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 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.

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%.

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.

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.

The State Duma approved the bill of the second reading on the clarification of the conditions and places of military parades to commemorate the Victory Day with the involvement of weapons and military equipment, our correspondent Lev Finberg reports.

The State Duma approved the bill “On the Protection of the Rights of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs in the exercise of state control (supervision) and municipal control”, the correspondent of Polit.ru Lev Finberg reports. The document was adopted in the second reading on December 12, 2008, today it was supported in the final third reading of 390 deputies, 1 abstained. In accordance with the Decree of the President of Medvedev dated May 15, 2008 No.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, arrived in Moscow to participate in the match between the team of the Hockey Veterans "The World Stars" and the Gazprom Export team, BelTA reports. His partners in the national team will be Vyacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretyak, Alexey Kasatonov, Sergey Makarov and other Russian and foreign masters of hockey. The match is dedicated to the memory of the hockey coach Anatoly Tarasov, who would be 90 years old on December 10.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the city of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case on causing death by negligence to Russian citizens in a car disaster on December 16, 2008 in the territory of the Israel state. Recall, according to the official version of the Israeli police, the driver’s mistake was the cause of the tragic accident near Eilat.

The issue of the death of a Russian boy in the United States was considered at a meeting of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, a request to the Foreign Ministry was sent, the deputy chairman of the committee Alexander Kozlovsky said today.

The largest in the CIS seller of television and the video "Video Internet (VI) continues to give up positions in the post -Soviet space. Closing its offices in Moldova and Georgia, the company has lost a key client in Ukraine - the 1+1 channel, providing a group of more than $ 12 million annual revenue. In the near future, VI can finally leave the Ukrainian market, writes Kommersant .

Yesterday, Gazprom threatened to disable gas to Ukraine from January 1, 2009, if it does not pay $ 2 billion debts or will not be found “other solutions except repayment in cash”. Despite the receipt of a number of payments to repay the debt for the supply of gas to Ukraine, the contract for 2009 will not work with Kiev until January 1, the press secretary of the head of the concern Sergey Kupriyanov said.