The program is conducted by Kirill Kobrin. The Radio Liberty correspondent Danila Halperovich takes part. Kirill Kobrin : The delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is in Georgia. There she collects material in order to submit a report on the basis of which PACE will make the relevant decisions regarding the events of August 2008.

Trading in the Russian stock market on Friday opened with a decrease in the main indices by 2-5%. The day before, trading sessions, on the contrary, ended with a sharp increase in the stocks of shares of most companies, and the main indices increased by the results of the day by 18-19%. Growth leaders were the shares of the State Sberbank, as well as the company's oil and gas sector and metallurgy.

One and a half thousand employees of Dalvavia will be dismissed from November 1 Since August this year, the largest Russian air carriers, such as Kraseir, Domodedovo Airlines, Omskavia, Dalavia and other airlines have financial difficulties. As a result, flights are canceled, from which air passengers suffer first. A special commission visited Khabarovsk on Thursday, which studied the situation that has developed in the largest in the Far Eastern Federal District of Dalavia.

The State Duma of Russia adopted in the third, final reading the law on the federal budget for 2009-2011. The document, in particular, establishes that next year the budget revenues will be 21.2%, and the expenses - 17.5% of GDP, the volume of which, according to the government, will increase in terms of the current rate of more than $ 2 trillion.

The FBI warned the means of mass information that it was necessary to carefully open the mail received in the editorial office. Earlier, a resident of California was arrested on suspicion that he sent more than 120 letters to newspapers and on television, in which there were bags with the inscription "Siberian ulcer". The investigation began last Monday, when the letter received the journal Atlantic, the Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov reports.

Victor Rezunkov: On November 2, Petersburg human rights activists and representatives of numerous non -governmental organizations are going to once again take to the streets of the city and spend a “march against hatred” to draw the attention of the authorities to the growth of xenophobia and extremist sentiments in society. A day later, on November 4, on the so-called National Unity Day, in Moscow and St.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed to the post of President of Ingushetia as deputy chief of staff of the Volga-Ural Military District, Yunus-Bek Evkurov. Medvedev submitted his candidacy to the People’s Assembly of Ingushetia. The resignation of the former head of the Republic Murat Zyazikov became known on Thursday. According to the Kremlin press service, Zyazikov himself insisted on his dismissal.

In Pakistan, 15 militants were killed near the Afghan border - presumably, as a result of an American missile strike. According to the Pakistani authorities, most of the dead are Arabs. A house in the city of Mir-Ali (North Vaziristan Province), where the militants were hiding, was fired from a unmanned aircraft. Some agencies report that among the dead - a member of the leadership of Al -Qaeda.

The results of the visit of the delegation of PACE to Georgia in the Tretyakov Gallery opened an exhibition of works by Vladimir Borovikovsky today in America. Presidential candidates are beating for the sympathy of the middle class. Higher education becomes more expensive. Halloween election masks

General David Petreus today will take the post of head of the Central Command of the United States in the Near and Middle East. The change in powers will be headed by US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Less than two months ago in Baghdad, Gates was present in the transfer of the powers of Petreus, General Reimond Odirno, the current commander of the American troops in Iraq.

In Moscow, a memorial plaque is opened in honor of one of the leaders of the white movement of the times of the Civil War Admiral Alexander Kolchak. It is installed in the courtyard of the Nikolsky chapel, built by the famous traveler Fedor Konyukhov on Sadovnikiya Street. The memory of a number of outstanding researchers is already immortalized there.

The Russians are accustomed to overcome difficulties. Perhaps in the near future this skill will come in handy again Russian leaders and pro-Kremlin media do not tire of repeating that the country can go through the global financial crisis with less losses than other states. Indeed, the Russians are accustomed to overcome difficulties-both in Soviet times and during the economic reforms of the 90s.

In the American Journal of Human Genetics, one of the results of the Genographic Project was published, which was started in 2005 jointly by National Geographic and IBM. As part of these studies, genetics tried to find descendants on the male disappeared people of the Phoenicia.

The Rotterdam film festival changed the program format and logo. This news is commented by Dmitry Volchek: “Reforms that begin with the change in the logo do not cause much confidence. Previously, a yellow tiger raced somewhere, now a black and white tiger muzzle is looking point blank-what's the difference?

In the Vedensky district of Chechnya, a soldier of the Batalion of the internal troops "South" was killed. According to law enforcement agencies of the republic, the soldier disappeared when the battalion sat in an ambush on the outskirts of the village of Neftynaya. Later in the forest, his body was found with gunshot wounds. An investigation is underway.