Maria Klimova The news of the beating of the famous journalist Oleg Kashin was a real shock for media workers. Who and for what - over these issues for two days, colleagues Kashin, standing at the building of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, have been breaking the heads for two days. “I know that Oleg did not prepare any sensational articles. In general, in principle, he did not investigate, ”Andrei Loshak wonders.

Anatoly Chubais at the podium of the Supreme Council Polit.ru continues the theme of the so-called Moscow-St. Petersburg school, which united economists and sociologists who were trying to understand how the domestic economy really works and how its planned reforms can be effective, and at the same time the theme of reforms in Russia.

The Moscow City Hall, as expected , issued an official refusal to the organizers of the "Day of anger" to hold the action on November 12. According to the organizers, the action is planned on November 12 at 19:00 at the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky on Tverskaya Square. The letter from the city hall notes: “The monument to Yuri Dolgoruky is a historical and cultural object”, in this regard, the opposition’s mass action is not allowed.

The attack on the journalist of Kommersant Oleg Kashin is not a “general crime”, and the involved in this will be exposed and punished. This was stated by President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with employees of the Russian Newspaper . "These forces must be established. Whoever is involved in this crime - he will be punished, regardless of his position, his place in the public coordinate system, regardless of his other merits, if any," Medvedev said.

Yesterday, November 7, in Madrid, an annual award ceremony was held by the European MTV European Music Awards. The winner in the nomination "Best Singer" was Lady Gaga, who managed to win in two categories - "Best Pop Artist" and "Best Song" (for the composition "Bad Romance"). In total, Lady Gaga was nominated for the five awards of the European MTV for 2010. The winner herself was not able to attend the ceremony, as she was on tour in Budapest, reports the British newspaper Telegraf .

Investigators in the Oleg Kashin, investigating the case of the Zamoskvorechye police department, asked his acquaintances “incompetent” questions. This was told by Kommersant several people whose company Kashin spent the evening before beating (on Friday the evening Kashin was to visit his friend, photographer Maxim Avdeev, who had a company of seven people for dinner with wine).

In Makhachkala, a police major during a quarrel wounded three people from a service weapon, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to local law enforcement officers. “Tonight in the Soviet district of the city, the senior operative center for counteracting extremism of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs during a quarrel, which has passed into a fight, wounded three local residents from the tested pistol,” the agency’s interlocutor said. "The victims are hospitalized.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov proposed to the federal chancellor Austria Verner Fayman to invest in the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transmission system as an alternative to the construction of the Southern Stream. “We would ask for the Austrian side - I know about your negotiations with the Russian leadership - at the same time, to be constructive to our idea, to our approach,” UNIAN quotes Azarova.

Journalists, public figures and bloggers who know Oleg Kashin well put forward their versions of the reasons for the attack on the journalist, Kommersant writes. According to one of them, the crime could be a consequence of the conflict around the Khimki forest. In favor of this version, it says that injuries, similar to the fact that Kashin received, were caused two years ago to the defender of the Khimkinsky forest, the chief editor of the Khimkinskaya Pravda Mikhail Beketov.

The sides of the 25th long expedition at the International Space Station Fedor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka are intensively preparing in the exit in open space, the press service of Roscosmos reports. Today, November 8, 2010, Russian astronauts will continue to check the spacesuits - modernized "eagles -MK" with a liquid crystal display, which reflects data on the state of its systems. On November 12, this Friday, there will be a training in spacesuits.

In the rating of the conditions for doing business, Russia took 123rd out of 183, being between Uganda and Uruguay, quotes the World Bank "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" . But the loss of positions is not related to the deterioration of the situation in our country, but with its improvement in other countries, ”the reporter of the report, expert of the International Financial Corporation Svetlana Bagaudinova, explained to the publication.

Former policeman Andrei Petrov, suspected of a tough beating of an elementary school teacher, was charged. According to ITAR-TASS in the Investigative Committee of St. Petersburg, Petrov was charged under the articles of the "threat of murder" and "illegal sale of narcotic drugs." According to the totality of crimes, he faces 20 years in prison. Recall that an attack on a 24-year-old primary school teacher Number 339 Olga Kharitonova occurred on October 26.

President Dmitry Medvedev did not agree with the legislative amendments that tighten the rules for rallies and demonstrations, imposing a veto on the bill received to him, writes "News Time" . The authors of amendments to the law "On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets" became deputies of three Duma factions at once: they left their signatures under the bill one primeient from "United Russia", "Fair Russia" and the LDPR.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the law on state regulation of alcoholic turnover, equating beer to other alcoholic beverages, Russian newspaper reports. In the current legislation, beer and drinks based on it are not related to alcohol products, and the deputies decided to fix it.

The export of capital from Russia using criminal schemes is rapidly increasing, the head of Rosfinnadzor Sergey Pavlenko said in an interview with Vedomosti . According to its department, only through fake cargo customs declarations from the country 8 billion rubles were withdrawn in 2008, 124 billion in 2009 and 124 billion for the first six months of 2010.