Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and heads of public organizations representing compatriots abroad laid flowers to the Minin and Pozharsky monument on Red Square. Medvedev came to the Blessed Vasily Church at 13:00, here the participants in the ceremony were waiting for him - the heads of organizations who unite compatriots abroad and are engaged in the development of the Russian language and culture among foreigners.

In Solnechnogorsk last night, a mass fight occurred at the entrance to the central park. Local youth found out relations with Caucasians. Knives, traumatic weapons and reinforcement were used. According to various sources, from 50 to 70 people fought, the Echo of Moscow reports. Seven people were injured. Fifs have stab wounds and injuries caused by reinforcement. Two participants in the fight received firearms. For what reason the fight occurred, it turns out.

The picture of Casimir Malevich "Suprematic composition" was sold at Sotheby's auction in New York for a record amount for the artist. The canvas of 1916 left the hammer for $ 60 million. Bidding began with 49 million and reached the peak in a few minutes. Prior to this, Malevich’s most expensive picture was sold for 17 million. The "Suprematist composition" is an interesting story, notes the Vesti TV channel.

On November 4, 2008, the United States is held in the election of the new US president. On the pre-election forecasts of sociologists-our interview with the doctor of philosophical sciences, an independent researcher, associated with an employee of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg Boris Doktorov , who has been living and has been working in the USA, and has been engaged in daily monitoring of the American elections since the end of March 2008.

The analysis of the DNA of the remains found in the mountains of Sierra Nevada confirmed that they belonged to the millionaire Steve Fossetta, the police department of California said. "The California Department of the forensic examination found that DNA samples taken from the discovered remains coincide with the DNA of the missing James Stephen Fossett," the official statement said. In September 2007, a 63-year-old traveler flew off the airfield to the Flying M ran in Nevada and disappeared.

The son of Osama Ben Laden, 27-year-old Omar Ben Laden, arrived in Spain and asks for political asylum in the country, sources in the Spanish Ministry of Internal Affairs said today. According to the representative of the ministry who wished to remain an unknown, the son of Al-Qaeda leader Omar arrived the day before in Madrid from Cairo, and immediately asked him to provide him asylum, RBC reports.

11 writers from different countries, including Nobel Prize winners Gabrieli Garcia Marquez, Orhan Pamuk and John Kutzee with a joint statement in defense of Milan Kunderey. Recall, as previously reported by Polit.ru, the Czech writer, author of the famous novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, the dissident and one of the main applicants for the Nobel Prize in Literature of recent years is suspected of denunciations.

Ukraine plans to abandon the import of electricity from the Russian Federation from December 1. This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy Oleg Bugaev. According to him, this is due to a decrease in energy consumption in Ukraine and the accumulation of significant coal reserves. The deputy minister also said that in October Ukraine imported 410 million kW/h electricity from the Russian Federation. In September, this indicator amounted to 227 million kW/h.

Kirill Kobrin The following text opens a series of small notes on the same topic-the 1980s. The author is not going to “reinstall” this decade, to introduce fashion to him, or shamelessly indulge in nostalgia and lyrical memories, so common in the current era of “new sincereness”. No. A purely theoretical, historiosophical, ideological approach is equally alien to him.

The US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party voted in one of the elementary schools in Chicago. Obama arrived at the polling station with his wife Michelle and daughters. According to Obama, after voting, the candidate plans to go to Indianapolis (Indiana) for another meeting with voters. After that, he will return to Chicago again, where he will wait for the vote count in his house, RSN reports.

The Klitschko brothers, who own three main championship champion titles, challenged the owner of the temporary championship WBA in this weight category, Russian boxer Nikolai Valuev. The eldest of the brothers Vitaly Klitschko, who recently confidently returned the WBC championship belt in a battle against Samuel Peter, said this at the annual conference of the World Boxing Council (WBC), which took place in these days in Chinese changu.

Specialists completed the repair of the second main path of the Biryulov-Tovarnaya station in Moscow, where explosion occurred at night. All restoration work of the final work and the movement of the compositions opened along the second path. "A total of 17 meters of rails, several sleepers and two contact wires were replaced. Until this moment, the train passed in accordance with the schedule on the first and third ways, the Vesti TV channel reports.

In the world and death is red. Folk proverb Everyone dies alone. More accurate popular proverb In almost everything you can find a good side. And in crisis too. Even in its weak manifestations. Having felt, for example, an oxygen lack of oxygen, a person instinctively gets rid of what prevents him from breathing. In particular, from the mask. And until he puts on another mask - oxygen - we have the pleasure of seeing his genuine face.

The provocation implemented by the head of the DPNI with an unauthorized action in the subway, which led to clashes with the police, put a cross on it, as a leader, the leader of the Eurasian movement and publicist Alexander Dugin believes. “I think it is over. He was never the head of the nationalist movement, but there was and was a provocateur. He worked with the "orange", was designed to turn the patriotic movement into a certain parody, into extremism, into radicalism, ”says Dugin.

In the south of Thailand, three explosions thundered, as a result of which one person died, another 71 were injured. The authorities are suspected of involvement in the explosions of Islamic militants. The first explosion occurred near a tea store in the city of Vrativat. The bomb was hidden in the garbage tank. A few minutes later, two more bombs exploded in a parking lot near the grocery market, while one explosive device was laid in a parked car, another in a motorcycle.