Europe is struggling with the crisis and discussing dialogue with Russia Leaders of the 27 European Union member countries will gather tonight for a summit in Brussels. They will have to decide whether the time has come to unfreeze negotiations with Russia on a new basic agreement . The answer to the question depends on the summit participants’ assessment of Moscow’s fulfillment of its obligations under the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan to resolve the situation in the Caucasus.

Akhalgori and Kodori returned home The focus of today's negotiations in Switzerland will be the situation in the Kodori Gorge of Abkhazia and the Akhalgori region of South Ossetia. Tbilisi insists that Russian peacekeepers leave both areas, since they were not there before the August conflict.

Russia and Finland will challenge the title of the most developing team in Europe The Russian national team will end the most successful year in its history with today's qualifying match against the Finnish national team. The year, which began with a defeat in a friendly match from Romania, continued with an initial major defeat at Euro 2008 from Spain, was crowned with bronze at the same European Championship and ends with an offensive defeat on Saturday from Germany.

An official from North Ossetia will become the Prime Minister of South Ossetia The head of the tax service of North Ossetia, Aslanbek Bulatsev, literally in the next few hours may become the new prime minister of South Ossetia, whose independence Russia recognized on August 26, 2008. Mr. Bulatsev's candidacy was proposed at a meeting with deputies of the South Ossetian parliament by the president of this republic, Eduard Kokoity.

The fight for tickets to the final tournaments of the season is ending Three incomplete weeks of play remain before the start of the final tournaments of the season for the big racket masters - the men's Masters Cup (November 9-16) in Shanghai, China and the women's WTA Championship in the capital of Qatar, Doha (November 4-9). Therefore, the fight for the remaining tickets to these prestigious competitions with a substantial prize fund is in full swing.

The fight against drugs in Russia was not as successful as the authorities thought The policy of the Russian authorities in the field of combating drugs, which have long been recognized as one of the threats to national security , seems to be again being seriously revised.

Obama and McCain will talk about the economy When Thursday arrives in Moscow, the third and final debate between US presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama will take place at Hofstra University in the New York suburb of Hampstead. The “second” of the discussion, which will focus on the economic situation of the country, will be CBS columnist Bob Schieffer, who assisted George W. Bush and John Kerry in the same debate in 2004.

The US administration began buying up bank shares US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's plan to allocate $700 billion to save the American financial system has finally begun to be implemented. Yesterday it became known which preferred shares of which banks the state will buy first, spending $250 billion on this. Half of this amount will go to support nine US banks, including such giants as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group , JP Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp.

Finservice and Sobinbank significantly reduced credit limits on plastic cards Finservice Bank has reduced credit limits on payment cards with overdraft. The situation is similar in Sobinbank, which owns 49% of the shares of Finservice (another 25% of the bank’s shares belong to the Seventh Continent retail chain). Both financial institutions explain this decision by changing their risk management policies.

If prices in Russia fall, then together with the income of the population The government is ready to once again revise the inflation forecast for 2008 - by how much will become known by the end of October, when its growth, as the Ministry of Economic Development expects, will directly approach the upper threshold of the current forecast. Inflation, according to the Ministry of Economic Development, according to the results of ten months, may reach 11.7%, with a forecast of 11.8%.

Budapest hopes this can be avoided Before the participants of the annual meeting of the boards of governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank had left Washington, the head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (pictured), heeded calls to more actively help countries in need to overcome the global financial crisis.

Former Supertramp leader Roger Hodson performed at the House of Music A cheerful “rolling” rhythm, beautiful songs with simple but vital melodies. Songs with "tricks" - unexpected harmonic irregularities, "crooked" chords... There are only two musicians on stage, who clearly enjoy what is happening.

City officials did not divide the monument buildings The behind-the-scenes disagreements between officials in Yuri Luzhkov’s team, apparently, are already developing into a public confrontation. Yesterday, at a regular meeting of the Moscow government, the head of the capital's cultural heritage committee, Valery Shevchuk, began an open struggle with the complex of land and property relations, proposing to change the principles of management of historical objects and architectural monuments. Mr.

PM Brown has a crisis recovery plan British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has inspired the stock markets of the Old and New Worlds these days with his large-scale plan to save the country's financial system . After its announcement on Monday, stock exchanges rushed up and closed at unheard-of high levels for these times.

Some regions again did not have time to prepare for winter Traditionally, winter comes unexpectedly to Russia. Kamchatka, Buryatia, Magadan, Ivanovo and Volgograd regions are the worst prepared for the heating season. Representatives of the Ministry of Regional Development announced this yesterday at a press conference. High-risk regions, according to the department, also include the Moscow, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Tyumen, Sakhalin regions, Primorye and Krasnodar Territory.