Two more matches of the next round in the Russian hockey super league took place: CSKA - "Severstal" - 3: 1 "Vityaz" - SKA - 0: 1

Vitaly Portnikov: Russian-Ukrainian economic relations are now a fairly relevant topic. And because winter comes, and because it was quite interesting to exacerbated the discussion of these relations the recent stay in Kyiv by the Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Fradkov, who spoke of the need to integrate the efforts of the two countries to enter the World Trade Organization.

In the Chechen State University in Grozny, a mass fight occurred, our correspondent in Chechnya Musa Khasanov reports. About 100 people participated in the brawl. The instigators are detained. The fight was stopped with the help of riot police and employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to information received from the dean of the Faculty of Acting Hedi Bersanukaeva, the cause of the fight is household.

In Georgia, the only positive result of the meeting of foreign ministers Lavrov and Rastyashvili is considered by the fact of negotiations by experts of Radio Liberty on the possibility of uniting South and North Ossetia as part of the Russian Federation

The case of the former mayor of Volgograd Yevgeny Ishchenko was sent by order of the court to revise the prosecutor's office. The court in Volgograd in the Ishchenko case began on October 9 - he is accused of abuse of authority, illegal entrepreneurial activity and illegal storage of weapons and ammunition. Ishchenko himself called the criminal case against him a "political order."

More than 60% of Russian entrepreneurs are faced with the arbitrariness of the authorities and abuse of both representatives of local administrations and from employees of control and supervisory and law enforcement agencies.

In Russia, over the past two months, more than five thousand people have been poisoned by surrogate alcohol, about three hundred died. The data was given today by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Rashid Nurgaliev, noting that the number of victims of poor -quality alcohol continues to grow. Every day, dozens of victims enter the clinics. Due to the crisis in the alcohol market, reprimands were announced to several senior officials in the government.

In Baghdad, the dean of the Higher School of Administration and Economics was killed - his car was fired. His wife and son were also killed. A few days ago, another prominent specialist was killed in Baghdad - a geologist, the head of the Iraq university association. Iraqi President Jalyal Talabani, on a visit to Paris, said that the coalition troops should remain in his country for another three years.

The world premiere of Shchedrin’s opera “Boyar Morozov” in Moscow, the musical “Robinson Cruzo” in the St. Petersburg Theater behind the Gorges and the memory of Denisov’s memory. The book "The Army of the Great French Revolution and its leaders", as well as the new disc of Alexei Kozlov and the quartet "Twins"

In the regular championship of the National Hockey League, 8 matches were played. Here are their results: "Carolina" - "Atlanta" - 5: 2 "Colorado" - Columbus " - 5: 3 "Toronto" - "Tampa" - 4: 2 "Kalgary" - "Detroit" - 2: 3 "St. Louis"-"Dallas"-1: 4 "New York Rangers"-"Anahaim" є 4: 3 (from) "Nashville" - "Edmonton" - 5: 3 "Pittsburgh"-"Los Angeles"-4: 3 (from). Evgeny Malkin in this match abandoned two goals, including victorious.

About thirty thousand people participate in the opposition rally in Bishkek, Radio Liberty correspondent reports. Supporters of the “Reform” movement achieve constitutional reforms, the creation of the coalition government and the resignation of Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiev. The rally is declared unlimited - the protesters unfold the tent town. The center of the Kyrgyz capital is blocked, more than three thousand police officers guard the order.

The famous Chinese film director Chen Kaiga is paradoxically nominated for the Green Chinese award, which is awarded by environmental defenders, since the film crew of his film "Promise" caused serious damage to vegetation on the coast of Lake Bigu in the Himalayas.

The Larry and Andy Vachovski brothers will begin to shoot a new film - the first after the enormous success of the Matrix trilogy. Vachovski will work on the film adaptation of the cult Japanese comic book “Racer” Tatsuo Josida. The release of the film "Racer" on the screens is scheduled for 2008. The revenue from the rental of the "Matrix" trilogy exceeded one and a half billion dollars.

Group "a" South Korea - Poland - 2: 3 Japan-Costa Rica-3: 0 Taiwan - Kenya - 3: 0 The position of the teams: 1. Taiwan-4. 2. Poland-4. 3. Japan-3. 4. South Korea-3. 5. Kenya-2. 6. Costa Rica-2. Group "B" Germany - Mexico - 3: 0 Russia - Azerbaijan - 3: 1 China - the Dominican Republic - 3: 0. The position of the teams: 1. Russia - 4. 2. Germany - 4. Group "C" Puerto Rico-Cameroon-3: 0 Holland - USA - 2: 3 Brazil - Kazakhstan - 3: 0 The position of the teams: 1. Brazil-4. 2. USA-4. 3. Holland-3.

Yuri Zhigalkin: The leading American politician pays for an offensive phrase for American soldiers. Does Russia intend to undermine attempts to block the Iranian nuclear program. The murder shocked by New York - these are some of the topics of the section "Today in America." The clumsy phrase of one of the most prominent American politicians distracted attention a week before the elections to Congress from all other topics of the pre -election struggle.