On Thursday, October 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 6th and, probably, for the last time as the President of the Russian Federation, talked with fellow citizens in direct television and radio. The "dialogue" of the president with the Russians lasted 3 hours and 3 minutes. During this time, Vladimir Putin answered 69 questions out of more than 2.5 million.

Yesterday, photos of the new Nissan GT-R sports car finally appeared on some Internet sites. The first show of the car will take place this month in Tokyo. Nissan himself has not yet commented on this event. The Auto-News.ru portal reports that the technical characteristics of the car have become known. Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h U GT-R will take 3.5 seconds. The maximum speed that the car will be able to develop is 309 km/h. The average price of the car will be a little less than $ 80,000.

In the Primorsky Territory, the cadet of the Vladivostok seafood college cut classmates for trying to rape in the toilet. Two victims received multiple stab wounds. The bloody reprisal was preceded by a fight between four cadets that drank alcohol in one of the rooms of the college hostel located in Vladivostok at 93 Kirov Street.

The Champs Elysees officially announced on Thursday announced the "parting" of France President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Cecilia. The married couple diverges by mutual agreement and will not make any comments on this score, according to the Communist of the Elisean Palace. However, as RIA Novosti notes, they refuse to comment on the Elysee Palace, which means the word "parting", and do not specify whether it is about a divorce. All the Communist consists of 15 words, reports ITAR-TASS.

"Black Thursday" began in France. The country has the largest strike on transport and in a number of other areas. The main requirement of the striking, as ITAR -TASS reports, is to maintain a special regime of pensions that the country's authorities intend to cancel.

Russia will help Ukraine establish the whereabouts of persons who may be related to the case of President Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian Prosecutor Alexander Medvedko said. He said that there is an agreement with the Russian Federation regarding the location of a number of persons who are currently interested in the investigation, Interfax reports.

Popular all over the world of television programs Top Gear and Planet Earth, which are aired on the BBC, will be closed. They fell under the plan for reducing expenses that the British broadcasting corporation is forced to undertake as a result of a budget deficit, which is two billion pounds. Over the next six years, 2500 jobs will be reduced, and new ones will create only 700 - thus, at least 1800 current BBC employees will remain without work, ITAR -TASS reports.

A resident of New York, 38-year-old Nadiga Brunacci, found a two-meter python in her toilet, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Ar. Brunacci went into the bathroom of her apartment to wash her hands. However, the snake prevented her from performing the necessary hygiene procedures, whose woman the woman saw the toilet out of the toilet. Mrs. Brunacci jumped out of the toilet in a panic and called the salvation service.

The head of the General Staff Yuri Baluevsky, who intervened in a diplomatic game with a soldier’s directness under an agreement on the elimination of medium and smaller missiles (INFMD), publicly doubted the opinion of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. After the meeting of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the SIS, the general said: "I would not be in a hurry today with the destruction of this contract.

On October 18, the dollar fell to the euro to a new minimum. The impetus was the expectation that the negative data on industrial production in Philadelphia will increase the need for a new reduction in the basic interest rate in the United States, Bloomberg reports. During the auction, the rate dropped to $ 1.4305 per euro against 1,4208 on Wednesday, updating at least $ 1.4283, established on October 1.

The presentation of the Dalai Lama of the US Congress medal in Washington President George Bush is like the presentation in the Peking Opera genre, quoted by the Central Chinese newspaper Zhenmin Zhibao, a statement by the head of the State Council of the PRC Eyovennya.

In the Hall of Glory of the Canadian hockey in Toronto, the inventor Tony Weber and the famous hockey player Wayne Gretzky officially presented the NHL technological newspaper - heated skates. It is believed that the novelty is able to make revolutionary changes to the game.

At 12:00 Moscow time, Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 6th and, probably for the last time as the second president of the Russian Federation, began communication with fellow citizens in direct television and radioir. He began with congratulations to the players, and later moved to the traditional entry of economic successes.

In St. Petersburg, the deaf-mute with the help of a knife dealt with two schoolchildren and a girl who decided to tease him. As a result, one schoolboy was killed, and his companions were injured.

Russia will join the World Trade Organization only on acceptable conditions for itself, including in terms of agricultural obligations, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday during a direct line with citizens of the Russian Federation. “Only under the conditions that are acceptable to Russia and manufacturers.