CLUBS National semi-final of The Global Battle of The Bands competition. The international competition of “real” bands is intended to demonstrate that there are many non-pop bands around the world. 16 countries have already joined the competition, including Russia. The slogan of the competition: “Forget about star factories and other famous karaoke competitions. GBOB is a competition for real bands playing real music.

The country has not elected a new president, and the West is already ignoring the current one On the morning of November 1, Ukrainians did not wake up in “another country,” as predicted by the leader of the Our Ukraine opposition bloc, Viktor Yushchenko. The country did not receive a new president in the October 31 elections. This is perhaps the only forecast that did not come true.

The aviation major general could become an accidental victim of a gangster war Deputy Commander of Long-Range (Strategic) Aviation of the Russian Air Force, Major General Konstantin Dementyev, was killed on Sunday evening in the Smolensk region. Officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Defense immediately gathered at the scene of the emergency.

Today we will again talk about the elders. These writers (like all true artists and great people) are not at all similar to each other. They have very different books (and genre dominants). They have very different destinies - no matter how sad it is, you can’t get by here without the memorable words of Saadi-Pushkin. If you look for the general, you will involuntarily run into banality. But it's better to be banal than ungrateful. Nobility. Deeply rooted in culture. Stunning creative passion.

Vyacheslav Koloskov promised Vyacheslav Fetisov to resign A revolution is brewing in Russian football. Yesterday, the head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vyacheslav Fetisov, announced that the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU), Vyacheslav Koloskov, promised him to resign. The historic event is set to take place after the Russia-Estonia World Cup qualifying match on November 17.

DaimlerChrysler is going to build a car plant near St. Petersburg Following the Japanese automakers Toyota and Nissan, as well as the German Volkswagen, the American-German DaimlerChrysler AG also wanted to build a plant in Russia. The German newspaper Handelsblatt reported this yesterday, citing sources close to the company. According to the publication, the concern is already busy searching for a site for construction and is considering the outskirts of St. Petersburg as an option.

Bagapsh and Khadzhimba urgently flew to Moscow Candidates for the post of President of Abkhazia Sergei Bagapsh and Raul Khadzhimba yesterday evening, as Vremya Novostei learned, arrived in Moscow for consultations. This information was not officially confirmed to us; the visit was shrouded in secrecy.

Recipes for the fight against international terrorism were proposed back in the century before last. In 1898, an international conference was held in Rome on the problems of protecting society from anarchists. It was attended by 54 delegates from more than 20 European countries, including all the then great powers - Great Britain, Germany, France and Austria-Hungary.

Channel One defended the honor and dignity of Nikita Mikhalkov On Sunday, the final program “Time” showed a story about the congress of the Union of Cinematographers. This forum earned the reputation of being one of the most scandalous in the history of the RF IC: the team of Nikita Mikhalkov, who was elected to the position of chairman for the third time, clashed with a group of colleagues united around the Moscow IC.

The RTS subsidiary will start operating on November 23 The start of trading on the subsidiary site of the RTS, OJSC RTS Stock Exchange, as it became known yesterday, is scheduled for November 23. Yesterday, applications began to be accepted for participation in anonymous trading of securities using the “delivery versus payment” technology with full preliminary deposit of assets. Until now, within the RTS group, the organizer of trading on the exchange stock market was the St.

The Moscow City Duma intends to expand the list of administrative fines Deputies of the capital's parliament sensitively grasped the main political trend and decided to contribute to the widespread tightening of the screws. Yesterday, the Moscow City Duma Commission on Legislation created a working group to develop a Code of Administrative Offenses for the City of Moscow.

Forecast for the coming days In most of the European territory of Russia, the influence on the weather will be determined by the western edge of the cyclone, along which cold air from the north easily penetrates all the way to the Black Sea. So it will get colder everywhere. In the northwestern regions it is mostly rainless and windy.

So that no one doubts the powers of the new As Vremya Novostei learned, yesterday evening Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev decided to early dissolve the lower house of the country's parliament, the Majilis, whose term of office expires on November 30. At the same time, by his decree, the president convenes on November 3 the first session of the new Majilis elected in the parliamentary elections on September 19.

Sergei Bogdanchikov will produce oil for Gazprom Rosneft President Sergei Bogdanchikov, who until now was considered one of the main opponents of the takeover of his company by Gazprom, has been appointed general director of the newly created Gazpromneft. The founder's decision to create the company and approve its director was signed yesterday by Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller.

Well-known American and Russian experts answered Vremya Novostey's questions. Evgeniy VOLK, director of the Russian branch of the American Heritage Foundation: -- In American foreign policy, ideology is difficult to separate from national interests. Look at the draft national security strategies of both candidates: everywhere it is said that the promotion of freedom and democracy is an integral part of the foreign policy interests of the United States.