Russia has become one of five countries, where citizens managed to loosen the purse strings for the past three months. In the course of the study 23 659 people from 24 countries were polled in the period from mid-September to late October.

Viktoria Radochinskaya from Russia won the title of Mrs. World 2009 – the contest took place in Vung Tau city, Vietnam.

Eminent Russian physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics Vitaly Ginzburg passed away yesterday. The scientist was 93 years old.

The famous Russian actor Igor Starygin has died today, aged 64, in Moscow.

The unknown criminals shot the car of the well-known businessman Shabtai Kalmanovich on Monday. November, 2. The incident took place in the Street Novodevichy Proezd. The criminals were shooting from the car Lada Priora, passing by the businessman’s Mercedes S-500. The driver was hospitalized with severe injury, Shabtai Kalmanovich died at the scene.

All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre has conducted a research to find out the moist paying and prestige jobs. The profession of jurist tops the list – 14% of respondents believe jurists are well-to-do people.