The International Monetary Fund believes that the high rate of economic growth achieved by the former Soviet republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia will continue. This is stated in the IMF report “Economic Development Prospects for the Middle East and Central Asia”, the main conclusions of which were presented yesterday by David Owen, Senior Advisor to the Middle East and Central Asia Department.

The Moscow government has approved a three-year metro development program It seems that the mayor of the richest city in the country, one of the leaders of United Russia, Yuri Luzhkov, even on the eve of the elections, does not have to count on material support from his federal party colleagues.

Andrey Kazmin about the rules of the game at Sberbank, at the post office and in rugby The Federal Communications Agency (Rossvyaz) yesterday announced a competition to fill the position of head of Russian Post, which will take place on December 7. Although the acceptance of applications will begin only on November 12, the result of this event has been known for a long time. A month ago, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov proposed the candidacy of Sberbank President Andrei Kazmin for this place .

A new Champions League record has been set The forwards of the teams playing in the Champions League have finally declared their claims to the title of top scorer of the tournament. On Tuesday, five doubles were recorded at once.

Kissinger will celebrate 200 years in Moscow Tonight, a special session of the international academic conference “200 Years of American-Russian Relations” will be held at the residence of the US Ambassador in Moscow, Spaso House. According to Vremya Novostei, the scientific discussion will revolve around the report of Dr. Henry Kissinger, the US Secretary of State during the era of US Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

“Big Change” reached the gala concert Having reached the halfway point, the first Moscow international theater festival for children “Big Change” broke out with a gala performance at the New Opera.

Experts doubt the effectiveness of price taming Yesterday, Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexey Gordeev publicly shared optimistic news. According to him, the rate of growth in food prices, which in recent months has seriously frightened both the authorities and the majority of Russians, has finally slowed down. “Food prices have stabilized in recent weeks. They correspond to the rate of inflation growth in the country,” the head of the Ministry of Agriculture emphasized.

Russia is trying to conquer the new Asian arms market Yesterday, the Asian exhibition and conference on defense technologies Defense&Security 2007 began in the capital of the Kingdom of Thailand, Bangkok. It dates back to 1985, traditionally gathering leading manufacturers and customers of weapons and military equipment of the ground forces, navy, aviation and air defense systems. However, for the first time, the word Securiti was added to the title of the exhibition.

Mikheil Saakashvili responded to the opposition with batons and gas The Georgian authorities put an end to their peaceful attitude towards opposition protests by harshly suppressing rallies of thousands in Tbilisi using tear gas, water cannons and batons. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who made a televised address, accused Moscow of destabilizing the situation in Georgia. And in the evening, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli announced a state of emergency in Tbilisi.

Krasnoyarsk police joined the party campaign The Union of Right Forces has become a victim of the authorities’ uncompromising struggle for clean elections : in several regions of the country, copies of the party’s propaganda materials have been seized. The Central Election Commission left the right-wing complaint related to this unsatisfied yesterday. As CEC member Maya Grishina reported, the distribution of SSP propaganda newspapers called “Problem No. 1” began in Krasnoyarsk on October 24.

Among the participants in the communist demonstration, citizens with petty-bourgeois habits were seen The series of November marches continued in Russia . Communists, who boycotted the new national holiday, National Unity Day, over the weekend, yesterday celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of the October Revolution.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina deal with the “Russian idea” “Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality” - the famous formula invented by Sergius Uvarov, Minister of Public Education under Nicholas the First, almost never lost its relevance. Today, Uvarov’s formula (and the doctrine behind it) is simply at the peak of popularity. The exhibition of the honored masters of Moscow conceptualism, the married couple Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina, that opened in the XL Gallery is called “Russian Idea”.

Of the three Russians, only Sharapova started with a victory The final women's tennis tournament is taking place in Madrid, in which $3 million is up for grabs. Of the three Russians who took to the court on the first day, only Maria Sharapova managed to defeat her opponent from Slovakia, Daniela Hantuchova - 6:4, 7:5. Two other Russians, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Anna Chakvetadze, lost to their competitors.

The north-west of European Russia will be affected by the Atlantic cyclone, so there will be light snow in places. And in the central regions, due to the anticyclone, high atmospheric pressure, partly cloudy and no precipitation, temperatures from 0 to -5°C. On Friday in the central region there will be mostly no precipitation, 0...-5°C, in the west up to +1°C. In the Volga-Vyatka region there is almost no precipitation, but windy, -1...-7оС.

Indian doctors saved a girl from her “divine” deformity In an operation that lasted more than 24 hours, Indian neurosurgeons were able to separate conjoined twins born two years ago in the village of Archaria in the northern state of Bihar. More precisely, one viable girl was born, to whose body during intrauterine development the underdeveloped body of her sister was attached.