Zagreb will not receive the last Yugoslav defense minister Yesterday, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office refused to satisfy the request of the Croatian Ministry of Justice to extradite the former Minister of Defense of Yugoslavia, 82-year-old retired general Veljko Kadijevic. Zagreb accuses him of involvement in committing war crimes in 1991, when the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) fought on the territory of this republic after the declaration of independence of Croatia.

Pension portfolios continue to fall in price The profitability of pension savings portfolios is declining. As experts from Interfax - Center for Economic Analysis note, management companies in the first half of this year, like last year, were unable to beat inflation. For the first time in the entire period of the market’s existence, the average return on pension savings, including VEB’s portfolio, turned out to be negative.

Wojciech Jaruzelski will read more than two hundred pages in court Today, the Warsaw District Court intends to continue the trial of the initiators of martial law, which began on September 12, which was introduced in socialist Poland on December 13, 1981 and lasted more than a year and a half. The prosecutor of the Institute of National Remembrance (INR) presented the indictment and its rationale.

The Russians in Strasbourg retained their powers, but will lose the resolution The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), at yesterday's evening meeting in Strasbourg, held as part of the autumn session of this organization, confirmed the powers of the Russian delegation. These powers, including voting rights, have been questioned by a group of 24 European parliamentarians (PACE has a total of 318 permanent members, with the same number of deputies).

United Russia will be cheered up by pro-Kremlin competitors The contours of a new party system began to emerge on the Russian political horizon. Experts started talking about this immediately after it became known that the Kremlin was launching a new party project, initiating the unification of the “Union of Right Forces” with two Kremlin spoilers - the Democratic Party of Russia and “Civil Force”.

The government is ready to increase quotas for guest workers again The federal authorities and the Moscow government have publicly acknowledged the failures of state policy regarding migrant workers and are ready to revise quotas for attracting guest workers starting in 2009. Yesterday, officials at different levels of government, almost in unison, began adjusting the rules for the use of foreigners in the domestic labor market.

US seeks North Korea's agreement to inspections Today, in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Korean states, for the first time since the election of Lee Myung-bak, not very beloved by the northerners, as president of South Korea at the beginning of this year, negotiations on military issues will be held between representatives of Seoul and Pyongyang.

The Duma has limited the sale of alcohol in Russia The State Duma yesterday continued to fight alcohol , banning the sale of it at retail near schools and hospitals, as well as cultural organizations and sports facilities. The deputies considered the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages in children's, medical and educational institutions, already enshrined in the current legislation, insufficient. Now wine and vodka will be expelled from the territories adjacent to these organizations.

American opera "Rasputin" on the Russian stage At Dmitry Bertman's Helikon Opera theater on Novy Arbat, exactly twenty years after the American premiere, the New York Citi Opera staged the work of composer Jay Reese "Rasputin" - about Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and children, about Prince Felix Yusupov, who Rasputin, who killed, and also about the Khlysty, about Lenin, about the moral decay of the monarchy and the entire old world, and about the new world, about which, however, nothing is said in

Both Williams sisters will perform at the Moscow tournament The traditional 19th international tennis tournament, the Kremlin Cup, with a total prize fund of $2.438 million, starts in Moscow on Saturday. Most of this amount - $1.34 million - will be played by the participants in the women's competition, and 1.098 million by the men. The unequal prize money is explained by the different statuses of women's and men's competitions.

BATE takes points from Juventus The champion of Belarus, playing in the same group with the Russian Zenit and playing with the same opponents, scored his first points in the Champions League faster. BATE almost defeated Juventus. Leading by two goals during the match, the Belarusian team was unable to maintain its advantage, but the 2:2 draw became the main sensation of the Champions League game day. Group "N".

Train fares have risen twice as much as expected Russian Railways made themselves a gift for the fifth anniversary of their incorporation. Instead of increasing fares for reserved seat, general and seated carriages (so-called social transportation) from October 1 by 12%, as the state prescribed, the monopoly increased them by more than 23.5%. There was no information about such a significant increase either at the stations or on the official website of Russian Railways.

EU mission monitors Georgia Two hundred observers from 22 EU countries yesterday began patrolling the buffer zones adjacent to Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Russian military is still there, but within ten days they will have to give way to the Europeans. In the Abkhaz direction, European patrols will move out from their bases in the cities of Zugdidi and Poti, in the South Ossetian direction - from Gori and the town of Bazaleti, 40 kilometers north of Tbilisi.

In most areas of European Russia, the weather will remain at the mercy of a powerful Atlantic cyclone, which is moving through the north of the territory. In the northwestern regions, near the center of the cyclone, the rains will be more intense and prolonged on Thursday, and on Friday they will occur only in places. The daytime temperature during these days will not change and will be +13...+18оС.

Watch from October 2 on Moscow screens “Burn After Reading” (USA, 2008, Joel and Ethan Coen). A comedy about two fools who get their hands on a CD with the stunning memoirs of a CIA agent. Another excursion by the Coen brothers into the territory of pure comedy, where everyone is waving their arms and making funny faces. Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins and Logan Kulick. “Hooked” (USA, 2008, DJ Caruso).