The official dollar exchange rate set by the Central Bank on October 23 amounted to 26.9215 rubles, which is 48 kopecks higher than the course established on October 22. In just two days, the dollar has risen in price by more than 86 kopecks. The dollar is getting more expensive against the backdrop of the fall of the euro. The course of the European currency dropped to 34.63 rubles, while on the eve of the euro they gave 35.08 rubles.

According to the results of the auction, the RTS index lost 7.17 percent, amounting to a little more than 665 points. MICEX at 18-05 fell by closing by 5.54 percent, amounting to 616 points. The reason for the decrease in the quotations was the negative conjuncture of world markets.

It makes no sense to raise the question of the privatization of Svyazinvest in the conditions of the economic crisis, ”said Igor Schegolev, Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation at the press conference“ Information Society and Modern Technologies for Information Delivery ”today.

Deputies from the Bloc faction Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT) block the rostrum and the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada for the second day in a row. Butovtsy also blocked the government box, UNIAN reports. The doors through which the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada enters the session hall forced by the seats. Yesterday, the BET faction also blocked the work of the parliament, so the morning meeting of the BP was prematurely closed, but the evening was not held.

Russian Nikolai Davydenko successfully started at the tennis tournament St.Petersburg Open. In the match of the first circle of competitions, he defeated Argentinean Chris Gucciona in two sets (6: 4, 6: 4). “In the middle of the second set, trying to get the ball, Davydenko fell very unsuccessfully, which alarmed the audience. I hope that I did not receive injury during this fall. While I am, let's say, in a state of shock. Perhaps there will be a bruise.

The angry crowd threw the prime minister of Thailand Sonchat Wingswat by boots and plastic bottles. Demonstrators were employees of the state telecommunications operator. They stole the prime minister in the underground parking during a visit to the company's office. The prime minister himself was not injured, and he was taken away by the guards.

OJSC "Pharmacy Network 36.6" against the backdrop of the global financial crisis optimizes the work of the pharmacy network, said Maxim Arkhipov, director of corporate finance and relations with the investors of the company. According to him, "the company has various options for optimizing costs." One of the options is the closure of those pharmacies whose effectiveness is on a review. As the company claimed earlier, the share of such pharmacies "can be more than 2%.

A space state corporation may appear in Russia. This was announced yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who received an order to develop an offer to create the next industry giant from the head of government. Vladimir Putin thought about the Space Corporation was led to a visit to one of the leading enterprises of the industry - OJSC "Information satellite systems" named after M.F. Rishetv.

Rostekhnologi State Corporation and the Moscow government will create a new airline, which will be registered by November 11, Kommersant writes. The airline will be created from the former Airunion alliance and the Airlines of the Moscow Government "Atlant-Soiuz" and state-owned state-owned companies transmitted by "Rostekhnology". On Tuesday, Rostekhnologiy CEO Sergey Chemezov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov held yesterday the Constituent Assembly of Russian Airlines OJSC. Mr.

The Russian president’s stay program yesterday in Yerevan was very saturated. In one day, Dmitry Medvedev opened the area of ​​Russia, held negotiations with the Armenian colleague Sergey Sargsyan and performed at a briefing, the newspaper reports. One of the main topics of the Russian-Armenian meeting at the top was the Nagorny Karabakh.

The wave of the financial crisis, the epicenter of which is located in the United States, is gradually driving up to the Russian shores. So far, as far as this can be judged by the presentations of state authorities and the media, the difficulties experienced by the Russian banking system and the stock market are mainly caused by non -residents. Faced with short -term capital in their homeland, international financial companies hastily withdraws from foreign markets, including Russian.

Polit.ru continues to publish a series of interviews about the outstanding Russian sociologist and philosopher Yuri Nikolaevich Davydov (1929-2007). During this year, announced in Russia the year of sociology, and the next one, which would be for Yu.N. The anniversary, we will publish memories of the philosopher and sociologist, whose ideas sometimes ahead of time, about a man, the dialogue with which many have not ended to this day. The first interview " In Theoretical Sociology, Yu.N.

In India, a successful launch of a launch vehicle with the Schi-Research Spacecraft “Chandrayan-1”, which should become an artificial satellite of the moon, was made in India, located in the Bengal Gulf on the island of Sricharikot, and India’s national television reported for two years, Vesti reported. If the Chandraian-1 project is successfully implemented, India will become the third after Japan and China as an Asian country, which managed to bring the satellite to the near-moon orbit.

The Russian stock market began a day to reduce most quotes against the background of a bad external background. Even news did not help that the long -awaited billions of rubles allocated to VEB from the National Welfare Fund would come to the stock market soon, Finmarket reports. In the first two minutes of trading, the MICEX index fell by almost 4.9% to the level of 620.8 points. Most of the "blue chips" at the opening have become subsidious by 3.9-5.5%.

The Moscow City Duma increased the term of office of the mayor and deputies of the capital from 4 to 5 years. Corresponding amendments to the Charter of Moscow were adopted today at a meeting of the capital's parliament in final reading. It is noted that an increase in the term of office will not apply to the current mayor and deputies of the Moscow City Duma elected for 2005-2009, REGNUM reports. The current mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, took office for the fifth time in July 2007.