The newly appointed chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom-Media, Alexander Dybal, said at a press conference, which does not exclude the possibility of buying Gazprom-Media media assets Alfred Cochu. In turn, Boris Yordan also confirmed that Koch was negotiating with him and with foreign investors on the purchase of media assets, RIA Novosti reports.

The Canadian Rescue Service RCF was the first independent source to submit data on victims among the civilian population of Kabul. The representative of the service Fadil Dilman told the Katar television channel Al-Jazira that in 18 days of continuous bombing in the Afghan capital, 150 people died. 210 people, including 60% - women and children, were injured and are in hospitals. The Taliban previously announced 900 dead.

Today, the Board of Directors of Gazprom will be held, about the main topics of which we talked a lot in the last and in the penultimate releases of the "Prospekt-Novosti". Today's Kommersant and News Time are talking about yesterday’s closed meeting with Mikhail Kasyanov, at which, apparently, the state representatives of Gazprom were recommended not to support the project of the Eurobonds of the concern at $ 750 million. Gazprom says that he needs money to carry out investment projects.

"Kursk" surfaced completely. According to Interfax, so that the dirty water that comes out of the submarine body does not get into the Kola Gulf, special gutters are installed on the dock, which water flows into the water collectors. And at night on the submarine housing in the area of ​​the 6th reactor compartment, a hole was made for the sampling of water and air. The samples taken showed that the level of radiation inside the compartment and boat as a whole is normal.

The dollar added 2 kopecks, the weighted average of a single session - 29 rubles 59 kopecks. In the second half of the session, the dollar quotes crossed the line 29.6 rubles/dollar, and after 11.00 all transactions were concluded above this level. This, apparently, is the main result of today - a mark of 29.6, which could become (but did not become) a limiter from above for the dollar, now has every chance to become the lower boundary of the exchange rate fluctuations.

The Duma instructed the Security and Information Policy Committee to request information about the legality of disconnecting television and broadcasting in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories, where in connection with non-payment of electricity, according to the information of independent deputy Boris Reznik, they are not able to watch ORT, RTR, NTV, 6, as well as listen to Radio of Russia and Lighthouse.

Nikolai Aksenenko went on vacation, ”RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Railways. The minister is now not at work: yesterday, recall , the Prosecutor General’s Office brought him “updated” accusations that threaten the minister ten years of prison.

The Pentagon received information that the Taliban may have been going to poison humanitarian help and blame the Americans of this. This was stated today by Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff (High Command of the United States) Admiral John Stafflbim. “We specifically publish this information in advance so that the Afghans know that we are dumping benign products,” the admiral said.

Returning last night from the President Alexei Kudrin told how everything was successful with the budget. This is the result of the consolidation of the government and parliament, "not every country can afford." The mechanism of “zero” reading helped the clever budget passage, during which, as Kudrin admitted, the issues of the second reading were actually agreed. Then, the formal second reading lifted the line under the coordinated efforts of the government and parliament.

Sources of Interfax report that the meeting of the plenipotentiary of Kazantsev with the representative of Maskhadov Ahmed Zakayev will be held in Moscow until October 31. Recall that, according to Kazantsev, in yesterday's telephone conversation, Zakaev himself invited him to meet. The representative of Maskhadov would like to discuss with the Russian leadership "the procedure for disarmament of militants in Chechnya and their entry into peaceful life."

Today, the government, as already reported , is discussing the prospects for the development of Vnesheconombank and Vneshotorgbank. Prime Minister Kasyanov, opening the meeting, first spoke about competitiveness. Considering that the bank acts simultaneously both as a state long agency, and as an ordinary commercial bank, there is a conflict of interest. Therefore, Vnesheconombank must be "put on ordinary rails", on which the entire banking sphere stands.

The press service of the MPS said that Aksenenko will "rest" a month and a half (until December 7). This suggests that his deeds are bad and he obviously received fairly intelligible signals from the Kremlin in order not to expect to get out of the water dry. Of these holidays, as a rule, they resign. By order of the ministry, the acting minister was appointed deputy minister of the Ministry of Railways Alexander Tselko. Apparently, it was his Aksenenko who would like to see his successor.

So, the leadership of Gazprom held the appointment expected after the resignation of Koch and Kazakov: instead of Alexander Kazakov, Dybal became the chairman of the board of directors, Yordan replaced Koch as the general director. Yordan confirmed today that he intends to participate in the purchase of Gazprom media assets, not only NTV. While he, Jordan, is engaged in NTV restructuring, trying to bring the TV channel into line with Western samples.

President of Portugal Georges Sampayu arrived in Moscow. For some reason, the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu met him at the airport. According to the official message of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the main topic of negotiations will be the fight against terrorism.

The "informed sources" at the General Staff told the press center.ru that the military is working on the possibility of entering Russian troops into Afghanistan. Very provocative news Press Center.ru is supplemented by the message that the issue, of course, has not been finally resolved, and also this is not the feasibility of the input of combat formations of the Russian army, but only about the political and technical support of the international operation.