The former coach of Olympic handball champions Mikhail Lutsenko was among those injured in a major road accident in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier it was reported that on Sunday afternoon, at the 55th kilometer of the Crimea highway, a girl driving a Nissan collided with a passenger Gazelle, in which pilgrims were traveling from Serpukhov to Yaroslavl. After the collision, the Gazelle flew into the oncoming lane and crashed into a Hyundai Santa Fe SUV.

October 22, 2012, 12:42 Politics Narusova goes to the village council for the senator's seat Lyudmila Narusova will compete for the seat of Bryansk senator, for this she is elected to the village council Zhanna Ulyanova close 100% Lyudmila Narusova will compete for the seat of Bryansk senator ITAR-TASS Lyudmila Narusova is not going to leave the Federation Council, where she represents the executive power of the Bryansk region.

The chairman of the board of Probusinessbank, Alexander Zheleznyak , suffered a broken leg in an accident and has already undergone surgery, RIA Novosti was told by the Life financial group, which includes the bank. The incident occurred on October 22 at the 2nd kilometer of Ilyinsky Proezd (Krasnogorsk district, Moscow region). At the same time, earlier a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies stated that we were talking about the deputy head of the bank.

The presenters of the Mayak radio station, Victoria Kolosova and Alexey Veselkin , who spoke incorrectly about patients with cystic fibrosis in the program “Sores,” were fired, and the program itself was closed. reports this Interfax . “The radio company has terminated its employment relationship with these presenters. At the same time, the format of the morning broadcast will be revised,” said Mayak program director Anatoly Kuzichev .

October 22, 2012, 10:52 Alexey Mikhailov Elephant against pictures Alexey Mikhailov Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta.Ru For more than 200 years, every first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of a leap year, presidential elections have taken place in the United States. This year they fall on November 6th - two weeks later. A funny election campaign is going on, if you look from the outside.

October 22, 2012, 20:11 News Elections to the Constitutional Court of the opposition are completed, almost 82 thousand Russians took part in them The elections to the Opposition Coordination Council have been completed, almost 82 thousand Russians took part in them, according to the website of the Central Election Committee (CEC). At 20:00 Moscow time, when the voting procedure stopped, 81,801 people took part in the elections. Preliminary voting results will be announced in a few hours.

Member of the Georgian Parliament Givi Targamadze rejected accusations of sponsoring “unrest” in Moscow, Interfax reports . “ Russian law enforcement agencies first set a goal - the arrest of Udaltsov , and then they began to collect all sorts of absurdities for this goal,” Targamadze said. “Another absurdity is the testimony of the detainee Leonid Razvozzhaev . As far as I know, this man was detained in Kiev, where he tried to appeal to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Briz-M upper stage, due to the failure of which the August launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Express-MD2 and Telkom 3 satellites ended in failure, collapsed in low-Earth orbit, and now its debris poses a potential threat to the International space station (ISS), Interfax reports , citing a source in the rocket and space industry. “The breakup occurred on October 16th.

Some workers of OJSC Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill ( BPPM ) went on strike and partially suspended production. reports this Interfax with reference to the chairman of the primary trade union organization of the plant, Yuri Nabokov. According to him, work has been suspended in two shops - cooking and bleaching, each of which employs approximately 50 people. In total, more than 500 people take part in the protest, demanding a 30% increase in wages.

October 22, 2012, 10:44 Cars Drunk blonde causing harm A Muscovite who, while drunk, caused a major accident on Kutuzovsky Prospekt may face up to four years in prison. Vladimir Litvinov close 100% A drunk 21-year-old Muscovite driving a sports Mercedes could be the culprit of a mass accident in the west of the capital. A motorcyclist, a major banker and son-in-law of the head of Transneft, was left without a leg in an accident.

On October 24, the State Duma will consider in the first reading a bill aimed at improving the legal regulation of activities to create and ensure the functioning of the Skolkovo innovation center. told ITAR-TASS The corresponding decision was made today by the Council of the Lower House of Parliament, Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship Igor Rudensky .

The coordinator of the Tver branch of the Democratic Elections party, Yuri Suetin, has been summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee in the case of oppositionist Leonid Razvozzhaev , reports the Ekho Moskvy radio station . “They called me and ordered me to appear at the Investigative Committee tomorrow at 10 am to testify in the Razvozzhaev case. According to the caller, Leonid mentioned me during the interrogation,” Suetin said.

The Moscow authorities allocated 30 million rubles for the construction of a monument to Russian statesman and political figure Pyotr Stolypin . The subsidy was allocated to the Foundation for the Study of the Legacy of Peter Stolypin. In July 2011, a foundation stone was laid for the future monument near the building of the Government of the Russian Federation . Sberbank opened an account to collect funds and donations for the construction of the monument.

Five employees of the Perm Abrasive Plant announced the resumption of an indefinite hunger strike, which they had previously been convinced to end by the regional governor , Viktor Basargin reports, , Interfax citing a representative of the team. “We started the hunger strike again because we stopped paying money. Our employees settled down for a protest in the building of the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. There are five people there now.

The German corporation Siemens is abandoning its solar energy business in favor of wind and hydropower, writes The Local . The company said in a statement that this is due to “changes in the market, falling demand and rising prices.” The company plans to sell its solar cell division to Solel Solar Systems. Siemens acquired Israel's Solel Solar Systems in 2009 for $418 million, but the company was not profitable. Currently 800 people work there.