In North Ossetia on Wednesday, an attempt was made on the mayor of Vladikavkaz Vitaly Karaev. According to the law enforcement agencies of the republic on Wednesday, the killer shot the mayor of Vladikavkaz in the heart of a "wandering" bullet with a displaced center of gravity. Karaev died in the intensive care unit of the Republican Clinical Hospital.

The leadership of the Zenit football club (St. Petersburg) confirmed the willingness to consider the possibility of selling the Russian striker Andrei Arshavin, while reporting that there are no proposals for its transfigure. “Andrei expresses a desire to leave Zenit, but the club has not yet received a single proposal for its acquisition.

While insurance companies go to tricks to minimize payments to car owners, drivers themselves do not lag behind them and come up with a variety of ways to get the treasured money to repair their cars. Some have a fantasy, really rich. Recently, a very original case occurred in the United States. The police found a BMW car, which has been in theft for 2 years, buried in the ground.

Microsoft Corporation took fifth place in the list of the ten largest Internet services “working in the interests of spammers,” compiled according to statistics from the Spamhaus.org service. The authors of the report, as reported by CyberSecurity.ru , claim that spammers are extremely active and generally successful in using Microsoft services to post graphical spam and links to fake sites.

United Russia introduces another tool to combat the financial crisis. The deputies of the uniforms are now obliged to "monitor" the socio-economic situation in all regions of the country. According to his results, they must prepare a report in a special form, the main point in which is the personal meeting of the deputy "with the head of the internal affairs body and the prosecutor's office, " Kommersant writes.

In the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church), the calls are increasingly sounding to reckon Joseph Stalin to the face of saints, since he was supposedly a deeply believers and righteous person, the newspaper New Izvestia writes on Wednesday. The rector of the Church of the Holy Princess Olga in the city of Strelna of the Leningrad Region put an icon for worship, on which Joseph Stalin is depicted in full growth.

The holding company Vladimir Potanin "Interros" nominated four independent candidates to the Board of Directors of the Norilsk Nickel. One of them, as expected , was the ex-head of the presidential administration, ex-chairman of the board of directors of the RAO UES of Russia, a member of the board of directors of OJSC Holding IDGC and OJSC Energy Systems of the East, Alexander Voloshin. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the company's statement.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, they are regarded as an “unhealthy extreme” attempt to deify Joseph Stalin and canonize it.

The FBI warned that al-Qaeda may be preparing terrorist attacks in the New York metro on the coming holidays in the USA-Thanksgiving and Christmas. The notification is widespread among law enforcement agencies on Wednesday on the eve of the first of the holidays (it is traditionally celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November).

The peak of a crisis in the country's country's market will be in the spring of 2009. This opinion was expressed in an interview with Cottage.ru, the head of the suburban real estate department of the Broker-Consulting company TWEED Elena Pervikova. She also made a forecast that up to 50% of the objects under construction in the suburbs can be frozen.

The houses in London once again fell sharply in price. Sellers are forced to meet the "new reality" in order to have time to make transactions for Christmas, Vesti reports. Houses in Westminster on average became cheaper than 108 thousand pounds, in Chelsea a little more than 100 thousand. Actual prices fell 20% compared to last year. “There is only one way to sell your home in this market? Request a realistic price,” says real estate agent David Smith.

Italian police officers were amazed when it turned out that the mobile phone seized during the next raid was a disguised firearms, Inopressa.ru reports, citing the British newspaper The Daily Mail . "Such a weapon is confiscated for the first time. This incident shows how sophisticated criminal syndicates become sophisticated,"? The representative of the Naples police said. The "Telphone Pistol" was equipped with four cartridges of 22 caliber and ready for use.

British writer and journalist Rachel Johnson received the Bad Sex In Fiction award, awarded for the worst erotic scene in fiction. In Shire Hell Johnson, the sister of the mayor of London Boris Johnson, describes the sexual intercourse of the heroine, who at the same time issues a “strange animal sound” with the Wagnerian bapto, writes BBC . “I always dreamed of receiving a literary prize.

In the hospital of the city of Kasli, the Chelyabinsk region, a 10-month-old child died. As the New Region reports, parents accuse doctors of the tragedy. The parents of the little boy told pediatricians that their child choked on something. But the doctors wrote off wheezing and intermittent breathing on a laryngitis attack and began improper treatment, the newspaper Chelyabinsk Worker writes. Parents asked to call specialists, but doctors told them to calm down and not sow panic.

Three wooden temples will be delivered on December 3, 2008 in Moscow, Kyiv and Minsk in one day. The Russian Club of Orthodox Patroners (RKPM) devotes this action to the 1020th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'. The rapidly vested temples are intended for "sleeping" areas where there are no Orthodox churches, ITAR-TASS reports. As Vladimir Mikov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the RKPM, was told today, the first such temple was delivered on April 6, 2008, on Easter, in Kemerovo.