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.

Disagreements in Moscow over sanctions against Iran Yesterday, the Iranians suddenly decided to tell what Presidents Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talked about on the phone the day before on Monday. It turns out that the Iranian complained to his Russian colleague about the Europeans. Iranian state television reported that Mr. Ahmadinejad told Vladimir Putin why his talks with the three European countries had stalled.

World premiere of the Russian choral opera “Boyarina Morozova” For the anniversary of the director of the Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory, Boris Tevlin, and the opening of the Moscow Autumn festival, Rodion Shchedrin presented a fresh, specially written composition, at the same time proposing a new genre - “Russian choral opera”. Something like “Italian opera seria” or “German Singspiel”.

Russia agreed to continue negotiations with America on the WTO October 31 should have gone down in recent history as the day when Russia finally ended long negotiations on joining the World Trade Organization, or as a loud slam of the door and refusal of further negotiations.

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.

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.

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.

The largest retrospective of the photographic art of Alexander Rodchenko opens today at the Big Manege Still, the ways of development of the exhibition policy of the venerable institution “Moscow House of Photography” are inscrutable.

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.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Regular season . “Philadelphia” – “Chicago” – 3:0, “Toronto” – “Atlanta” – 4:2 - - Kovalchuk “A” (1+0), “St. Louis” – “Anaheim” - - 5:6 (bullet), "Calgary" -- "Washington" -- 2:4 -- Ovechkin "B" (0+2), "Los Angeles" -- "Rangers" -- 4:1 - - Frolov “L” (1+1), Tyutin “R” (0+1) . Chicago's bad streak continues - the Hawks suffered their fifth defeat in a row, and they lost their last three matches with a clean sheet.

Underground parking will become mandatory even for municipal buildings Known for their penchant for repressive measures in the fight against “shells” and violators of parking rules, Moscow authorities continue to enthusiastically search for alternatives to makeshift parking.

Chekhov Festival program announced The Seventh International Chekhov Festival will take place in June and July next year, but ticket sales for all its performances begin today. Exactly in order to explain what the public should shell out money for and why they should hurry up, the festival management convened a special press conference yesterday.

Vladimir Putin awarded the President of Angola The intensification of Russia's African policy, especially evident in Vladimir Putin's productive visits to South Africa and Morocco in September, was continued in yesterday's negotiations between the Russian President and his Angolan counterpart, 64-year-old Jose Eduardo dos Santos.