A resident of Vilnius Jonas Jonaitis turned to lawyers in order to achieve damages for the use of his name and surname in the samples of filling out various forms, Interfax reports. The frequency of use of the name and surname "Jonas Jonatis" in Lithuania can be compared using "Ivan Ivanov" in Russia. As compensation, 45-year-old entrepreneur Jonaitis hopes to get up to 150 thousand litas.

A riddle of a dent that appeared on the ISS on one of the panels of the American Destiny module is allowed, the report posted on the official website of NASA reports. For the first time, this small dent was seen in November 2002 in the pictures of the external surface of the station made by the Endeavour shuttle. For a long time, American experts could not explain the reason for its appearance.

The UN was assigned to the star of Hollywood Nicole Kidman the honorary title of citizen of the world. The award will be personally conducted by the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan at a solemn dinner on December 3. This title was noted a long -term contribution of the world -famous actress to support the activities of the UN -UNSEF children's fund, ITAR -TASS reports. Nicole has been involved in children in the world for 10 years.

The disgraced oil company Yukos is trying to invent all new ways to push Russian officials to negotiations. The chairman of the board of Stephen Tidi is ready to grant the government the right to manage the holding: places in the Council of Directors and participation in the discussion of the anti -crisis program. The ex-head of the company Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced this opportunity in the summer. However, then he did not receive an answer.

American Diana Daiser put up for sale a sandwich with a 10-year-old cheese, on which, as she claims, the image of the Virgin Mary appeared. The woman offered her gastronomic dish to the organizers of the ebay auction with an initial bet of 11 thousand pounds, reports Ananova .

The family of the deceased American journalist Paul (Paul) Khlebnikov established the foundation of his name in order to support talented Russian journalists in gaining professional experience. This was announced in a telephone interview with Interfax on Wednesday evening, the older brother of Paul - Mikhail Khlebnikov.

The Tver court of Moscow once again rejected the request for the withdrawal of the board of the Court of Protection of the Seven Activists of the National-Bolshevik Party, who penetrated on August 2 into the building of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Interfax reports. According to lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky, during a meeting on Wednesday, lawyers of the NBP activists stated the allocation of the court considering this case. However, the court refused to satisfy the petition.

The American authorities reported the arrest of four people who made fake American visas, with the help of which hundreds of Iranians arrived in the country. The gang was arrested on Saturday, all the detainees were charged with jeopardizing the integrity of the immigration system and the US national security. The criminal quartet, consisting mainly of Iran citizens, as investigators suggest, issued a visa to his compatriots for the amount of 8 thousand to 30 thousand dollars.

The DPRK accused South Korea of ​​committing a "serious" military provocation. According to the CST agency on Wednesday, on the eve in the western sector of the dividing Korean peninsula, a South Korean armored personnel carrier appeared on two parts of the demarcation line. This is prohibited by the Army Agreement between Pyongyang and Seoul from 1953.

On Wednesday, the Moscow City Duma will consider in the first reading the amendments to the law "On the participation of citizens in the protection of public order". The deputies also intend to resolve the issue of the city folk squad, the Echo of Moscow reports. Moscow deputies intend to put public public points of protection of order in full depending on the executive branch. For such an initiative, the majority of the leaders of the Moscow administrative districts spoke.

Croatian President Stepa Mesich was surprised to perceive the news that the Ministry of Defense, without his consent, concluded an agreement with NATO. He suddenly found out that the Croatian Ministry of Defense allowed the United States and other NATO states to use the country's airspace, as well as military airfields, land bases and seaports located on its territory.

In Dushanbe, on Wednesday at night, the 20-meter stele "Eternal Life" dedicated to the eightieth anniversary of the city, which was installed in the cultural and entertainment complex "Putat-80" collapsed. This was announced by the press secretary of the capital's city hall Shavkat Saidov, RIA Novosti reports. The possibility of falling stele for technical reasons is not excluded. A commission has been created that will find out the causes of the incident.

Egyptian intelligence chief Colonel General Omar Suleiman will negotiate in Jerusalem on the exchange of Israeli spy Azam Azam for the Palestinian leader Marvan Bargoti, serving life imprisonment for terrorism in an Israeli prison. This was reported on Wednesday by the ALAF electronic newspaper with reference to informed government sources in the capital of Jordan. This issue has already been discussed on diplomatic channels, RIA Novosti reports.

According to several diplomats, in many important state institutions of Pyongyang this fall, portraits of the leader of North Korea Kim Jong Ira were removed. Now analysts are discussing the reasons for this act. Indeed, in North Korea, the portrait of the "dear leader " is an indispensable attribute of the interior of not only each institution, but also a personal dwelling, the New York Times writes today. The cult of family members of Kim is the holy duty of every northern Korean.

Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation, together with colleagues from the Perm region, detained two suspects in an attack on the slot machine room , during which an employee of the security was killed. According to law enforcement agencies of the capital, two 21-year-old young people were arrested the day before in Perm, Interfax reports.