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.

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.

Rosbank intends to issue securities for mortgage loans Securitization of mortgages looks set to become a very common way for Russian banks to obtain cheap financing. Following VTB, City Mortgage Bank and Gazprombank, Rosbank is going to issue securities backed by mortgage loans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

China to double trade with India Negotiations began yesterday in Delhi between Chinese President Hu Jintao, who arrived in India on an official visit, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The main topic for discussion was trade and economic ties. By the end of 2006, the volume of Indian-Chinese trade will reach $20 billion, and by 2010 it will double to $40 billion. Hu Jintao's current trip was the first visit of the head of the People's Republic of China to India in the last ten years.

The next match of the Russian national team initially seemed not the most difficult in the tournament. Our opponent in the fourth round of the first group stage was the Kazakhstan national team, which our guys beat without any problems - 3:0 (25:0, 25:0, 25:0). The coach of the Kazakh team, Vladimir KONDRA, had no illusions about the outcome of the match either. , perfectly representing the strength of the Russian national team dear to him.

Forecast for the coming days In most of European Russia, due to the efforts of Atlantic cyclones, the weather is very warm. In the center of Russia and the north-west, the average daily temperature is 3-4 degrees higher than usual for these days in November. From St. Petersburg to Rostov, the air temperature practically does not change and remains at low but positive values ​​during the day. Due to cloudiness, the diurnal variation in temperature is also weakly expressed.

The city authorities will reserve the priority right of Muscovites to purchase housing The phrase “indigenous people” literally expands its semantic meaning before our eyes. If earlier this expression was not much different in meaning from the word “aboriginal”, today, thanks to the efforts of the executive branch, it means not just the original inhabitants of any Russian area, but also people who must have an advantage over visitors.

Yesterday, unknown persons shot with machine guns the motorcade of the Minister of Industry and member of the Lebanese Parliament from the Lebanese Phalanx party, 34-year-old Pierre Gemayel. The assassination of the politician took place in the Christian quarter of Beirut in the constituency of Gemayel, who was the youngest parliamentarian in the country.

World premiere of the opera “Tentagil” on the stage of Helikon Opera Moscow is gradually forgetting what a sincere, discouraging and disarming statement by a modern Russian composer is: just remember the recent “Territory” festival, where the new opuses of compatriots were convinced as well-built constructs, but were limited to that.