Officials' congratulations to Yuri Luzhkov quickly became farewells Planned for yesterday morning at Tverskaya, 13, the ceremony of congratulating Yuri Luzhkov on his past birthday turned into a solemn farewell to the mayor. Despite the clearly gathering clouds over the head of the Moscow mayor, yesterday morning showed that neither city administration officials nor Moscow City Duma deputies expected such a sudden resignation of Mr. Luzhkov.

On the European territory of Russia, the wonderful time of golden autumn is ending. A cyclone will pass through the central part of the region with rain and clouds. In the center of Russia there will be rain with the cyclone, heavy in places at night in the north, northeast and east. During the day the temperature will drop to +6...+12оС, at night in the north and northwest to +2оС, during the day in the south to +16оС.

US President Barack Obama signed a law to support small businesses. By freeing it from certain types of taxes and increasing the availability of loans, it is planned to create about 500 thousand jobs. However, critics of the initiative of the head of the White House are already pointing out that the new rules will bring little benefit: in conditions of low demand, businesses may not need loans. “It is very important for us to reduce taxes and make loans more accessible to entrepreneurs.

Skaters held a tournament in Germany The traditional international figure skating tournament Nebelhorn-Trophy ended in Obersdorf, Germany, where representatives of domestic figure skating won medals in three out of four program types. The sports pairs competition was won by Perm residents Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov. The silver medalist of the men's tournament was Konstantin Menshov. The top three in the ice dancing competition was completed by Ekaterina Ryazanova and Ilya Tkachenko.

German Jazz September in Moscow For the 20th anniversary of the reunification of Germany, the German Cultural Center named after Goethe (Goethe Institute) supported several jazz events in Moscow: two concerts at the Territory festival that returned to the capital from Perm, the opening of a musical season at the School of Dramatic Art, where, among other things, a new agency Improve presented two expensive projects with the participation of pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, a veteran of the

North Korea will appoint a successor leader A conference of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) opened in Pyongyang yesterday, from which foreign observers expected a solution to the issue of succession of power in the DPRK. The very fact of holding a party forum can be considered a historical event - the WPK has not convened a conference for 44 years.

“Remove Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow due to the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation,” - in the harsh language of the presidential decree, a man who was, in fact, the sole ruler of the Russian capital for 18 years was dismissed. The story has come full circle: Yuri Luzhkov was also appointed to the post of mayor by decree of President Boris Yeltsin on June 6, 1992. “There is already a new owner in Moscow. The first person was Yu.M. Luzhkov.

Tbilisi intends to create new problems for Moscow in the Caucasus. During the autumn session, the Georgian parliament wants to consider the issue of “genocide of the Circassian people by the Russian Empire in the 18th - 20th centuries.” Although some Circassian organizations pose a similar problem to the international community, no country has yet been ready to support them.

Moldova will hold early parliamentary elections As of today, the Moldovan parliament is considered dissolved. Early parliamentary elections are scheduled for November 28. The corresponding decree was signed yesterday in the presence of journalists by the country's acting president and parliament speaker Mihai Ghimpu. He explained that the legislative body had to be dissolved due to the inability of deputies to choose the head of state.

The Bavarian State Orchestra and Kent Nagano played Strauss and Bruckner The Bavarian State Orchestra has the unofficial status of embodying the European tradition. This is the oldest orchestra in Germany (its age is counted from the middle of the 16th century) and perhaps the most glorious (it includes premieres by Wagner, as well as Richard Strauss, Hans von Bülow, Bruno Walter as music directors).

Germans argue over expensive construction project In Germany, passions are flaring up around plans to reconstruct the railway junction in Stuttgart, the capital of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. The state government intends to build a gigantic underground railway complex on the site of the former Main Station, built at the beginning of the last century.

The Central Bank is ready to tighten monetary policy The Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia has maintained key interest rates: the refinancing rate is still 7.75% per annum, and the minimum one-day auction repo rate is 5%. But already this year or early next year, the regulator will have to raise rates, at the risk of provoking an unwanted strengthening of the ruble, experts say.

Alexander Bastrykin will report only to the president The texts of bills introduced a day earlier by President Dmitry Medvedev in connection with his decision to create a new government agency - the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (IC) - appeared on the State Duma website yesterday. There were three of them at once. One is actually “On the RF IC”, which defines its tasks, powers, principles of formation, work in it, etc.

Yuri Luzhkov removed from the post of mayor of Moscow The confrontation between Yuri Luzhkov and the Kremlin became the most notable political event in Russia in recent years and ended in the only possible way. Dmitry Medvedev yesterday morning, while on a business trip in Shanghai, for the first time exercised his right to remove regional heads from office due to the loss of confidence of the head of state and dismissed the mayor of Moscow with this damning formulation.

Chinese children liked the Russian pavilion at EXPO 2010 the most Yesterday Dmitry Medvedev visited the world exhibition EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. The visit of the Russian President was timed to coincide with Russia Day, celebrated on September 28 at the exhibition. As a result, this day coincided with the birthday of the great Chinese philosopher Confucius and the resignation of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.