Nizhny Novgorod lit up on the Day of Unity and Accord Nizhny Novgorod is probably the only city in Russia where people know why November 4 was chosen to celebrate the Day of National Unity and Accord: the militia that gathered here in 1612 has always been considered one of the central events of the city's history. Citizen Minin and Prince Pozharsky are a high symbol and trademark for Nizhny Novgorod residents.

14 years in power are behind us, 14 more are ahead Although the preliminary results of the presidential elections held yesterday in Tajikistan will be announced today, the name of the winner has long been known. This is the country's president, Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov, who has been in power in Tajikistan for exactly 14 years, since November 1992.

October 3 -- November 3, 2006 “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.

According to preliminary data, the leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), 60-year-old Daniel Ortega, won the presidential elections in Nicaragua on November 5. He appears to have secured the support of over 40% of those who voted. Ortega's rival, representative of the conservative Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance Eduardo Montealegre, scored just over 32%. If these data are confirmed, there will be no second round.

The investigation of another case of defrauding housing construction investors has been completed The Moscow prosecutor's office has transferred to court another criminal case regarding deception of co-investors in the construction of residential buildings. This time, the leaders of the capital's Investproekt LLC will be in the dock - general director Gennady Kutuzov, commercial director Konstantin Shurinov and cashier Elena Zhuravleva.

The bureaucracy is preparing a response to the European blackout Power outages in Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Croatia, and even Morocco, which occurred late on Saturday evening, according to various estimates, left between 5 and 10 million people without power and heat. In this regard, the President of the French energy company RTE, Andre Merlin, speaks of 10 million Europeans who were affected by failures in cross-border energy supply systems.

Last night, 81-year-old former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit died in a military hospital in Istanbul, having been unconscious for 172 days. In 1974, Ecevit, who led the Democratic Left Party, became the first left-wing prime minister in the country's history. For 40 years he remained a key figure in Turkish political life. In 1974, he ordered the entry of Turkish troops into Cyprus to protect the Turkish population of the island during a coup organized by Greek Cypriots.

Italians hope for heavenly protection in the struggle for surplus value The well-known Russian proverb “Trust in God, but don’t make a mistake yourself” in relation to Italy can be paraphrased: “Don’t make a mistake, but still trust in God.” To attract customers, the owners of one of the underground parking lots in Rome in the vicinity of the Vatican called their enterprise nothing less than “All Saints' Garage.” And these enterprising people are not alone in their country.

The Kyrgyz opposition went all-in The confrontation between the government and the opposition in Kyrgyzstan reached its climax yesterday. The presentation of the draft constitution to parliament on November 6, promised by President Bakiyev, was received with hostility by opposition deputies. The only concession to the reduction of his powers made by the president was to grant legislators the right to nominate a candidate for prime minister based on the results of parliamentary elections.

The US and Iran supported the verdict of Saddam Hussein The Baghdad trial of the Iraqi leaders, overthrown in the spring of 2003 thanks to a US military operation, was intended as a show trial. But it did not become an exemplary one - what is happening is too controversial and politicized, there is too much eastern chaos in the process itself, and the “achievements” of the United States and its new Iraqi allies in this defeated country are too deplorable.

This week, a draft interstate agreement with the participation of Russia, Bulgaria and Greece on the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline for transporting oil delivered from Novorossiysk to Europe may be published. Russia will receive 51% of the shares, and its Balkan partners - 49%. According to the declaration signed in Athens in September by the presidents of Russia and Bulgaria and the prime minister of Greece, such an agreement should be signed before the end of 2006.

MGTS reported the first results of work in conditions of free incoming calls The Moscow City Telephone Network summed up the preliminary results of its activities in accordance with the CPP (Calling Party Pays - the calling party pays) principle, which was legally introduced in our country on July 1 of this year. The company's management believes that the transition to the new operating mode was successful. But subscribers clearly have insufficient grounds for such a conclusion.

Europe wants a living Saddam. Washington agrees to the dead Sentenced to death, Saddam Hussein may have been somewhat offended by the way prominent international newsmakers reacted to the Iraqi court's harsh verdict. The fact is that the fate of the ex-dictator worried few people.

Acceptance tests of the “Justice” system have begun On October 31, 2006, under the joint chairmanship of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Levin and the Chairman of the Council of Judges of the Russian Federation, Supreme Court Judge Yuri Sidorenko, the commission for the acceptance of the state automated system (GAS) “Justice” began work.

In Medvedkovo you can buy good books for little money Unlike the 90s, a book boom can now be considered in Russia. There are more and more bookstores, books are in the public domain, the choice is huge - there are books for every taste: different in quality, in orientation towards the reader, in price. This seems to be good. However, as it turned out, there are also problems: the reader simply does not have the opportunity to keep track of everything that comes out.