But this did not stop the Russian team Having won over Albania with a score of 4:1, the Russian team fulfilled its goal - to score maximum points in the first matches. But Gazzaev’s team is leaving for the winter holidays with debts: it is still unclear when and where the match with the Georgian national team, which was interrupted in Tbilisi, will take place. For the first time, the Russian national team played its official match outside of Moscow.

There is growth in the Federation Council, and sorrow in the Duma The work of the Federation Council is not always as stormy as it was yesterday. For an hour and a half, government representatives explained to the senators why it was not necessary to adopt the bill “On state regulation of tariffs for heat and electricity.” However, as has been the case lately, the Senate debated rather for its own pleasure.

At today's meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, the head of the Pension Fund, Mikhail Zurabov, must report on how the regions are implementing the presidential decree, which transferred the powers to pay pensions to the Pension Fund. According to Mr. Zurabov, 86 regions of Russia have already completed the transfer of authority to pay pensions to the Pension Fund. Three subjects of the federation are listed as lagging behind: North Ossetia, Khabarovsk Territory and Moscow.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Rangers” – “Toronto” – 5:4 – P. Bure “R” (2+1), Antropov “T” (1+1), Mogilny “T” (0+1) , “St. Louis - "Carolina" - 2:1 (OT) - Khavanov "S" (1+0) , "Ottawa" - "Phoenix" - 2:1, "Dallas" - "Edmonton" - - 3:0, Minnesota - Florida - 4:1 - Yushkevich F (0+1) , Montreal - Philadelphia - 2:6, Islanders - Nashville " -- 4:3 (OT) -- Yashin "A" (1+0) . It was not for nothing that New York was so eagerly awaiting the return of the Russian Rocket.

Nerves won't let him go beyond the first round in Madrid The third racket of the Masters Series tournament taking place in Madrid with a prize fund of 2 million 950 thousand dollars, Russian Marat Safin, after his first match, dropped out of the fight for the title in singles. Marat in the second round (he was exempted from playing in the first because he had a high seeding number) lost to the Argentine Augustin Calleri in a match that was amazing in intensity and drama - 6:7 (6:8), 6:7 (5: 7).

A completely new performance thirteen years ago Opening the season, the Center named after. Sun. Meyerhold (hereinafter referred to as TsIM) brought from St. Petersburg and showed at his venue “Sasha Cherny’s Concert for Piano with an Artist”. The play was staged a long time ago and is regularly performed at the Alexandrinsky Theater. What need did Valery Fokin, the head of CIM, see in these one-day tours? I answer immediately: twofold.

The State Duma changed the minimum wage State Duma deputies yesterday raised the minimum wage from 450 to 600 rubles. The bill “On introducing amendments to the federal law “On the minimum wage” was adopted in the first reading with 405 votes. During the plenary session, deputies spoke out about the need to adopt the law with unusual consensus. But, of course, the communists were especially eager to fight. “Why is the salary of oil king Sergei Kukura 1 million 800 thousand dollars a month?

Commission wants to separate brokers from consultants The Federal Commission for the Securities Market (FCSM) recommended that stock market participants separate the process of financial consulting for issuers and the preparation of analytical materials for investors.

Yesterday, at one of the intersections of Rostov-on-Don, a KamAZ loaded with grain crashed into a trolleybus. Two brand new Volgas passing by also got into an accident. A total of more than two dozen people were injured, four of whom died on the spot. Ten more people with injuries of varying severity were sent to city hospitals. The cause of the accident was faulty brakes of a heavily loaded KamAZ truck. They failed just as the truck was descending a steep hill.

In Minsk, the crisis in relations between the OSCE mission in Belarus and the country's leadership is deepening. The authorities believe that diplomats from this organization patronize the opposition. Over the past year, all foreigners working at the mission, with the exception of Alina Zhosan, left Belarus because they were denied extensions of visas and accreditations. The accreditation of Alina Zhosan, who now serves as the head of the mission, expires on October 29.

Petr Latyshev creates a development strategy for the Ural District The Office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Ural Federal District has begun developing a “Strategic Program for the Development of the Federal District until 2015.” This was stated yesterday by presidential envoy Pyotr Latyshev, speaking at a closed meeting with governors.

CLUBS Zulya Kamalova (Tasmania). The most famous performer of Tatar and Australian folk songs. Her Australian group includes both ethnic instruments and traditional guitar, double bass, and electric piano. In Moscow, Zulya will perform with Sergei Starostin, Sergei Klevensky and Sergei Shchurakov. From its permanent lineup, only bassist Andrew Tanner arrived. Today - in the "O.G.I. Project" , 22.00. October 18 - at the "House" , 19.30. October 19 - at Art Garbage , 22.30.

Today Russian filmmakers will decide who deserves an Oscar Today, at six o'clock in the evening, the commission to nominate a Russian candidate for the Academy Award will meet at the Mosfilm film studio. By secret ballot, its thirteen members will decide which film will have the honor of representing the fatherland at the most prestigious film competition in the world.

An international poker tournament opened in the capital Domestic poker fans are trying their best to catch up with Europe and it seems that they are succeeding. On October 15, the international poker tournament Moscow Open started in Moscow. As the organizers of the competition said on Tuesday, the international tournament is being held in the capital for the second time and the prize fund this year will be half a million dollars.

The arsenal of the Pacific Fleet blew up in Vladivostok Residents of Vtoraya Rechka, one of the most densely populated areas of Vladivostok, were preparing to evacuate yesterday. A few kilometers from residential buildings, cannonade thundered, and the radio warned of possible danger - ammunition depots of the Pacific Fleet had caught fire in the capital of Primorye.