Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Photo from the site www.peoples.ru The first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan decided to return to politics. According to the Air Force, it is expected that at a rally on Friday Ter-Petrosyan, who led the country from 1990 to 1998, will announce the nomination of his candidacy in the upcoming presidential election. The current authorities are concerned about information about the possible return of Ter-Petrosyan to politics.

Logo CEC. From the site www.nyagan.ru Three Russian parties may be denied the registration of federal lists of candidates for the election of deputies of the State Duma of the fifth convocation. According to RIA Novosti, the secretary of the CEC of Russia Nikolai Konkin told reporters about this on Friday. According to him, we are talking about the Party of "Peace and Unity", the Party "Green" and "People's Union".

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo from the site kvadrom.ru First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev called for the development of new international laws in the field of intellectual property protection. conveys ITAR-TASS.

Eduard Rebgun. Photo by ITAR-TASS Settlements with Yukos creditors were completed, statements in the amount of 76 billion rubles remained out of place. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced on Friday the bankruptcy trustee of Eduard Rebgun. “In total, 995 billion rubles were received to the federal budget from OJSC NK Yukos as part of the implementation of tax control measures, including 579 billion rubles from bankruptcy procedure,” the manager said.

Boris Berezovsky. Frame NTV Boris Berezovsky intends to obtain citizenship of South Africa. About this with reference to unnamed sources surrounded by Berezovsky reports on Friday the newspaper "Your Day". According to the publication, Berezovsky is now in the South African Republic, where he will have to settle a number of formalities.

Elvira Nabiullina. Photo from the site "Rossiy newspaper" The head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Elvira Nabiullina called on the European Union to support Russia's application to join the World Trade Organization, since this is a “necessary condition for increasing trade between Russia and the EU,” RBC reports. Nabiullina made such a statement on the eve of the Russia -EU summit, which will begin in Lisbon on October 26.

Mercedes. Photos of faces The police are looking for an attacker who shot several cars in the south of Moscow. As Gazeta.ru reports with reference to City-FM, the incident occurred today at the intersection of the Kashirsky highway and Proletarsky Prospekt. The unknown shot at the passing cars from the Mercedes car in blue, after which he disappeared towards Proletarsky Prospekt. The bully caused damage to several cars. Autopopters put the shooter on the wanted list.

Leonid Chernovetsky. Photo from the site www.media-objektiv.com The mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky said that he was ready to give his post to the leader of the "Orange" Yuri Lutsenko, if he overtakes him in a race by five kilometers, writes Ukrainian News.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Photo from the site "New Izvestia" The lawyers of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and former head of the MFI Menatep Platon Lebedev filed preliminary cassation complaints about the decisions of the Ingodinsky district court of Chita on the extension of the terms of detention in the Chita pre-trial detention center, Interfax reports. "We filed a preliminary cassation appeal against the decision of the Ingodinsky district court.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for patience in resolving the problem of Kosovo's status in order to avoid the development of separatism, RIA Novosti reports. "Why continue to shake the foundations of international law, pushing and developing separatism in Europe and the post-Soviet space too? Wouldn't it be better to be patient and, within the framework of international law, look for a solution acceptable to all conflicting parties?" Putin said at a press conference in Lisbon.

The largest radar pro. Image from the site raytheonmissIledefense.com The Czech Parliament decided not to hold a special referendum on the placement of the American missile defense base in the country. According to RIA Novosti, 76 deputies spoke out for the adoption of a referendum law, while 120 votes are needed to make this decision. The US government officially asked the Czech Republic to start negotiations on the placement of the PRO radar in January 2007.

"Skyscraper-kukuruza." The winner of the Gazprom Building Competition in St. Petersburg. Photo from the Air Force website The Supreme Court canceled the previously made decision of the St. Petersburg City Court, which refused to recognize the city target program to be illegal on the construction of the business center on Okhta, and sent the case for a second consideration.

Illustration Knut Finstermeier; Neanderthal Reconstruction by the Reiss-engelhorn-Museum Mannheim from the website www.sciencedaily.com The study of the 50-thousandth remains of the Neanderthals from which DNA managed to extract, confirmed the long-standing assumptions of anthropologists: at least some of the ancient hominids, like people, had a pale skin color and a red hair color.

Parade of Physical Culture of the NKVD, 1936. Photo by Alexander Rodchenko In Russian schools, it is necessary to introduce four physical education lessons per week. According to RIA Novosti, such an opinion was expressed by the State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov. Now two physical education lessons are being held in schools a week. “Physical education lessons should be significantly more.

Vasily Yakemenko is our leader. Used photos from the site nbp-info.ru The head of the newly created Youth Affairs Committee Vasily Yakemenko began the struggle for resources. According to Kommersant on Friday, about 53 million rubles were allocated for the maintenance of the committee for 2008. At the same time, Yakemenko himself receives the status of the minister and the right to three deputies. At the same time, he received an apparatus of 50 employees, although he claimed several hundred.