Main news of November 4

RUSSIA

* President Dmitry Medvedev attended celebrations for Russia's Unity Day in the Kremlin, and gave a speech hailing the 1612 liberation of Moscow as a key event in the nation's development

* The officially sanctioned "Russian March" went ahead peacefully in Moscow, as around 1,500 nationalists gathered to mark Unity Day

* Police detained around 500 nationalist activists taking part in illegal rallies in various parts of Moscow's city center to mark Unity Day, a police spokesman said

* Russia's Communist Party issued a harsh rebuke of Unity Day celebrations, saying the country should not ignore the Bolshevik Revolution

* Police detained three suspects over the morning explosion on a rail track in southern Moscow, a local police source said

* The presidents of Poland and Lithuania said the EU should delay resuming talks on a new partnership agreement with Moscow until all Russian troops had been withdrawn from Georgia, Polish media said

WORLD

* The speaker of Ukraine's parliament flew to Washington to meet with the head of the International Monetary Fund for discussions on a $16.5 billion loan that the country hopes to receive

* The leaders of Ukraine and Libya discussed bilateral cooperation in Kiev, particularly in the oil and military-technical spheres

* The chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called on the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to continue discussions on resolving the dispute over Nagorny Karabakh

* The Democratic and Republican party candidates for U.S. president and their running mates voted on Tuesday morning before returning home to await the results

* A painting by avant-garde Russian artist Kazimir Malevich sold for a record-price of just over $60 million at an auction in New York despite gloom over the global financial crisis