For 10 months of the current year, 151 legal entities, 8 officials and 438 citizens were brought to the capital for unauthorized premises in the capital, said the head of the capital’s state housing inspectorate, Alexander Postinnikov at a press conference at the Moscow Government Information Center.

VISA and MasterCard payment systems demanded that all clients refuse to refuse to process payments intended for the Russian Internet site AllofMP3.com, which, according to Western recording companies, grossly violates intellectual property rights. The head of AllofMP3 said that the Internet site works in accordance with Russian law, and accusations of American companies are an occasion in order to achieve new concessions from Russia when joining the WTO.

Rumors about the early resignation of Roman Abramovich from his post by the governor of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug (POCA) in 2007 made the effect of an exploding bomb on Chukotka. The official statement of the Chukchi government, published the day before, says that reports about the change of the governor have led to the destabilization of the work not only of the governing bodies, but also the entire economy of the region.

Burial permits in the closed cemeteries of Moscow will be issued in the “one window” mode in the building of the consumer market and services on Tverskaya Street. The corresponding decree of the government of the capital was signed by the mayor of Yuri Luzhkov, Interfax reports.

The capital's People's Garage program has turned its face to the people. The new rules, as the Moscow authorities promise, should ensure trouble-free participation in construction for anyone and solve the problem of long-term construction. The newspaper "Novye Izvestia" talks about how the program works. Those who want to build a collective garage must first contact the council, where they will determine a suitable area near the house.

On Thursday, the government meeting was devoted to the problems of reforming housing and communal services. The Minister of Regional Development, responsible for the preparation of reform, Vladimir Yakovlev caused the extreme discontent of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, who demanded from Yakovlev to develop more specific proposals in a month. Profile ministers also expressed their thoughts on the reform of the housing and communal services.

One of the stages of the “world tour of Mike Tyson”, which is of an exhibition character and consisting of 12 four-guard fights of the former absolute champion of the world in heavyweight, will be held in Russia. The tour starts on October 20 in the Yangstone (Ohio), where the 40-year-old American Tyson will enter the ring against compatriot Corey Senders, primarily his victory over the current WBC version Oleg Maskaev.

The battle of November 4 between the ex-champion of the world according to the International Boxing Federation (IBF) in the first middle weight (up to 69.9 kg) by Russian boxer Roman Karmazin and Daniel Santos from Puerto Rico will not take place. About this agency of sports information "All Sport" was told by Roman Karmazin himself. “Now I am completely ignorant of who will be my opponent and will anyone be at all,” said Roman Karmazin.

In 1971, on the border of the Republic of Komi and the Perm region during an unsuccessful attempt to put a “peaceful atom for the service of the national economy” the Taiga project was implemented. The authorities wanted to fill the drying Caspian, sending Pechora's waters to the Kama River. The giant trench was decided to dig with the help of a series of nuclear explosions. But after undermining the first charges, the experiment turned sharply.

In Vologda, a scandal erupted in which King of Spain Huang Carlos I was involved. The deputy head of the regional department for the protection and development of hunting resources Sergey Starostin sent a letter to the governor Vyacheslav Pozgalev, in which he said that the king, who was in August on a Vologda -Bear, killed a manual bear, which was also drunk with vodka. The newspaper "Kommersant" writes about this on Thursday. Juan Carlos I visited Vologda at the end of August.

In Verona, the fourth national synod of the Catholic Church was opened the day before. This forum is held once every 10 years and is important for the development of the Catholic Church in Italy - a country where, according to statistics, Catholics make up 96.55% of the population and are combined in 25 thousand parishes.

Scientists have found that powerful clashes of the two galaxies can be called copulations that give the life of billions of new stars. This is evidenced by the pictures received in recent days using the Hubble space telescope, Reuters reports. New pictures of the Antenna galaxies - the most clear of all - now allow astronomers working with the orbital telescope now to distinguish new stars created by the "copulation" of galaxies from the old star clusters from which they are formed.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced his readiness to negotiate with Russia about resolving disagreements between the two countries and use his participation in the CIS summit for this. "Georgia is ready to conduct a dialogue with Russia at all levels in order to resolve the current situation <...> based on the principles of mutual respect and accounting for the interests of both states," Saakashvili said at a briefing on Thursday in Tbilisi.

On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in an informal EU summit in the Finnish city of Lahti. The main topic should be energy. At the same time, the presidential adviser Sergei Yastrzhembsky on Thursday confirmed that Russia's position on the key for Europe has not changed the issue of adopting the energy chart. Russia does not ratify the document "without changing the wording of the transit protocol and the Charter itself," he said to reporters.

The Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPC MP) Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Cyril said that the struggle of the church with same-sex marriages and gay parades is not a protest against specific gays, but against their desire to turn sin into a social norm.