The American automobile companies General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC on Thursday evening achieved significant progress in obtaining government assistance, Reuters reports with reference to an informed source that wished to remain anonymous. According to this source, officially the allocation of assistance can be announced on Friday, and assistance will be provided in the form of loans in the very near future.

The Presidential Administration (AP) was seriously concerned about the creation of a positive image of power in the conditions of a developing crisis. At the disposal of the “independent newspaper” was a document called “Primary Anti -Crisis Conceptual Subject”, which indicates the serious concern of the Kremlin by the increased political activity of civil society.

The current Minister of Defense Robert Gates, who, apparently, will retain his post in the administration of the new president of Barack Obama, already ordered his assistants to develop a plan for closing the prison in Guantanamo. This was announced on Thursday by the official representative of the US Department of Defense, Jeff Morrell.

The players of the Moscow Spartak tied in the fifth round of the group stage of the UEFA Cup with the English Tottenham - 2: 0. Already in the first half of Muscovites, 2-0 - taking advantage of the mistakes of the London defense, the forward of Spartak Artem Dziuba twice upset the English fans. In the second half, Tottenham managed to recoup - Modric and Haddlestone distinguished themselves. The match ended with a score of 2: 2, after which Spartak stopped participating in this tournament.

On the website of the press center of the lawyers of the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep, Platon Lebedev, the fundraising for the payment of pledge for Vasily Aleksanyan, the former vice president of Yukos. Earlier, the court appointed a deposit of 50 million rubles, and the relatives of Aleksanyan said that they did not have that kind of money.

In Zimbabwe, during September, the cholera took the lives of more than 1,100 people, the UN report said. The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe continues to spread to the new areas of the capital of Harara. The mortality rate on average is 5.4%, but in some areas it exceeds 10%.

In Interfax, a press conference of the “Club of November 4” was held. What could make her come to her at 10 in the morning, and even on Friday? In particular, the announcement: "A way out of the crisis: the project of the new economy of Russia, and not populism and repression." There were about repressions there, but quite a bit, and the main part -time strategic discussion turned out to be the main thing.

At the end of 2008, the book of the famous Russian historian, archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences L.S. Kleina "A dispute about the Varangians. The history of the confrontation and arguments of the parties. " The book is published with the afterword of the director of the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.N. Nosova.

The heads of the Arbat Prestige perfume stores Semen Mogilevich and Vladimir Nekrasov, who were suspected of tax evasion, were charged with the final edition, Rosbalt reported. They are accused of non -payment of 115 million rubles of taxes. Note that earlier they were accused of non -payment of more than 46 million rubles. Businessmen lawyers associate the initiation of a criminal case with the machinations of competitors.

Already ten years have passed since the building of the main works of Michel Foucault has become available in Russian. Now, in the ZhZL series, the book of Didier Eribon appeared about the life of Foucault, published in 1989, five years after the death of the philosopher. In the introduction to the book, the author emphasized that he saw his task in telling about Foucault’s life, and not about his work.

See also: If Catherine’s reign is the generally recognized golden era of the Russian navy, then the Turkish war of 68-74 is its undoubted peak. Never before and never since has the Russian fleet operated on such a large scale and, at the same time, so successfully. He had never carried out such daring and complex undertakings at such a distance from his main bases. Now let's try to look at this in a little more detail.

The State Duma approved the bill “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation regarding the exclusion of extra -procedural rights of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation regarding inspections of business entities”. The document was adopted in the second reading on December 10, 2008, today it was supported in the final third reading of 389 deputies, 57 was against, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports.

Israel calls for Russia not to supply weapons to Iran, including S-300 complexes. This was stated by the representative of the Israeli Ministry of Defense Amos Gilan, reports Echo of Moscow. According to him, the supply of dangerous weapons to the enemies of Israel will not serve the interests of the world, and for example, they can help Iran erase Israel from the face of the earth. “We expect responsibility from Russia in this matter,” Gilan emphasized.

The State Duma approved the law “On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation in connection with the ratification of the United Nations Convention against Corruption of October 31, 2003 and the Criminal Liability of Corruption of January 27, 1999 and the adoption of the Federal Law“ On Countering Corruption ”, our parliamentary correspondent Lev Faynberg reports.

** Themes of the day ** The main political theme commented on by the central press is the visiting meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Local Self -Government in Lipetsk yesterday in Lipetsk. " Kommersant "He writes about the growth of the number of system-forming enterprises that will need assistance from the federal budget instead of previously declared 300, up to 400 and even more. The meeting also expanded measures to support enterprises from the future list.