Homosexual Denis Gogolev is registered as a candidate for the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, reports Rosbalt . This decision was unanimously adopted today by the Kanavinskaya Electoral Commission of Nizhny Novgorod. Gogolev considers the very fact of his registration as a candidate a victory. "We were able to destroy the myth that in Russia you can not, openly declaring one's non-traditional sexual orientation, engage in politics," he said.

*Published as advertising *Company "Don-Stroy" presents the IV building of the residential complex "Scarlet Sails". The festive opening of the new building and infrastructure of the complex took place on October 18 at the address: st. Aviation, 77-79.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow on Monday will start considering the first claim of a citizen of the Netherlands, who lost his wife on Dubrovka, for compensation for material damage to the Russian Ministry of Finance. Igor Trunov, a lawyer representing the plaintiff in court, told RIA Novosti that Oleg Zhirov, a citizen of the Netherlands, who had lost his wife as a result of the terrorist act, applied to the court. Zhirov's son was also in the Theater Center.

Scandals are brewing in the bosom of the FBI's counterterrorism department CI-19 that could affect the success of the war on terror, reports Newsweek. The first and main problem is that the department does not clear up the rubble of translations that employees do not get their hands on. The reasons for this are the lack of workers, conflicts between translators, as well as the lack of clear priorities - which texts have the right of priority, which are secondary.

Tobacco vendors in France launched a nationwide strike on Monday, Reuters reported. In this regard, about 75% of points selling tobacco products were closed - shops, kiosks, departments in restaurants and tobacco shops. Cigarette vendors are protesting a 20% increase in tobacco sales taxes that they believe could bankrupt them completely. They are especially outraged that the government raises the tax only for them, but at the same time claims that this applies to everyone.

17 people died, 9 were injured in a car accident in Turkey, RBC reports. The accident happened on a highway near Istanbul. The truck crashed into a bus whose passengers were returning from some religious ceremony. Most of the dead are women and children. The causes of the accident are being investigated.

On Monday, Krasnoyarsk physicist Valentin Danilov handed over signature sheets in his support for verification. A member of the political council of the regional branch of the SPS party intends to run for State Duma deputies in the Yenisei single-mandate constituency # 48, which includes the left bank of Krasnoyarsk and the city of Norilsk. On September 12, Danilov notified the electoral commission about his participation in the elections.

A shipment of Ferrero chocolate worth 1.3 million rubles has been stolen in Moscow, sources in the police department of the capital told Interfax on Monday. According to Newsru.com, the attack took place at about 2:00 pm on Saturday near house number six in Proektiruemyy proezd number 4062 (Nagatinsky terminal). Two unidentified men attacked the driver of the Reno Magnum trailer, which belonged to Gaas LLC and transported 13 tons of German-made Ferrero chocolate.

The Russian army lacks modern helicopters, Colonel-General Vladimir Mikhailov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. "The presence of modern models of helicopters (Ka-50, Mi-26) is about 10 percent of the staff. The main "sore" issue is the serviceability of aviation equipment, it is more than 35 percent. The basis of the helicopter fleet is obsolete helicopters of the Mi-8 and Mi-24," Mikhailov said.

Model of a rapidly rotating neutron star from the site www.npaci.edu/features/01/07/07_12_01.html A group of Japanese researchers announced on Sunday that they managed to reproduce an over -tight state of matter in the laboratory. This is comparable to the conditions in which the substance is inside neutron stars: we are talking about density, millions of billions of times (i.e. a unit with 15 zeros) exceeding the density of water.

Moscow will nominate Yury Luzhkov for the post of Russian head of the "Council of Wise Men" of Russia and Japan, a high-ranking source in the Kremlin told reporters. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to the source, Vladimir Putin, after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, spoke on the phone with the mayor of Moscow, and Luzhkov agreed to head the Council from the Russian side.

As of Sunday evening, the condition of separated Siamese twins Ahmed and Mohammed is gradually improving, according to the website of the Children's Medical Center in Dallas. Doctors still rate him as stably critical. Both boys were brought out of the coma. Mohammed was removed from the ventilator on Sunday afternoon. Now he was breathing on his own. Doctors hope that re-intubation will not be required. If everything goes well, then his condition will be assessed as serious.

George Bush. Photo by ar US President George Bush did not exclude that he could provide Pyongyang with written guarantees of non -decay in exchange for the termination of the development of the North Korean nuclear program. According to Washington Post, Bush made this statement in Bangkok, where he arrived to participate in the APEC summit.

Due to the lack of churches in the Urals, Orthodox parishes are located in premises that are very unusual for religious purposes, for example, in a former transformer box or an abandoned mill.

Princess Diana. Photo from the site www.leeds.ac.uk 10 months before her death, Princess Diana described the script of her own death, reports the Air Force. This became known to the Daily Mirror newspaper, which published a letter from Diana to the butler Paul Barrell. In a letter, Lady Dee writes that the most dangerous time for her life has come.