Mitsubishi Motors receives credit for survival The Japanese automobile concern Mitsubishi Motors has found a way to start a new life. Its management managed to negotiate a loan designed to prevent the company from going bankrupt. The lifeline, as expected, was thrown by shareholders - Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group, Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp and Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank.

The Germans have come to terms with unpopular reforms Last Sunday, municipal elections in the West German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany ended the “marathon of 2004”, the stages of which included elections of regional and local authorities. Their results each time turned out to be negative, if not catastrophic, for the Social Democrats and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Pakistan fears terrorist retaliation In the Pakistani city of Nawabshah, one of the leaders of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Amjad Hussein Farooqi, was killed during a police operation. Two of his associates were also arrested. Farooqi, 30, is believed to have been involved in a number of terrorist attacks.

Former Aeroflot executives again become defendants Yesterday, the Savyolovsky Court of Moscow began to consider the criminal case of former managers of Aeroflot for the second time.

A week after Beslan, we were traveling to Moscow from Domodedovo with an Ossetian who had just met his relatives who had flown in from a funeral. “Do you understand what happened? - he asked me absolutely depressed. - 30 bastards came and ruined the whole country. They, these 30, showed that the country simply does not exist, it does not exist, no matter how hard you puff out your cheeks. It’s clear that our people are now using the moment to tighten all possible screws.

Irkutsk Rodina was left without PR The authorities of the Irkutsk region were yesterday alarmed by a high-profile murder, in the words of local officials, “of a federal scale.” On Monday night in Irkutsk, two employees of the election headquarters of the Rodina party were shot at the entrance to a house during the elections of deputies to the legislative assembly of the Irkutsk region.

Roma changes head coach German specialist Rudi Feller, nicknamed Old Lady Kat among fans, resigned from the post of head coach of Roma. After spending four matches of the Italian championship with the team and 45 memorable minutes of the game with Dynamo Kyiv in the Champions League, Feller decided to part with Rome. Maybe forever. Meanwhile, Rome means a lot to Rudi Feller. This is where his wife is from and where he spent the best five seasons of his football career.

The merger of Gazprom and Rosneft will occur only with the consent of Russian and foreign investment funds Today the first formal action will be taken as part of the merger process between Gazprom and Rosneft.

Forecast for the coming days The North Atlantic cyclone over the Scandinavian Peninsula has shown great activity in recent days. Its atmospheric front, located over the central zone of European Russia and separating the northern air mass, which is moderately warm for the end of September, and the unseasonably hot (with temperatures in some places above +30°C) air over the Southern Federal District, on Sunday rose slightly to the north, intensified and erupted in strong rains.

The Central Bank again promises to increase the share of the euro in gold and foreign exchange reserves The Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance have been declaring their intention to change the structure of gold and foreign exchange reserves in favor of the euro for a year now, but have not yet decided to take this step.

The organizer of the explosion on Rizhskaya was found among its victims The Moscow prosecutor's office announced that during the explosion near the Rizhskaya metro station on August 31 this year, not only the female suicide bomber died, but also her accomplice, the long-wanted terrorist Nikolai Kipkeev. Why this happened is still unclear and may never be clarified. Perhaps Kipkeev was supposed to track the suicide bomber’s passage to the metro station, and she detonated the bomb ahead of time.

American soldiers are tired of Iraq and Afghanistan The US Department of Defense is considering reducing the length of stay of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is caused by a decrease in the number of recruits willing to serve the country. This year, for the first time in the last ten years, the plan for recruiting into the National Guard was not fulfilled. The shortage amounted to 5 thousand people; a total of 51 thousand volunteers signed up for its ranks.

The course towards Russia remains the same Yesterday, important personnel changes took place in the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers. Nobutaka Machimura, who previously served as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, became the new head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs instead of Mrs. Yoriko Kawaguchi. Yoshinori Ono was appointed head of Japan's national defense department, replacing Shigeru Ishiba in this position.

Vladimir Vuytek resigned The central match of yesterday's round "Spartak" - "Ak Bars" was in the spotlight not so much because of the duel of former Spartak player Ilya Kovalchuk with his native club, but because of the tragic news that Muscovites forward Anatoly Ustyugov died in intensive care, not regaining consciousness. Last Thursday, Ustyugov parked his car in the parking lot near the Sokol metro station, where he and his wife rent an apartment, and went home.

Moscow authorities are fighting a battle for the capital's food security Muscovites are gradually being taught to eat food from Russian producers. As the head of Moscow's food resources department, Alexander Baburin, told reporters yesterday, in two years the share of imported meat and butter supplies has decreased from 80% to 60%. And there is generally an overproduction of vegetables.