The Verkhovna Rada faction of Ukraine does not recognize the results of the first round of elections of the President of Ukraine, released by the CEC. This was announced today from the rostrum of the parliament by the head of the PRO faction, presidential candidate Alexander Moroz, reports Prua .

In the USA today begins voting on the election of the president of the country . Voting will take place at 200 thousand polling stations in 50 states and in the district of Colombia. To date, the number of Americans entitled to vote is 205 million. If, according to forecast estimates, at least 55% of voters will take advantage of the vote today, then a record number of Americans will take part in the current elections - more than 110 million people.

Vyacheslav Fetisov, Chairman of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports, considers the search for a new candidate of the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) a difficult but quite feasible task. “There will be candidates, there will be no non-alternative proposals,” he said, commenting on ITAR-TASS his statement about the need to resign the current President of the RFU Vyacheslav Koloskovo.

The vast majority of Russians (71%) are sure that they may suffer from the illegal actions of Russian law enforcement officers. Such data were obtained during a survey conducted by the analytical center of Yuri Levada by order of the Public Verdict Foundation in October. 73% of Russians said they do not trust law enforcement agencies.

Analysts by Erta-Konsult evaluated for Polit.ru of the property about reserves and their exploration of new deposits. Watching the news of TEK recently, we constantly note for ourselves that quite a little of them is said about the search for hydrocarbons, especially compared to large corporate news: who bought whom, who occupied how much or who owes, who is in favor of the Favor today and who “needs to think about their behavior” ...

On the fact of a car accident in the Tver region, in which a 16-year-old girl and many other children were injured, a criminal case was initiated, Roman Konstantinov, senior investigator of the Spirovsky ATS of the Tver Region, told Interfax. The case was opened under Part 2 of Art. 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the rules of the road and the operation of vehicles, which entailed by negligence of the death of a person).

Last night, presidential candidates went to Moscow for meetings with representatives of the Russian authorities. The names of possible negotiators from the Russian side were called different in the headquarters of the candidates - from the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov to President Vladimir Putin. But the supporters of Khadimby assured the Kommersant newspaper that the Moscow interlocutors of the ex-Prime Minister would be “much cooler than that of Bagapsha”.

In the Meshchansky Court of Moscow, in the case of the ex-head of the Yukos NK Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the head of the MF MEETEP, Plato Lebedev, the prosecution completed the evidence. Speaking in court, the state prosecutor Dmitry Shokhin said that during the process the prosecution provided a large amount of evidence that clearly testifies to the fault of the defendants in the commission of unlawful acts.

The presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko said that he was ready to spend on the air of a television department with his opponent in the elections to Viktor Yanukovych, correspondent.net reports. At the same time, the leader of our Ukraine set the following conditions - a live broadcast, an unanimated leading and equal opportunities for candidates.

The ship "Aros" sank on Tuesday morning during the storm off the coast of the Primorsky Territory in the area of ​​the village of Premas, reports RIA Novosti. Seven members of the crew of the sunken ship took the Griff rescue vessel on board, the Marine rescue and coordination center of Vladivostok said. The ship was just in the disaster area. One member of the Arosa team died, seven are still listed as missing.

The Al-Juzira television company included a new video with the head of the representative office of the Care International International Charity Organization, Margaret Hassan stolen in Iraq. The previous record was presented on October 27. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Iraq Bertie Achaern, noting that the content of the video film is "grief", and "al-Juzira" decided not to show it on the air.

The result of elections in the United States depends on voting in two or three states of the Midwest. This opinion in an interview with Polit.ru was expressed by the famous Russian analyst, president of the Politics Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov. According to him, in Michigan, Aiove and Wisconsin, an acute struggle really unfolded at the final stage of the campaign, and the candidates spend the main time there.

Grigory Gritsenko About how things are now in the American economy, the general public really does not know anything. Sometimes, as a rule, once a quarter, Russian media are erupted by information that the US GDP has grown at so much percent, and this growth deceived (justified) the expectations of analysts. After which it is not a completely correct conclusion about the upcoming strengthening (weakening) of the American currency.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Tuesday, November 2, will consider Yukos’s lawsuit to invalidate the MRS requirements for payment of 79.4 billion rubles of tax debt for 2001. RIA Novosti was reported in the press service of the court. On September 2, 2004, the Ministry of Taxes and the training camp on the additional charges of Yukos 119.9 billion rubles of taxes for 2001. Of these, 50.7 billion rubles are arrears, 28.7 billion is a penalty and 40.6 billion - a fine.

In Amsterdam, a massive manifestation of protest was held in connection with the murder of the famous Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, RIA Novosti reports. At the appeal of the burgomaster of the Netherlands capital, thousands of people of different ages and a variety of ethnic origin came to the central square of the ladies, completely flooding it and adjacent streets.