The volume of international reserves of the Russian Federation amounted to 556 billion $ 069 million as of October 1, 2008. On September 1, this indicator amounted to 581 billion 638 million dollars. Thus, the volume of international reserves decreased by 4.3%, the Central Bank reports. The maximum value this year was this indicator on August 1 - 595 billion 902 million dollars.

The Japanese received the Nobel Prize in physics - for research in the field of quantum physics. Eishiro to us (born in 1921), an American of Japanese origin from Chicago, was awarded with the wording "for opening a spontaneous violation of symmetry at the subatomic level." It will receive half a bonus - 5 million Swedish crowns, or about 501 thousand euros. The second half will be shared by scientists from Japan Makoto Kobayashi (born in 1944) and Toshikhid Maskava (born 1940).

On the website of the President of the Russian Federation Kremlin.ru opened a video blog by Dmitry Medvedev. In his first post, Dmitry Medvedev told Internet users about his upcoming speech at a conference on world politics in French Evian on October 8. You can see it at this link . In the video, Medvedev appears to the computer sitting behind the monitor, then he effectively turns towards the camera and begins his speech.

This year, research work on the selection of a site for the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Perm Territory may begin. For these purposes, deputies of the regional Legislative Assembly plan to allocate about 8 million rubles in 2008, next year about 24 million rubles.

Anna Shor-Chudnovskaya In 2006 , A.D. Sakharov and E.G. Bonner, covering 1977 - 1989. Impeccally published, they are compiled, edited and decorated with the amazing conscientiousness for today. The cover indicates the genre: "Roman-document." Why is the diaries a novel? The “diaries” have two author at once, to be completely accurate, three. The first author's voice is Sakharov, who made notes until 1989, until his last day.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent a report to the UN Security Council in which he recommended extending the mandate of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) until February 15, 2009. The Secretary General emphasized that this will be a technical extension, which will allow us to study options for the further presence of the UN in the region. Ban Ki-moon noted that the conditions under which the Mission had operated over the previous 14 years had changed significantly.

On Monday evening, on October 6, on the eve of his birthday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in St. Petersburg, where he visited the film “Learning Judo with Vladimir Putin”, Vesti reports. The educational film consists of four parts. In the first part - the performance of Vladimir Putin, in which he briefly talks about the history of the appearance of judo and especially notes that this type of struggle is “a struggle without weapons”.

Today, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the situation in the financial markets is unprecedented and inspired by fears, reports Reuters. Speaking at a special session in the parliament on the problem of the financial crisis, Merkel said: “The situation in the financial markets inspires fears, there was no such thing.” Recall that last weekend in Paris, a meeting of the heads of state and governments of leading European economies took place.

The Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was detained by the chairman of the board of directors of the Group of Companies "Your Financial Trusteer" Vasily Boyko, who had previously been released on bail of 50 million rubles in the case of theft of land in the Moscow Region, RBC reports. Boyko was detained as part of another criminal case - on compulsory transactions and fraud, excited in 2005.

The husband of the journalist Anna Polikovskaya Alexander Politkovsky is pleased with the work of detectives investigating the murder of his wife two years ago. “Oddly enough, it was precisely the example of the Anya case that it became possible to say that the investigation in our country can work well,” he said in an interview with the newspaper .

On Monday, representatives of Bank of New York first agreed to provide reporters with a copy of the claim of the Federal Customs Service, which requires $ 22.5 billion from the American bank, Kommersant writes. The FCS announced the filing of the lawsuit on May 17, 2007. The application was received on the court on May 23, but it has not yet been able to get acquainted with it, although many facts have been disclosed at court meetings.

Polit.ru represents a conversation with Sergey Aleksashenko. "Anatomy of the economic crisis." The conversation is conducted by Alexander Herman. The transcript will be published later.

In 2006 , A.D. Sakharov and E.G. Bonner, covering 1977 - 1989. Impeccally published, they are compiled, edited and decorated with the amazing conscientiousness for today. The cover indicates the genre: "Roman-document." Why is the diaries a novel? The “diaries” have two author at once, to be completely accurate, three. The first author's voice is Sakharov, who made notes until 1989, until his last day.

Russia received a request for a loan from the Government of Iceland, Vesti reports with reference to the statement of the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin. “We will consider it. Iceland is known as a country with a strict budget discipline and having a high reliability rating. We are positive about such an application, ”the minister said.

The Main Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District sent a criminal case against members of the gang of Shamil Basayev who attacked Budenovsk. This is stated in the message of the Prosecutor General. The Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District Ivan Sydoruk approved the indictment in the criminal case against Abubakar Mezhiev and Igor Sokolov, accused under Part 3 of Art.