Zvonareva is already the second racket of the world In the new individual ranking of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), Russian Vera Zvonareva takes second place - this is her highest achievement. Last week the Muscovite was third, but now she is ahead of the American Serena Williams (6096 points versus 5355). Danish Caroline Wozniacki is in the lead (7270).

Government sees GDP rise after summer slump At yesterday's government meeting, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin introduced his new chief of staff, Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Volodin , to his colleagues, presenting him with a work certificate, took pity on Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and instructed the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Tatyana Golikova, to strengthen supervision over the availability and cost of vital medicines .

The dollar continued to decline Against the backdrop of decisions by the financial authorities of the G20 countries, the dollar continued to decline. According to experts, in the long term, current trends will continue: the dollar will decline against major currencies, and the yuan will strengthen very slowly.

Civil servants' unions are preparing street actions The pan-European surge in street trade union activity seems to have reached Russia. The unenviable situation of many public sector employees and the government's policy of struggling with the state treasury deficit, including by containing costs for the maintenance of budgetary institutions, encourage industry trade unions to join forces and draw attention to their problems through protests.

The Stanislavsky Season festival brought theater from Abkhazia The international theater festival “Stanislavsky Season” has been held annually in Moscow since 2006 and shows performances from Russian and foreign theaters created by directors awarded the Stanislavsky Prize.

The heads of the Ivanovo region and the Perm region retained their posts due to inertia After the political upheavals associated with the replacement of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov with Sergei Sobyanin , the latest appointments of regional heads followed the inertial scenario. The governor of the Ivanovo region, Mikhail Men, and the head of the Perm region, Oleg Chirkunov, retain their posts.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development adjusts its data on layoffs The Ministry of Health and Social Development released a report from which it follows that the downward trend in unemployment recorded at the beginning of the year continues into the fall. In particular, a message distributed yesterday states that over the past week the number of citizens registered at labor exchanges decreased by 0.9% and amounts to slightly more than 1 million 545 thousand people.

"Paranormal Activity 2" on Moscow screens A car drives up to the new house. "Is this what I think it is?" - asks Katie (Katie Featherstone) as she gets out. “I don’t know what you think, but it’s a worthwhile thing,” responds her husband Mika (Mika Slot), who is filming what is happening on a video camera from the threshold.

The government hopes that the second wave of privatization will increase direct investment in the Russian economy The peak of the crisis has passed, Russian Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina said at the end of last week. Economic growth at the end of this year, according to the Ministry of Economic Development, will be 4%. However, it has not yet been possible to restore the influx of private capital, and without increased investment, economic growth cannot be significant.

Over the past month, the media has been hotly discussing the information that remuneration “for the free reproduction of phonograms and audiovisual works for personal purposes,” better known as the “tax on blank blanks,” is allowed to be collected in the next five years by the Russian Union of Copyright Holders, an organization founded by the director Nikita Mikhalkov in November last year.

CONCERTS Public Enemy (USA). A hip-hop group from Long Island known for their politicized lyrics, criticism of the media, and active interest in the issues of the black community. Milk , 20.00. Peter Vostokov Quartet. Igor Butman Club , 20.30. CLASSIC Ivanov Brothers Gala. Taking part in the concert are M. Ivanov (piano), A. Ivanov (double bass), J. Haasen (Belgium), A. Schilkloper (horn), W. Eilenkrieg (trumpet), I. Volkov (saxophone), D. Sevastyanov ( drums), Yu. Genbachev (percussion).

The President instructed to speed up the development of the law on social services The quality of life of older people, the cost of medicine, queues in nursing homes, the deficit of the pension system and the retirement age - these and other topics were discussed at a meeting of the State Council Presidium, which was held yesterday at the presidential residence in Gorki, chaired by Dmitry Medvedev.

Convicted for the murder of Galina Starovoytova remembered the attempt on Vladislav Listyev Yesterday it became known that ex-GRU officer and member of the Tambov criminal group Yuri Kolchin, who is serving a 20-year sentence for organizing the murder of Russian State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova, was transferred to Moscow.

BP is selling off fields on the American shelf The BP Corporation, whose fate fatally changed after the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, is gradually withdrawing from this oil-bearing region. The next lot in the long list of assets being sold by BP was shares in a number of local fields. The buyer was the Japanese company Marubeni Oil and Gas, which offered $650 million for four subsoil plots with a daily production volume of about 15 thousand barrels of oil equivalent.

Military and sailors managed to free a ship captured by pirates A lucky chance and professionalism yesterday saved the German bulk carrier Beluga Fortune with Russians on board from many months of pirate captivity, and the owners of the ship from paying a multimillion-dollar ransom.