In St. Petersburg, in the Znamenka estate, next to Peterhof, the All-Russian scientific and practical conference of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (VOOPIK) is being held.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addressed a message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation at noon today. This is the first message to parliamentarians from the new President of Russia. This year, for the first time, the announcement of the President's message took place in the largest and most solemn hall of the Kremlin Palace - Georgievsky.

LUKOIL continues to purchase foreign assets Despite the outbreak of the financial crisis and rapidly falling oil prices, LUKOIL does not refuse to purchase foreign assets . True, the company has to adjust the terms of transactions. Yesterday it was announced that LUKOIL agreed with the world's largest banks to obtain a loan for the purchase of the Turkish network of Akpet gas stations.

The International University hosted a presentation of Nikolai Krotov’s books “The History of Soviet Banking Reform of the 80s of the 20th Century.” The first volume is called “First Commercial Banks”, the second - “Special Banks”. The publication was carried out with the support of Viking Bank, FC Uralsib, Agrokhimbank, People's Trust Bank and Rosselkhozbank. These books are part of the “Economic Chronicle of Russia” series, and Mr.

The rush to buy shares has stopped on the Russian market After a three-day rally on the Russian stock market, yesterday investors decided to take a break and bought shares without the same enthusiasm. Yesterday the RTS index rose by almost 2%, to 773.97 points, the MICEX index - by 0.63%, to 713.96 points.

Bailiffs predict an increase in the number of debtors and demand expanded powers The financial crisis will add more work to the Federal Bailiff Service, the head of this department, Nikolai Vinnichenko, is sure of this. “Due to the difficult situation in the financial sector, we expect next year a significant increase in criminal cases in connection with malicious evasion of the return of accounts payable,” predicted the chief bailiff of Russia, speaking at a press conference on Friday.

Alexander Bulbov was finally charged Yesterday, the Investigative Committee brought final charges against the head of the FSKN operational support department, Lieutenant General Alexander Bulbov . Investigators counted 35 episodes of criminal activity in his biography, in particular illegal wiretapping of telephone conversations and receiving a bribe of $3.2 million.

The country's leading lawyers discuss the terminological conflict between the two codes Contrary to expectations, on the first day of the scientific and practical conference “Civil and Tax Law: Conflict of Legal Understandings,” which takes place in the building of the Faculty of Law of St.

NBA stars will play at the football stadium Basketball. NBA. Regular season . Cleveland - Charlotte - 96:79, Dallas - Houston - 102:112, Phoenix - New Orleans - 95:108. The 2010 NBA All-Star Game will take place at the new stadium of the Dallas Cowboys. On February 14, the teams of the West and the East will meet on a site arranged right in the middle of the football field. The arena seats about 100,000 spectators, and if filled, it will set a new All-Star Game attendance record.

For the first time in Russian history, the match could not be completed It’s even a little pity for the Continental Hockey League. In the last month, they had to deal with the death of the young star Alexei Cherepanov, count the defeat to Chekhov’s Vityaz, and deal with clubs that traditionally cheat with budgets. And there were many more minor cases, like the scandalous interview of Maxim Sushinsky or the appearance on the ice during warm-ups of an undeclared Lokomotiv hockey player.

The Czech opposition is amassing strength to fight the missile defense system and Prime Minister Topolanek The day after tomorrow, the day before the presidential elections in the United States, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will arrive in the Czech Republic. He will meet with President Vaclav Klaus, Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and Defense Minister Vlasta Parkanova.

The Central Election Commission is ready to introduce online voting, despite the doubts of experts Disputes about the introduction of Internet voting into domestic electoral practice are taking place both within the walls of the Central Election Commission and beyond. At yesterday's meeting, the Central Election Commission approved a resolution on the results of an experiment on electronic polling of voters held on October 12, 2008 in the city of Novomoskovsk, Tula Region.

The Russian Museum opened the exhibition “Neoclassicism in Russia. 1909--1932" The exhibition, prepared by curators Vladimir Lenyashin and Vladimir Kruglov, is a continuation of the work of the museum, which has long made a name for itself by organizing large-scale exhibitions in large areas - impressionism, symbolism, futurism. The main question that the viewer should ask himself is: how did neoclassicism coexist with the avant-garde?

On November 5, the exhibition “Homo Legends: Reading Man” opens at the Tretyakov Gallery, dedicated to the anniversary of the Moscow bookstore. Vremya Novostei correspondent Sofya SAPOZHNIKOVA met with store director Marina KAMENEVA . -- Marina Nilovna, tell us about your joint project with the Tretyakov Gallery. -- The store turns fifty years old on November 5th. On this day, the exhibition “Homo Legends: Reading Man” will open. It will last a month.

Deputies allowed the Cabinet of Ministers to change the 2009-2011 budget without agreement with the Duma The State Duma considered the budget for 2009-2011 on Friday in the third and final reading . Despite the economic situation, no emergency redistribution of money between items occurred; a surplus for next year is still planned at almost 2 billion rubles.