Before the match with Inter, Spartak went down to the metro, and after - to the bottom of the standings Having lost to Inter Milan in Moscow 0:1, Spartak lost all chances to continue fighting in the Champions League. After four matches, the “red-whites” have only one point. Too little to even fight for third place in the group. On the day of the match, the national team became closer to the people - Spartak players traveled to Luzhniki by metro.

CLUBS Charenee Wade (vocals, USA) and Oleg Butman Trio . Young jazz artists, whose careers are just beginning, are increasingly coming to Moscow. In the coming days, vocalist Charenee Wade, who recently graduated from the Manhattan School of Music, but has already received many awards at competitions and festivals, including the Thelonious Monk competition, will perform on the Le Club stage. If you find yourself in New York, she performs regularly at The Zinc Bar. 1--3 and 9--11 November, 20.30.

American pharmaceutical giant Merck announced yesterday the purchase of the small company Sirna Therapeutics Inc. Merck shareholders have already approved the deal, despite the fact that the company overpaid twice (!) for the purchase compared to Sirna's market value based on trading results on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.

During the IPO of the Pipe Metallurgical Company, demand exceeded supply by almost 20 times The Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK, Russia's largest pipe manufacturer) announced yesterday the results of its share placement on the London Stock Exchange and the RTS Stock Exchange (30% was placed in Russia, 70% abroad). The placement price of shares of TMK Steel Limited, the company's main shareholder, was set at $5.4 per share.

The idea of ​​a state monopoly on the sale of alcohol has captured the minds of the state The state actually admitted its failure in trying to establish control over the alcohol market. The introduction of the Unified State Automated Information System (USAIS), through which all alcohol in Russia must pass, did not bring the expected results: legal producers cannot break into the system, and new poisonings from clandestine products coming outside the system are recorded every day.

TNK-BP still hopes to get into the Burgas-Alexandroupolis project The head of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, yesterday announced some details of the participation of the Russian side in the project for the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline (bypassing Turkey, bypassing the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits), which will be implemented jointly with Greece and Bulgaria.

Pressure on Pyongyang only deepens the crisis After the DPRK conducted nuclear tests on October 9, and the UN Security Council adopted a tough resolution condemning this step, the question arises - what will happen next. One option for the development of events is a continuation of the current path of confrontation and a further escalation of tension up to a military conflict. The policy of increasing pressure on North Korea contributes to the formation of a vicious circle.

PWC calculated how many rich Russians trust banks The number of wealthy Russians entrusting their funds to financial institutions for management is rapidly increasing. This is evidenced by a study published yesterday by the PricewaterhouseCoopers agency, according to which the domestic private banking sector is expected to grow by at least 30-50% per year. Bankers note that this is due to an increase in the welfare of citizens and increased confidence in financial institutions.

At the beginning of October, the new President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, took office. A native of the USA, he is an experienced diplomat - he twice headed the Estonian Foreign Ministry, and was ambassador to the USA, Canada and Mexico. Thomas Hendrik Ilves spoke about the development of Russian-Estonian relations and the situation of the Russian-speaking population in Estonia with his own INTERFAX correspondent in Tallinn, Arkady Prisyazhny, for Vremya Novostei.

The Russian team won the European Championship Anyone who has ever watched a film about Robin Hood will forever remember the parable about a twig and a bunch of similar ones, the moral of which is: strength lies in the team, but the individual is weak.” In sports, of course, it happened that one outstanding athlete made an entire country strong, read glorious. However, you must agree that multiple victories of strong personalities glorify a state much more effectively.

The stage of the elite series “Pro Tour” starts in St. Petersburg For the third year in a row, St. Petersburg has hosted small racket masters fighting for victory at the stage of the prestigious commercial series “Pro Tour”. The competition starts today with qualifying matches, which will involve many Russians, mostly promising players. Main draw matches in the four categories - singles and doubles for both men and women - begin on Friday, with deciders scheduled for Sunday.

Chechen police officers exposed their personnel officer The Chechen prosecutor's office yesterday announced the initiation of a criminal case for extorting a bribe against a high-ranking officer of the Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Southern Federal District (SFD).

Pyongyang promised to return to nuclear negotiations Yesterday, encouraging news came from Beijing about the resumption of negotiations on the North Korean nuclear program in the near future. This decision emerged as a result of an informal meeting in the Chinese capital of Deputy Foreign Minister of the DPRK Kim Kye Gwan, his Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei and US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill.

Russian officials and Western experts identified the main types of deficits in the domestic economy Russia has been experiencing steady economic growth for many years, the budget is formed with a surplus, gold and foreign exchange reserves have long broken all records, and the country’s credit rating has reached investment level.

The Great Don Army is concerned about the fate of the Chilean general Almost simultaneously with the decision of the Chilean court to place Augusto Pinochet under house arrest on the other side of the world - in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation - the Don Cossacks decided to rescue General Miguel Krasnov-Marchenko, who was sentenced to ten years for war crimes during the reign of the dictator, from a Chilean prison .