Russian society has not yet gotten used to National Unity Day Domestic sociological services, on the eve of National Unity Day, celebrated on November 4, according to established tradition, tried to find out the attitude of our fellow citizens to the new holiday. It turned out that the majority of Russians are either skeptical or negative about replacing the seventh of November with the fourth. It seems that this memorable date has not yet become familiar to the general public.

The new Ambassador of Israel to Russia, Ms. Anna AZARI, arrived in Moscow. Her entire 23-year career at the Israeli Foreign Ministry was connected with Russia and the CIS countries. Ms. Azari, 46 years old, is a career diplomat who moved to Israel in 1972 at the age of 12 from Vilnius. Speaks Russian perfectly. She already worked in Moscow, when in 1995-1997 she held the post of minister plenipotentiary, in fact the deputy ambassador of Israel to Russia.

The Moscow Art Theater begins a television festival and welcomes guest performers “We have something to surprise,” said Oleg Tabakov at yesterday’s press conference dedicated to the television festival of performances of the Art Theater.

Kristall will not become part of ALROSA Smolensk Kristall will remain in state ownership and will not become part of ALROSA as a state contribution for increasing its share in the holding to a controlling one. The head of the Smolensk enterprise, Maxim Shkadov, announced this yesterday.

Yaroslavl governor ran for a fifth term On Thursday, the Yaroslavl Regional Duma approved Anatoly Lisitsyn as regional governor for another term. Mr. Lisitsyn is one of the main regional political centenarians. He has ruled the region since 1991, when he was appointed head of the regional administration by Boris Yeltsin, then elected three times by popular vote, and now reappointed to his place by the President of Russia.

Alcohol market operators believe that the wrong people were punished for the crisis The government yesterday published a list of persons with whose connivance a large-scale crisis allegedly broke out in the alcohol industry. Responsible for resolving the crisis situation in the alcohol market, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov kept his word given to the head of government Mikhail Fradkov, and within three days he decided on the culprits of the crisis.

The Vitoria club upset Ivkovic's team again The capital's "Dynamo", under the leadership of the Serbian coach Dusan Ivkovic, suffered a crushing defeat on the road in the Basque city of Vitoria from the local "Tau" in the second round of the ULEB Euroleague - 61:77. More than ten thousand spectators watched their team's triumph. This is not the first time that a rival from the north of Spain has upset Ivkovic’s team.

In the match with CSKA, the Gunners' aim was lost Having survived against Arsenal in London, CSKA moved half a step closer to the Champions League playoffs. Fighting back the entire game, the army team managed to keep their goal intact - 0:0. This is CSKA's fourth clean sheet in a row in the group stage of this tournament. Local residents will remember the current visit to London of CSKA and its fans for a long time. It all started in the air.

The government does not interfere or help small entrepreneurs Small business in Russia is still an economic outsider. The government's good intentions to develop small businesses run into corruption among local officials and inaccessible infrastructure. It is these reasons for outsidership that are named among the main problems in the survey “Conditions and factors for the development of small businesses in the regions,” conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion.

Cheap gasoline helped American automakers American car companies almost simultaneously announced strong sales in October. In total, 1.2 million cars were sold on the domestic market last month, which is 6.1% more than in October 2005. SUVs and pickups were especially in demand, sales of which increased by 33.2%. The world's largest automaker, General Motors, became the sales leader.

Today, November 3, a personal exhibition of the Honored Artist of Russia Yuri Grigoryan opens at the Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka. The artist was born sixty years ago in a Nagorno-Karabakh village. Since the age of 18, Grigoryan has lived in Moscow, but does not change his pictorial theme: Armenia - its nature, people, light and color. Having a workshop on Prechistenka, Grigoryan was never inspired by Moscow courtyards and the “Arbatism” dissolved in the blood of Muscovites.

Rospotrebnadzor decided to clear Moscow shelves of canned goods from Latvia Latvian sprats have officially found themselves “under a guard” in Russia: yesterday, Rospotrebnadzor, with a sense of accomplishment, stated that entire batches of canned food that did not meet domestic sanitary standards were found on the shelves of the capital’s stores.

Kyrgyz people are waiting for changes and refuse to feed the president “They say that people make no mistakes. Wrong, he’s mistaken,” these words were heard yesterday at a rally of the Kyrgyz opposition in the very center of Bishkek. One of the opposition deputies, Muratbek Mukashev, spoke. “It was the Kyrgyz people who made a mistake, giving more than 90% of the votes in the presidential elections to Kurmanbek Bakiyev in 2005,” said the deputy.

The European territory of Russia is getting used to winter. In the next 24 hours, the onset of cold weather in the central regions of European Russia will continue. Today, most of the European territory of Russia will be at the mercy of cyclones. Precipitation of varying intensity will occur almost everywhere. In the Central region there is snow, heavy in places, daytime temperatures are -1...-6°C.

Gazprom offered Georgia to buy gas at $230 The Cold War between Moscow and Tbilisi has finally received the long-awaited gas story. Georgia may become the first former Soviet republic to receive Russian gas at a price identical to its cost for non-CIS countries. Gazprom officially offered Georgian importers of Russian blue fuel to buy it in 2007 at $230 per thousand cubic meters.