They are not at all like each other - a tall black American with calm eyes and a wide smile and a small European with a large nose and slightly comic manners. But their positions are called the same way - they work as presidents. Both are now hard: the party has just lost the elections, the party of the other threatens, and they themselves, if this goes on and further, in a couple of years they will look for a new place of work.

The presidents of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, heads of Russian regions, deputies, well -known politicians, human rights activists, and opposition representatives, expressed condolences in connection with the death of Viktor Chernomyrdin. Victor Chernomyrdin died on Wednesday morning in Moscow at the 73rd year of his life. He will be buried on Friday at the Novodevichy cemetery.

Will, as Mikhail Khodorkovsky believes, the “next crisis point” for Russia for 2015 believe? What prevents the modernization of Russia? Discuss: Scientific Director of the Center for Research on Modernization of the European University in St. Petersburg Dmitry Travin and historian, professor, author of Russia in 2017. How will experiments with the country end? " Vladimir Fortunatov.

The leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives of the US Congress John Bayner called President Barack Obama to change the course - after the convincing victory of the Republican Party in the elections to both chambers of the Congress. According to preliminary data, the Republican Party “took” from the democratic at least 60 seats in the House of Representatives and will have a significant majority there.

The Greece authorities introduced a 48-hour moratorium on sending any postal messages and parcels abroad. The reason was the mass sending of unknown packages with explosives addressed to foreign embassies in Greece, pan -European organizations and foreign leaders. It is reported that several low -power explosions occurred on Tuesday in Athens among embassies of a number of states, including Russia. There are no victims.

Egor Bychkov, former head of the Nizhne-Tagil branch of the city "City without drugs" On November 3, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court changed the punishment of the former head of the Nizhny Tagil branch of the city without drugs Yegor Bychkov , satisfying the cassation of the defense. Earlier, the District Court of Nizhny Tagil sentenced Bychkov to three and a half years in prison, finding him guilty of abduction of people.

The court in Singapore found the British author Alan Sedreik guilty of insulting the state justice system. The 75-year-old writer faces imprisonment. The verdict will be announced in the coming days. In parallel, another criminal case is investigated against a masterpiece - under the article "Slander".

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Petersburg anti -fascists say that one of them, in which the organizers of the rally planned on November 4 gathered against fascism, breaking through the door, broke through the police and searched. A source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax that the police are related to the investigation of the criminal case of extremism, initiated at the end of October. Earlier in St. Petersburg, several activists of the opposition movement "Another Russia" were detained.

Japan warned Russia about the undesirable new visits to the southern Kurils - after a recent trip to one of the controversial islands of President Dmitry Medvedev. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Russian president plans to visit the Kuril Islands again.

The Holy Abyss Levan Berdzenishvili. Kiwi against the Czechoslovak communists.

In Tomsk, the jury found ex-mayor Alexander Makarov guilty of abuse of authority and illegal entrepreneurial activity. In total, nine episodes were included in the prosecutor’s conclusion. The jury confirmed Makarov’s guilt for most of them. He is charged, in particular, the illegal privatization of the wholesale trade center and the illegal distribution of land plots. The punishment measure Alexander Makarov will become known later.

Victor Shenderovich The Day of National Unity is a truly folk holiday. So folk that the reason does not matter much. Well, we do not go to work in the first decade of November, NO-HO-CHO-HO-SOME! And for what reason we do not go - these are details. In extreme cases, an occasion can be composed. "But what will the story say?" - "As always, sir: Salt." This is Bernard Show, a foreign clever. There was nothing like that of November fourth there!

The Moscow authorities agreed on a rally, which on November 7 intended to hold in Moscow the public organization "Union of Paratroopers of Russia". At the rally, it is expected that veterans of the landing forces will require the resignation of the Minister of Defense of Russia Anatoly Serdyukov. The coordinated number of participants in the action is 5 thousand people.

DNA tests conducted in Romania confirmed that the overthrown dictator Nikolai Chausheyzu and his wife were really buried in the Gench military cemetery in Bucharest. The remains were exhumed in July this year at the request of relatives who doubted their authenticity. During the study, in particular, samples of DNA of the brother and son of Chausko were used. Nicholas Chausko led communist Romania from 1965 to 1989. He was removed from power as a result of the uprising and shot with his wife.