As a result of the crisis, the loss of world financial institutions reached 1.8 trillion pounds (2.8 trillion dollars). Losses counted the Bank of England, reports AFP . According to the presented report, the crisis in world financial markets has become the most severe since the First World War. However, thanks to the efforts of governments and central banks, it was possible to avoid much larger disasters.

The delegates of the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly discussed the report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN press center reports. Presenting it, the Executive Director of the IAEA Muhammad al-Baradei drew attention to the growth of demand for nuclear energy, especially in developing countries.

President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law amending Article 18 of the Federal Law “On Library Affairs”, which, in particular, gives the Boris Yeltsin presidential library with the status of the national library. In addition, it is possible to create in certain cases electronic copies of documents located in the national libraries funds. This was reported by the presidential press service. The law was adopted on October 10 and approved by the Federation Council on October 15.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the extension of the arrest period until December 15 to General FSKN Alexander Bulbov and sent this issue for a new consideration to the Moscow City Court, the Vesti channel reports. At the same time, the court left Bulbov in custody until November 21.

Dear Colleagues! We invite you to take part in the project “Public Lectures “Polit.ru”. Daniil Alexandrov's lecture "Poverty and Migration", scheduled for Thursday, October 30, is postponed due to the author's illness.

On Monday, after a short break, the reporting and election conference of the Russian Biathlon Union resumed her work. According to her results, the head of the SBR, instead of the four-time Olympic champion of 61-year-old Alexander Tikhonov, became the head of the “ONEKSIM group” 43-year-old Mikhail Prokhorov, whose condition, according to Forbes magazine, amounted to 19 billion dollars at the beginning of 2008.

The leader of the Tibetan Buddhists Dalai Lama is not going to move away from the performance of his duties. This was announced in an interview with "Radio Australia" by his senior assistant tenzin Takol. Note that recently, reports about the poor health of the Dalai Lama have become more and more often. He recently underwent a surgical operation to remove stones from the gallbladder and abolished several public performances in recent months.

Mark Lee , John Elkington Many observers are inclined to describe the financial commotion of 2007-2008. in terms of "domino effect"; Others consider metaphors as appropriate to the "theory of chaos." The concept of a chain reaction in the first case and a structured disorder in the second create a certain basis for understanding these still developing extraordinary events.

We publish a complete transcript of the lecture, read by the famous economist, head of the economic expert group Evsey Gurvich on September 25, 2008 in the club - the Bilingua literary cafe as part of the Public Lectures of Polit.ru. Evsey Tomovich Gurvich graduated from the Faculty of Management and Applied Mathematics and graduate school of the IFTI, where he received the degree of candidate of physical. sciences.

On November 1, Mongolia and Russia will hold 30-day joint peace-based military exercises on the Mongolian territory, the Chinese edition of Zhenmin Zibao is worried. These are the first joint exercises of the Mongolian and Russian armies after the collapse of the USSR. Information comes from an unnamed source in the Ministry of Defense of Mongolia.

According to Russian human rights defenders, Georgian military personnel during the fighting in South Ossetia were under the influence of psychotropic drugs. This was stated on Monday at a briefing at the UN headquarters in New York, director of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau Alexander Brod. As evidence, the ford gave evidence of eyewitnesses and confirmation of these evidence by representatives of the authorities of South Ossetia.

The Rosatom State Corporation and the Chinese State Corporation of the Nuclear Industry signed a memorandum of the construction of two nuclear units in China as part of the expansion of the Tianwan nuclear power plant, RBC reports. The signing took place following a regular meeting of the heads of government of Russia and China. The document also provides for cooperation in the construction of a demonstration of commercial purposes on fast neutrons.

In the west of the capital, on the eve of the evening on the Vornaya St., near d.14, building 2, three unknown Caucasian appearance were beaten and wounded from the traumatic pistol of the chief technologist of Gazprom OJSC. The law enforcement agencies of Moscow reported that the attackers also stole a bag with his money in the amount of about 13 thousand dollars from the victim and personal documents. The damage amounted to 350 thousand rubles. Now the victim is hospitalized.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** Russia is China Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with the Prime Minister of the State Council of China Wen Jebao. The heads of government and the PRC will negotiate and sign a number of documents, including a memorandum of cooperation in the oil field. The Prime Ministers of the Russian Federation and the PRC will open the Russian-Chinese Investment Forum, designed to significantly increase the mutual flows of capital.

Now the capital’s program “Affordable Housing for Young Families” provides for the write-off of 30% of the cost of an apartment for families upon the birth of a child, said First Deputy Head of the Moscow Department of Housing Policy and Housing Fund Nikolai Fedoseev on Tuesday, October 28, according to NEWSru.com .