The RTS stock exchange completed the trade day of Thursday with a drop in the index by 9.52% - up to 713.90 points. The index came close to a psychologically important mark of 700 points, RIA Novosti reports. In the leaders of the fall were Tatneft shares (minus 30.23%) and VTB (minus 17.86%). Sberbank’s securities lost 10.04%, Gazprom, - 11.32%, Lukoil - 16.25%. During the day, the exchange had to be suspended for an hour due to the fall of Texindex by more than 5%.

A powerful decline was recorded on Wednesday in American stock markets. The Dow Jones index, which is calculated based on the quotes of 30 leading American corporations, which shares of which are applied on the New York Stock Exchange, decreased by 738.08 points (7.87%) and dropped to 8577.91 points. In many ways, the situation on the exchange was determined by the pessimism of investors regarding global efforts to withdraw world financial markets from an acute crisis.

The Russian opposition is being prepared for the "Day of Folk Anger" . This All-Russian action will be held on October 25 in Moscow, St. Petersburg and a number of regions of the country. Ecologists, human rights activists, workers, representatives of independent trade unions, activists of opposition organizations will take to the streets of cities, the New Region reports.

In Tatarstan, Chinese products containing milk powder were banned for sale. 20 batches of flour confectionery of Chinese production containing milk powder, one batch of cream substitute from Thailand, as well as three batches of confectionery production of China and South Korea, were removed from the sale, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the Rospotrebnadzor Office for Tatarstan Elvir Mirolyubov.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) may initiate new affairs against Lukoil, Gazprom Neft, Rosneft, Surgutneftegaz and TNK-BP if they voluntarily do not voluntarily reduce oil prices, including gasoline and airlines, the head of the service, Igor Artemyev, said on Thursday. It directly connects the falling prices for oil and the cost of fuel in the domestic market of Russia.

November in Sochi is expected to be hot - the redemption of land for the construction of Olympic facilities among the inhabitants of the Imereta Valley will begin. The head of the Olympstroy state corporation Viktor Kolodyazhny said that in the upper part of the valley there are 130 redeemed objects and the same amount in the lower part, next to the sea.

America seems to have agreed with Baghdad's demands on the future status of her troops in Iraq. According to the agreement, the United States will withdraw troops within three years and will be given to Iraqi courts of military personnel in case of violation of the law, writes on Thursday The Times . According to the officials of Iraq and the USA, during the negotiations, a draft contract is being prepared, radically reviewing relations between the Iraqi side and 150 thousand American soldiers.

Soon, new automobile registration signs will be introduced in Russia containing four numbers instead of three. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the statement of the deputy head of the Department of Road Safety (DobDD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kuzin. New GOSTs, he said, are already being developed.

The next crisis with the Interavia Avistrian indicates the difficult condition of the air transportation industry in Russia as a whole, reported to Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting on Thursday in Gorki near Moscow, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who oversees the aviation industry. "The situation with" Interavia ", as well as the August crisis with Airunion , characterizes the very difficult condition of the air transportation industry today," Ivanov emphasized.

On Wednesday, October 15, in Moscow, at a gas station at the intersection of Profsoyuznaya and Butlerov streets, the unknown shot shot two taxi passengers who were in the car. This was reported to Interfax by a source in the law enforcement agencies of the capital. Both dead - a man and a woman - were citizens of Tajikistan, added from the police.

More than 400 passengers cannot fly out of Irkutsk to Moscow due to the problems of the Interavia airline, which has accumulated more than 19 million debts before Rosavianavigation and fuel supply, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Irkutsk airport. "On Tuesday and Wednesday, Interavia postponed two Irkutsk -Moscow flights for an indefinite period. On Thursday, the airline postponed the next flight at 16:00 local time (11:00 in Moscow)," the source said.

Attempts to find guilty in a crisis that struck the world financial system continues. Observers spoke that the crisis provoked computer programs that automatically trade assets, writes the British The Guaridan . Since the 1980s, a significant share of shares and derivative securities has been selling and buying not living brokers, but computers, the newspaper explains.

The head of the Austrian ultra -right, the Governor of the Federal Land Carinetia and the leader of the Union for the Future of Austria, Yorg Haider, who died 11 OKTBIARI in an accident near the city of Klagenfurt, controlled the car in a state of alcohol intoxication, reports AFP with reference to the statement of the successor to Hyder as the leader of the party of Stephen Petsner.

Ratings in Russia for a week from September 29 to October 05 The series of Channel One Galina on a review week retained its position on the highest line of the rating table (rating - 8.7%, share - 25.3%), although by its end it lost a small part of the audience. The story of how difficult the daughter of the Secretary General of Brezhnev lived was caused by the most opposite responses. Critics scold the series for cardboard.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, at a meeting of the President of Russia on Economic Affairs with Government members and representatives of the largest banks, said that Russia has enough funds to support domestic business in all areas, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, "the ministry took a number of measures, and next week the funds will be received, the allocation of which was decided earlier.