The leaders of the United States and China negotiated the sidelines of the Summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Peru. George Bush and Hu Jintao discussed the nuclear program of North Korea and the global financial crisis. The forum will discuss measures to prevent a global economic recession. This is the last planned trip of George Bush abroad as the president.

The leadership of the Kaliningrad Zoo decided to name the new pets - the mesh giraffe - not in honor of the Iskander missile system, but the title of the Islamic ruler - the caliph. Passes IA REGNUM. In total, about 150 names were sent to the competition, including Iskander. Such a nickname was invented by Kaliningrad students after the Federal President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, in which he announced the possible placement of Iskander missile systems in the Kaliningrad region.

The United States plan to increase their grouping of troops in Afghanistan before the elections in this country, Reuters reports. According to US Minister of Defense Robert Gates, five brigades will be transferred to Afghanistan. He expressed the hope that at least some of them would be posted to the parliamentary elections next fall.

Eight people were wounded by a grenade explosion, abandoned by unknown in the ranks of anti -government manifestants in Bangkok. The explosion thundered about two in the morning by local time near the residence of Prime Minister Thailand, where an opposition folk alliance for democracy has been holding a continuous rally since August. The attacked post of voluntary warriors of the opposition, protecting the rally and monitor the order.

In the voting for the title of the best football player in the world according to FIFA, captain of the Spanish national team Iker Casillas promised to give preference to Russian Andrei Arshavin, AS reports. The second place in the list of Spanish goalkeepers is taken by Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi, and the third place is taken by Juventus and Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. Note that in 2008, Casillas and Arshavin competed against each other twice.

In Iran, 45-year-old Ali Ashtari is executed on charges of spying in favor of Israel. Before his arrest in February 2007, Ali Ashtari worked as a seller of telecommunication equipment. In June 2008, his confessions were published, which said that representatives of Mossad gave him 50 thousand dollars to purchase Internet cables and satellite phones, which were subsequently supposed to sell “special clients” from among high-ranking Iranian military.

In Moscow, armed robbers attacked the morgue of the 50th City Clinical Hospital on the street on Vuchetich Street, 21. The signal of the attack entered the police at about 23:30 Moscow time. According to the watchman, the unknown people called the doorbell at about ten o’clock in the evening and stated that they brought the coffins. When the watchman opened the door, four masked men armed with pistols entered the morgue room.

In the vote on the title of the best football player in the world according to the Spanish national team, Iker Kasilyas promised to give preference to Russian Andrei Arshavin, reports AS. The second line in the list of Spanish goalkeeper is occupied by the striker of Barcelona and the Argentine national team Lionel Messi, and the third is the goalkeeper of Juventus and the Italian national team Dzhanluji Buffon. It should be noted that in 2008, Kasilyas and Arshavin twice opposed each other.

Ukraine owes nothing to Gazprom, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko at a press conference in Sweden. According to Tymoshenko, Gazprom should be the intermediary of Rosukrenergo for gas supply, half of which belongs to the Russian concern. "These are not the debts of Ukraine, but the debts of Rosukrenergo, which have remained from the previous periods, and Ukraine Rosukrenergo owes nothing.

Rashid Rauf was killed in Pakistan - the alleged leader of London terrorists, arrested on charges of preparing terrorist attacks on board transatlantic liners in 2006. Rauf, along with four more militants, died as a result of a missile blow from an American unmanned aircraft. The British police announced the exposure of a group of terrorists who planned to blow up passenger aircraft using liquid explosives in August 2006.

In the central match of the final round of the Russian Football Championship, the St. Petersburg Zenit inflicted on the defeat of the Moscow Spartak with a score of 3: 1. This victory over the red-white ones (which, incidentally, turned out to be the first to be a lawyer’s savage as the head coach of Zenit over Spartak) gave football players from the city on the Neva Putevka in the Europa League.

The famous Russian philologist-Germanist Sergei Vasilyevich Turaev (06/14/1911 - 11/19/2008) was buried today at the Khovanskoye cemetery in the capital. The civil funeral service took place in the 71st hospital. Turaev died late on Wednesday evening at the age of 98. In recent years, the scientist was practically blind and lost his hearing, but retained clarity of mind and a strong memory and continued to dictate his war memoirs “Tickets to Lohengrin” (see: “Banner” 2007, No. 5 ).

The newspaper Vedomosti received the order of Rossvyazkamnadzor about the need to strictly observe the law on countering extremism. Attention of the department was attracted by the article by the heads of the Center for Social Policy of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Evgeny Gontmayer. It is called "Novocherkassk 2009" and was published on November 6 in the "Comments" lane. In this article, the author predicts the possible social consequences of the crisis.

Two criminal cases have already been instituted in Latvia for statements about the economic situation in the country. Economist Dmitry Smirnov spent two days in a pre-trial detention center, and is currently under the subscription about the loss in connection with the recommendation "firstly, not to keep money in banks, and secondly, not to keep money in armor." He made this statement in the local newspaper Ventas Balss, whose employees are also already interrogated.

The US Navy missile cruiser "Barry" arrived today in the Georgian port of Batumi. A ceremony of the meeting of members of the command and crew of the cruiser, organized by the city authorities and representatives of the country's coast guard, took place on the embankment. A concert with the participation of local dance and folklore groups was also held on the embankment. “The cruiser arrived in Georgia on a friendly visit,” representatives of the Barry command told reporters.