market in connection with the situation with corruption in the country, said Elena Panfilova, head of the Russian Center for Anti -Corruption Research, Elena Panfilova.

On Thursday, 16 matches of the second round of the group stage of the UEFA Cup of Football were held.

On Thursday, November 3, the New Scientist magazine published a selection of readers' questions and answers to them from the Last Word section, which has existed in this journal for 12 years and the materials of which are dedicated to things even more strange than science fiction, writes The Independent (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

Russian tennis player Elena Dementieva reached the quarterfinals of the Advanta Championships tournament in Philadelphia, whose prize fund is 585 thousand dollars. Recall that the competition in Philadelphia precedes the final tournament of the WTA Tour Championships season, which starts on November 7 in the American Los Angeles and will collect eight strongest participants in the championship race.

The old unrefined Orthodox faith is unlikely to become mass in today's Russia, the new Primate of the Russian Orthodox Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Cornelius, said. “The wide path is not for true Christians. But the influence that the true church can have a great one with its word and example is quite large,” the Metropolitan said, Interfax reports. At the same time, he emphasized that there is a line that the church should not cross in communication with the media.

On Wednesday, the Tu-134 St. Petersburg-Krasnodar plane made an emergency landing in the Krasnodar airport “Pashkovsky” on Wednesday. On board the aircraft were 60 people. The regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies reported that when landing on the scoreboard, the pilots did not light up a light bulb confirming the output of the front chassis, Interfax reports. In case of repeated landing, the air traffic controllers saw the front chassis and allowed the aircraft to sit down.