About two thousand people took part in the protest against falsification of elections organized by the Communist Party. Other election participants who consider themselves deceived by United Russia came to express solidarity with them - representatives of Fair Russia and Yabloko.

Flu. Photo www.med-source.ru In Transbaikalia, a draft in the army was suspended due to the flu epidemic, ITAR-TASS reports. As Natalya Zhdanova, Deputy Chairman of the Regional Government, officially stated, is a new high -to -pantic flu A/H1N1. According to her, doctors revealed numerous cases of influenza disease among conscripts. In general, the number of patients infected by him exceeded 160 people in Transbaikalia.

Alexander Second The monument to Alexander the Second is opened on Friday in the city of Mariinsk, Kemerovo region, reports ITAR-TASS. The memory of Alexander the Second, in which Mariinsk received the status of the city and was named after the wife of Emperor Maria Alexandrovna, decided to perpetuate the bust at the beginning of the last century. The bust of the sculptor’s project Mikhail Popov was cast at the factory in St. Petersburg.

Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow. Photo by ITAR-TASS Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov wrote a letter to the State Duma, in which he announced disagreement with a statement of the Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin on a sharp increase in the expenses of the metropolitan budget for maintaining officials. According to Interfax , a member of the United Russia faction Nikolai Gonchar said at a meeting of the State Duma.

Tank with oil. Photo from the site .aktau-business.com In the village of Turinskaya Sloboda of the Sverdlovsk region, three children aged 9, 11 and 14 years old were killed in the explosion of a tank with oil, ITAR-TASS reports. The Prosecutor General began a check on the fact of the explosion. The tank, which supplied the local boiler room into 10 houses, exploded on Thursday evening. The explosion was followed by a fire. At the site of the emergency, the bodies of three children were found.

Astronauts working on the moon. Illustration of NASA (artist's fantasy) from Newscientist Astronauts working on the moon. Illustration of NASA (artist's fantasy) from Newscientist The White House advisers recommended NASA to abandon investment in the Ares rockets and instead focus on the study of space outside the moon, writes BBC News . A group of consultants of the American President outlined their recommendations as part of a revision of the American space program.

Roman Polanski. Photo from the site www.tatar-inform.ru The Ministry of Justice of the Switzerland announced that Bern from the United States received an official request for the issuance of director Roman Polanski. It is reported by AR. The request was transferred to the Tsurich authorities, where hearing will be held on him. If the court decides to satisfy the request of the US authorities, Polanski will have the right to challenge this decision, the Ministry of Justice notes.

The lobby of the Kurskaya metro station. Photo of the newspaper F5 The chief architect of Moscow, Alexander Kuzmin, believes that in the lobby of the Kurskaya-Radial metro station, it is necessary to maintain a phrase that glorifying Joseph Stalin, as well as return to the place of its monument. “If you took up restoration, you need to recreate it as the artist was with. I am not a Stalinist, but I respect the work of those who worked before me,” Kuzmin said on Friday to journalists.

Grigory Pasko. Photos of faces The European Court of Human Rights rejected the lawsuit of the military journalist Grigory Pasko against Russia, the Echo of Moscow reports. The court did not agree with the plaintiff’s allegations that the Russian authorities violated the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to him, namely the right to freedom of speech and the principle of legality.

Kazan. Photo Novoteka.ru The most favorable conditions for doing business among Russian cities were created in Kazan. This is evidenced by the results of the subnational study of the World Business Bank in Russia 2009, Kommersant reports. In the Global Ding Business rating ("doing business"), Russia this year sank into 120th place out of 183 countries. There it is represented by Moscow, which in turn in the Russian rating takes the last tenth place.

Senator John Kil. Photo msn.com For several years, Russia has violated the contract on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons, developing the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24. According to Washington Times, this was announced in the United States, republican Senator John Kil.

Sergey Tsoi. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru Assistant President Arkady Dvorkovich does not know life in Moscow. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, this was stated by the press secretary of the capital's mayor Sergei Tsoi. According to Tsoi, the statements of Dvorkovich, who previously complained about the high cost of breakfast and lunch in Moscow schools, raised his doubts that he was living in Moscow. "All Moscow schoolchildren from the first to the fourth grade receive free breakfasts.

Vladimir Putin and Yuri Luzhkov. Frame "Vesti" Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov asks Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to intervene in the conflict of the city hall and the Ministry of Finance, Interfax reports.

Derbent (Dagestan), October 11, 2009, mayoral elections. Closing of polling stations.

Vladimir Churov. Frame "Vesti" Speaking in the State Duma, the head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov congratulated all seven parties on the results of the past elections, ITAR-TASS reports.