The small and little-known Volgograd publishing house Printerra committed a terrible offense against the mighty, world-famous publishing house Young Guard. “Printerra” published in “counterfeit” format the book by Lev Gursky “Roman Arbitman. Biography of the second president of Russia." The cover is indeed built according to the Jezelle model. True, not without a noticeable shift.

Gazprom has not decided what to do with the Vnesheconombank loan Of the ten companies that received VEB loans last fall to refinance external debt, only Gazprom has not decided whether it needs an extension of the contract. As Interfax reports, citing a source in banking circles, the gas monopolist did not come into contact with VEB on this matter.

The President of Armenia came to Turkey for the match The President of Armenia visited Turkey for the first time yesterday. At approximately five o'clock in the evening Moscow time, in the Turkish city of Bursa, 25 km from the Sea of ​​Marmara, Armenian guest Serzh Sargsyan and his Turkish colleague Abdullah Gul began to discuss bilateral relations tete-a-tete over a working dinner.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted searches at the Industrial Credit Bank Employees of the Investigative Committee (IC) and the Economic Security Department (DES) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs yesterday conducted searches in the offices of the Industrial Credit Bank (Incredbank). The reason for this was a criminal case about illegal banking activities.

Gazprom will purchase 500 million cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexey Miller combined the personal with the public. Returning from Beijing, where he negotiated the supply of Russian gas to China as part of Vladimir Putin’s delegation, he made a stop in Baku. Yesterday, the Russian team played their last match there as part of the qualifying group for the World Cup in South Africa with the Azerbaijani team. Mr. Miller watched the Russian team play.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday met with his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus at his residence in Barvikha. After exchanging pleasantries, both presidents confirmed their positions on current issues of European politics - the creation of a security system and the execution of the Lisbon Treaty. Thus, Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia does not change its position on creating a new platform for ensuring security in Europe, despite the revision of US plans for missile defense.

"Wings" sink to the bottom Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “Buffalo” – “Detroit” – 6:2, “Columbus” – “Calgary” – 2:1, “Toronto” – “Colorado” – 1:4. One of the strongest clubs in the National Hockey League, Detroit, had a very weak start. Another defeat, this time from Buffalo, threw the “red wings” to last place in the rather weak Central Division. There, in company with Detroit, there are Columbus, Chicago, St. Louis and Nashville.

How Russia is fighting the phenomenon that led to the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station Increased vibration of the second hydraulic unit is recognized as one of the main causes of the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP. How effectively is Russia fighting this phenomenon? Vibration is the mechanical vibration of a body. The uninitiated reader will be interested to know how many people in the world whose work activities are connected with this phenomenon.

The largest US companies will pay record bonuses at the end of the year Despite the fierce fight against bonuses, in which the authorities of most countries have become involved, the largest financial companies in the United States can pay record bonuses to their employees by the end of this year - about $140 billion. The bankers can only be justified by the growing income of the companies.

Natalya Fiksel directs Chekhov The theater people are starting to celebrate the anniversary that will break out in January next year ahead of time, and one of the first to decide to congratulate the classic was choreographer Natalya Fiksel.

Extremely disturbing rumors have been heard from the Soyuzmultfilm studio for more than six months now. The production premises where animators worked for many years are being given over one by one to a new organization that has moved into the building on Dolgorukovskaya Street - the Film Fund. Projects - even those for which the state has already allocated money - are stopped.

Competition in municipal elections was higher than in regional ones The results of local elections held on a single voting day on October 11 in 75 constituent entities of the federation continue. As in the whole country, the palm in this part of the elections belongs to United Russia. Nevertheless, at the municipal level there are still electoral surprises in the form of fierce election competition, which occasionally results in unplanned victories of non-bearish candidates.

Minsk does not need duties and surcharges Belarus stands for the expansion of the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC). This was stated yesterday in Minsk by the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Igor Petrishenko during a meeting of the commissions of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the EurAsEC: “The Customs Union is becoming attractive for other countries. In particular, Kyrgyzstan showed interest.

Guus Hiddink got carried away by entertaining experiments and did not win against an outsider Having lost their chance for first place in the qualifying group for the World Championship and, accordingly, a direct ticket to South Africa, the Russian team did not become greedy and arranged a celebration for its last opponent. Guus Hiddink's team drew with the Azerbaijani team - 1:1, having done everything possible for this and not even taking a penalty in the last minutes. How Guus Hiddink felt.

The Musica Viva Orchestra began the season with Mendelssohn The opening of the concert season of the chamber orchestra Musica Viva by Alexander Rudin was not magnificent, but, as is customary, it was not banal. And again it emphasized the special repertoire style of the orchestra and its lively, discreet performing style.