A resident of Great Britain paid ten thousand pounds (more than 20 thousand dollars) to return the voice to her cat, the British The Daily Mail reports. The hostess of the cat nicknamed Kedbury Jin Kelly from the city of Olnie was very upset when her pet lost her voice, and immediately agreed to expensive treatment. Veterinarians made an animal diagnosis of laryngeal paralysis, a rare pathology that requires immediate surgical intervention.

From 2010 to 2015, American astronauts will be able to get to the International Space Station only with the help of Russian missiles. Two years later, the National Aeronautics Agency and Space Studies (NASA) stops the operation of the shuttle, and the new Constellation ships will replace them in another five years, says The New York Times (full text on the Inopressa website). NASA will be more strongly dependent on Russia than ever before, the author of the article John Schwartz indicates.

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan, 72 people died during an earthquake that occurred on the night of October 5 to 6 in the village of Nur of the Osh region of the republic. At the place of natural disaster, rescuers continue to find the bodies of dead people, the ITAR-TASS agency reports. Another 38, including 7 children, were evacuated to the clinic closest to the place of the tragedy.

The founders of the Union of Right Forces (ATP) Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, as well as the temporarily acting party leader Leonid Gozman, believe that without cooperation with the authorities the implementation of the project to create a new right -hand party is impossible. “We consider it necessary to have a strong right, liberal, democratic party.

The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin goes to Minsk on a working visit, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the message of the source in the Russian government.

The analytical center of Yuri Levada conducted a survey of Russians to find out how the change in their living standards and protest moods are connected. 1,600 people were interviewed in 128 settlements of 46 regions of the country. It turned out that for every third Russian, life has become better over the past year (5% has “much better”, 27% - “somewhat better”). For every fifth Russian, life, on the contrary, has become worse (17% noted that "a little worse", 3% - "much worse").

The owner of the Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich builds a new megahahya worth $ 400 million equipped with a missile detection system for protection against pirates and terrorists, as well as an evacuation submarine. Journalists of the British newspaper The Times found that the ship will have a radar designed specifically to identify the approaching missiles. It will be equipped with armor protection around the steering wheel and cabin of a billionaire, along with bulletproof windows.

At the moment, 215 thousand firearms of firearms are in Russia. This was announced at the end of the last week by representatives of the Department of Criminal Investigation (Furcher) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. At the same time, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 1991, only 951 units of weapons were listed in a single accounting base in the USSR.

US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain in their debates and election performances have repeatedly spoke out on problems regarding Russia, and even announced the coincidence of their positions, but so far they have not given a clear idea of ​​what the US policy towards our country should be.

On Sunday, the Parisian Fashion Week ended, where the leading world designers and fashion houses presented the Vesna-summer 2009 collections. The journalists' attention was focused on Friday on Friday a small yellow dress from the French fashion designer Jean-Sharl de Castelbazhak, which depicted Barack Obama, candidate of US President from the Democratic Party, reports AP.

The US military command in Iraq announced the liquidation of one of the Al-Qaeda leaders Abu Assad. He was not only the organizer of several large terrorist attacks, but also believed that he could be involved in the abduction and murder of Russian diplomats in 2004, after which Vladimir Putin ordered to find and destroy the murderers of Russians.

In the III quarter of 2008, the net outflow of capital amounted to $ 16.6 billion, and the influx of only $ 0.8 billion from the beginning of the year, the Bank of Russia said. The state of payment balance makes the use of 560 billion dollars of international reserves within the country and slowing down economic growth in recent years. Economists are sure that the economic policy will be adjusted, and the government calls for caution, Kommersant writes on Monday.

The command of the collective forces of the CIS to maintain peace in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone (KSPM CIS) reports that on Monday, when the column of Russian peacekeepers, two cars, as well as two vehicles of the Monitoring of the European Union ", an explosive structure on the area of ​​the Ingursky reservoir on the territory of Georgia". As the assistant lieutenant colonel Alexander Novitsky said, no one was injured in the explosion.

Russia issues Russian passports in the Crimea, violating the Constitution of Ukraine, just as it used to be in Georgia, said the ex-speaker of the Georgian parliament, Nino Burjanadze, which headed the Georgian parliament from 2001 to 2008. “At the moment, Russia issues Russian passports in the Crimea. The Ukrainian Constitution prohibits dual citizenship. It was also in Georgia. Russia ignored the Georgian Constitution.

Poland retained the right to hold the 2012 European Football Championship, avoiding sanctions from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA). Both of these organizations made such a decision on Monday. The detached president of the Polish Football Federation (PFF) Mikhail Listkevich said that he and the Ministry of Sports managed to find a compromise, which would help the parties to get out of this situation.