In the Moscow City Duma, at the initiative of the Yabloko - United Democrats faction, a round table was dedicated to the problem of demolition of garages and protecting the rights of their owners.

A passenger ship sank near the Indonesian island of Sulawes on Thursday, 15 people died, regional media reported on Friday. Meanwhile, according to AFP, 29 people were killed. The Assita III ship sank at about 9:00 local time (18:00 to Moscow) on Thursday near the island of Sulawesi. As a result of the incident, 15 people died, six were missing, 61 people were not injured, RIA Novosti reports. According to AFP, there were 151 passengers on board.

The archbishop of the Siro-Catholic Church in the Iraqi city of Mosul Basilios Kasmuss, in whose dioceses two priests were recently stolen, turned to Christians around the world with an appeal to have a greater influence on world policy.

Actress Naomi Watts is negotiating with director Martin Campbell about filming in the remake of the classic thriller Alfred Hitchcock "Birds". Universal intends to create a new film version of the story of Daphne Dumory, who inspired Hitchcock in 1963. Universal is in no hurry with the start of filming - the scenario of the future picture, painted by Styles White and Juliet Snowden, while being finalized. Perhaps other authors will be invited to work on him, writes Veriety .

The Islamic Court of the Severnigurian state of Kadun prohibited the show of the Nigerian human rights activist about the corruption of political figures in those states of the country where the Muslim laws of Sharia are in force. The play "Phantom of the crescent" of the playwright Shehu Sani is an evil satire on officials who use the laws of Sharia to squandering state funds and personal enrichment.

Search optimizers for an unknown purpose made so that for some not quite decent requests in the first place, the website of the President of Russia is issued. So, this request leads to the site kremlin.ru. In addition, from unknown hooligans, the mobile operator Megafon also got. According to a no less indecent request , the Megafon website flaunts in the first place in Yandex. A similar phenomenon on the Internet is not uncommon.

October prices will increase by 1.1-1.6%. In January-October, inflation will be 8.7-9.2%. And over the whole year, prices will increase by more than 10%, this is the forecast of the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. Import duties for dairy products are reduced and exported to wheat and barley are increased.

Somali authorities prevent the contacts of the UN representatives with an employee of the World Food Program arrested in Mogadish. Idris Osman, abducted on October 17, is still detained in the area of ​​the presidential villa. This was reported by the Italian news agency ANSA with reference to the representative of the runway, whose headquarters are located in Rome.

Representatives of the Communist Party, "Patriots of Russia", ATP and "Fair Russia" addressed the chairman of the CEC, Vladimir Churov. They announced the inadmissibility of editing during the verification of discrepancies between the notarized list of signatures and signature collections, which also contains information about the signature collector, the Vedomosti writes. In the CEC, the appeal of parties was called an attempt to draw a centrizbirk into political "showdowns".

The midfielder of the Russian national football team Dmitry Torbinsky decided to leave Moscow Spartak at the end of this season, the press service of the red and white reports. The head coach of the nine -time champions of the country, Stanislav Cherchesov, commented on this event: “This is the player’s decision that needs to be respected. We gave Dmitry the time until October 18 to decide on his future. The club needs to know in advance about the football player in order to decide on his plans.

The "excessive" religious activity of the inhabitants of Uzbekistan, as before, causes serious suspicions of the special services. Against the background of high -profile declarations on guarantees of religious freedoms, the authorities of Uzbekistan vigilantly control the activities of mosques and almost every practitioner.

US President George Bush announced on Friday the introduction of new sanctions against the military government of Myanmar. During a speech in the White House, he also called on China, India and other countries located near Myanmar to put pressure on the leaders of this state who refuse to conduct democratic transformations in the country, Interfax reports. According to Bush, the US Department of Finance extended sanctions to 12 more heads of the Myanmar government.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, as expected , submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation the candidacy of its vice-speaker Vladimir Katrenko for the appointment of the auditor to the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. This was reported on Friday evening by news agencies with reference to the press service of the head of state. Recall that earlier the Duma ahead of schedule terminated the powers of the auditor Sergei Abramov after the arrest of his subordinates.

The leader of the Union of Right Forces, Nikita Belykh, released a list of famous Russian billionaires who are afraid to help his party "in the fight against the restoration of socialism in Russia." The ATP called the largest Russian entrepreneurs "traitors and cowards", writes "New Region" .

The high -altitude boom in St. Petersburg continues. Today, Fontanka correspondent was told about their plans to build a 300-meter building on Maurice Torez Avenue in the Elis construction corporation. The multifunctional high -rise building will appear on the site of the house of the plant "Svetlana" unfinished at one time “This will be the second in height building in St. Petersburg after Okhta Center,” the construction corporation proudly told us.