On Thursday, Moscow hosted the presentation of the TEFI award in three nominations, the winners of which were reviewed last week, RIA Novosti reports. Artem Vargaftik's "Orchestral Pit" (Kultura channel) received the award for the best musical program. Previously, the owner of this award was the reality show "Dream Factory" (Channel One). In the nomination "Best Children's Program" TEFI received "Good night, kids" of the TV channel "Russia".

The convicted former leader of the Communist Party of Lithuania (on the platform of the CPSU) Mykolas Burokevicius will be released two years ahead of the deadline set by the court verdict. The Vilnius District Court considered the claim of Burokevicius with a request to reduce the sentence and satisfied it, Interfax was told on Thursday at the court office.

On Thursday, the Electoral Commission of the Bryansk Region issued warnings to two more Bryansk newspapers, Gazeta.Ru reports. At a meeting of the commission on Thursday, violations of the "Federal law on the election of deputies of the State Duma" by the daily regional newspaper "Bryansk Rabochiy" and the regional newspaper of the Novozybkovsky district of the Bryansk region - "Mayak" were considered.

On Wednesday, a former military diver was accused of stalking famed singer Sheryl Crow. A 37-year-old New Yorker, Ambrose Kappos, broke into the Hammerstein Ballroom, where Crowe was rehearsing for her show. Kappos, who had previously served 7 years in prison, demanded from the guards who detained him that he be released, since he urgently needed to see the singer. He was kicked out, and a few hours later he returned and told the guards: "I am her twin brother. We are spiritually connected.

Moscow will host the first Russian Beatles music festival "Beatles' Gatherings", reports Fashion Monitor . The event will be held at the Variety Theatre, it is dedicated to the birthday of John Lennon. The purpose of the festival is to declare the long-standing love of Russian performers and listeners for the work of the Liverpool Four. Mikhail Boyarsky, Alexei Kozlov, Vladimir Presnyakov Sr., Vladimir Matetsky, the groups "Na-Na", "Prime Minister", "Black Coffee" will take the stage.

In the village of Abugoroy, Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya, on Thursday night, the chairman of the district council of elders, 82-year-old Khumid Visaitov, was brutally murdered. The duty officer of the district administration confirmed to Granyam.Ru this information, which had been previously disseminated by Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the regional operational headquarters for managing the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

Students of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University living in a hostel in Moscow are not allowed into the hostel building, the website bolltok.ru reports. Now the university is replacing old-style passes with new ones, and many students have not yet received new documents. Previously, they entered the dormitory through the registration watch, but on October 3, the guards refused to allow students who did not replace the pass to enter the building.

The Novosibirsk court convicted two employees of the passport and visa service of the Baevsky District Department of Internal Affairs of the Altai Territory for illegally issuing Russian passports to foreigners for money. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

A 22-year-old student from Dnepropetrovsk climbed a support of the Crimean bridge in Moscow to prove that Ukrainian women are people too. "Gazeta" became aware of the details of what happened on Wednesday state of emergency. On Wednesday afternoon, Maria Menzhinskaya climbed onto a 30-meter bridge support, and within an hour, psychologists and rescuers tried to persuade her to get off. She threatened to commit suicide by jumping into the water.

A Palestinian terrorist exploded at a checkpoint near the city of Tulkarm, reports Ha'aretz. As a result, two people were injured. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

In the White Sea near the island of Mudyug, a search is underway for six amateur fishermen who disappeared in a storm, Interfax reports. On Wednesday evening, the rescue service 01 of Arkhangelsk received a distress signal from a mobile phone. It was reported that six people were caught in a severe storm while in a wooden boat. The boat's engine has stalled and it is flooded with water. The Metel rescue ship was immediately dispatched to the disaster area.

One of the leaders of the National Liberation Army of Colombia, Pablo Beltran, said that the organization is ready to exchange seven foreign tourists captured on September 15 in the Sierra Nevada mountains for their associates in Colombian prisons. However, AP notes, in a conversation with reporters from the major Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, he did not put forward any specific terms of the deal. The rebels still have 4 Israelis, a Briton, a German and a Spaniard still in captivity.

On Thursday, a passenger bus was fired at in the Gali district of Abkhazia, RIA Novosti reports. According to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the republic, Sergei Shamba, as a result, one woman died, two more people were injured. According to Shamba, the bus was fired upon by Georgian saboteurs. It happened at 8:15 Moscow time. The car went to the Inguri power plant, there were employees of the station in it.

The government of the Chechen Republic is changing the mechanism for paying compensation for destroyed housing and lost property. This was reported to Interfax by the chairman of the committee for the payment of compensation and the affairs of forced migrants of Chechnya, Abubakir Baibatyrov. "The change in the mechanism is due to numerous violations committed by the district administrations when preparing documents for the payment of compensation," Baibatyrov said.

The extensive archaeological excavations of the lost city, which many researchers put in a number of the greatest monuments of ancient civilization of Maya, end. For six years, experts deciphered the hieroglyphs and carefully examined the remains of the palaces in Pedras Negras (Piedras Negras, translated in the “Black Stones”) in Guatemala, in a remote area near the Mexican border. As a result of this work, the city appeared before historians, which already in 400 BC. e.