The owner of Rusal, Oleg Deripaska, proposed to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to divide RusHydro into four companies. At the same time, Deripaska asks to give Rusal the opportunity to enter the capital of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, the largest consumer of electricity of which is his aluminum holding. newspaper writes about this The Kommersant . Deripaska sent a letter addressed to Putin in early October.

Investigators from the Investigative Committee conducted searches at the Rastekh company. This was reported on the department’s website on October 14. Documents related to the company's financial activities were seized from the office. It is not specified when exactly the investigative measures took place.

The human rights organization Memorial filed a complaint against the decision of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, which partially upheld the claim of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against human rights activists. “Today, October 14, the defendants sent a short cassation appeal against this decision to the Moscow City Court. The defendants ask to cancel it and refuse to satisfy the claims.

Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini began his political career as an agent of the British intelligence service MI5. As The Guardian newspaper writes on Wednesday, October 14, evidence of this was found in archival documents. Papers with previously unknown facts about the Duce's biography were discovered by Cambridge University historian Peter Martland. According to published data, Mussolini became an employee of MI5 in 1917.

China's international reserves increased by $141 billion in the third quarter of 2009, reaching another all-time high of $2.273 trillion. Bloomberg reports this. Compared to the end of the third quarter of last year, reserves increased by 19.26 percent. The growth in reserves is explained by the maintenance of a positive trade balance of the country, as well as the influx of foreign direct investment.

The American Boeing Corporation has successfully completed flight tests of the A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter equipped with the new FORESTER (The Foliage Penetration Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Tracking and Engagement Radar) radar system. According to the manufacturer's press service, from August 31 to October 8, 2009, the device made a series of 20 flights, spending more than 50 hours in the air.

Verdict in a family case The Finnish court gave Russian woman Rimma Salonen a year and a half probation On Tuesday, October 13, a sentence was passed in Finland against Russian woman Rimma Salonen, who was accused of kidnapping her own little son. The woman, as expected, was sentenced to probation.

Guests of one of the hotels in Cologne discovered hidden micro-cameras in their bedroom and bathroom, with the help of which the owner spied on their intimate life, Spiegel reports. The camera in the bedroom was disguised as a fire alarm, and the camera in the bathroom was hidden behind a ventilation grill. The guests notified the police. As a result, the hotel owner was detained. During interrogation, the 54-year-old man admitted that he actually spied on his clients.

On Tuesday, deputies of the Kiev City Council decided to rename Ulyanov Street to Laboratornaya Street, reports the UNIAN agency . As the deputies explained, the renaming is necessary to return the street to its historical name. Laboratory Street is located in the Goloseevsky and Pechersky districts of Kyiv. It has been mentioned in sources since the first half of the 19th century, and received its name from the artillery laboratory that was located at its beginning.

The new edition of the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation provides for the possibility of launching a preemptive nuclear strike against an aggressor in situations critical to national security. This was stated by Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev in an interview with Izvestia (issued October 14).

Azerbaijan - Russia Russian national team players. Photo © AFP On October 14, the Russian team played the last match in the qualifying group for the World Cup, which will take place in South Africa in 2010. It was expected that for the Russian team it would become a kind of “rehearsal” for the play-off matches for qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, the opponent for which has not yet been determined. The rehearsal, however, was unsuccessful.

The mother of one of the teenagers who killed 13 people at a Columbine school published an article in TV presenter Oprah Winfrey's magazine (O, The Oprah Magazine), the Associated Press reports . According to Susan Klebold, she did not suspect any deviations in her son’s mental state. Klebold's essay drew positive responses from parents of victims and survivors of the murder.

President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon instructed the authorities of the republic to introduce a ban not only on the import of incandescent lamps, but also on their sale. reports this Interfax with reference to the presidential press service. The import of incandescent lamps was banned in Tajikistan at the end of August this year. The corresponding presidential decree came into effect on October 1.

The AvtoVAZ Group suffered losses of 693 million rubles in the first half of the year due to investments in Novikombank. This was reported in the IFRS financial statements published by the concern for the first six months of 2009. During the six months, AvtoVAZ invested 1.605 billion rubles in the bank, acquiring 20 percent of its shares, but by the end of June the investments had lost value.

Steve Nunn, a Republican politician and the son of the ex-governor of Kentucky, is on trial on murder charges, the Associated Press reports . According to investigators, Nunn shot and killed his ex-lover Amanda Ross, who had previously accused him of domestic violence. At a hearing on Tuesday, October 13, the defendant was denied bail. Nunn, who served in the Kentucky House of Representatives for a decade and a half, is being held in the Fayette County Jail.