The militants changed their attack tactics The security agencies have not yet fully summed up the results of the operation in Kabardino-Balkaria; so far only general assessments of the tragedy have been given. However, it can already be observed that the general characteristics of the events of October 13-14 in Nalchik on the part of most government agencies coincide: the special services and law enforcement agencies generally managed to thwart the militants’ plans.

No more than 50 thousand Russians will respond to Georgy Boos’s invitation to move to the Kaliningrad region from Latvia Russian-speaking residents of Latvia are discussing the idea of ​​Governor Georgiy Boos, who proposed that all “our people” move to the Kaliningrad region for permanent residence (the Vremya Novostei newspaper wrote about this on October 21) . Let us recall that the Kaliningrad governor recently proposed doubling the population of the Kaliningrad region.

Portoflot tug crews demand wages according to European standards The second major strike in the last few months began yesterday in the port of St. Petersburg. This time, sailors and captains of tugs, icebreakers and tankers of the Port Fleet company declared war on stevedores. The strikers could partially paralyze the work of the port by completely stopping towing, but, according to the assurances of the strike committee activists themselves, they do not set themselves such a task.

Alexey Miller and Sergey Bogdanchikov returned to the conversation about Eastern Siberia and the Far East A significant event occurred in the relations between Gazprom and Rosneft. After a long break, we went to the office of the head of the gas monopolist Alexey Miller on the street. Nametkina was visited again by the president of the state oil company Sergei Bogdanchikov.

Before the last round of the World Team Chess Championship in Israel, the Chinese team is leading by a large margin - 21 points. Russia has 18.5 points, Armenia - 16.5, Ukraine - 15. After the Chinese team defeated the USA 3.5:1.5 in the seventh round and the lead over our team increased to four points, it became obvious that the envoys of the Celestial Empire are firmly focused only on the championship title.

Yesterday in the center of Baghdad, near the Palestine Hotel, a gunman entered a restaurant frequented mainly by police officers and detonated a suicide vest. 33 people were killed and more than 20 people were injured. In the north of the capital, explosions of three car bombs near the Shiite mosque Al-Shurugi claimed the lives of seven worshipers and injured over 30.

A Scottish woman was sued for more than a million for “bacterial seasoning” for a Chinese dish. One Chinese restaurant in Scotland was costed more than a million pounds sterling by salmonella bacteria, which a customer got as an invisible seasoning to her dish. Margaret Ann Reynard went there with her fiancé to celebrate her 35th birthday. The couple did not deny themselves anything and tried many dishes, one of which turned out to be fatal for the hero of the occasion, reports the BBC.

Construction companies offer Moscow a solution to the problem of deceived co-investors The capital authorities will be able to avoid mass protests by citizens affected by the activities of unscrupulous construction companies, and thereby avoid an increase in the protest electorate on the eve of the Moscow City Duma elections, by sacrificing part of the expensive Moscow land.

Three hotels were blown up in Jordan Another terrorist attack shocked the world with its cruelty. The Jordanian capital Amman has been added to Moscow and New York, Madrid and London, Beslan, Baghdad and Jakarta on the sad list of cities affected by terrorists. The Kingdom of Jordan, “promoted” by travel agencies as one of the most peaceful places in the Middle East, was truly such until yesterday, despite its proximity to warring Iraq.

The Minister of Education managed to convince rectors of the need for the Unified State Exam The Unified State Exam will be held next summer in 90% of Russian regions. Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko spoke about this yesterday at a press conference. “We expect that the unified exam will become standard throughout Russia by 2008,” the minister said, adding, however, that this does not mean that the deadlines will be 100% met.

The policeman who shot the collector in cold blood is placed in a mental hospital For the brutal murder of a collector, captain of the Main Directorate of Private Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (GUVO) Nikolai Kolmykov was declared insane and placed in a general psychiatric clinic. The relatives of the murdered man and their lawyer considered this court decision outrageous and recently filed a complaint with the Moscow City Court.

The ousting of Russians is going according to plan A new base for the Georgian armed forces will open in the west of the country, in the city of Senaki, by November 23, the second anniversary of the Rose Revolution. This will be the largest deployment of Georgian military in the Abkhaz direction - just 60 km from the border of the unrecognized republic.

Oleg Romantsev began to understand the Portuguese Dynamo General Director Yuri Zavarzin and team head coach Oleg Romantsev yesterday spoke about how their club is preparing for the upcoming season. The story was not very long. They talked mainly about Portugal: Dynamo had good diplomatic relations with this country. There are no problems in relations with Portuguese football players. According to Oleg Romantsev, there will be at least seven or eight of them in Dynamo.

Sibneft and TNK-BP will each receive another $225 million Slavneft shareholders - Sibneft and TNK-BP - continue to receive generous dividends. Only in September were interim payments for the first half of the year in the amount of 7.6 billion rubles approved, and yesterday, based on the results of work for nine months, the company’s board of directors decided to send almost another 15.7 billion rubles to its owners.

French women play flawlessly at the WTA Championship Two-time winner of the WTA Championships, former world number one, Belgian Kim Clijsters, performs unsuccessfully at the final tournament of 2005. She suffered a second defeat in a row, and again from a French tennis player. Following Marie Pierce, Amelie Mauresmo became Clijsters' offender - 6:3, 7:6 (7:4). However, after two days of play, the Belgian still had a chance of reaching the semi-finals.