There were no funds in the Moscow budget to organize river passenger transportation The Moscow budget deficit, which forced Moscow officials to even complain about the lack of funds for the development of the city metro, has become disastrous for programs providing for the appearance of “exotic” transport in the capital.

Valencia is thinking about how to exchange forwards with additional payment The list of countries whose clubs have paid attention to Russian national team forward Roman Pavlyuchenko has been expanded to include Spain. According to the Sunday Mirror, Valencia are not averse to releasing the striker from Tottenham's bench at least temporarily in the winter.

Gazprom published reports according to international standards for the first half of 2009. Against the backdrop of a decline in gas export volumes and prices, the concern spent more than $13 billion on fuel purchases. As a result, sales profit decreased by almost $9 billion, and net profit for the period fell by the same amount, having decreased by exactly half by the first half of last year.

Economic growth and ruble strengthening look increasingly likely Yesterday the dollar exchange rate again dropped below 29 rubles. Along with growing optimism regarding the prospects for overcoming the crisis, the forecast for the exchange rate of the Russian currency is also growing. The ruble is supported by rising stock markets and oil prices.

Moscow and Washington have reached the home stretch of disarmament The preparation of a new agreement between Russia and the United States in the field of strategic offensive weapons (START) has entered its final stage. The eighth and, as Moscow hopes, the last round of Russian-American consultations on this issue started yesterday in Geneva. There is less than a month left to reach a new agreement on START to replace the START I treaty of 1991, which expires on December 5.

On Tuesday in the north-western region there will be precipitation, in some places heavy, in the form of wet snow, in the afternoon in the south of the region in the form of rain, in some places light ice, wet snow sticking to wires, difficult conditions on the roads. Temperature at night -4...+1оС, during the day -1...+4оС.

The Czech Republic will not solve its problems with the European Union The transitional government of the Czech Republic was unable to decide yesterday on the candidacy of the European Commissioner - the Czech representative in the European Commission, the administrative government of the European Union. After heated debate, the ministers adjourned the meeting and postponed it until today.

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the great gunsmith Mikhail Kalashnikov Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov has many different regalia. He is the chief designer of small arms, lieutenant general, doctor of technical sciences, twice Hero of Socialist Labor, consultant to the general director of the state company Rosoboronexport, president of the Union of Russian Armourers. Order bearer and laureate of a great many Soviet, Russian and international awards, member of a large number of academies.

The III Big Cartoon Festival ended with the distribution of prizes The last day of the Big Cartoon Festival, which began on the eve of the “Night of Winners” at the Pioneer cinema, turned into a morning presentation of a cartoon filmed by children at a week-long “children’s animation workshop”, and then into a large-scale master class by Yuri Norshtein, where the tightly packed audience wanted to let go of her beloved director, ended with the distribution of awards.

Vitaly Ginzburg passed away Russia has lost a Nobel laureate and an outstanding citizen. Academician Vitaly Ginzburg, being a theoretical physicist of a wide range (he studied superfluidity, superconductivity, and astrophysics), focused not only on his own research and changes in the properties of matter, but also on changes in society. Vitaly Ginzburg mercilessly attacked pseudoscience, sharply criticized the clericalization of the Russian state, and defended illegally convicted researchers.

Mikhail Youzhny entered the top twenty best players in the world Russian tennis player Mikhail Youzhny was one step away from winning the tournament in Valencia. In the decisive round, the Muscovite lost to Scotsman Andy Murray, who had returned to duty after treatment for an injury - 3:6, 2:6. For the Russian, the Spanish final was the fourth this season, allowing him to return to the top 20 of the tennis elite.

Golden Eagle cinema awards presented Having handed out its statuettes for the seventh time on Friday evening in the first pavilion of Mosfilm, the Golden Eagle Award demonstrated that the word “most”, which she so loves to apply to herself, really sometimes suits her. For example, the strangest Russian award. Almost every year, her award list makes even the most sane people become conspiracy theorists for a while. It's the same story this year.

A book about Pasternak's Moscow has been published A researcher who offers the reader the plot “The Artist and His City” is forced to make a choice between two genre strategies.

RusHydro expects to spend no more than 40 billion rubles on the restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric station Yesterday, during a press conference dedicated to eliminating the consequences of the disaster at the SSHPP, the head of the department of state energy policy and energy efficiency of the Ministry of Energy, Sergei Mikhailov, announced that the volume of restoration work at the station may be greater than previously expected.

The Constitutional Court prohibited parties from removing candidates from lists at their discretion Political parties participating in elections can no longer quickly clean up their electoral lists after they are registered. Yesterday, the Constitutional Court made a decision prohibiting parties from arbitrarily excluding candidates from registered lists. Henceforth, this will require serious reasons.