The President introduced new amendments to the Criminal Code After a number of proposals to liberalize the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes, Vladimir Putin took the initiative to tighten some provisions of the Criminal Code. Yesterday, the presidential administration introduced amendments to the code to the State Duma aimed at tightening penalties for human trafficking.

Rising water forces rescuers to rush Today in the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, rescuers cutting a tunnel into the flooded Zapadnaya-Kapitalnaya mine must reach the expected location of the last 13 miners from among those who were trapped in underground captivity five days ago as a result of the accident. Yesterday, experts said that water was flowing into the mine at such a rate that by Tuesday evening all underground workings at Zapadnaya-Kapitalnaya would be completely flooded.

FEC offers three options for reducing energy tariffs for the population The head of RAO UES of Russia and co-chairman of the Union of Right Forces Anatoly Chubais, as promised, told the public yesterday about the initiative to reduce electricity tariffs for the population by 20% in four energy systems from November 1.

In connection with the arrest of the head of the Yukos company, the leadership of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as some political figures, have addressed me with a request for a meeting.

Another sensation expected in Strasbourg After the case of Tatyana Slivenko, who sued Latvia in the European Court of Human Rights for monetary compensation and recognition of the illegality of her deportation to Russia, the Latvian authorities are expecting a series of lawsuits from veterans persecuted by Latvia for past work in the authorities.

The former manager of Mezhprombank was denied registration as a candidate for the post of President of Bashkiria The number of candidates for the post of President of Bashkiria has decreased to nine. The Central Election Commission of Bashkortostan refused to register one of the main contenders, entrepreneur Sergei Veremeenko, for violating the procedure for financing the election campaign.

Forecast for the coming days Cold weather has settled over most of the European territory of Russia. And it's still cold in the central regions. Against the background of increased atmospheric pressure and clearings, the weather without precipitation will prevail.

TNT has come up with a new real show In the new television season, TNT is still positioned as an “entertaining and useful” channel. “Our interpretation of usefulness is to show the viewer uninvented television. Television is about what surrounds us every day. And this, by definition, is more useful than programs and series not about our time,” said TNT General Director Roman Petrenko. TNT's main television product will remain reality projects that will air in prime time.

But NASA insists on additional control After the not-so-successful landing of the Soyuz TMA-1 lander in March, Russia's partners in the International Space Station project seemed to doubt that Russian services were able to ensure safe crew changes on the ISS.

The coach's mistake led to a change in the regulations The next round of the Russian championship among men's teams of the Super League "A" was preceded by an unscheduled meeting of the tournament directorate, which considered the case of violation by the head coach of the Perm "Ural-Great" Sergei Belov of the rule on limiting the number of foreign legionnaires simultaneously on the site.

Bank of America buys FleetBoston Financial Corp. The American banking sector is expecting dramatic changes. Yesterday it became known about a corporate merger that will lead to the creation of one of the largest banking networks in the world. According to agencies, the third largest US bank, Bank of America, plans to acquire the equally well-known bank FleetBoston Financial Corp. According to preliminary estimates, the cost of the merger will be $47 billion.

The Prosecutor General is predicted to resign soon High-profile criminal cases, including the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000, became the reason for a departmental war between the security service (SBU), the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. The squabble among the security forces in Kyiv is considered a symptom of the imminent resignation of Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun.

Israel responded very sluggishly to the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, although he is not only one of the richest people in the world, but also a Jew. Short messages and short comments in newspapers - that's probably all. Perhaps this is because the name of Khodorkovsky was not associated with high-profile scandals, like the names of Boris Berezovsky or Vladimir Gusinsky, and is not as well known. Perhaps because the oligarch arrested in Moscow is not a citizen of Israel.

The second round of six-party talks in Beijing to resolve Pyongyang's nuclear problem, as it became known yesterday, will take place in mid-December. Six countries will participate in the negotiations: North and South Korea, the United States, Russia, China and Japan. At the same time, North Korea expressed its readiness to make at least one concession. It lies in the fact that Pyongyang previously sought to sign a non-aggression pact with the United States.

Elem Klimov died In Moscow, at the seventy-first year of his life, film director Elem Germanovich Klimov died after a serious illness. He was born in 1933 in Stalingrad, graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, later collaborated with the Youth Editorial Office of the All-Union Radio and Central Television, worked in the Philharmonic, and in 1964 graduated from the directing department of VGIK (workshop of Evgeny Dzigan).