Ukrainian corporation "Bogdan" received the first project in Russia The GAZ group may have a competitor right in the heart of its own production. The Ukrainian automobile corporation Bogdan announced its intention to create automobile production in the Nizhny Novgorod region. She won a competition held by the regional government for the right to locate a machine-building enterprise in the Borsky district.

Real estate prices continue to surprise experts. For the first time in a year, growth rates slowed significantly, dropping to a relatively sluggish 0.6% per week by Moscow standards. Back in the spring, housing prices in the capital increased by the same amount per day! It would seem that this is the stabilization that analysts have been promising for so long.

In the context of constantly rising prices on the capital's real estate market, the vector of consumer demand has begun to move more actively from city apartments to suburban housing. The main reason for the growing demand for cottages in the Moscow region is the attractiveness of suburban offers compared to city housing. According to experts, this picture is emerging in all sectors of the market.

The Industrial Party joins United Russia The Russian United Industrial Party held its sixth congress last Friday, at which it decided to dissolve itself with the subsequent entry of the party activist into United Russia.

Unknown people in black punished Marat Gelman for caricatures of the president and Georgian paintings In Moscow on Saturday afternoon, the office of the famous gallery owner and political strategist Marat Gelman was attacked. Having burst into the premises of the Marat Gallery. Gelman on Malaya Polyanka Street, unknown persons beat up its owner, smashed office equipment, tore off the walls and trampled on several paintings by a Georgian artist whose exhibition was taking place there.

September 20 -- October 20 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Atlanta" - "Florida" - 4:2 - - Kovalchuk "A" (1+0) , "Boston" - "Buffalo" - 2:6 - - Afinogenov "Bf" (1+1) , "Washington" -- "Tampa" -- 4:6 - - Semin "V" (1+1), Ovechkin "V" (1+0), Alekseev "T" (2+0), Afanasenkov "T" ( 0+1) , “Islanders” — “Carolina” — 4:3 (OT) — Yashin “A” (0+4) , “Ottawa” — “New Jersey” — 8:1 — Volchenkov "O" (0+2) , "Montreal" - "Colorado" - 8:5 - - A.

Officials decided not to double the cost of gas in Russia The Ministry of Industry and Energy has prepared proposals for the development of the gas market based on a three-sector model. Last Friday, the head of the ministry, Viktor Khristenko (pictured), told reporters about some points in the department’s position. According to him, the final transition of domestic pricing to the European level should take place by 2015.

FOOTBALL. Russian Championship. Premier League. 24th round. October 24. "Spartak" (Nch) - "Shinnik". October 25. CSKA -- Moscow, Spartak (M) -- Dynamo, Lokomotiv -- Torpedo, Rubin -- Zenit, Rostov -- Amkar, Krylya Sovetov -- "Saturn", "Luch-Energiya" - "Tom". 25th round. October 28. "Shinnik" - "Spartak" (M), "Rostov" - CSKA. October 29. "Zenit" - "Moscow", "Torpedo" - "Rubin", "Dynamo" - "Lokomotiv", "Saturn" - "Luch-Energia", "Amkar" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Tom" " -- "Spartak" (Nch).

Yesterday, presidential elections were held in Bulgaria, in which seven candidates participated, including the current President Georgi Parvanov. It became clear yesterday whether a second round would be necessary. Experts predicted turnout at 40%, and to elect a president in the first round it is necessary that more than 50% of voters take part in the procedure. The second round takes place seven days after the first. The winner must receive a majority of votes in the second round.

The State Duma approved the introduction of a unified state exam in 2009 It took Russian legislators a whole five-year period to authorize the introduction of a unified state exam as an all-Russian form of assessing the knowledge of high school graduates. Last Friday, the State Duma finally introduced amendments to the laws “On Education” and “On Higher and Postgraduate Professional Education”, which were discussed back in the late 90s.

Roman Pavlyuchenko scored, but it did not bring victory to Spartak None of the top three managed to win the 23rd round of the national champion. CSKA failed to score against Amkar, and Lokomotiv was defeated in St. Petersburg. Spartak also lost points. Having conceded in the last minutes, the “red-whites” missed out on victory in the match with Torpedo. Fedotov’s team has one consolation: Roman Pavlyuchenko scored another, already 12th goal in the championship.

Putin promised in Lahti not to interfere with Georgia’s building a common state with Abkhazia and South Ossetia Dinner with Putin in Lahti on the evening of October 20 was anticipated with tension, and therefore they prepared for it especially carefully. And all of them, without exception, are the heads of state of 25 EU countries who gathered for their informal meeting in Finland, journalists and the Finnish freedom-loving public.

The Forum of Cultural Intersections opened in Moscow The continuation of Pushkin’s line with the expectation of a hateful rhyme is well known: “Here, here, take it quickly!” That's it... Frosts - we are roses. A million scarlet roses. Arosaupalanalapuasora. And Rosamund and Rosamira. What different creative people do to poor Rosa ! And rarely do these flowers, wildly intertwined in cultural texts, not be placed on the altar of immortal vulgarity.

Yushchenko changes the leadership of his own party On October 25, at a meeting of the political council of the presidential “orange” bloc “People’s Union “Our Ukraine” (NSNU), a new organizing committee will be formed, which will prepare the second stage of the third congress of this party, as well as changes to the charter, program and governing bodies of the bloc.