Uralkali OJSC decided not to conduct the public placement of the company's shares on the London Stock Exchange, Polit.ru said in the company. According to Uralkalia shareholders, it is currently not possible to get an adequate assessment of the company from potential investors. The decision on the approval of the public placement of shares of no more than 29% of the authorized capital (no more than 616.073.100 ordinary shares) was adopted at the Uralkali OJSC of OJSC in August 2006.

According to the Moscow prosecutor’s office, a custom -made murder was committed in the capital, RIA Novosti reports. According to preliminary data, the director of the branch of Vneshotorgbank was killed. The prosecutor’s office noted that "a man who, according to preliminary data, was the director of a branch of Vneshotorgbank, died from a bullet wound to his head." According to law enforcement agencies, this is a 58 -year -old man, a Muscovite.

The number of victims in Vyborg, where part of the residential building collapsed, reached seven people. This was stated by employees of the Ministry of Emergencies, reports Gazeta.Ru . In the Ministry of Emergencies, he noted that after extracting the body of the seventh deceased, no one was left under the rubble. Now the blockages will disassemble heavy equipment. The collapse of a residential building on Zheleznodorozhnaya Street in Vyborg occurred on October 9.

While clearing out the rubble of the ceilings that collapsed yesterday in one of the industrial premises of pre-trial detention center (SIZO) No. 1 in Krasnoyarsk, the body of the deceased 21-year-old Denis Savelyev was discovered last night, RIA Novosti reports. As reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office, the deceased prisoner was convicted of robbery and car theft.

Anna Politkovskaya's latest book, which was published in Paris two weeks ago in French, is called “The Diary of an Angry Woman.” If this book is ever published in Russia, it would be more accurate to translate its title as “The Diary of a Concerned Person.” Because Anya was, first of all, a caring person. Not indifferent to any lawlessness, not indifferent to any violation of human rights, and above all - violation of the rights of the “little man”.

The former economic adviser to President Putin and one of his most rigid critics Andrei Illarion will work and live in the United States. He was appointed senior researcher at the Center for Global Freedom and the prosperity of the Cato Institute (Cato Institute) in Washington. The Cato Institute promotes the maximum reduction in the state’s intervention in the economy and the abandonment of the paternalistic role of the state. It was such views that Illarions always protected.

About 15 thousand ancient exhibits were stolen from the Iraqi National Museum during the American occupation of this country. This was announced in his lecture entitled "What happened to the Iraqi Museum during the American occupation?" The former head of the general department of ancient monuments in Iraq Dauni Georges, RIA Novosti reports. He spoke on Tuesday at the Damascus National Museum. According to him, for three years of occupation, the Iraqi Museum caused huge damage.

Today, an account was opened for transferring money to a soldier Andrei Rudenko, who was crippled in Chita. The funds will go to the treatment of the victim: he urgently needs implants for teeth and a prosthesis on his leg. Soon Rudenko will be hospitalized in the 6th District Military Hospital in Moscow. This was "Polit.ru" was reported in the Interregional Association Humanizers "Agora".

The United States expands defense cooperation with allies in the North Korean region, RIA Novosti reports. These actions that include the PRO sphere are a response to the behavior of the DPRK, US President George Bush said. The president emphasized that the United States has no intention of attacking North Korea.

In Moscow, the General Director of the Department of Vneshotorgbank on Chertanovskaya Street Alexander Porokhin was shot dead. According to the press service of the metropolitan prosecutor's office, the crime occurred around 23:30 Moscow time. On Tuesday in the house on Kolomenskaya embankment. The banker was killed by a shot in the head. His body was found on the landing in front of the elevator on the 15th floor of the house 10, building 2 on Kolomenskaya embankment.

The Russian football team will host the next match today as part of the Euro-2008 qualifying tournament. To resist the Russians who will play this time in St. Petersburg, the Estonian team will be. With the main team of this country, our players saw each other, meeting in the selection for the 2006 World Cup. Then our team was headed by Georgy Yartsev, who first pulled it out of the pit, and then, as many believe, there and drove it there.

The main management of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the Primorsky Territory sent an official request for a nuclear test in North Korea to the DPRK Consulate General in Nakhodka, Echo Moscow reports. At the same time, the US Pentagon does not confirm North Korea of ​​the second test of nuclear weapons. On October 9, the DPRK carried out, as it is believed, an underground nuclear explosion in an area located about 150 km from the border with the Russian Federation.

The wholesale trade of alcohol -containing perfumery has been paralyzed almost completely from the beginning of October, Kommersant writes today. Most wholesalers still cannot receive trading licenses. Those who succeeded this are forced to conduct goods through a single state automated information system (EGAIS), which has already proved its inoperability during the crisis in the alcohol market.

The State Duma rejected the bill on state regulation of activities on organizing and conducting gambling and betting, RIA Novosti reports. The document provided for a reduction in the number of gambling establishments and their enlargement, determined the lists of types of gambling and bets, set a requirement for the clean assets of the organizers of gambling establishments (at least 600 million rubles) and determined the number of gaming tables and slot machines in the institution.

Vladimir Putin, speaking in Germany in front of businessmen, stated the goal of introducing a visa -free regime. According to him, European partners have a vision of visa -free exchange with fear about the security of Russian borders from illegal migration, drug trafficking, terrorists and criminal business, RIA Novosti reports. He noted that Russia cannot guarantee the security of the borders of the states of the former USSR.