The Surgut garrison military court sentenced an officer accused in the case of the death of a schoolboy at a military training camp in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug to four years of probation. According to NEWSru.com, this was reported to Interfax by Yuri Popov, the chairman of the court of the city of Sovetsky, where an off-site session of the garrison court was held.

Valentin Danilov. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru The jury issued the indictment in the case of physicist Valentin Danilov, reports REGNUM. The scientist, accused of fraud and espionage in favor of China, was unanimously found the jury guilty of both points of the prosecution. On November 10, the court will continue the meeting without the participation of the jury. As Elena Evmenova, lawyer Danilova, said to the faces.

In Yakutia on Friday night, during landing, a Mi-8 helicopter of the Polar Airlines company rolled over onto its side. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Friday at the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The helicopter was supposed to deliver a doctor from the Magan airport in Yakutsk to the village of Arbyntsy, Namsky district. The car took off at 22.05 local time.

Residents of Palestine. Photo by ar Security services of the Palestinian autonomy are put into a state of increased combat readiness. As expected, when reports about the death of Arafat appear, riots may begin in autonomy. So far, a number of administrative functions of the Arafat, the Executive Committee of the Organization of the Liberation of Palestine transferred the Ahmed Kureya (Abu Alla) to the Prime Minister of Autonomy, Reuters reports with reference to a senior representative of PNA.

Stephen Michael Tidi. Photo AP In the case of the sale of Yuganskneftegaz with a discount, Yukos will dispute the legality of the transaction in court. This was stated by the chairman of the board of Yukos Stephen Tidi in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia. “We believe that the sale of Yuganskneftegaz is illegal. Its seizure contradicts the legislation of the Russian Federation, which excludes the priority sale of key production assets during enforcement proceedings.

On Friday morning, a group of militants, including two Turkish mercenaries, was destroyed in the suburbs of Grozny, Ilya Shabalkin, a representative of the Regional Operational Headquarters (ROSH) for managing the counterterrorist operation in the North Caucasus, told RIA Novosti. "Among the killed militants are two Turkish citizens who had identification documents with them. They are Aydin Kaya and Burkhan Chelebi," Shabalkin said.

President of Abkhazia Vladislav Ardzinba replaced the mayor of Sukhumi. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the presidential administration of the unrecognized republic. Leonid Lolua was removed from his post by Ardzinba's decree. Adgur Kharazia has been appointed Acting Head of Sukhumi Administration. Previously, he headed the district assembly of the Gulripsh district. The reasons for Lolua's resignation are not given in the decree.

Pipe. Photo from the site Travel.samaraprice.ru President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol to the Raque Convention of the United Nations on Climate Change." This was reported by RIA "Novosti" by the Kremlin press service. The law was adopted by the State Duma on October 22 and approved by the Federation Council on October 27.

In the Irkutsk region, three more suspects were detained in connection with the murder of political technologists of the Rodina party, Marina Marakhovskaya and Yan Travinsky. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Irkutsk region.

The meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and President of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity will take place on November 5 in Sochi, NEWSru.com reports with reference to Interfax. "An agreement has been reached to hold a meeting between Zhvania and Kokoity in Sochi on November 5," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told reporters.

The prosecutor's office of the Zelenogradsky district of the Kaliningrad region dropped a criminal case on the fact of publicly insulting Vladimir Putin by distributing 10-ruble bills with the inscription "Russia without Putin" for lack of corpus delicti, Gazeta.Ru reports. The case of ten rubles "Russia without Putin" has been considered in Kaliningrad since March 2004.

Yasir Arafat. Photo from the site www.compromat.ru The last act in the life of a politician is his departure. In the era of electronic media, this is almost always a performance, a kind of "theater+TV". A little man with a children's smile, leaning out of a helicopter, sends air kisses to the crowd of escorters and obviously does not want to fly away.

A patent given to George Celeden. Photo from the site www.cojoweb.com Lawyer George Seleden received a patent for a single-cylinder internal combustion engine in 1879 using it in a 4-carbon carriage. For 16 years, he made changes to his structure and on November 5, 1895 received patent No. 549.160 for the "road car".

Victor Yanukovych. Photo from the site www.ukraine.ru Presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych abandoned television bars with his rival in the second round Viktor Yushchenko. As RIA Novosti reports, Yanukovych said about this on Thursday in Kyiv. Motivating his refusal, Yanukovych said that he did not intend to debate with those people who "watered him with mud." According to Yanukovych, he intends to answer opponents with his affairs for the country.

Sochi. Photo from the site www.osko.ru The Georgian side announces the seizure of 50 hostages in Ossetians. About this, as reports RIA Novosti, said the Tbilisi television channel "MZU". According to her, the Ossetian side on Friday morning captured 50 residents of the Georgian nationality conflict zone. They were going to drive to the Bolshoi Liakhvsky Gorge, through Tskhinvali. The personalities of hostages are currently not established.