Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov said that the main goal of the upcoming Russian-American consultations will be the preparation of soil for dialogue with the next US administration for pro. Meanwhile, Moscow has no illusions that with the advent of Obama the situation around about dramatically will change, Ryabkov said in an interview with the “independent newspaper” .

According to RIA Novosti , a source in the law enforcement agencies of Moscow, at the house number 6 on the library street in the area of ​​the metro station "Square Ilyich" a tree fell on the VAZ-2115. As a result, the motor compartment caught fire in the "Lada". The firefighters who arrived at the scene quickly coped with fire. Fortunately, there are no victims.

The events in Ukraine in memory of the victims of the Holodomor contribute to the abuse of hysteria and hatred for everything Russian, representatives of Russian-Ukrainian lands and public organizations in Moscow and St. Petersburg said. In their appeal, they opposed the politicization of the Holodomor, ITAR-TASS reports. “For us, the indigenous inhabitants of the Ukrainian SSR, the selective attitude to the grief of people is insincere and registered,” the appeal says.

The Spanish national tennis team won the Davis Cup, having won in the final series the victory over the Argentina team with a score of 3-1. The third in history in this prestigious tournament of Spain brought Fernando Verdasco, who in the Marathon fourth match beat Jose Akasso - 6: 3, 6: 7, 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 1. Earlier, the Spaniards, who performed in Mar-del Plata without their leader Rafael Nadal, won the world championship in 2000 and 2004.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili accused Russia of provocations, after his motorcade, where Polish Polish Lech Kaczynsky was also located, fell under fire near the border with Southern Ossetia. During the press conference, this shortly after the incident, Saakashvili said that what happened should demonstrate to European politicians, as Russia "shamelessly violates the agreements reached through the mediation of Europe on the termination of fire between Moscow and Tbilisi," BBC reports.

According to the current statement of accounting accounts (Form 101) of the Development Bank (VEB), the loss of the state corporation for October amounted to 46 billion rubles. At the same time, for the nine previous months, the VEB suffered losses of only 2.3 billion rubles. That is, the loss of October is twenty times more than for nine previous months, the Finmarket clarifies. It was in October that VEB took part in the sanitation of Svyaz-Bank and Globes Bank, saving them from bankruptcy.

The results of a large -scale study of the pluses and minuses of the Internet conducted by American scientists contradict the opinion of many parents and teachers that sitting on the network is a waste of time.

The American and Israeli media on Monday pay attention to the meeting in Washington two outgoing politicians - US President George Bush and premiere Israel Ehud Olmert, who finish farewell negotiations that day. The press comments are full of mocking epithets, Newsru Israel reports. So, The Washington Post in the title calls two leaders “wound ducks”, and Israeli Maariv and Haaretz write respectively about the “Swan Song” and the “last evening” of Olmert and Bush.

A hundred kilometers east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Wednesday at 6:45 (21:45 Moscow time), the epicenter of the earthquake was recorded, already the second in a day , Interfax reports. The magnitude of the earthquake in the epicenter amounted to 3 points, the assistant to the operational duty officer of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies in the Kamchatka Territory said.

A man sentenced to correctional work in Bashkiria for the brutal murder of a kitten in front of his little daughter changed the punishment for a real term of imprisonment. According to Interfax , such a decision was made by the Arkhangelsk district court of Bashkiria.

In the Yeltsin presidential library under construction in St. Petersburg, a separate office for the head of state will be equipped. The cabinet is created in the historical interior, it will be small, said the manager of the affairs of the Russian President Vladimir Kozhin. The presidential cabinet will be used in cases where the head of state will need certain historical data, as well as for working meetings, Kozhin told the Vedomosti newspaper.

The volume of advertising income in the British press in 2009 will decrease by 21%, and the number of advertising revenues of electronic media in the UK will decrease by 2% in 2009. Such data is contained in the report prepared by analysts in the English company Enders Analysis. However, Russian experts believe that in Russia next year, Internet advertising will continue to be popular, writes RBC Daily .

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation is ready to take part in the fight against the financial crisis and stabilize the financial situation in Russia - representatives of this body will control the payment of salaries and pensions, fight illegal layouts, and also monitor the distribution of funds from the budget.

The Holodomor became a punishment that people rebelled against God, believes the permanent member of the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC -MP) Metropolitan and Bukovinsky Onufry. “Holodomor - it was a reasoning, pacification from the Lord of our pride, which rebelled against itself, against the being of man. There is such a Ukrainian expression, a little vulgar - Katyuzi according to the veneys.

The media “excavated” the details of the charges on the closed case of the journalist of Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya . Of the ten detainees previously, “murder organizers” only three fell on the bench (the case of another accused was allocated in a separate process). Meanwhile, some of those from whom the accusations were removed literally balanced on the verge of a foul.