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.

One of the main candidates for the post of governor of the Volgograd region turned out to have four passports At the end of last week, when State Duma deputies voted to abolish direct elections of regional heads, the Volgograd Regional Electoral Commission finally determined the list of candidates for the governor's seat. Initially, sixteen people applied for the post, of whom only thirteen provided the necessary documents to the regional election commission.

On the spring day of April 2, 1968, a young man and woman walked into the Schneider department store in Frankfurt am Main, hid two homemade explosive devices in a secluded corner and set off mechanical alarm clocks adapted to them. At the stroke of midnight, one of the largest stores in the center of the financial capital of West Germany was engulfed in flames. The fire was quickly extinguished, no people were injured, and the damage was fully compensated by insurance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This week all participants in the final tournaments will be determined The current week of play in world tennis should finally determine the participants in the final tournaments of the year - the men's Masters Cup with a prize fund of $3.7 million, which will take place in the middle of this month in Houston, and the women's WTA Championship with a total bonus amount of $3 million ., where the battles will begin on November 8 in Los Angeles.

Moscow police are not yet going to give concessions to Ukrainians Since yesterday, citizens of Ukraine in Russia have formally turned out to be freer people than Russians themselves. From November 1, according to the protocol signed last week between Ukraine and Russia, they are allowed to stay on the territory of our country without registration not for three days, like all other foreigners, but for three whole months.

Sodbiznesbank creditors held a meeting The first meeting of creditors and depositors of Sodbiznesbank (SBB) was held at the Luzhniki small sports arena yesterday. The bank did not have the forty thousand depositors that SBB representatives spoke about in the spring. According to the data announced by the liquidator Andrei Belkov, only 14 thousand 481 claims of creditors were submitted to him, and approximately 500-800 people came to the meeting.