Russian representatives of human rights organizations are outraged by the statement of the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko , in which she reflected on the topic of the state structure of Russia. Recall that the Governor of St. Petersburg in an interview with the magazine "Result" , which was published the day before, under the heading of "Mistress of Northern Palmyra", said that she categorically rejects the idea of ​​the republic as forms of state structure in Russia.

The Kaliningrad region can become a pilot region to simplify border and customs control on the borders of Russia and the EU, the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on relations with the EU Sergey Yastrzhembsky told reporters on Tuesday. "During my current arrival in Kaliningrad, I subjected to the situation in international checkpoints at the Russian-Polish and Russian-Lithuanian borders, before that employees of my apparatus worked here.

The State Duma deputy Sergei Glazyev intends to contact the Prosecutor General’s Office on the fact of illegal stirring of leaflets in the Moscow Metro. He reported this on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow . On Tuesday morning, the Moscow metro passengers in almost all trains collided with a leaflet of a provocative nature, pasted on the doors of the wagons.

AvtoVAZ recalls to check 1086 LADA-2110 cars, shipped from the plant from October 13 to 18, the plant’s press center reports. The basis for this was the information received from quality control services about possible deviations in the technology in the manufacture of the batch of the front brake guide pads, the report said. The VAZ notes that a significant part of the car of cars has not yet been sold to consumers.

In the UK, scientists are trying to catch an animal that extinct almost 100 years ago, with the help of a jam. About a hundred traps were scattered through the forests on the outskirts of swamps in the county of Yorkshire. Scientists hope that with the help of jam they will be able to prove the existence of a pine marten, Ananova reports. In traps, designed specifically for the capture of the marten, chicken wings chopped in a meat grinder - the favorite treat of the beast, are the main bait.

Residents of Great Britain are ready to elect the famous animated character Homer Simpson to the post of president of the United States. This was reported by Radio Times , who invited readers to choose a character from television series, which they would like to see the winner in the presidential election. As a result, Homer Simpson won a confident victory, gaining 24% of the vote. This was enough to get ahead of the rest of the applicants with a large margin.

In Baghdad, a 7-year-old Lebanese boy was taken hostage. A photograph of Muhammad, the son of the Lebanese agronomist Abdel Gani Hamad, who has been working for more than 30 years in Iraq, is placed today in many Arab newspapers. The kidnappers require a ransom of a ransom of 150 thousand dollars. According to Beirutskaya The Daily Star, the boy has been in the hands of bandits since October 18. Two days later, the ultimatum presented to his father expires.

The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov said that all the launches of military satellites are planned to be transferred to the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. “In the future, we plan to carry out all the launches in the interests of the Ministry of Defense from the Plesetsk cosmodrome,” he told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday. At the same time, Ivanov said that Russia does not plan to stop launching spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Ansar al-Sunna terrorist group, associated with al-Qaeda, said 11 soldiers of the Iraq national guard. The message about this is published on the group of the group. "Mujahideen ambushed the patrol of soldiers of the national guard related to the occupation forces who were with the task on the Baghdad -Hill highway," the report said. The site published photos of captured military personnel, RIA Novosti reports. The exact date of their abduction in the message is not indicated.

Residents of the hometown of Arnold Schwarzenegger intend to punish their famous fellow countryman for the support of George Bush. The City Hall of the Austrian city Graz refuses plans to build a monument to the terminator in the city. In one of the parks of Graz, a 25-meter statue worth $ 4.8 million was supposed to be erected. The sculpture project was developed by Russian artists Aristarchus Chernyshev and Vladislav Efimov.

A rally dedicated to the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack committed in the building of the theater center on Dubrovka will be held on Tuesday, said Deputy Director of the Center Mikhail Zapypulaev. "The beginning of the rally, which will be held in front of the building of the theater center, is scheduled for 11:00, former hostages, relatives of the dead, representatives of the public and ordinary citizens will take part in it," Zapypulaev said.

The largest passenger vessel in the world, the cruise liner Queen Mary 2 was on Tuesday blocked in the Italian port of Livorno due to a storm that played in the coastal regions of the Central Italian region of Tuscany. Livne rains and strong wind, strong excitement at the sea, paralyzed life on the Tuscan coast, reports ITAR-TASS.

Egypt seeks the return of dozens of stolen rarities, exported by smuggling to Western countries. This was stated on the eve of the Minister of Culture Faruk Hosnie, opening an exhibition at the National Museum of the country, at which 619 exhibits were represented by Egyptian Britain in early October. All these items were old -made at customs at the Heathrow London Airport, where they were delivered for sale from a free trading zone in the Swiss city of Zurich.

The speech of Vladimir Putin before the Ukrainians will not be interfered with the internal affairs of Ukraine on the eve of the presidential election, but the "political subtext" is obvious, Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Malenkovich told Echo of Moscow. According to him, this political subtext "indicates that the Kremlin made a choice in favor of Yanukovych." According to the political scientist, a similar position of the Kremlin is understandable.

Tatarstan President Mentimer Shaimiev does not agree with the norm of the bill on the new order of elections of the heads of regions of the Russian Federation, suggesting the possibility of dissolution of the parliament of the subject of the Federation in the event that they are rejected by the candidacy proposed by the president. “There is a parliament chosen by the people, this is the voice of the people,” said Shaimiev.