The mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetsky, is ready to play his post in the race and yield to his fast -hearted competitor. Chernovetsky said that he would give the authority to the leader of the Bloc "Our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense" Yuri Lutsenko if he overtakes him in a race by 5 kilometers. “I am in great shape,” said Chernovetsky to reporters, Mayak reports.

The Czech Parliament on Friday decided not to hold a special referendum on the placement of the American radar station (radar) for the missile defense system (PRO), which some Czech politicians insisted on, RIA Novosti reports. 76 deputies spoke out for the adoption of the referendum law, but the minimum required for the adoption of the law is 120. In total in the Czech parliament, 200 seats.

Firefighters in the American state of California managed to stop the distribution of 14 out of 23 fires raging on its territory. About this, as reports RIA Novosti , said in a statement by the administration of the state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. According to the administration of the governor, at least five fires are raging in San Diego district. The most recent, according to the authorities, covered an area with an area of ​​801 square kilometers and is localized by 20%.

All Russian schools are connected to the Internet, the first deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said. It is reported by RIA "Novosti" .

ICANN is investigating allegations of malpractice by certain domain registrars. We are talking about using insider information to intercept domains even before they are registered, reports InternetUA . Indirect evidence of the dishonesty of some registrars is the increasing number of cases of domain registrations by squatters within minutes after someone checks the availability of a domain using the whois service.

Moscow is the third city of the world in size of the city budget, which this year is more than forty billion dollars. This, as ITAR-TASS reports, said at the tenth international investment forum "Moscow-Invest-2007" Mayor of the Russian capital, Yuri Luzhkov. Luzhkov said that next year the Moscow budget will increase to $ 44 billion, and after two or three years Moscow will turn out to be one of the leaders in the budget potential among world centers.

The Milan football club "Inter" confirmed that midfielder Patrick Viyira, most likely, will not go on the field this year. This means that the “opornik” does not help Nerazzurri in the Champions League, and will also not play for the French national team in the end of the Euro-2008 qualifying campaign. In the Moscow match with CSKA, the 31-year-old midfielder pulled the calf muscle of his right leg and was replaced in the 17th minute.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who heads the election list of the candidates of the United Russia party, has an apartment in St. Petersburg and the land in the Moscow region, and its total income for 2006 amounted to more than 2.5 million rubles, reports the Central Election Commission. On Friday, the CEC published data on the income of candidates from United Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

According to the Interfax agency, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev said at the International Conference on The problems of ensuring road safety in the Russian Federation, which is very concerned about a large number of accidents on Russian roads. He noted that about 100 people die daily as a result of an accident.

On Friday, settlements with creditors of Yukos OJSC have been completed. About this, as Interfax reports, said the bankruptcy trustee of Eduard Rebgun. Rebgun noted that the ruling of the Moscow Arbitration Court of August 8, 2007, bankruptcy proceedings against Yukos were extended for a period of three months until November 04.

VGTRK intends to close the radio "Culture" soon. Deputy General Director of VGTRK Sergey Arkhipov said: “Culture” is an insanely costly project, despite the fact that the number of listeners of the radio station is extremely small due to the weak signal distribution system. We cannot continue to allow ourselves to scatter state money. "Until the end of the license for the broadcasting of" Culture "remains a year and a half, writes " News Time " .

In Moscow on November 4, two "Russian marches" can take place in the same place. The initiators were the movement against illegal immigration (DPNI) and the People’s Union party. Both those and others plan to conduct a procession along the embankment of Taras Shevchenko and finish the rally at the Ukraine Hotel.

The famous opera singer Russell Watson, who underwent a three -hour operation to remove the brain tumor, feels better, representatives of the British hospital, where the tenor was delivered, BBC reports According to the director of the alexandra Hospital in Manchester, the 40-year-old singer will soon leave the intensive care unit, where he was urgently delivered after he suddenly became ill during the recording of a new album at the studio.

The leadership of the Moscow Spartak expressed disagreement with the verdict of the Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union in the Barrentos and Grandfather case, according to which both players received equal punishment and dropped out until the end of the season. “Not a single civil court would put an equality of equality between the almost attempt on the murder and the impetus in the trolleybus,” the club’s official statement said.

The British Ministry of Culture did not confirm the information that the Russian government has already sent a letter with guarantees of the return of paintings that should be presented in London at the exhibition "From Russia: French and Russian masterpieces of painting 1870-1925", RIA Novosti reports. Nevertheless, as its curator, director of exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Sir Norman Rosenthal, the exposition will open within the planned time - at the end of January 2008.