Itar-Tass overnight news cycle for November 1 - 1.

.Party of Regions leading at local elections in Ukraine - exit poll.

KIEV, November 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Some 36.2% of voters supported the
ruling Party of Regions at the local elections in Ukraine, an exit poll
published by the Common Center Party showed on Sunday.
The Batkivshchana (Fatherland) Party led by Yulia Timoshenko gained
13.1%, the Front of Changes Party led by the former parliament speaker
Arseny Yatsenyuk - 6.8%, the Communist Party - 5.9%, the Strong Ukraine
Party led by Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Tigipko - 4.3%, the Freedom
national radical party - 5.1%, the Our Ukraine Party led by the former
president Viktor Yushchenko - 2.3%, the Narodna (People's) Party led by
parliament speaker Vladimir Litvin - 1.8%, the Socialist Party - 1.7%, the
Common Center Party - 1.6% the Strike Party of a well-known boxer Vitaly
Klitschko - 1.3%.
Some 7.2% voted against all parties.

.Moscow budget for 2011 to be revised drastically - Sobyanin.

MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) -- The Moscow budget is exhausted over
much inefficient expenditures and will be revised drastically, Moscow
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with Channel One on Sunday.
According to Sobyanin, after the attentive study of the budget the
document produced "a heavy impression" on him. "Almost the whole Moscow
budget, an enormous budget that is one of major budgets not only in
Russia, but also in the world is almost exhausted. It is exhausted due to
very much inefficient expenditure. Almost all expenditures are current and
no more than ten percent of the budget is left for development," the mayor
elaborated.
For instance, only 3-4% is allocated for road construction that due to
the transport problems of the megapolis is absolutely insufficient.
"This is just figures, but this means that the city stopped in its
development and started degrading. This structure of budget is
characteristic of depressive regions. It is impossible to work with such a
budget," the mayor pointed out.
Sobyanin noted that he cannot leave the budget in this way. "It cannot
be permitted. Therefore, we will be taking consistent measures to change
this structure of budget," he remarked. To leave everything as it is it
would mean to acknowledge that "Moscow stopped its development and started
backtracking," Sobyanin noted.
Specifically, the mayor noted that the expenditures for road
construction would be revised substantially. "Some 34 billion roubles are
to be allocated for all Moscow roads next year. I do not agree with this.
I believe that at least 100 billion roubles should be envisaged in the
budget for these purposes," he indicated. Sobyanin added that due to the
revision the approval of the Moscow budget for 2011 will be delayed.

.Moscow not to levy toll for entry in city downtown by car-Sobyanin.

MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) -- The Moscow authorities do not plan
to levy a toll for the entry in the city downtown by car, Moscow Mayor
Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with Channel One on Sunday.
"I think that a toll for the entry in the Moscow center will be hardly
introduced in the city," he said in reply to a question about the measures
to overcome a traffic collapse in the megapolis. "No toll for the traffic
will be introduced. But paid parkings, a toll for parking in the streets
should be introduced. Since all our roads are crammed with cars, which are
parking freely for several days, it is clear that people need: first,
additional parking lots, secondly, develop the public transport minimizing
the traffic in the city center.
According to Sobyanin, Moscow turned out to be in a transport collapse
due to an inefficient urban planning policy. "The city turned out to be
without parkings, overcrowded with freight terminals, freight stations,
enormous marketplaces, which are not needed for the city in such a
number," the mayor elaborated.
Sobyanin noted that this "discrepancy in the urban planning policy"
should be repaired, and he intends to start with putting in order the
public transport sector and restricting the entry of trailers and trucks
in Moscow. The motor entry in major trading centers located on the orbital
road will also be restricted at the rush hours so that people could drive
out and in the city freely.

.Sobyanin intends to accelerate Moscow metro construction.

MOSCOW, November 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin intends
to develop actively the Moscow metro. He said so in an interview with
Channel One on Sunday.
"We will accelerate the metro construction as quick as possible,
because it is the major carrier of passengers. It should be developed. It
should be built beyond the orbital road and outside the city," he said.
"But since the metro is already overcrowded, this measure alone will not
solve anything," the mayor went on to say. "Additional metro lines should
be built. But in general it is a very large-scale program that needs
enormous funds," he pointed out.
"The metro is the most large-scale transport system in the city.
Unfortunately, the metro construction has slowed down in the last few
years. I believe that 15 kilometers of metro lines should be built every
year. We will need from 45 to 50 billion roubles annually for this
purpose," Sobyanin said at a meeting on transport problems chaired by
President Dmitry Medvedev on October 28.
The Moscow mayor pledged that the resources for this program will be
found. Meanwhile, he noted that "the problem cannot already be solved with
extended metro lines to the Moscow Region, because all current metro lines
are overcrowded." "Their extension will just increase the passenger
traffic that will be difficult to cope with," he believes.
Therefore, he believes that it is necessary "to launch a construction
program of new metro lines." "A hundred kilometers (of new lines) is a
minimal program and up to 300 kilometers is a maximum program," the mayor
said.
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