The Russian government has approved today a decision on the rules for the functioning of the wholesale electricity market in the transition period.

Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov announced the need to take measures to stabilize the Russian financial market and its restoration after falling on Monday. According to him, yesterday there was a very tense market situation. Nevertheless, as Kasyanov said, “it is not necessary to panic, on the contrary, it is necessary to take measures to stabilize the market and its restoration,” RIA Novosti reports.

Grigory Gritsenko The dispute about the further ways of development, if not the whole economy, then at least its oil and gas sector can be considered completed. On Saturday, the prosecutor's office put an end to this discussion, leaving the richest person in Russia to the bunks. At the same time, the most important question is what will happen to its own Vukos company and its shares.

The communal everyday life of a Soviet person often included a struggle with his neighbor. Folklore and fiction have not ignored sophisticated intrigues such as adding tasteless and hazardous substances to a neighbor’s soup, neighborly massacres and other manifestations of hostility. In this note we will turn to materials that reflect the everyday struggle of communal neighbors.

The price of December futures for WTI oil in the Electronic System of the New York Model Exchange (NYMEX) on Tuesday morning fell by $ 0.12 compared with the value of daytime trading on Monday - up to $ 29.80 per barrel, Bloomberg reports. The price of December futures on WTI on Nymex on October 27 decreased by $ 0.24 and amounted to $ 29.92 per barrel.

The Mosgorisbirk registered the fourth candidate for the mayor of the capital: the entrepreneur German Sterligov , known for the advertising campaign of the “Coffin Office of the Stingle Brothers”, Interfax reports. German Sterligov, like the rest of the candidates registered today, with the exception of Yuri Luzhkov, contributed an electoral deposit of 4.5 million rubles.

The passage of the tunnel to the blocked mine "West" miners was carried out in an erroneous direction, said the mayor of Novoshakhtinsk, Viktor Solntsev. Control drilling showed that there is a cavity in the selected direction, but it turned out to be in no way connected with the mine, ITAR-TASS reports. Nevertheless, in the coming hours, rescuers hope to break into the development of the Western.

Ilya Valkhin The communal everyday life of the Soviet man often included the fight against his neighbor. Folklore and fiction did not pass by sophisticated intrigues like pouring a neighbor of tasteless and hazardous substances, neighboring Muzzle and other manifestations of enmity. In this note, we turn to materials that reflect the daily struggle of communal neighbors.

The Basmanny Court began to consider the petition of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of the extension for two months of detention of the head of the MENATEP MFO Platon Lebedev, said Yuri Kotler, head of the Menatep public relations service. The current term of Lebedev’s detention expires on October 30, Interfax reports. The case can be considered essentially only after Lebedev and his lawyers get acquainted with all the materials.

Today, the Chairman of the State Statistics Committee of Russia Vladimir Sokolin announced some results of the 2002 All-Russian Census, ITAR-TASS reports. Full results of the census will be published in December-January 2004 and will take 14 volumetric volumes. The number of illiterate decreased. Now the proportion of citizens aged 10 and older, who do not know how to read and write, decreased from 1.9% in 1989 to 0.5%.

Russian business offers European business circles to discuss the issue of creating a common European economic space. It is assumed that this will happen as part of Russia's negotiations with the European Union. This was stated on Tuesday at a meeting in the RSPP of leading Russian entrepreneurs with the EU Commissioner Gunther Ferkhoygen Executive Secretary of the Union Igor Yurgens.

Today at 05:40 Moscow time. The descent device "Soyuz TMA-2" made a successful landing in a given area V south of the city of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan. Cosmonauts (Russian Yuri Malenchenko, American Edward Lu and Spaniard Pedro Duke), according to doctors, feel normally. This was reported by the Rossiya TV channel.

The Center for Grozny was without electricity as a result of shelling of the substation, Taus Asaev said the head of the Groz Electroset dispatch service. According to him, at night, in the village of Borunovka, as a result of the shelling, individual substation nodes were disabled, several transformer insulators were broken, and some sections of the power line were affected, ITAR-TASS reports.

The last meters of the tunnel, which separated rescuers from the West mine, where 13 miners continue to remain. The miners pierced a hole into the mine and now expand it with the help of explosives, reports Gazeta.ru. According to the press secretary of the Governor of the Rostov Region, Kirill Zhitenev, the Savior needed by the drill in the breed to make sure of the absence of water. Now, the work will go faster, and the remaining 2 meters will be overcome in the near future.

On Tuesday, the Presnensky inter-municipal court of Moscow rejected the lawyer filed by the lawyer of 40 families of the dead submariners of Kursk Boris Kuznetsov to the Russian Ministry of Defense, to the Minor-Bolshevik, Medical Sciences, Viktor Kalkutin, Deputy Chief Navy, Sergei Kozlov and online publication Doga.ru. The decision was made by Judge Igor Tyulenev, Interfax reports. The motivating part will be ready in a week.