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.

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.

FOOTBALL. November 4--5. Champions League. Group stage. 4th round. November 6. UEFA Cup. Group stage. 2nd round. Russian Championship. Premier League. Matches of the 27th round. November 3. “Wings of the Soviets” - “Shinnik”, “Lokomotiv” - “Dynamo”. 28th round. November 7. "Khimki" - "Tom". November 8. "Shinnik" - "Saturn", "Wings of the Soviets" - "Spartak-Nalchik". 9 November I. "Spartak" M - "Lokomotiv", "Amkar" - "Zenith", "Dynamo" - "Luch-Energia", "Rubin" - "Terek".

In the northwestern region there are occasional rains, daytime temperatures are +4...+9оС. In the next 24 hours, the central regions of European Russia will be crossed by a front moving from west to east. At night there will be light and moderate rain in places, in the north-east of the central regions there will be rain everywhere. On November 2, in the northwestern region there will be light precipitation in places, +2...+7оС during the day.

CLUBS Garik Sukachev and “The Untouchables”. CDC MAI , November 1 and 2, 20.00. "The King and the Jester." 1 Rock , November 1, 20.00. "Spleen". “B1 Maximum” , November 1, 20.30. "Dolphin". “Concert” , November 1, 21.30. "Kalinov Bridge". "B2" , November 1, 23.00. Stekpanna (England - Denmark - Sweden). Jazz. CC "Dom" , November 2, 20.00. "OM". Ikra , November 2, 21.00. John Lee Hooker Jr., Watermelon Slim, Eddie Bo (USA). Blues. “B1 Maximum” , November 2 and 3, 19.00.

But John McCain still has a chance There are still a few days left until November 4, the official date of the presidential election in America, but more than 16 million citizens have already voted in the 30 states that allow early voting . This is a record in US political history. Among the leaders are Florida (2.5 million early voters), Texas (2 million) and Georgia (about 1.5 million). Experts predict that up to a third of registered voters may vote early in the remaining days.

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.

The movement of Mikhail Kasyanov joined the ranks of European liberal democrats The Russian People's Democratic Union movement, led by former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov , was accepted into the ranks of the European Party of Liberal Democrats and Reformers on Thursday in Stockholm, where Vladimir Ulyanov developed opposition activities at the beginning of the last century before becoming Lenin ( ELDR) as a full member.

Vladimir Putin demands that government money go to the Russian economy Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as promised the day before, convened a meeting on economic issues in Novo-Ogarevo yesterday. The goal was to adopt a comprehensive plan to support the real sector - so that the money that the state has been actively giving to banks in recent weeks does not go abroad and is not invested in the dollar, but goes to lending to the domestic economy .