The President recommended the security forces to separate power from money President Putin held an All-Russian coordination meeting of heads of law enforcement agencies yesterday in the Kremlin. The authorities themselves had been waiting for this event for a long time and intensely. In principle, such coordination meetings are traditionally held every year, but for a long time Putin himself did not deign to give them his personal attention.

A single defeat could leave CSKA without the Champions League The Moscow army team, who recently celebrated winning gold medals in the Russian championship, suffered their first defeat in the 2006/07 Champions League. CSKA, having lost to its main competitor in the fight to get out of the group, Porto, 0:2, has made its task more difficult for itself: now, in order to get into the playoffs, Gazzaev’s team needs to win the last away match against Hamburg.

Watch from November 23 on Moscow screens “Savages” (Russia, 2006, Viktor Shamirov). A tragicomedy about the morals of the inhabitants of a tent city in the vicinity of the Crimean wild beaches - fans of free love, supporters of unbridled libations and true professionals of cultural recreation.

CNPC is trying to create a joint venture with the small company Yuzhuralneft Chinese CNPC is eager to gain a foothold in Russia. As Interfax reported yesterday, the Russian subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned company Sinopetro has agreed to create a joint venture for oil production with the Yuzhuralneft company, registered in the Orenburg region. The base of the new Russian-Chinese company will be the assets of Yuzhuralneft, and CNPC will act as an investor.

The State Duma will give residents of apartment buildings additional time to find management companies Neither Russians nor the executive branch are ready to transfer public utilities and management of residential buildings into private hands. This obvious thesis should be confirmed today by the State Duma, having immediately considered two alternative bills that would extend the period for residents of apartment buildings to choose their management companies.

The Ural authorities will try to use the United Russia congress for lobbying purposes Two weeks before the VII Congress of United Russia, the Sverdlovsk branch of the party in power turned into the headquarters for holding this event. Back in the spring, the leadership of the ruling party determined that the congress would be held in Yekaterinburg on December 2, but now is the hottest moment - we need to think about where to accommodate the guests and what to feed them.

Europe is looking for a new generation of leaders Yesterday a trial began in Milan, one of the accused in which is former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The oligarch politician is once again accused of tax evasion and money laundering. Over the past five years, Berlusconi has been the most prominent figure in European politics.

The Mussorgsky Theater presented their version of Glazunov's work Why do a self-respecting ballet company with zealous management stage Petipa's ballets? It's right to take them to Japan and Korea. Why put “Raymonda” in such a company? Absolutely right, because all of Marius Ivanovich’s other more compelling opuses have already been brought to Japan, and more than once. This is exactly how things are at the St. Petersburg Opera and Ballet Theater named after Mussorgsky.

The market is expecting a shortage of precious metals Platinum prices yesterday on world exchanges, including the main one in London, reached a record high and during trading exceeded the historical maximum - $1.4 thousand per troy ounce. The main reason for such rapid growth (within one trading day, platinum rose in price by 12%) most experts cite the market's reaction to information about the upcoming launch of a specialized fund for trading platinum - Exchange Trades Funds (ETF).

CLUBS Hiram Bullock (guitar, vocals), Frank Gravis (bass), Jeremy Gaddie (drums). The second concert of the Moscow tour of the trio of the famous jazz-funk guitarist. Bullock is one of the best session guitarists, having played with almost all the major jazzmen of the last quarter century, and is also an excellent solo musician, with 11 funk albums to his credit. The trio's opening act will be American pianist Larry Willis . From November 21 at Le Club , 20.30.

Arrested leaders of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund have been charged The Prosecutor General's Office, as Vremya Novostei learned, yesterday brought formal charges against the general director of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (FFOMS) Andrei Taranov and his deputy Dmitry Usenko, who were arrested last week. They are charged with “abuse of official powers” ​​and “receiving a large bribe” (Articles 285 and 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Vladimir Zhirinovsky changes his party environment before the Duma elections In the Duma faction of the LDPR - the only Russian party that was represented in all compositions of the State Duma - personnel turnover began. Before the first deputy leader of the faction, Yegor Solomatin , had time to announce his resignation, rumors began to spread that two more deputies would leave the ranks of the parliamentary liberal democrats - Sergei Abeltsev and Maxim Rokhmistrov.

Detectives are again looking for witnesses to the murder of Dmitry Fotyanov Dalnegorsk police announced a reward of 100 thousand rubles. for information about the killers of Dmitry Fotyanov, an ex-candidate for mayor of this small seaside town, who was shot by unknown assailants on October 19 at the entrance to his public reception room. This became clear during a total search of city residents’ apartments that detectives began the other day.

At the beginning of next week, a CIS summit will take place in Minsk, and at the same time a NATO summit will be held in Riga. These summits will be important milestones in determining the future course of Georgia's foreign policy and its relations with Russia.

Yesterday, the European Union submitted proposals to the Belarusian government to expand economic relations in exchange for democratic changes in the country. The head of the European Commission, Ian Boag, at a press conference in Minsk found it difficult to name the amount that Belarus could receive if the EU proposals were implemented. He only said that we are talking about expanding the supply of textiles to Europe, cooperation in the field of energy and a number of other projects.