The announcement of the message of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev was postponed indefinitely due to the financial crisis. According to Kommersant , the president intends to make anti -crisis edits to the message. First, hearing a message that should determine the main directions of actions of all branches of power at the end of this year and 2009, was supposed on Thursday, October 23.

The presidential side supports not so much the laws that the State Duma adopts today as a complex of measures proposed by the Presidential Council under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, which includes the heads of relevant committees of parliamentary chambers Vladislav Reznik and Dmitry Ananyev.

The lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky "are not going to put up with" with the decisions of the investigation in the case of the ex-head of the "Yukos". In their opinion, all 168 volumes against him do not reflect the true state of things, the lawyer of the ex-entrepreneur Yuri Schmidt said. Recall that today the cassation appeal of the defense of Khodorkovsky was rejected.

Moldova was not engaged in the supply of weapons to Georgia, said the chief of the General Staff of the National Army of Moldova, Ion Koropchan. "The republic in recent years has not concluded any transactions for the sale of weapons and ammunition to anyone," reports Novosti-Moldov, referring to the general statement.

The All -Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK) filed a lawsuit of lawsuits against copyright protection not only against Mail.ru, but also against the VKontakte social network, Kommersant writes. Yesterday it became known that VGTRK intends to sue Mail.ru. A similar lawsuit, as representatives of the VGTRK told the publication, was filed against a popular social network.

Pskov Mayor Mikhail Zhoronen was taken out of the Presidium of the Pskov Regional Political Council of the United Russia party. This happened at the second stage of the conference of the regional branch of the party. The vast majority of the conference delegates voted for this decision, the Pskov News Tape reports.

On the night of October 22 to 23, dozens of “thousands”, users of diaries with an audience of more than a thousand people were mistakenly “froze” in the LiveJournal, writes CNews. By morning, the problem was eliminated, and users received official apologies. LJ-yuzers have already christened the event with “genocide”. The LJ administration explained to the “freezing” of magazines a malfunction in the work of a spam system.

The 5-day war in Georgia made its serious adjustments to the geopolitical situation of the entire South Caucasus, including Armenia, the situation around which, otherwise, as a commotion, cannot be called.

The body of the head of the intelligence department of Eduard Emin-Zade with a gunshot wound was found in the district center of Gal. He was found in a man by the name of Shamugia, later the body of the owner of the house was also found. According to Georgia-Online , at one time Emin-Zade worked as the head of the Security Service in Gali and other territories adjacent to the conflict zone of Abkhazia.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday during his weekly performance in the lower house of parliament said that reduction of economic growth all over the world can lead to economic depression in the UK. Brown noted that at present, after taking measures in the banking system, it is also necessary to take measures to counteract universal depression caused by the financial crisis.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a working meeting with the general director of the Rosatom State Corporation Sergei Kiriyenko instructed to develop a long-term development plan for the atomic icebreaker fleet for the future for more than 15 years.

On Monday, 27 in the building of the Et Cetera Theater on pure ponds will be awarded the winners of the Artem Borovik competition for 2008. The ceremony will sound a new song about journalists for poems by Rimma Kazakova, who recently left us, it will continue the theme of the famous “From Moscow to Brest there is no such place ...” - songs to the music of Blanger and the poems of Simonov.

On Wednesday in Brussels, a conference of donor countries in Georgia was held under the auspices of the World Bank and the European Commission. Its goal is to raise funds to eliminate the consequences of a recent armed conflict around South Ossetia, in particular, to finance programs to restore economics and protect the population. In early September, the Mission of the World Bank to assess the situation visited Georgia.

According to the decision of the European Parliament, the Sakharov Prize will be awarded to the Chinese human rights activist and dissident Hu Jia. China authorities opposed the award of a famous dissident and are trying to influence the deputies, representatives of the Green and other party groups in the European Parliament told reporters in Strasbourg.

Emil Dabagyan The most radical representatives of the current left -wing wave in Latin America are forced to recall the phenomenon of Kaudillism. Moreover, some features of this phenomenon are also familiar to our fellow citizens. Kaudillism in Latin America is associated with the nomination in the political arena of the leader (Kaudillo), a strong personality enjoying unlimited power in an armed detachment, in the party, in a particular region or another state.