Chinese state media reported on October 29 that citizens of this country of Muslim faith arrived in Syria to fight against the current government, the Associated Press reports . According to these data, militants from among the Chinese Uighurs living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region joined the rebels. In the PRC they are fighting for the separation of this northwestern region and the creation of their own Islamic state on its territory.

The German government has paid compensation to the relatives of the victims of the neo-Nazi terrorist group NSU , as well as those affected by its actions, writes the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung, citing a report from the Federal Office of Justice. The document reports that the state has allocated more than 830 thousand euros for compensation. The report was prepared back in August, but only now became known to the press.

The reduction in import duties due to accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) did not lead to a sharp increase in imports of goods from non-CIS countries to Russia in September this year. This, as reported by RIA Novosti , is stated in a preliminary analysis of the impact of Russia’s membership in the WTO, which was carried out by the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC).

The head of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights, Mikhail Anshakov, was again accused of slandering the Cathedral of Christ the Savior Foundation. As reported on the OZPP website, Anshakov was summoned to the police to give an explanation in connection with an inspection based on an application submitted by the executive director of the KhHS Foundation Vasily Poddevalin. The reason for the claims was an interview with the head of the OZPP to Novaya Gazeta.

The Project 10831 deep-sea nuclear power plant "Kalitka", also known as "Losharik", was tested in Arctic conditions, taking part in underwater drilling operations on the Mendeleev shelf in the Arctic Ocean. As the Izvestia newspaper writes, citing a source in the Russian Ministry of Defense, the work was carried out as part of the Arctic-2012 expedition; the ship helped adjust the drilling. Drilling work was carried out from diesel-electric icebreakers "Captain Dranitsyn" and "Dixon".

The driver of a Mercedes, who was stopped by participants in an opposition rally on Pokrovka , was issued a fine, Interfax reports , citing the Moscow police department. The penalty for driving into a designated lane for public transport is three thousand rubles. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow did not say who owns the executive car. The incident with the Mercedes occurred on October 27.

Eminem will release a new (eighth) studio album in 2013, writes NME. The rapper has not yet officially announced the album. However, on his website you can buy a baseball cap with an inscription hinting at the release. The headpiece lists the years of release of Eminem's "iconic albums": 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2013. Eminem announced that he was working on material for a new disc in May 2012. At that time, even an approximate release date was not announced.

Google . has canceled a presentation scheduled for Monday, October 29, due to Hurricane Sandy approaching the East Coast of the United States, CNET News reports The presentation was to take place in New York. The Manhattan site that Google chose to host its event was located in a potentially dangerous area of ​​the city. Residents of such areas, according to the order of the mayor of New York, are subject to evacuation.

Stability is above all The ruling party wins the elections to the Verkhovna Rada On October 28, Ukrainians re-elected the Verkhovna Rada. Of those almost 58 percent of voters who came to the polling stations, almost 37 percent voted for the ruling Party of Regions in elections based on party lists (225 deputies were elected from lists, and the same number from single-mandate constituencies).

In Germany, for the first time, government awards were presented to people who were involved in organizing the escape of residents of the GDR to West Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany. 15 people received the Order of Merit, writes die Welt. This type of resistance to the communist regime, as the newspaper writes, did not receive wide public recognition for a long time.

Currently, the Morton group is building 1.418 million square meters of housing in the Moscow region and “new Moscow”. This allowed the company to top rating , which takes into account the volume of ongoing construction in the region.

29.10.2012, 19:44:05 version Print | PDA/PDA Kostas Vaksevanis. Photo by ITAR-TASS Broken system Journalist arrested in Greece for exposing officials' foreign accounts On Sunday, October 28, journalist Kostas Vaksevanis was arrested in Greece on charges of violating the boundaries of privacy. The editor of the exposé magazine Hot Doc published in his publication the so-called “Lagarde list” - a list of Greeks who opened accounts in the Swiss branch of HSBC.

Russia is home to 87 million citizens of working age, but only 48 million people pay social taxes. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets , who oversees the social block in the government, stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.

A replica of the British historic sailing ship Bounty sank several hours after the crew was evacuated, CBC News writes. The US Coast Guard has so far rescued 14 of the 16 crew members who fled the ship in inflatable life rafts as Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast. The crew decided to evacuate while the ship was off the coast of North Carolina. It was previously reported that there were 17 people on the sailboat, but this information was not confirmed.

Arsen Revazov's exhibition "Because the World is Round" has opened at the Moscow Gallery of Classical Photography. It displays “round” photographs made in two proprietary techniques: classic bromine-silver printing and platinum-palladium printing. The exhibition will run until November 11. At the opening of the exhibition Exhibition interiors Self portrait Arsen Revazov