British Foreign Minister David Milibend will continue negotiations in Moscow with Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov today. The ministers are discussing urgent international problems, in particular, the situation in Afghanistan, the Iranian nuclear program, as well as issues of bilateral relations. The UK remains an important international partner in Moscow and occupies one of the first places in investment in Russia, ”said Andrei Nesterenko, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Mikhail Manevich In St. Petersburg, the most important step was taken towards the disclosure of the murder of vice-governor Mikhail Manevich , committed on August 18, 1997. Subordinate Yuri Shutov, serving a life imprisonment, admitted to the murder of Mlyan. Law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg received confirmation of one of the main versions of the murder of the vice-governor Mikhail Mansevich. In 1997, the so -called "group of Zaripov", one of the foremen of Yuri Shutov, was detained.

Lviv residents are saved from influenza in the traditional way: vodka The Ministry of Health of Ukraine confirmed the death of 53 people from the influenza epidemic. The emergency forced President Yushchenko asked international help. Prime Minister Tymoshenko personally met a plane with medicines from Switzerland tonight.

Oil export duties from Russia from November 1 reduced to 231.2 dollars per ton. This is 9.5 dollars or almost 4 percent less than the rates in October. From the beginning of the month, the export fee for light oil products is $ 168.1 per ton, to dark - 90.5 dollars per ton. The export fee for oil is reviewed monthly on the basis of monitoring its value in the world market.

A military-paramedic ship, which is called "New York", came to the New York Haban. During its construction, seven and a half tons of steel were used from structures destroyed by terrorists in 2001 of the towers of the World Trade Center. This is reported by Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov. On the Hudson River, the ship stopped near that part of the lower Manhattan, where the towers of the World Trade Center destroyed by terrorists stood.

Mikhail Zlatkovsky. "How to live on?" The news of the fall of the ratings of V.V. Putin and D.A. Medvedev destroyed the artist’s idea of the structure of the world.

The presence of a mask saving from influenza does not interfere with a pleasant leisure. To Ukraine, where the H1N1 flu epidemic was announced, the necessary medicines began to act to combat the outbreak of the disease. Politicians and experts believe that the influenza epidemic will influence the presidential campaign in the country. For three weeks in Ukraine, mass events are prohibited.

By the beginning of November, in Russia was collected in bunker weight - that is, before drying and cleaning - 101 million tons of grain, said Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik. According to the agency, the crop is removed from 92.5 percent of the sown area. The average yield of grain this year is still 23.8 centners per hectare, which is 4.8 percent less than a year earlier (25.2 centners per hectare).

In the world today, for the first time, the day of the fight against pneumonia, announced by the UN, is being held. The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization began the campaign to collect about $ 40 million, which will go to treatment from this disease in dozens of developing countries, mainly in Asia and Africa. Experts call pneumonia the "main killer" of children under the age of 5 years.

In the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt, special forces employees blocked a group of militants who had hidden in an apartment of a multi -storey residential building. Militants, presumably, three. They opened fire on the proposal to surrender. The assault on the apartment is being prepared. In the area where the special operation takes place, the regime of a counter -terrorist operation has been introduced, - Russian news agencies report with reference to the Republican Office of the FSB.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: The heads of the foreign policy departments of Russia and Great Britain said according to the results of bilateral negotiations that the parties failed to come to a consensus in the case of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. British Foreign Minister David Miliband insists on the need to extradite a suspect in the murder of Litvinenko Andrei Lugovoi in the UK. Here, according to his conviction, should undergo a trial.

The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court sentenced to the long time the guilty of the murder of the head of the city Union of Theater Workers Galina Sorokina and her daughter. Three young people in the dock, they received from 22 to 24 years in prison and should, by court order, pay a million rubles to the relatives of a woman as compensation. Sorokina and her daughter Maria were killed on March 5, 2009.

The world community was welcomed by the re -election of Hamid Karzai by the President of Afghanistan, announced after the abolition of the second round of elections. The United States called Karzai a legitimate head of state, congratulations sent to him the UN, Great Britain, Pakistan. Germany and France called on Karzai to cooperate with his main rival in the elections to Dr. Abdullo to combine two political camps.

The total amount of population deposits in Russian banks in September amounted to 6.7 trillion rubles, increasing 34 billion rubles (0.5 percent) compared to the previous month, follows from the materials of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The volume of ruble deposits of individuals in September increased by 79 billion rubles, or 1.7 percent, amounting to about 4.7 trillion rubles. This is more than 70 percent of the total deposit.