In Primorye against the deputy of the Duma of the city of Spassk-Dalniy, a criminal case was opened on the fact of the murder. As the senior assistant to the head of the SCP of the Russian Federation for Primorye Aurora Roman, on Thursday, on the night of November 4, in the forest in the area of ​​the village of Chkalovskoye, Spassky District from the gun, a 45-year-old man was killed, Interfax reports.

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Elijah II is located in Germany in one of the clinics due to heart failure. During a visit to Germany, he underwent an examination, and the doctors recommended him to conduct an operation on his heart, the Interfax-religion portal reports. "The stenting procedure (angioplasty, the treatment of obstruction of the coronary vessels. - Ed. ) Continued for one hour.

The Russian media on Thursday actively commenting on the economic part of the message of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev to the Federal Assembly, which he made the day before . The rivalry of Russia and the USA in the financial market with the expected victory of the ruble as a regional currency over the dollar has become an official doctrine of the development of the Russian financial market, Kommersant notes.

The second game day of the final women's tennis tournament of the year - Sony Ericsson Championships - brought the Russians one victory and two defeats. The only joy to the domestic fans of tennis was delivered by Vera Zvonarev, who won the second victory and entered the leaders of the White Group.

Due to the economic crisis, the Russians had to remember that money can be occupied not only in the bank. In a pawnshop - 10 times more expensive, but more and more customers, says the Vedomosti newspaper on Thursday. In October, the number of collisions in pawnshops increased by 15% compared to August - September, said the President of the Lombard League Mikhail UNKSOV.

The prosecutor's office is investigating criminal cases of police "special operations" at Vnukovo Airport. According to the investigation, several passengers lost tens of millions of rubles after their luggage was illegally examined by the Vnukovo Clead, the newspaper New Izvestia writes. According to the publication, on September 17, a group of businessmen from Makhachkala to Moscow sent a large amount, and the money was carefully stocked and laid in bags, each of which was sealed and sealed.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) would probably not have allocated to Ukraine a loan of $ 16.4 billion, knowing that the country will soon have early parliamentary elections, RIA Novosti said deputy from Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYUT) Olga Bodnar. The first loan tranche of more than $ 4 billion in Kyiv is expected to receive within two days to get.

The head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces General David Petreus decided to withdraw from Iraq this month - six weeks earlier than the planned period - one brigade. This was announced on Thursday by journalists by the Pentagon press secretary Jeff Morrell. According to him, 3.5 thousand soldiers and officers from the 101st airborne division are planned to return home ahead of schedule. Currently, the American contingent in Iraq has about 150 thousand people.

On the eve of the anniversary of the October Revolution, a memorial plaque installed in honor of the polar explorer and one of the leaders of the white movement of Admiral Alexander Kolchak was divided, the Admiral Kolchak Heritage Movement reports. According to the editor -in -chief of the profile magazine Mikhail Leontyev, the speed of provocation suggests that this was not done by random people. "Their actions were conscious and organized.

The European Commission spoke out for the resumption of negotiations with Russia under a new partnership agreement that were interrupted in connection with the war in Georgia in August, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine on Thursday. According to the German publication, a report approved by the European Commission on Wednesday, it is said that negotiations will allow the European Union to defend its own interests, as well as to confront Moscow “from a single position”, Inopressa.ru reports.

In October, Russian gas exports decreased by 8.3% compared to the same period last year and amounted to 12.6 billion cubic meters. The main buyers - Germany, Italy, Türkiye - reduced the volume of purchases from Gazprom due to a sharp increase in prices from October 1 to 460-520 dollars per thousand cubic meters. The reduction in sales will continue, most likely, in November and December.

The State Prosecutor's Office of Estonia reported some details about Herman Simm, arrested on charges of espionage to the head of the security department of the Ministry of Defense. Simma is suspected of working on the foreign intelligence service of Russia (SVR), the press service of the State Prosecutor General of Estonia said on Thursday. True, he himself could not know about it.

The Moscow Spartak owned a tangible advantage in the starting match of the UEFA Cup with the Italian "Udinese", but suffered a home defeat with a score of 1: 2. As part of the guests, the double was designed by Fabio Kvagagagagagallarell, to which the owners managed to answer only by the effective blow of the Klemente of Rodriguez.

The Western media perceived on Wednesday the message of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly as "missile hostile criticism" and an attempt to warn the newly elected US President Barack Obama from the deployment of anti -missile bases in Europe. At the same time, the journalists are surprised by Medvedev’s statement about the increase in the presidential term, inopressa.ru notes. Putin at one time categorically rejected the possibility of correcting the Constitution.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized all the investigative actions in relation to the suspect in the case of corruption of Lieutenant General of the Federal Service for Control of the Trace of Drugs of Russia Alexander Bulbov. This was announced on Thursday by ITAR-TASS by General Antonov's lawyer.