On Tuesday, the launch of the Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL launch vehicle with the American communication satellite XM-4 was successfully laid out last week . Recall that on Friday, October 27, about a minute before the start, the launch was stopped. “This is the fifth launch under the Marine Start program since the beginning of the year.

Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov banned the holding of the "Russian march" in Moscow on November 4. “We saw the so -called“ Russian march ”last year, when people walked with chauvinistic cries and slogans. It was an unpleasant and alarming sign for all those who want to live a normal and calm life. I decided to ban the“ Russian march ”this year, ” RIA Novosti reports. At the same time, Luzhkov emphasized that attempts to conduct such marches can still be undertaken.

The general director of the Sheremetyevo structure was arrested, which purchased defective spare parts for aircraft . Earlier, the charges were brought by the engineer of CJSC SB-120 Sheremetyevo Viktor Gamayunov. Now the Prosecutor General’s Office came to the conclusion that the purchase of counterfeit spare parts for aircraft was carried out not without the knowledge of the general director of this structure Alexei Surikov.

With the heir to the British throne, Prince William, one of the sons of Prince Charles, a big trouble again happened . During the exercises at the shooting range of the Royal Military Academy of Sandhurst, William lost his L86 LSW machine gun. This happened in the morning last Friday. Having discovered the loss, the prince was very excited. He lent a bicycle at a classmate and was looking for a loss for two hours.

The Russian Orthodox Church opens against attempts to impose minority standards for the majority. “In national and international law, norms begin to be introduced, which are then realized in the policy of states and which contradict traditional morality.

The American space department of NASA decided to send a shuttle with astronauts for the repair of the Hubble telescope to orbit. This was announced on Tuesday in the Center for Space Flights named after Goddard in Greenbelt (Maryland) by NASA director Michael Gryffin. The head of the American space department noted that the modernization of the telescope will extend its operation until 2013.

The justice of the peace was fined the head of the non -profit public organization "Mashr" Magomed Mutsolgov, who acted as the organizer of the memory of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya on October 16 in Nazran. The justice of the peace Leila Dakieva made a decision according to which Mutsolgov was found guilty of "violation of the procedure for organizing a picket" (Article 20, part 2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation), and was fined at 10 minimum wages.

The Cossacks of the Rostov region intend to organize assistance in the liberation of the brigade general of the Chilean army of Miguel Krasnov, the grandchildren of the Don Ataman of the Civil War, Peter Krasnov, from the prisoners of the brigade general of the Chilean army. To this end, in Chile, on behalf of the military chieftain of the Vsoriki Army of the Don Viktor Vodolatsky, a representative of the army flew out.

A strain of a new type of "bird flu" H5N1, which is able to be transmitted to a person, was discovered by scientists from the USA and Syangan. Details are published in the journal published by the American National Academy of Sciences, Interfax reports. The new strain is given the name "Fujan", since it was first discovered in the Chinese province of the same name. According to experts, you cannot protect yourself from a new variety of infection with the help of existing vaccines.

The champion of the Olympic Figure Skating Games Yevgeny Plushenko intends to file a lawsuit against the Omsk office for the production of office furniture using his image in advertising.

On October 28, in Mozambique, about 50 dolphins-Afalin went to the shore of the Bazaruto island’s desert bay, thereby surprising the environmental defenders, who said that the mass suicide of dolphins in these places is very rare, the News24 agency reports. Rescuers managed to return only six animals to the ocean. Scientists find it difficult to answer the question why dolphins are thrown ashore. And this time, the mass suicide of dolphins is still a mystery.

In the capital of Kyrgyzstan, negotiations of President Kurmanbek Bakiev with the leaders of the opposition movement "For reform!" Completed. At 15:00 local time, a discussion of a compromise version of the country's constitution by a working group is scheduled.

The current major general of the Federal Security Service of Russia Alexander Afonin suddenly died in Moscow, Interfax was told on Tuesday in law enforcement agencies of the capital. They said that Afonin was discovered in the morning on Tverskaya Street, 25 at the entrance to the pharmacy. The forensic experts who arrived at the scene after the examination came to the conclusion that the major general died of a heart attack.

Representatives of Chechnya discussed in the Council of Europe the issues of organizing and holding in the Grozny International Conference on Human Rights. This was reported in the delegation of the Russian Federation participating in Strasbourg in an international seminar organized by PACE. It is planned that the conference will be held in November.

An unexpected continuation received the last spy scandal on Russian grounds. The FSB announced that the Lieutenant Colonel FSIN, Vasily Khitruk, was not the only opened Lithuanian spy detained a week ago . They caught a couple more, said in the department of military counterintelligence.