Pyongyang begins life under sanctions regime According to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Muhammad ElBaradei, within a “very short time” up to 30 countries could become “virtually new nuclear states” with the technology to create nuclear weapons. The Director General announced this yesterday in Vienna at an IAEA symposium on measures to improve control over the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Yesterday in Luxembourg, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül met with the foreign ministers of Finland, which is presiding over the European Union and Germany, which is taking over the presidency in the next six months - Erkki Tuomioja and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as well as European Commission (EC) Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn. On November 8, Mr. Ren will present a report on the progress of reforms being carried out in Turkey to bring it closer to EU standards.

The new chairman of the board of directors of RUSAL, Andrew MICHELMORE, told Vremya Novostei correspondent Anna LANDER that changes in the composition of the board were planned long before the announcement of the deal to merge RUSAL with SUAL and Glencore. -- Is your appointment to the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of RUSAL related to the deal announced last week to merge the company with SUAL and Glencore assets? Will you be involved in immediate preparations for the merger?

Yesterday, Swedish Culture Minister Cecilia Stego Cilo was forced to resign. For 16 years, she evaded paying the mandatory subscription fee for television and paying taxes for hiring a housekeeper. This is the second member of the new government led by Frederick Reinfeld to resign. Two days earlier, Trade Minister Maria Borelius left the cabinet after being convicted of similar violations.

In the north and center of European Russia, weather conditions will be dictated by the Atlantic cyclone in the next 24 hours; it is already approaching the Murmansk region, and is expected in the Polar Urals on Wednesday.

Oleg Deripaska resigned as head of the board of directors of RUSAL The leadership of RUSAL has changed: during the formation of the united company, which will include RUSAL, SUAL and the alumina assets of the Swiss Glencore, Oleg Deripaska will be replaced as chairman of the board of directors by the former head of the Australian WMC, Andrew Michelmore, who was hired by him six months ago. However, Mr. Deripaska will retain his membership on the board of directors of RUSAL.

Russia and NATO today do not consider themselves likely adversaries. At least this is officially declared. Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance actively cooperate within the framework of the Russia-NATO Council, but their positions on a number of key military-political issues can hardly be called similar. One of the problems is the deployment of a new missile defense system in Europe and Moscow's negative attitude towards this project.

The value of YUKOS assets will be determined by companies that have worked with state monopolies more than once A consortium of five Russian companies led by ROSECO (it also includes NP Consult, Russian Assessment, KO-INVEST and the BINOM Appraisal Firm) will evaluate YUKOS assets during the bankruptcy procedure. As stated in the press service of YUKOS bankruptcy manager Eduard Rebgun, this company won a competition in which there were 13 participants (their names are not disclosed).

Tu-204 takes on the features of a small Airbus Design Bureau named after. A.N. Tupolev began designing a modification of the Tu-204 passenger aircraft, which in terms of technical and economic characteristics will be close to the Airbus A320 and A321. Until now, the domestic aviation industry has not produced direct analogues of these medium-range aircraft. Aircraft of the A320 family, manufactured by the European concern Airbus, are already being actively supplied to Russia.

Hungarian director conducted a social therapy session The “Territory” festival began with the theater, which is generally logical. Firstly, the organizers of the festival are entirely from the theatrical environment: actors Evgeny Mironov, Chulpan Khamatova, director Kirill Serebrennikov, theater critic Roman Dolzhansky and Teodor Currentzis - the chief conductor and artistic director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater.

Inter is at the center of a scandal While Juventus, Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina are trying through numerous appeals to reduce the number of penalty points by another 30%, with which it is difficult to get out of the basement of the standings, the echo of the proceedings has reached Inter Milan. In the camp of the Nerazzurri, who will have to beat Spartak Moscow at home tomorrow, not everything is in order with purely football matters.

The season that ended will be remembered for a series of doping scandals The jubilee, 100th race on the roads of Italy, the Giro Di Lombardia, ended the next season of road cycling pros. There are only a few insignificant starts on the international calendar until the end of the year, so we can already sum up the results.

CLUBS Festival "Territory". A festival of contemporary art, within which concerts, film screenings, performances, poetry readings and master classes will take place in Moscow throughout the week. Among the organizers of the festival are actors Evgeny Mironov and Chulpan Khamatova, director Kirill Serebrennikov, conductor Teodor Currentzis and critic Roman Dolzhansky - a very representative company for contemporary Russian art.

The transition of the Our Ukraine presidential bloc to the opposition, promised in early October, has become the main intrigue of the political life of Ukraine. The situation should become clearer today.

Geothermal energy is not popular in Kamchatka In the Kamchatka region, where, perhaps, like nowhere else in Russia, the development of geothermal energy is promising, an enterprise that has a monopoly on the development and use of numerous geothermal water deposits has fallen under bankruptcy proceedings.