The reduction in industrial production in Russia amounted to 11.4 percent in October - compared with the level of October last year, the Interfax agency in the Goskomstat of Russia told today. In September, the decline in industrial production in the country was 14 and a half percent, in August - 11 and a half percent. Over the past 4 years, Russia paid to neighboring states for the transit of its oil for export of more than $ 4 billion.

Tennis. In New York, three matches of one eighth final took place at the women's world championship on Tuesday. The second racket of the world Swiss Martin Hingis, having lost the first batch of her compatriot Patti Schnider - 4: 6, managed to win the next two sets - 6: 0, 6: 3. Events developed in the Nemeka Steffi Count and sown under the third number of Yana Novotny from the Czech Republic in a similar way.

Married disagreements not only insult feelings and break their hearts. As the studies conducted at the University of Utah, the blood vessels are also tested by, the blood vessels are narrowed, the heartbeat and blood pressure increases, they stimulate atherosclerosis and contribute to the development of acute coronary insufficiency.

The State Tretyakov Gallery opened the international scientific conference "Peter the Great - Reformer of Russia". Employees of museums, Russian and foreign scientific centers take part in the forum, dedicated to the three hundredth anniversary of the Petrovsky Embassy in Europe. From November twentieth, the gallery’s engineering building will be held by the Peter Great exhibition in Moscow.

Investigative insulators of Moscow contain 21 thousand prisoners, which is half the norm. Capital insulators are designed for 10 thousand 870 seats. Since July of this year, one ruble of 50 kopecks is allocated for the food of one prisoner per day, while about 5 rubles are laid according to the norms. Due to poor conditions, infectious diseases are rapidly spreading among prisoners, in particular, tuberculosis - these data were published on Wednesday at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma.

Russian President Yeltsin instructed the Secretary of the Security Council of Bordyuzh - hold a meeting of the Council in connection with the statement of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov about the readiness to change the status of Kalmykia. The President of Kalmykia warned yesterday that he could go for this - in connection with the termination of financing of the republic from the center.

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Part One The origins of the Russian crisis are conversations with Grigory Yavlinsky. Special program of the Moscow edition of Radio Liberty, part one. I have a microphone, Savik Schuster. In the hospital on Taganka, on the fifth floor in the office of the chief physician of the cardiological department, together with the founder of the General Newspaper Yegor Yakovlev, we recorded a conversation with Grigory Yavlinsky for four days a day.

As part of the program, Russia yesterday, today tomorrow is the "Diary of the Chechen writer." Sultan Yashurkaev kept his diary during battles in the Terrible in the winter of 1995. Sultan Yashurkaev (1942) Chechen writer. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University (1974), worked in Chechnya: a teacher, investigator, for some time in the republican management apparatus. He released two books of prose and poetry in Chechen.