The stormy cyclones took a time out for a while. An anticyclone is gathering strength over European territory. Thanks to it, the weather without precipitation will prevail. In the center the weather promises to be warm, without frost at night, around +10°C during the day. However, the anticyclone will have very high pressure, for example in Moscow 761-762 mm Hg, which is more than 10 mm higher than normal.

Young Russian chess player became European champion The European Children's Open Championship ended in Batumi, in which 8-year-old Muscovite Nikita Ayvazyan won - 8 points out of 9 possible. 53 young chess players from nine countries took part in the tournament, which was held for the first time. Nikita Ayvazyan was the only representative of Russia. The championship was not without a scandal, started quite maturely by the Azerbaijani delegation.

MOVIE “Election Day” (Russia, 2007). Directed by Oleg Fomin. Starring Vasily Utkin, Mikhail Kozyrev, Leonid Barats, Rostislav Khait, Kamil Larin, Alexander Demidov, Nonna Grishaeva, Alexey Kortnev, Evgeny Steblov and others. The staff of one of the country's highest-rated radio stations receives a task from the mysterious oligarch, the powerful Emmanuel Gedeonovich.

A biennale of poets is taking place in Moscow The Biennale of Poets is being held in Moscow for the fifth time, and this year the task of the forum was to gather different - both domestic and foreign - poetry festivals in one city, to organize a festival of festivals. Thus, from October 20 to 27, all lovers of fine literature can hear live and see with their own eyes various representatives of poetry, although not world wide, but still quite vast in territory and diverse in creative methods.

And they invited me to visit the construction site Two significant events that are directly related to Russian-Afghan relations , but are in no way connected with each other, occurred the other day in Moscow. On October 21, a representative office in Russia of the National Front of Afghanistan (NFA) was established. And yesterday, at the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), the Afghan Investment Agency presented promising projects of economic cooperation with Russia.

The Russian airline has slowed down unification projects The extensive plans to take over airlines abroad and in Russia, which Aeroflot has been building for this year , are facing various difficulties. They are forcing the country's largest carrier to exercise restraint in publicly commenting on its future steps in this direction.

Before the New Year, the Ministry of Emergency Situations plans to launch a new structure - the National Crisis Management Center (NCMC), which will operate as part of the Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations. According to experts, this center, thanks to its capabilities and technical equipment, will radically change the current state of affairs in matters of preventing crisis situations.

The Poles saved their honor in the elections The parliamentary elections in Poland on Sunday resulted in the defeat of the ruling Kaczynski brothers' Law and Justice (PiS) party. The CEC will announce the official election results today, but preliminary results became known by yesterday evening. They confirmed the victory of the liberal Civic Platform (CP) - 41.39%. The conservative PiS has 32.16%.

The Italian Championship is in crisis The consequences of Mojigate, a corruption scandal, are still affecting Italian football. More precisely, in the playing class of Serie A clubs. Last season, many ordinary spectators turned away from the Italian Championship. Fans of specific clubs, specialists and Serie A fans - all of them, of course, watched the league. Even the lack of intrigue - Inter's championship was predetermined in the middle of the season - did not affect their interest.

The government is not interested in tax amnesty There are just over two months left before the end of the tax amnesty , and the carelessness of the government, which does not want to popularize this idea, and the confusing explanations of officials of the Ministry of Finance, published on the official website of the department, may completely nullify the liquid flow of voluntary declarants .

Manual for teachers “Modern history of Russia 1945-2006.” Alexandra Filippov, which represents a set of ideological guidelines for the authors of school textbooks, aroused natural interest in the professional environment. Perhaps, for the first time since the appearance of the new Russian state on the political map of the world, the public has been recommended the correct approach to modern history. Why is such a role assigned to this particular manual?

A new version of Tutankhamun's death should ensure the success of the London exhibition of Egyptian antiquities The pharaoh of the 19th dynasty, Tutankhamun, lived a little over 18 years, but for almost a century he continues to be a winning advertising symbol of Egyptian antiquities. It is not surprising that the next exhibition of relics taken from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor to London is named after him.

Yulia Tymoshenko's associates want to provoke a new gas war with Russia Immediately after the formation of the new government of Ukraine, the prime minister, who should become Yulia Tymoshenko, will have to urgently resolve gas issues . According to Vremya Novostei, all Gazprom specialists who are in one way or another related to Russian-Ukrainian cooperation have already received an informal order not to plan to leave Moscow for the New Year holidays.

The fate of the state alcohol control system will have to be decided by the new president and government The crisis in the alcohol market is postponed indefinitely. Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov signed two resolutions yesterday that radically change the rules of control on the alcohol market. From November 1 of this year to November 1, 2008, the introduction of the Unified State Automated Information System for Alcohol Accounting (USAIS) into automatic mode has been postponed.

Private banks took responsibility for the crisis The largest private financial institutions, recognizing that responsibility for the crisis lies with them, decided to restore order in the markets themselves . On Sunday, the Washington-based Institute of International Finance (IIF) announced an action plan to overcome the crisis. IMF is an analytical center whose shareholders are more than 375 private financial institutions.