Well, we finally exchanged presidents. It is known that TV academician Dibrov at that very cherished meeting said the sacramental phrase: “We, of course, respect Posner, but we need to vote for Shvydkoy. And quickly, otherwise my young wife is waiting for me at home.” Does this remind you of anything? Well of course! In Ryazanov’s film comedy “Garage,” Brondukov’s character says almost the same thing. This is how I can imagine how this meeting went.

Tel Aviv City Hall and the Israeli Tax Administration seized land belonging to the mission of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Holy Land - the Russian Spiritual Mission (RDM) . We are talking about the Monastery of St. Peter, which is located in the suburbs of Tel Aviv - the old city of Jaffa. According to a statement from municipal services, the arrest was imposed for non-payment of property taxes: RDM owed $3.2 million.

The court found the former managers of Neftyanoy Bank guilty In the Tagansky District Court of Moscow yesterday, the announcement of the verdict began in the case of former managers of the Neftyanoy Bank - one of the divisions of the concern of the same name, in which former Deputy Prime Minister and former head of the Union of Right Forces Boris Nemtsov once worked.

Arsenal and Tottenham added a bright page to the history of their derby Russian national team forward Roman Pavlyuchenko took part in the oldest football confrontation - the North London derby, in which Arsenal and Tottenham have been sorting things out for more than a century. The last match, in which a draw was recorded - 4:4, should decorate the already rich history of relations between the London teams.

Vladimir Putin is not going to withdraw his rubles from Sberbank and VTB The global financial crisis has not spared the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Yesterday's council of heads of government of the organization in Astana was clearly held under the motto “We will not surrender to the crisis!” The tone of the discussion was set by the ideological inspirer of the SCO, Premier of the State Council of China Wen Jiabao. "China is closely monitoring the crisis," he said.

Issuance of plastic driver's licenses has resumed in the capital Moscow motorists will get back their now familiar “rights” in the form of a small plastic card - the so-called driver’s license sample No. 2. The fact that the registration and examination divisions of the capital's traffic police are resuming registration after a month and a half pause was announced yesterday by the head of the traffic police department of the Moscow City Police Department, Sergei Kazantsev.

SPS has changed its mind about liquidation until the end The Union of Right Forces party announced that it was going to create a movement based on itself. Such a movement would become an insurance policy for party members in case the pro-Kremlin project of a united democratic party fails. As you know, the Union of Right Forces accepted the Kremlin’s proposal to join a single structure along with the “Civil Force” of Mikhail Barshchevsky and the Democratic Party of Russia of Andrei Bogdanov.

Trade unions prepare for escalation of labor disputes At the first plenary meeting of the Public Chamber (PC) after the holidays, it is planned to discuss something very relevant today: we will talk about “problem points” in relations between employees and employers.

Members of the new Kaliningrad Public Chamber want to be closer to the governor After much ordeal, the Kaliningrad region finally found a new Public Chamber (it was expected that this would be done back in January). At the beginning of this week, its first meeting took place, which demonstrated the touching unity of officials and “social activists.” This made it clear to Kaliningraders what role this institution of civil society plays in the life of the region.

Dmitry Medvedev replaced the President of Ingushetia President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov announced yesterday his early resignation. Yunus-Bek Evkurov, deputy commander of the Volga-Ural Military District, was appointed acting. Mr. Evkurov, like Murat Zyazikov, has the title of Hero of Russia, however, unlike the latter, he worked not in the state security agencies, but in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff. In 1999, Mr.

The fifteenth anniversary of the NTV channel was, perhaps, the main event of October (not counting the presentation of a two-month-old Ussuri tiger cub, presented to Prime Minister Putin on his own birthday, which received wide coverage from all television channels in the country). The story about President Medvedev’s congratulations to the head of NTV Kulistikov was filmed in a staging that was innovative for protocol stories.

“Quantum of Solace” was shown in the capital Yesterday in Moscow, which is ahead of the rest, the premiere of the new, 22nd Bond film, Quantum of Solace, took place. In London, the world premiere of Bond 22 was shown only a day earlier, but the film was immediately released there, but here we will have to wait until November 6. So viewers have a chance to prepare. First of all, you need to watch the previous film, “Casino Royale,” where Daniel Craig first appeared as Bond.

In October, the Rossiya channel especially distinguished itself by launching the on-air stage of its grandiose project “Name of Russia”, as well as the show “Star Ice” with host Maxim Galkin. Where such forces and opportunities were pulled together - co-host Evgeni Plushenko, commentator Dmitry Guberniev, Russian and Western figure skating champions were invited to partner with the “stars” - that the show could not help but turn out superb.

Our clubs have no problems in the European arena Both Russian hockey clubs, despite internal problems on a local scale, continue to triumphantly perform in the Champions League, which is being held under new regulations this season. Magnitogorsk "Metallurg" left no chance for the German team "Eisbären" - 5:2, and Ufa "Salavat Yulaev" secured first place in the group, beating the Slovakian "Slovan" - 4:2.

Employers will be forced to respect donors The new Russian blood service, which the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) is now trying to create to replace the scattered remnants of the Soviet one, will be completely computerized, which will avoid fatal errors during transfusions. “This will reduce the human factor to almost zero,” noted yesterday the head of the FMBA, Vladimir Uiba, during a teleconference with regional healthcare leaders. According to Mr.