The representative of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said that Russia is trying to change the boundaries with Ukraine in territorial waters in the Kerch Strait, Black and Azov Seas in its favor.

In Russia, in Russia, according to the results of 2008, will not exceed 14%, there will not be a sharp devaluation of the ruble in this or next year, the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich told reporters. According to him, to stabilize the financial and economic situation in Russia, additional government measures will be required. “But there are no shocks,” he emphasized.

The North Korean authorities were again accused of photometting when publishing photographs of the "living" leader of the country Kim Jong Ira. On November 5, the news agency published a photograph in which Kim Jong Ir ", accompanied by a group of officials" visits two military units of the Korean People's Army. But, as the Times points out, his shadow falls differently than the shadows from the soldiers around him.

The increase in the term of powers of the President of the Russian Federation to six years may affect Dmitry Medvedev, the first deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Alexander Mosklets said in an interview with the newspaper RBC Daily . He does not see any legal obstacles for this.

In Tbilisi, there are calls to rename streets, avenues and squares, the names of which are somehow connected with Russia. Thus, the public organization "National Union of Education of Georgia" appealed to the Tbilisi City Hall with a proposal to rename Moscow Avenue and St. Petersburg Tbilisi Street to Tskhinvalsky Prospekt and Akhalgorskaya Street, respectively, Interfax reports with reference to the Georgian media.

The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) under European international organizations, Bishop of Vienna and Austrian Hilarion, turned to the All -American Council of the Orthodox Church in America (PCC) with a request not to nominate his candidacy for the primate of the PC.

The Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia canceled the decision of the Nazran District Court of April 3, 2008, according to which the website of Ingushetia.ru was found guilty of the publication of extremist material. As the successor of this site Ingushetia.org reports, the case was considered in the open court on the cassation appeal of the Malsagova Rosa.

France President Nicolas Sarkozy is concerned about the plans of the Russian leadership plans to place Iskander missile systems in the Kaliningrad region, but advocates continuing the dialogue with the Russian Federation. “I take this opportunity to express concern about the last statement of President Medvedev about the deployment of missiles,” Sarkozy said at a press conference following the EU summit in Brussels, Interfax reports.

Since the beginning of 2008, the leading European Air Building Concern has registered 119 failures from previously made orders. Moreover, only in October, the number of canceled contracts for the purchase of new aircraft reached 71, the concern said in the Kommunik in the end of October, Prime-Tass reports. Given the canceled contracts, the number of clean orders in the Airbus portfolio at the end of October is 675 aircraft, which is less than the end of September, equal to 737 aircraft.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday met with the beneficiary and chairman of the supervisory board of the Basic Element Holding Oleg Deripaska. As Interfax was told in the Deripaska apparatus, the businessman and president discussed the issues of state support for business in the "current difficult environment." Oleg Deripaska informed the president of the projects carried out by his company "Basic Element".

A number of nationalist organizations decided to repeat the unauthorized "Russian march" and spend it now four times a year. “Russian March format, which takes place once a year, on November 4, is not satisfied with us. And we decided to hold such promotions four times a year - in the spring, autumn, winter and summer,” Dmitry Demushkin said the leader of the Slavic Union on Friday.

The leadership of the World Boxing Council (WBC) decided that the holder of the championship title of this heavyweight organization Vitaly Klitschko will have to hold the next fight against the obligatory contender of Juan-Carlos Gomez.

The manuscript text of speech, with which the 16th US President Abraham Lincoln performed immediately after his re-election for a second term in 1864, is put up for the auction of the Christie's house. Bidding will be held on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Lincoln, February 12, 2009, ITAR-TASS reports.

The salary of American professional managers of the senior link or the so -called "white collar" in 2008 on average amounted to 114 thousand dollars a year, demonstrating confident growth over the past five years from 95.5 thousand dollars in 2004, the Forbes magazine calculated. Forbes notes that the data was obtained as a result of the analysis of the income of the Upper Echelon’s income in 11 industries of the American industry, 27 managerial positions were considered.

In the near future, the Duma may approve the amendment to the media law, which will allow officials to ignore the right of journalists to extraordinary receipt of information from the authorities. The discussion of the project in the first reading turned into a great scandal, the Press Chamber supported the press, and parliamentarians promised to fix the mistake for the second reading, NG reports.